Haven’t seen anyone really dislike the John Cena vs. AJ Styles match from Royal Rumble last night (Jan. 29), but that’s probably just because I haven’t looked hard enough.
There’s a lot of folks who don’t think it was the best of the trilogy those two men have fought in WWE over the last eight months, but the big debate today concerns whether Styles/Cena III was the best match of 2017 so far.
The guy who won the six-star New Japan Wrestle Kingdom 11 match from Jan. 4, Kazuchika Okada, already weighed in by simply voting for his match against Kenny Omega.
Omega took it a little farther:
You can't compare apples and oranges. And at the end of the day, I could easily have Cena and AJ's best match in WWE. There is no argument.
— Kenny Omega (@KennyOmegamanX) January 30, 2017
Don’t tell that to Bubba Ray:
AJ/Cena > Okada/Omega.
— Bubba Ray Dudley (@bullyray5150) January 30, 2017
PSYCHOLOGY.
Selling.
Stayed IN RING.
No gimmicks.
Pure championship match.
(ps-I thought O vs O was incredible.)
There are lots of other takes out there today, but these are two of the biggest names coming down definitively on one side or the other.
What do you think, gang? Was one demonstrably better than the other? Have we already seen the best matches of the whole year, one month into said year? Or should we all just take a deep breath?