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Greetings and salutations, boys and girls, and welcome to the first Rajah main page installment of the most prestigious countdown list of the year, the Rajah Forums Countdown of WWE’s Best Matches of 2014!

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Now let’s get on with the next installment of the countdown…

2014 was a breakout year for The Usos. They won the titles from The New (Old) Age Outlaws and went on to put in great performance after great performance – most of them being against The Wyatts. The feud peaked here in what was a fast and bruising encounter and surely The Usos’ finest match so far.

The Wyatts dominate the early minutes of the match and when Jimmy tries to up the pace against Harper, he eats a huuuuuuuge Big Boot which earns the first pin after only five minutes. The offence is slow and methodical from The Wyatts from here and as always in the matches between these two, it is STIFF. They continue to work on Jimmy until Jey finally gets the hot tag and rolls up Harper to make it a fall each at eight minutes.

And then this match really kicks into gear. After Jey is worked on for a while, Jimmy gets the hot tag and lets loose. Dive over the top to Harper, dive over the top to Rowan, then he channels Jeff Hardy and runs the barricade and splashes Harper, then straight back into the ring, Crossbody off the top to Harper for a near fall. The match has exploded and so has the crowd. I can’t quite articulate how fast this match has become now, it’s an absolute frenzy.

Part of the reason these teams work so well together is because The Usos are big men, which you sometimes forget when they’re flying all over the place. It makes it more believable that they can sustain bruising offence from Harper and Rowan and it makes it more exciting when they bust out the high flying moves to try and counter their opponents. The nature of the first two falls also means that every pin attempt gets a huge reaction and you can’t help but think this could end at any time. Rowan kicks out of a splash, Jimmy kicks out of a Superkick. Eventually Harper curbs the flurry of high flying by doing some himself – he hits a Suicide Dive through the ropes and the “this is awesome” chants begin.

From here the pace slows a little but even this break is filled with action as Rowan Double Superplexes The Usos off the top rope. In fact, scratch what I said, the pace only slowed for about 20 seconds, you don’t get a break at all. Huge Superkick from Harper and he says this is it. He goes for the Clothesline, Jimmy ducks and hits a Superkick of his own but Harper just comes at him with a huuuuuuge Discus Clothesline. I felt that one. Near fall broken up by Jey and the crowd is getting even louder. Jey is back in now and a Superkick isn’t enough to take Harper down. A Double Superkick does though. Another one to Rowan and he’s down outside the ring. This gives The Usos some time and they both go to the top and hit a Double Splash on Harper for the 1-2-3.

For me, this was the best traditional two on two tag match of the year. Frantically paced and brilliantly entertaining. It’s a real shame the Wyatts are no longer together because they were a fantastic team and perfect foil for The Usos.

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