The 7 best non-WWE matches from WrestleMania 42 week in Las Vegas

Here are the seven best matches you may have missed amid the WrestleMania 42 week chaos.

For more than 20 years now, WrestleMania weekend hasn’t just meant the big show. Dozens of smaller shows have joined in WWE’s wake, creating a week-long celebration of the endlessly different colors across the pro-wrestling palate. Here are seven of the best non-WWE matches from this year’s WrestleMania 42 festivities in Las Vegas.

1. Bandido vs. Amazing Red House of Glory: Las Vegas Culture Clash, April 16 Very fun battle of generations here.

Amazing Red was one of the forefathers of high-flying innovative pro-wrestling — his matches with Low-Ki still have never been matched — and Bandido is the one of the inheritors of that legacy. Red, 43, never got the WWE or AEW run he deserved, but built House of Glory into a successful promotion and wrestling school, and still went move-for-move and hold-for-hold with Bandido in this one, including maybe the dive of the weekend, and wild Topé con Hilo where he landed in the second row. I’d love to see this matchup run back on a Ring of Honor pay-per-view, to give Red the one last big moment he deserves.