10 Matches WWE Could HONESTLY Call ‘The Greatest Ever’
10. The Dudley Boyz Vs Edge & Christian Vs The Hardy Boyz (WrestleMania 17)
The true culmination of career-shortening clashes between the three teams over the prior two years, WrestleMania 17's Tables, Ladders and Chairs sequel benefited from the enormous crowd that got to share the pain and passion of six performers desperate to succeed.
The company's return to a stadium setting for the first time since Royal Rumble 1997 was in complete contrast to the intimate atmosphere and aggression of the Attitude Era, and perhaps one of the many reasons the show is considered the period's last hurrah. But it signified how far the organisation had come since San Antonio's cavernous Alamo Dome required extensive papering to fill a home town title win.
On a loaded card still considered by many to be the finest ever, Edge & Christian emerged victorious from a chaotic weapons war that stole the show. But rarely was Jim Ross' pre-show hyperbole about careers being made ever so accurate. Crafted smartly and logically in comparison to previous destruction derbies, a wacky stack of frightening spots built in imaginative style before all the pieces toppled with Edge's momentous spear on Jeff Hardy from a hanging title.
A 'WrestleMania moment' before the company became obsessed with manufacturing them, it fed into a match that etched all six into WWE lore and at least three (at current count) into the Hall Of Fame.