

We also got the expected Joey Styles screeching ‘cat fight’ for the minimal action the women had in this match. However, this match does count as a mixed tag after Edge speared Beulah to pick up the win with an extremely suggestive pinning position. The match was predominantly the men, a classic ECW hardcore match with fire, barbed wire and a lot of blood. The match opened with a classic Edge heel promo berating the Philly fans and Foley joining in playing perfect heels in a very biased ECW arena. This led to them attacking Dreamer and Funk, soon getting the women involved after Lita interfered in a match on RAW. This had a really odd back story to it – Mick and Edge fought in a match at Wrestlemania 22 and then seemed to join forces because Mick respected Edge. Edge, Mick Foley & Lita vs Tommy Dreamer, Terry Funk & Beulah McGillicutty – ECW One Night Stand 2006

The best female competitor in WWE history, Stratus, against a worthy contender, as well as the funniest male competitor against someone of Cena’s stature in this company gives this match a worthy spot on this list. The work rate of all four competitors made this match a decent 7 or 8 minute tag match in which the babyfaces were going to receive a clear win. However, that isn’t the reason for this match’s inclusion – Cena getting Trish out of retirement for this match was brilliant, especially in her hometown of Toronto, receiving quite an ovation from the fans.

This match did actually come to mind when I started writing this article, mainly because of Santino’s hilarious pronunciation of John’s name which was the set up for this match.
