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10. Razor Ramon And Shawn Michaels Road-Test The Ladder Match On House Shows

Everyone remembers the first time they witnessed Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon put it all on the line in what was WWE's first-ever Ladder match at WrestleMania X. HBK hitting that outstanding splash from high above, The Bad Guy launching his opponent head-first into the unforgiving steel: it may not seem like it when viewed through a modern lens, but this was ground-breaking stuff back in 1994.

But you may be surprised to learn that this wasn't technically the first match of its kind under the WWE banner.

Whilst shooting the breeze and dissecting the contest many years on in 2019, the two Kliq pals would reveal that they actually further road-tested the Ladder concept brought to the WWF by Bret Hart 1992 on house shows. Meaning that the explosive Intercontinental Champions actually routinely battered each other with ladders without a camera in sight as they experimented with what could work on The Grandest Stage of Them All.

This house show trial-and-error approach clearly paid off in the long run as the two would go on to produce a contest many describe as the finest Ladder match ever to go down inside of Vince McMahon's company.

You never forget your first, after all.