When 2023 is finished, there’s a good chance wrestling fans will look back at Backlash as one of, if not the single best premium live events of the year. The crowd in Puerto Rico was spectacular. Every single one of the matches was, at minimum, pretty good, and Bad Bunny and Damian Priest put on what might be the best celebrity match in the history of wrestling. I’ll talk about why it worked so well later in the article, but first, we need to talk about Bad Bunny’s all-timer of a ring entrance.
I’ve watched tens of thousands of ring entrances in my noted career as a wrestling fan, and you’re not going to find many better than what Bad Bunny dropped last night. With Damian Priest waiting for him in the ring, the megastar came out to his song “Chambea,” The crowd immediately and thoroughly lost its mind, cheering wildly and then somehow raising its volume after he pulled a tarp off the top of a shopping cart of weapons he had hidden. You can watch it in all its glory below…
