10 Matches That Made Chicago The Hottest Wrestling City In The World

10. Nation Of Domination Vs Ahmed Johnson & The Legion Of Doom (WrestleMania 13)

Billed as a 'Chicago Street Fight', the mass brawl between the vast Nation of Domination and the Ahmed Johnson/Road Warriors unit was emblematic of a brave new frontier the company was about to embark on, harnessing the energy and spirit of the passionate city it required as a host.

Always announced as natives themselves, Hawk and Animal were 'home' amongst the frenetic Chicagoans in attendance, and remarkably re-energised a crowd that by rights should have been too exhausted to care after a scintillating Bret Hart/Steve Austin clash (more on that later) just minutes earlier.

The eventual outing was neither stylistically pleasing nor psychologically sound, but had an unease to it that lifted the brawl far beyond reasonable expectations and probably would have taken match-of-the-night honours on a card without the single greatest contest in company history.

Long before the Attitude Era established weapons-grade chaos as the norm in WWE, the sense of urgency to the various plunder assaults felt far more real that Rodney from the Mean Street Posse patiently waiting for the Big Boss Man to waffle him with a tin foil trash can lid.

Finishing with a flourish, the three faces ploughed through Crush with a 2x4, then hit a double Doomsday Device on PG-13 for a spectacular closing visual.