Welcome friends, to the August Matches of the Month!
2026 is more in the rear view than the road ahead of us, and this month proved to be a real treat for exceptional wrestling! Maybe I'm getting my mojo back, maybe the end of the summer is proving to be a better season for great wrestling than the start. Regardless, let's see what matches were the very best this month!
Welcome back, wrestling fans, to another Matches of the Month!
A leaner month for quality wrestling, at least from what I found, but still enough quality matches to warrant one of these posts! I mean, I'd still post one even if there was only one good match, honestly. I'm all about consistency!
Let's not waste any more of your time. On to the matches!
Welcome back to another Matches of the Month!
We've made it to June! Halfway through the year! Wow, crazy to think. Really feels like we were just celebrating the start of the new year the other day. But, such is the passage of time. Let me give the month that was a brief, but necessary, breakdown.
Well, May certainly was a month that happened!
Speaking for me personally, it was a difficult month for my mental health. I felt like I was pretty burnt out after the heavy wrestling month that was April and didn't really have the desire to watch as much this month as I did previously. I'd like to say that I'm in an upswing, but I won't lie and say things are better when they aren't.
I'm also enjoying the warmer weather more, spending time away with my wife and family, and putting my nose to the dirt better about applying to jobs. So it's safe to say that I don't always have hours and hours on hand to watch wrestling.
But! I did still watch some fantastic matches this month! So let's not dwell on the negatives and instead focus on the very best matches from May of this year.
What’s new, friends?!
April is in the books already! Man, what a month it was. ‘Mania season had me watching more matches in a week than I sometimes average in a month, and I couldn’t help but feel a touch of burnout for the final weeks of the month. But alas! I pushed on! I persevered! And man, what a month it was. Multiple Match of the Year contenders and 5 star barn burners. Let’s dig into some of them, yeah?
Another month down means another Matches of the Month!
Some really great wrestling available this month, with the women standing head and shoulders above the men in a lot of ways! Let's see what really stood out this month, yeah?
February is in the books, friends! 2 months down!
Maybe not the most packed-to-the-rafters month for stellar matches, this month did deliver a few exceptional matches that will be talked about and remembered for many months to come. Let's get into them, shall we?
Welcome back folks to another edition of Matches of the Month! I'll be shaking up the format a touch here for the start of the new year, as after running my "Match of the Year" tournament for 2025, I can't help but feel I should be a bit more particular about what I consider in these posts each month. Let me break it down real quick.
In the sidebar of the blog, I will continue to make not of matches I have watched in the month and if they are under consideration as a "Match of the Month" contender. These can be matches from any time, they don't need to be specifically from this month.
But going forward, I will separate the matches from this month specifically and historic/later matches I watched this month. This may not matter to some, but I will be carrying this over to when I make my choices for a match of the year. I will clarify this in my first post next week, but I will only be considering matches that took place in the calendar year for Match of the Year going forward. Makes sense, yeah?
So, you can read about the matches from this month specifically in the first half of this post, and the "historic" matches will be listed in the final half of this post.
Sound good? We all clear? Cool, let's get into this!
The final Matches of the Month for 2025!
I mean yeah, it drops in 2026, but it's December!
Let's take a quick peek at the month that was and see what stood out the most, shall we?
November has come to a close! Where has 2025 gone, honestly? A better month for better wrestling, with the year ending on a high note so far. I have high hopes for December.
But, let's not get too ahead of ourselves here. Let's see what stood out in the month of November, shall we?
What's the story, friends? Welcome to the Matches of the Month for October 2025!
I'll be honest with you guys, this was a really, really tough month for me, personally. Found it really hard to find any motivation to watch anything this month. As you guys can pretty plainly see, I really only watched the weekly episodes of AEW, WrestleDream, and whatever came up for Roulette this month. That aside, I found it really hard to want to dig for anything at all. It's a work in progress, friends. But! Until we get that sorted! Here's what the month of October had on offer for quality wrestling.
What's up folks?
A shorter Matches of the Month post for September, which should be no surprise given how crazy this month has been. I'm currently drafting this the Tuesday before the post goes live as I'm on the tail end of an illness I'm fighting and just got back home after a last-minute-emergency-family-vacation. Not the fun kind of vacation, either. So bear with me if this month's synopsis' are a bit more lacking than usual. I'm doing my best here, guys.
August! Where did you go?! You weren't a banner year for wrestling, but that wasn't your fault, was it? Can only watch so much wrestling when you don't feel like doing much at all, eh? For as much as I talk about August being a dry month for quality wrestling, doing a list like this really helps me see that each month has plenty of matches worth hunting down or, at the very least, remembering. But which ones from August stood out from the rest? Well, dear reader, you'll just need to read on to find out!
We've passed the halfway mark of 2025! Hard to believe, eh?
July wasn't really a hotbed of exciting matches for me, or at least for the stuff I was watching. I was honestly a bit worried for the first few days and weeks that I wouldn't find a lot worth ranking for my Matches of the Year tournament! But, thankfully, a few glimmering lights shone through.
But that's a topic for next week, read on today and find out which matches blew me away for the month of July.
Well, would ya look at that, we're half way through the year already! Where has all the time gone? I couldn't tell ya, because I was too busy watching wrestling! And these are some of the best matches I watched this month. Make sure to read the whole post because I've included a brand new segment at the bottom. Read on to find out what it is!
May is finished as we're rounding third to a year of the WRestrling Vault! Hard to believe it, eh? May was a month of fantastic wrestling, my first full month of not watching modern WWE (roulette matches ruined my perfect month) and I don't regret my decision for a second.
Don't believe me that great wrestling exists outside WWE? Well, a month of amazing matches says otherwise.
With April in the rear view, its time to go over some of my favourite matches from the month that was! I stayed pretty modern this month but feel like going back to the grainy footage for the month of May. Let's see what the tail end of spring does to this friendly neighbourhood reviewer.
3 months into 2025 already! Where has the time gone? March has come and gone, which means its time for another look back at the month that was and remember the best matches that I came across. This was a mix bag month, we got roulette, had some days where I did nothing but watch wrestling and others where I couldn't be asked.
But, it was a good month overall for wrestling, with one of the best wrestling shows of the entire year to boot! Why don't we go over those matches, eh?
2 months into 2025 already? I'm finding that hard to believe but I guess it's hard to deny the slow march of time, eh? February was a slower month for yours truly, but I still managed to watch some really great matches even if I had almost no desire to watch wrestling for a good portion of the month.
Let's go over the matches I like the most!
Here we are, the end of another month! The first month of 2025 is officially behind us so it's time to go over the best of the best from the Wrestling Vault this month. I think this month may have had the most "Match of the Month" contenders yet, and I'm not saying that with any certainty because I haven't counted, but this list felt like it was never going to end.
