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Three wrestlers not enough?! Five too many?! Four is juuuuust right. These are the 10 greatest Fatal 4 Way Matches in wrestling history!  00:00 - Start 00:54 - 10 01:45 - 9 02:37 - 8 03:29 - 7 04:26 - 6 05:15 - 5 06:06 - 4 06:54 - 3 07:45 - 2 08:43 - 1  SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/ Buy wrestling merchandise here: https://www.wrestleshop.com/ Read more Feature content here on WrestleTalk.com: https://wrestletalk.com/features/

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00:00That's right, we know what's happening in current wrestling affairs.

00:03Finger plus pulse equals parts for known.

00:05Double or Nothing is next weekend, and one of the showcase matches

00:07is the much-anticipated Fatal 4-Way between the Fatal 4 Pillars of AEW.

00:13You don't see a lot of Fatal 4-Ways in pro wrestling.

00:15Triple Threats? Sure.

00:16The Naughty Nine-Way? Absolutely.

00:18But Fatal 4-Ways are a little bit more thin on the ground.

00:20In 2010, WWE actually dedicated a pay-per-view to them exactly one time.

00:25The pay-per-view was called Fatal 4-Way, and it was...

00:27You know, it was fine, actually.

00:29It was actually pretty good.

00:30Each world title was contested in a Fatal 4-Way,

00:32and neither are one of the top 10 greatest Fatal 4-Ways of all time.

00:35But they're both fun, energetic matches that showcase how entertaining a match can be

00:39when you're constantly cycling in a fresh guy,

00:41like a conveyor belt of agile dudes, and also The Big Show, and also Jack Swagger.

00:45Maybe that's why they didn't do another Fatal 4-P-Per-View.

00:47Anyway, I'm Adam Haling from PartsFundNown,

00:49and here are 10 Greatest Fatal 4-Ways in wrestling history.

00:54Number 10, Sasha Banks vs. Bayley vs. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte.

00:58NXT TakeOver Rival.

01:00Sasha Banks vs. Bayley vs. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte had a period of six years

01:03when they were all on the main roster at the same time,

01:05and for some reason, the only time WWE have run the Fatal 4-Way between the four horsewomen of NXT

01:11is in NXT itself.

01:13Seriously, how has this never been a WrestleMania match?

01:15They had a 4-Way with Bayley vs. Sasha vs. Charlotte vs. Nia,

01:18and the 3-Way vs. Sasha vs. Charlotte vs. Becky vs. Becky vs. Becky vs.

01:19The 3-Way was Sasha vs. Charlotte vs. Becky,

01:20but they somehow just kept missing the chance to run this match again,

01:23which is a shame, because a match at NXT TakeOver Rival is bloody brilliant.

01:26The pinnacle and final proof for how consistent booking can build a rock-solid women's division

01:31that ends up paying dividends for years to come.

01:33Fast-paced, fun, and ending with the Boss' first-ever women's title run,

01:37it's really great.

01:38At only 12 minutes, it does feel like the pilot for an amazing TV show that never quite got made,

01:43but we're happy that we at least got this.

01:44Number 9, Chris Jericho vs. Eddie Guerrero vs. X-Pac vs. Chris Benoit, No Way Out 2001.

01:50Here's a question for you, what is the best 3-in-a-row run of pay-per-views in wrestling history?

01:54Immediately stop answering, because unless you're thinking Royal Rumble 01, No Way Out 01,

01:58and WrestleMania X7, then you're wrong, and you owe me 50 bucks.

02:02With the 3 stages of Hell match, the underrated Trish vs. Steph, Rock vs. Angle,

02:06it's a gosh darn barnstormer is No Way Out 2001,

02:09and part of that is this little hidden gem of a match,

02:11pitting Chris Jericho against X-Pac and the two best radicals,

02:15Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit,

02:16four dudes instrumental in WWE having the greatest mid-card of all time in 2000.

02:22Bonus points for Wah Kung Fu X-Pac,

02:25the best and worst and blursed version of X-Pac.

02:27It's fast, it's technical, nice little story of the radicals promising to be busy best friends forever,

02:32then of course turning on each other,

02:34and it's the Attude Era, so the fans are mega into everything.

02:37Number 8, Tyler Breeze vs. Sami Zayn vs. Tyson Kidd vs. Adrian Neville,

02:40NXT TakeOver Fatal 4-Way.

02:42Ah yes, the first example of the current NXT tradition

02:45of stealing names of main roster pay-per-views that the main roster doesn't want anymore.

02:49Anyway, NXT TakeOver Fatal 4-Way has a main event,

02:52and that main event is a Fatal 4-Way.

02:55I know, I've shocked you.

02:56This was a truly glorious time in NXT.

02:58The women's division was great, the tag division was great,

03:00and the main event scene was dominated by the rise of Sami Zayn.

03:03I'm not sure if you've noticed,

03:04but if you give Sami Zayn a long-running, consistently booked storyline,

03:07it tends to be a smidge good.

03:09The storyline here was that Sami Zayn was one of the best wrestlers in the world,

03:13but he lacked that killer instinct required to win the big one.

03:16And once again, he comes within a tummy hair of victory before it's snatched away.

03:20All four wrestlers are super workers,

03:22and their spot-heavy, flippity serendipity in this match

03:25was one of the first major statements of NXT as the best-produced indie fed of all time.

03:29Number 7, Kurt Angle vs. Eddie Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit vs. Edge

03:32SmackDown, December 5th, 2002.

03:35Ooh, a match you might not have heard of in a million lists.

03:37That's fun, but first a concept I've talked about a fair few times,

03:40the SmackDown 6.

03:41In 2002, Paul Heyman was in charge of booking the blue brand

03:44and chanced upon an absolutely radical strategy

03:47of taking the five best wrestlers he knew and Charbo Guerrero

03:50and have them wrestle each other in various formations forever.

03:52In the lead-up to Armageddon 2002,

03:54the Big Show was WWE Champion because Paul Heyman wasn't the perfect booker,

03:57and the main event of the December 5th SmackDown

03:59was a fatal four-way elimination match

04:01between four of the best in-ring workers of that or any generation,

04:05and they gave it 20 minutes.

04:06A fan-f***ing-tastic match,

04:09with a brilliant narrative of Edge working with a hurt wheel,

04:11yet making it to the final two, tying it all together.

04:14The last five minutes between Kurt and Edge

04:16are especially indie-rific,

04:18with countless kick-outs to pop the electric crowd every single time.

04:21A wonderful match, well worth finding on the network,

04:24or the Peacock, or whatever you have.

04:26Number 6, Adam Cole vs. Adam Page vs. Jay White vs. Kazuchika Okada,

04:30Forbidden Door 1.

04:31Like, yeah, sure, the match ended in the worst possible way,

04:35because Adam Cole got his bell rung mid-match,

04:36leading to an injury that would end up taking him out of action for almost a year,

04:39but hey, the match leading up to the ending was wicked sweet super cool,

04:42sort of the story of Forbidden Door in general, really,

04:45cursed with injuries, but somehow one of the best shows of the year,

04:47during no small part to matches like this,

04:49four men who Vince would never push,

04:50doing super work for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

04:53Everyone got a chance to shine,

04:54and especially fans got to see a sneak peek into what an Adam Page-Kazuchika Okada feud

04:58in New Japan might look like,

04:59and yes, that please.

05:01Jay White retaining his not-quite-as-beautiful-as-it-used-to-look belt

05:03was somewhat inevitable,

05:05and the concern over Adam Cole might have taken the air out of the building

05:07when it came to the finish,

05:08but this is still a blistering display of talent,

05:10hyper-athleticism,

05:11and a bunch of lads whomping the stuffing out of each other.

05:14Number 5, Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman vs. Samoa Joe vs. Roman Reigns

05:18SummerSlam 2017.

05:20Meet, meet, meet, meet.

05:21Some people say that booking a fatal four-way match

05:23is an indication that you fail to book a good singles feud.

05:26Those people are boring people called Clive,

05:28because sometimes the only reason you need to book a match is,

05:30nah, it'd be fun, no way.

05:32And that's exactly the reason they're going into this all-beef beef again.

05:35The four strongest boys in the company put in one ring and told to go for it

05:38because wrestling can just be silly fun sometimes.

05:40And the match is all that and more.

05:41Samoa Joe running around squeezing Fools' ghosts out through their neck,

05:45Brock holding a parade through the streets of Suplex City,

05:47Roman's punching everybody,

05:50and Braun is a level above all of them,

05:51relentlessly not being finished with Brock Lesnar,

05:53putting him through announce table after announce table

05:55as the live crowd pissed themselves with laughter and hoorays.

05:58The match isn't exactly riddled with psychology,

06:00but this isn't one of those joints.

06:02This is a car crash and a bloody fun time like all car crashes aren't.

06:06Number 4, Shawn Michaels vs. John Cena vs. Randy Orton vs. Edge

06:09Backlash 2007.

06:11You should never be happy that anyone gets injured,

06:13but because Triple H went down before Mania 23,

06:15we got the utterly wonderful Shawn Michaels-John Cena feud,

06:18which produced three all-time great matches.

06:21Their main event Mania match,

06:22their rematch in London,

06:23which ranks highly on the list of all-time best Raw matches,

06:25and now this,

06:26a fatal four-way with both men and rated RKO,

06:29aka Prickshed and Judy.

06:31It's possibly the best back-class match

06:33that isn't The Rock vs. Triple H.

06:35This is all action, all the time.

06:37Cena and Michaels blowing off their feud

06:38and a nice narrative vein

06:40and waiting for the sudden but inevitable implosion of the heel,

06:42air quotes,

06:43allies,

06:44end quotes.

06:44There's almost no fat on this match going from A-spot to A-spot,

06:47including a closing sprint of Oops All Finishers,

06:50which might just rank as one of the best endings

06:51to a pay-per-view match that WWE have ever done.

06:543. Will Ospreay vs. Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kushida vs. Marty Scurll

06:58Wrestle Kingdom 12

06:59New Japan don't do fatal four-ways,

07:01but if they did,

07:02they'd be the best fatal four-ways in the world.

07:04New Japan,

07:04especially when it comes to Wrestle Kingdom,

07:06their biggest show of the year,

07:07much prefer to showcase singles matches at the top of their cards,

07:10but at Wrestle Kingdom 12,

07:11they made an exception,

07:12running a fatal four-way for Scurll's Junior Heavyweight Championship.

07:15Scurll may be persona non grata in wrestling right now,

07:17but the quality of this match can't be overlooked.

07:19Pretty much all four competitors had rich history with each other.

07:22Kushida and Takahashi had infamous matches,

07:24same with Kushida Ospreay,

07:25and Scurll and Ospreay's feud is carved into British wrestling history.

07:29Callbacks were aplenty in this match,

07:30but somehow ran for nearly 20 minutes without ever slowing down,

07:33crammed with gnarly spots like Ospreay's moonsault from the lighting rig,

07:37and Takahashi going mental with Sunset Flip powerbombs

07:39to the goddamn outside.

07:41It's a lot,

07:42but it's very good,

07:43such is the way of the doctors of flipponomics.

07:45Number two,

07:46The Miz vs. Cesaro vs. Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn,

07:48Extreme Rules 2016.

07:50The lad gets a lot of hate,

07:51but I really like The Miz's icy tire run of 2016,

07:53beginning by stamping on Zack Ryder's dreams

07:55the day after Wrestlemania,

07:57and ending with Dolph Ziggler's dreams

07:58stamping on him at No Mercy six months later.

08:01Not all the pay-per-view matches in those six months were perfect,

08:03but goodness,

08:03the first one was,

08:04a phenomenal fatal four-way for the title,

08:07featuring three Ring of Honor veterans,

08:09Ring of Honoring the sh** out of each other,

08:10and one douchecone trying to sports entertainment his way to victory.

08:13Add to that,

08:14the Kevin Owens-Sammy Zayn feud running as wild as it ever did,

08:17and Cesaro's uncanny ability to break reason and physics,

08:19and in the words of the great Carl Weathers,

08:21baby,

08:21you got a stew going.

08:23Everything about this worked,

08:24to the point that the four lads received a well-deserved standing ovation

08:27before the match was even over,

08:28with the crowd rabid for every convincing near-fall,

08:31and there were oh so many of those,

08:33none more so than the closing spot,

08:34Zayn getting the halluva kick before Kevin Owens ruined his life just one more time,

08:39allowing Miz to swipe the W.

08:40Brilliant,

08:41brilliant,

08:42brilliant,

08:42brilliant.

08:43And number one,

08:43TLC's three and four,

08:45SmackDown 2001,

08:46and Raw 2002.

08:48Pretty mad that WWE did two TLC matches on pay-per-view,

08:51they were regarded as some of the greatest matches of all time,

08:53then two TLC matches on free TV for some reason,

08:56which were then regarded as two of the best matches in SmackDown and Raw history,

08:59respectively.

08:59Then they just thought,

09:00now we won't do any more of those matches,

09:01for four more years.

09:03Weird.

09:04Anyway,

09:04I've lumped TLC's three and four together,

09:06because A,

09:06they're both bloody brilliant,

09:07and B,

09:08they're both technically fatal four-ways.

09:09TLC 3 on SmackDown in May 2001,

09:12saw Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit defending their tag titles against the Hardys and Dudleys

09:15and Edge and Christian.

09:16TLC 4 on Raw October 2002,

09:18saw Kane defend his and the Hurricanes title solo against Christian and Chris Jericho,

09:22Bubba Ray and Spike Dudley,

09:23and RVD and Jeff Hardy winning the match.

09:25Paul Triple H came out to accuse him of killing Katie Vick.

09:28Delightful.

09:29Both matches are insanely good,

09:30way too good to not be on pay-per-view,

09:32but then we were spoiled back then.

09:33Describing how good they are would just involve listing spots,

09:36so seek them out to watch them again,

09:38especially TLC 3,

09:39which is the original TLC teams,

09:41plus Jericho and Benoit.

09:43And some of the spots in that one were truly horrible,

09:45including Benoit doing a diving headbutt to the floor,

09:48injuring him to the point where he'd later that year have to be shelled for months,

09:52but then continuing the match to the point of being the dude to pull down the belt.

09:55It's insane that we got these on telly,

09:57and for the suffering everyone put themselves through,

09:59giving them the top spot,

10:00that seems like the least we can do.

10:02And that's our list.

10:03What's your favourite fatal four-way match?

10:05Let us know in the comments,

10:05and check out last week's list

10:06where we run down the 10 worst night of champions matches ever.

10:10That was back when the company had nine titles,

10:13and those titles were

10:14World Tag Team Championship,

10:16Cruiserweight Championship,

10:17ECW Championship,

10:18Intercontinental Championship,

10:19US Championship,

10:20WWE Tag Team Championship,

10:21World Heavyweight Championship,

10:22Women's Championship,

10:22WWE Championship.

10:24Please don't drink every time I say the word championship in this list.

10:27I will not be responsible for your liver doing a tope suicida.

10:30I will not be responsible for your liver doing a tope suicida.

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