WWE Wrestlemania: As WWE will hold a new edition of WrestleMania on April 2-3, 2022. The company has announced the first matches on the card, highlighting the match between AJ Styles and Edge as the one that can probably steal the show.
Will it be one of the best fights in the history of the great event? Let’s review which have been the ones that we could consider the best to date.
10. Shawn Michaels vs. Ric Flair (WrestleMania XXIV)
Technically, it wasn’t a great match. In fact, Ric Flair was in his last moment as an active professional wrestler. However, the interpretation of this fight was poetic. Before him, The Nature Boy had the best supporting actor in the business.
Ric Flair put his career at stake against HBK, something that Michaels himself would do a few years later. He perfectly exposed the meaning of tragedy and the cycle of life. Flair lost in tears after hearing the magical words of his rival: “I’m sorry, I love you.”
9. Shawn Michaelsvs. Kurt Angle (WrestleMania 21)
In 2005, close to 40 years old, Shawn Michaels was already considered a legend, but he began to chain a series of fights at WrestleMania that definitively made him Mr. WrestleMania. This was one of those magical nights that enhanced his story, facing a Kurt Angle who arrived at his best moment.
Both fighters played one of the biggest technical matches in WrestleMania history. A total of 25 minutes of magic that ended with the victory by submission of the WWE Olympic champion.
8. The Dudley Boyz vs. Edge & Christian vs. The Hardy Boyz – TLC Match (WrestleMania X-Seven)
The WWE tag team division had its great last stage headed with these three teams. After a series of fights with the stipulation of tables, chairs or stairs, the creation of the TLC Match arrived, a fight where all those elements were used. We had seen it before, but moving it to WrestleMania was the last step.
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A perfect complement for a round night. That Swanton Bomb by Jeff Hardy or the incredible Spear by Edge that you can see below will always remain in our minds.
7. Bret Hartvs. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin (WrestleMania 13)
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin was presented as the generational change in this fight. Bret Hart was the real star, occupying the highest positions in the company at a very difficult time when WCW was pressing the accelerator and winning in audience during the Monday night television war.
WWE needed a change and that came with Austin, despite not coming out alive in this match. It wasn’t the main event, but it could have been. Both faced each other in a match where victory could only be obtained by submission.
With Ken Shamrock serving as the guest referee, Bret Hart won via his deadly Sharpshooter, leaving a memorable scene when Steve Austin began bleeding from his forehead and chose to pass out rather than give up.
6. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin vs. The Rock (WrestleMania X-Seven)
The icing on the cake to a round night that closed what many consider the best WrestleMania in WWE history. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin had already defeated The Rock two years earlier on the same stage, but this time he was not the favorite.
The Rock arrived in a state of grace and tried to close a cycle by demonstrating his superiority to the one who had been considered the best wrestler of the last five years.
But everything changed when Vince McMahon, who had been humiliated by his family the same night, stepped in in the closing moments to team up with Steve Austin and help him win. The Rattlesnake had to repeatedly use the chair to ‘kill’ The Rock.
5. The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels – Streak vs. Career Match (WrestleMania XXVI)
We remembered him in the Top 10 of the best main events in the history of WrestleMania. It was not the best encounter between the two, but it was the most intense and frenetic. Shawn Michaels had just lost in the 25th edition against the Deadman and his desire for revenge reached such an extreme that the following year he put his career on the line without thinking about the consequences.
A festival of slaps that ended the history of HBK in the ring after giving us a great moment in which he angered the Deadman like never before after begging for mercy and slapping him.
4. Chris Benoitvs. Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H (XX)
Considered by many as the best main event in the history of WrestleMania, the twentieth edition was presented with a triple threat that closed a memorable chapter in the company. Bret Hart changed the perception of the prototype champion a decade earlier and Chris Benoit, with permission from Eddie Guerrero, did the same with this victory.
The Crippler opened the door to a new generation of very hungry fighters, achieving a well-deserved victory submitting Triple H. His celebration in the center, along with Eddie Guerrero, is one of the most remembered and emotional in the history of the company.
3. The Rock vs. “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan (WrestleMania X-8)
It is possibly the most iconic match of all time. WWE tried the same formula, years later, facing The Rock and John Cena, two monsters from different generations.
They did not achieve the same effect. And we are talking about Hulk Hogan returning to WWE after spending several years competing in the rival company. We have never witnessed a public reaction as big as that night.
Hogan and The Rock were abducted by electrifying charge in the environment and had to change the script on the fly because the public turned to Hogan, despite being the bad boy. The hairs like spikes in different phases of the fight. A fight that you cannot miss.
2. The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels (The 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania)
The quintessential match of WrestleMania. A large part of WWE fans consider it to be the pinnacle of combat in the history of the great event. Unlike their meeting in the 26th edition, this fight had more psychology and was simmered.
It was the first in a series of matches that really put Undertaker’s winning record at WrestleMania in check and the start of an incredible saga with those who were members of D-Generation X. The Deadman achieved victory by the count of three after apply the Tombstone Piledriver to add the 17-0 in his private locker.
1. The Undertaker vs. Triple H (WrestleMania XXVIII)
The one cataloged as “The End of an Era” was like the final phase of a video game that ends spectacularly. Triple H tried to do what Shawn Michaels couldn’t in two editions of WrestleMania. The Hunter faced Undertaker at WrestleMania XXVII and pushed him to the limit of his abilities.
A year later, both closed a chapter in the history of professional wrestling with a dream match, inside a steel cage, in which Shawn Michaels was once again a participant, this time as a special guest referee. Michaels appeared neutral, but tried to tip the scales when he attacked the Deadman at a key point in the match.
If the founders of D-Generation X couldn’t break the streak that night, we figured no one else would. Or at least that’s what we were led to believe. because we all know how it ended. The three of them once again put on a new dramatic display and made us feel like young viewers once again.
