10 Best WrestleMania Main Event Wrestlers
How do the top stars stack up at the biggest show of the year?
Not every WWE wrestler who steps through the ropes is
destined to main-event a WrestleMania, no matter how good he (or she) is. Just
ask CM Punk.
Conversely, some of the most-recognizable names in WWE history have either not had a lot of matches as the top of the Mania card, or they’ve had spotty records in the main event of the biggest show of the year.
WrestleMania casts a major spotlight on wrestlers, especially those in high-profile matches. The main event of each PPV is, by definition, a huge attraction. Win your Mania main event and you could get launched into the stratosphere. Lose a bunch of times and you could be on your way down the card.
Given that, it’s not entirely surprising to see who shows up on a list of best WrestleMania main-eventers. However, it is surprising to see where each of them fall on the list. You can’t just go by their won-loss record. You also have to take into account the number and quality of their matches.
For this list, we are only taking into account the announced matches that closed the PPV. Billed “double main events” don’t count. There is only one exception to this rule, which will become apparent later on.
With that said, let’s take a look at some of the biggest
WrestleMania main event wrestlers in the PPV’s history. Let’s get to it…
10. Randy Savage And Brock Lesnar (1-1) (Tie)
This is an interesting pairing, as Randy “Macho Man” Savage
was on top of the wrestling world in the late 80s and still one of the best
performers in WWF heading into the 90s. Brock Lesnar, meanwhile, had a brief
flash with the company in the early 2000s and came back into the fold several
years ago.
Savage was the first person not named Hulk Hogan to leave WrestleMania with the WWF Championship, winning four matches at Mania IV, including beating Ted DiBiase to win the vacant title. He then held the strap for a year, losing it to Hogan at WM V in the main event. Still, he was on top during one of the hottest periods in the company’s history.
Lesnar closed out WM 19 with Kurt Angle, winning the WWE Championship at an underappreciated PPV. He was poised to be the focal point of the company through the 2000s. A year later, he was gone. He returned in 2012, main-eventing WM 31 and losing the world title due to a memorable Seth Rollins Money in the Bank cash-in.