The top 10 WWE matches of 2018

#9 Seth Rollins vs. The Miz (Backlash)

The best opening match of the year!

Thankfully, this awful pay per view had one redeeming quality - this match to open the show.

The crowd loved Seth Rollins as soon as he came out, which is where you want one of the competitors to be to have a great match. Miz heeled it up to start the match with cheap, repetitive stomps, and mocking Rollins' Curbstomp taunt, to the jeers of the crowd. The first near fall came with a snap DDT from Miz to Rollins, and the match got much hotter from there.

Just as Rollins was beginning his comeback, Miz caught him and looked for a Skull Crushing Finale, only for it to be countered into a roll-up for a two count. Rollins started to go on a roll from there, countering Miz at every turn, including rolling through Miz's top rope dive and reversing it into a slam. He hit a Frog Splash afterwards, only for a two count. Just as he signalled for the Curbstomp, Miz rolled out of the ring like a coward to a chorus of boos!

Things started to turn back in Miz's favor when Rollins banged his knee on the turnbuckle after a battle on the apron. That's when we got the iconic moment of this match - the struggle in the Figure Four where Rollins and Miz's faces both told the story!

After a rope break, both guys struggled until Miz finally hit the Skull Crushing Finale, only for a two count! The two struggled atop the turnbuckle, where Miz turned Rollins' Superplex/Falcon Arrow attempt into another Skull Crushing Finale only for yet another two count!

Finally, Miz attempted a Skull Crushing Finale from the turnbuckle, but Rollins reversed it and attempted a Curbstomp from that position. He landed on his knee, selling it beautifully. A sequence of rollups followed until Miz was too slow and got hit by a Curbstomp after Rollins reversed his pin attempt. Selling his knee again, he struggled over to Miz's fallen form to get the pinfall and victory.