| 1 | 02.12.2025 | Styles619 | 7.0 | This was a pretty good match. I said it when I reviewed their match in 2014 and I'll say it again here. AJ Styles and Rob Van Dam didn't have great chemistry together, at least from the 3 singles matches that they've had together. Maybe if this match took place in the mid 00's I would feel differently, but there was always something to be desired after their matches were over. Now of the 3, this was the best one, as not only were they younger than in 2014 but also had more time than their TV match where RVD won the TNA Championship. Here AJ was trying to get the belt back and for the most part had a clean match. Ric Flair was booted from ringside early on so we didn't anything in the way of interference after that. I also think that there was a certain gear that these two didn't get out of, like they were maintaining a pace instead of speeding things up when they should have. Flair was on commentary for most of the match and when he tried to get involved in the end, Jay Lethal came out to stop him. RVD won with the 5 Star Frog Splash and retained the title, while Lethal's involvement helped set up his next two PPV matches, which would be big marquee matches for him. ***1/2 |
| 2 | 12.11.2025 | Erdrick | 6.0 | |
| 3 | 07.11.2025 | Sting | 8.0 | |
| 4 | 16.10.2025 | GoogleHomeUce | 10.0 | The only ever one on one singles bout in professional wrestling with it being Rob Van Dam vs AJ Styles, the phenomenal one uce. Great match these guys put on, it's deserving of a career highlight for both men and I respectfully am showing the appreciation they both achieved in there respective professional wrestling careers. Very good overall match up man. Hopefully someone else can help get it to the minimum 7.00/10.0 rating. |
| 5 | 19.05.2025 | benny5bellys | 6.0 | I am not sure asking RVD to go this long really plays to his strengths in 2010. You also get a cut away to Flair on commentary every 83 seconds. The action was fine but of course you are just sitting around until the interference. Clearly Triple H watches classic TNA for his booking inspiration. |
| 6 | 05.05.2025 | Mr Bungle | 5.0 | This felt agonizingly slow and long, starting out with a lot of pointless stalling, posing, trash-talking, and more posing. Styles dominates most of the match because he's the heel, but his work on top was aimless and generic. Styles just works so much better as a babyface and feels unnatural as a heel, as this match proves. Whenever RVD starts to build momentum, he does his posing schtick and Styles immediately cuts him off and regains control of the match. This made RVD look like a complete idiot, and Ric Flair (who is doing commentary) even points out that RVD's posing is giving Styles the opportunity to counter RVD's next move. The finish felt anticlimactic and not worth it given the 24-minute slog preceding it. The problem here is that Styles barely did anything interesting because he's the heel and didn't want fans to cheer for him, and RVD barely did anything interesting because he seemingly didn't care, yet they still wanted to go out and have a long 25-minute main event. |
| 7 | 02.05.2025 | JediSaiyanMaster1203 | 8.0 | |
| 8 | 28.02.2025 | CLUCK | 6.0 | |
| 9 | 19.01.2025 | RandomWrestlingReview | 7.0 | I liked the 'big fight feel' beforehand, I enjoyed the slow build, the throwing out of Ric Flair and then some of the very smooth exchanges that transpired afterwards. Had this had a dramatic element to it, towards the end, I'd have given this higher than I did but unfortunately, the curse of TNA strikes again- firstly with Ric Flair's needless return to the ring and Jay Lethal stopping him from getting involved by applying a figure 4 leglock on the entrance ramp, and then secondly by the anticlimatic finish- this needed another 2 minutes, with a bit of drama thrown in, and nothing from Flair, and this would have been a really fine bout. |
| 10 | 01.08.2024 | watts | 8.0 | |
| 11 | 06.05.2024 | MarkMcMarkington2 | 7.0 | AJ Styles and RVD are two of my all time favorites but this doesnt click as youd think it would. A good match, but not great as youd expect from these guys. |
| 12 | 12.04.2024 | TheLegitBoss | 6.0 | Something didn't click with me about this match and I can't put my finger on it honestly, since the wrestling was clean, the action was fun but it clearly lacked energy and the crowd did try to be invested from time to time but I think it went on too long for a match that wasn't ultimately very interesting. Between their first short-ish TV match and now this one, I think we just had to accept that they didn't have the greatest chemistry. But then again it was far from bad, but that ending with Flair & Lethal finished me off. |
| 13 | 24.03.2024 | Mariano14 | 7.0 | |
| 14 | 13.03.2024 | RavenCrow75 | 7.0 | |
| 15 | 26.01.2024 | ParkwayDriver | 7.0 | |
| 16 | 13.10.2023 | Taras Bulba | 6.0 | |
| 17 | 09.08.2023 | Austinisaew | 7.0 | |
| 18 | 07.06.2023 | GoodVsBadGuys | 7.0 | |
| 19 | 21.05.2023 | NicholasJT | 8.0 | |
| 20 | 12.11.2022 | American Dragon II Jr | 6.0 | |
| 21 | 30.12.2021 | Hussite | 6.0 | |
| 22 | 16.05.2021 | max670 | 7.0 | |
| 23 | 18.02.2021 | BUIOOMEGA | 7.0 | |
| 24 | 29.05.2020 | Booker C | 5.0 | RVD vs. AJ Styles hatte durchaus gute Ansätze. So gefiel mir vor allem die Intensität der Moves, aber dieses Match nahm nie so richtig Fahrt auf. Zu Beginn ist RVD viel zu sehr mit dem posen beschäftigt und im weiteren Verlauf dieser Partie wurde diese entschleunigt wenn es einmal kurz spannend wurde. Die beiden hatten gemeinsam leider nicht wirklich viele Ideen um 24 Minuten interessant zu füllen. |
| 25 | 09.02.2020 | AndoCommando | 6.0 | |
| 26 | 15.11.2019 | Caas | 8.0 | |
| 27 | 01.10.2016 | WWEFan23 | 7.0 | |
| 28 | 02.04.2016 | Crippler Crossface | 6.0 | |
| 29 | 29.02.2016 | Evan13 | 8.0 | |
| 30 | 16.02.2016 | anglejoe | 8.0 | |
| 31 | 18.10.2015 | the greyspace | 8.0 | |
| 32 | 07.10.2015 | BigBarschDeluxe | 8.0 | |
| 33 | 12.06.2011 | jenzi | 7.0 | |
| 34 | 19.03.2011 | bigdaniel1992 | 8.0 | Ich fand das Match wirklich unterhaltend, aber etwas zu lang. Dennoch haben die beiden schön harmoniert. Daher 8 Punkte. War ein wirklich guter Main Event. |
| 35 | 24.02.2011 | Smi-48 | 7.0 | Das Match hat eine ähnliche Krankheit wie der gesamte PPV an sich - es zündet spät bis gar nicht. Trotz eigentlich herausragender Besetzung, findet man sch nur ganz schwierig in dieses Match hinein - einerseits weil mir anfangs die RVD Fan- und Poseshow zu sehr vom Match ablenkt, andererseits weil auf jeden Kick-Spot eine mittellange Ruhepause folgt. Es fehlen die sinnigen Impacts und die technischen Kniffe ausserhalb des Signature-Arsenals der Beteiligten. Man verstehe mich nicht falsch - das ist ein solider MainEvent und hat Story sowie eine gewisse Klasse. Das unnötige Overbooking zum Schluss ist derzeit typisch TNA und lenkt den Fokus zeitweise (mal wieder) auf Flair und Konsorten. Auch ein Grund, warum ich das Match eher unbeeindruckt in Erinnerung behalten werde. |
| 36 | 15.11.2010 | WCWWECW | 7.0 | in ordentliches Match. Allerdings hätte ich doch RVD bei dem PPV das Gold gewinnen lassen sollen. Das Match zieht sich leider an manchen Momenten etwas deshalb gibt es hier keine höhere Wertung. M-R:***1/2 |
| 37 | 25.05.2010 | Aquifel | 6.0 | Sicherlich war das Match hier nicht schlecht, aber aus diversen Gründen will ich hier nicht mehr als die abgerundeten 6, 5 Punkte geben. Zum ersten wurde das Match wie sonstetwas gehyped und konnte dem natürlich nicht annähernd stand halten. Dann war gerade RVD in diesem Match nicht gerade unglaublich gut aufgelegt. Die meisten positiven Akzente setzte Styles. Dass der Stil wieder etwas gehemmt wirkte im Vergleich dazu, was Leute wie Styles im Ring früher immer angestellt haben nervt mich auch (ich will keine Stunden andauernde Highflyingspotaneinanderreihungen, aber das Tempo war früher einfach höher, ohne dass die Sinnhaftigkeit der Aktionen sich großartig unterschied), obwohl das heutzutage bei TNA ja immer so zu sein scheint. Und zu guter Letzt natürlich wieder das ganze Overbooking mit unnötigen Interferences, die dann mal eben wichtiger als das eigentliche Match werden. Abgesehen davon gibt es ein ganz ordentliches Match, das halt nicht annähernd das war, was TNA sich wohl erhofft hat. |
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