10 Best WWE Matches of the Year 2005

#4 Mike Awesome vs. Masato Tanaka - ECW One Night Stand

Still amazing chemistry

This match is arguably the best 10-minute long match ever. Masato Tanaka and the late Mike Awesome had a great series of matches in the original ECW in the late '90s, into early 2000, where they traded the ECW World Championship on several occasions.

Like most talent performing on this night, they were not under contract to WWE. But that is what makes it crazier when you realize that it was one of the best matches of the entire year, even though it was an event presented by WWE where neither man worked for the company.

Some back and forth action to start off before Mike quickly send Tanaka out to the floor and performs a suicide dive. Awesome set up a table and performed a running powerbomb on Tanaka through it, great spot.

Awesome hit his top rope Awesome Splash for a two count. Powerbomb attempt, but Tanaka fought out, but Awesome ends up hitting a really stiff powerbomb on him right after.

This is followed by dual chair shots as Awesome misses, Tanaka misses, and then Awesome hit him with three hard shots but Tanaka is still standing and screaming before being knocked down with a fourth.

Tanaka hit Awesome with a Tornado DDT on a few chairs and then some aerial offense. Awesome set up a table for a superplex, but Tanaka countered it into a Tornado DDT through a table.

Awesome hit an Awesome Bomb off the top rope with his back to the middle part of the ring as Tanaka kicks out at two. Awesome set up a table on the floor and went for another Awesome Bomb over the top.

Tanaka countered, but Awesome caught him, threw him over the top through the table on the floor with a powerbomb and then dives through onto him for the pinfall on the floor.

That was crazy good for the time they had, never has so much happened in a match of just 10 minutes.