The match most people associate with AJ Styles, and the match that most people think of when TNA is ever brought up in conversation.

TNA is probably in the best place it has ever been at the time of writing. They have a working relationship with WWE that is giving them more exposure than ever, their Slammiversary pay-per-view in July 2025 broke the company’s all-time attendance record, and it feels as if they are one good TV deal away from making the wrestling war between WWE and AEW a lot more interesting. With that said, 2005 is when TNA were truly firing on all cylinders, and the X-Division is a major part of that.

While the main event scene around this time could be described as Jeff Jarrett and any former WWE, WCW, or ECW wrestlers that TNA could throw money at, it was the X-Division that kept people coming back for more. Styles was the jewel in the crown of the X-Division, but having the likes of Frankie Kazarian, Chris Sabin, Petey Williams, Alex Shelley, Sonjay Dutt, Jay Lethal, Jerry Lynn, and Low Ki as a supporting cast made the division must-see. However, there were two men that Styles had more chemistry with than anyone else; Christopher Daniels, and Samoa Joe.

Leading into Unbreakable, Styles and Daniels had been fighting over the TNA X-Division Championship for months with Styles as the fan favorite and Daniels as the cowardly heel. Joe didn’t enter the company until Slammiversary in June, but made an immediate impact by going on an undefeated streak that carried him all the way to a Super X Cup victory in August. Daniels interfering in the Super X Cup final between Joe and Styles led to the TNA X-Division Championship match at Unbreakable a three way, and just like that, the legend was born.

When Daniels enters the match, he looks down at the camera and says “This will be my finest hour,” and sure enough, it was one of the finest hours Joe, Styles, and Daniels would have in their entire careers. The fact that all three men have gone on the record to say that a lot of it was called on the fly makes it even more impressive as each one of them spent nearly 25 minutes trying to top each other in the name of becoming TNA X-Division Champion, and to make it sweeter, TNA gave them the chance to do so in the main event.

You know a match is special when it has its own nickname that everyone will recognize. People will say “The Unbreakable Three Way” and you would know exactly what match they are talking about. It’s TNA’s X-Division at its absolute best, and there is a reason why many fans see it as the greatest match in company history, but there is one more match that we think just pips this one to the post.