7 WrestleMania Matches That Weren’t All Bad
It might not be obvious upon first glance, but these matches do have some redeeming features.
Since its debut at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 31, 1985, WWEs annual WrestleMania extravaganza has brought us some of the greatest pro wrestling matches ever contested.
Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat (1987), Savage vs. The Ultimate Warrior (1991), Shawn Michaels vs. Razor Ramon (1994), Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (1997), Austin vs. The Rock (2001), Michaels vs. Kurt Angle (2005), Edge vs. The Undertaker (2008), Michaels vs. Undertaker (2009 and 2010) and others held at the show of shows are widely regarded as classics.
Along this epic journey, through 31 events on which there have collectively been more than 320 matches, Vince McMahons organisation has subjected us to oodles of painfully average and dismal confrontations, which are not remembered fondly or even remembered at all. Of course it has. And then there are those matches which fall into another category: bouts dismissed by pundits and wrestling devotees as absurd, tedious or dreadful which, upon further evaluation, are not entirely devoid of merit.
It might not be obvious upon first glance, but these matches do have some redeeming features.
Here are seven such WrestleMania scraps which, contrary to conventional wisdom, do deserve your attention. Misjudged, these matches are worth revisiting, for various reasons . . .