10 Wrestling Matches We Didn’t Know Changed EVERYTHING

10. Triple H Vs. Buck Zumhofe - WWF Wrestling Challenge, April 25, 1995

At the time, this was thoroughly unremarkable New Generation undercard fare: beyond the electric, quietly revolutionary in-ring main event style, the WWF, deprived of star power, experimented with super-gimmicks divorced from reality.

Hunter Hearst Helmsley was one of many: a blue blood aristocrat character, he debuted, in a bizarre spot of trivia, opposite abhorrent, incestuous paedophile Buck Zumhofe. Helmsley entered the ring with his nose stuck firmly in the air, almost reaching the ceiling, before taking Zumfofe down with a few basic grappling holds. Flooring Zumfofe with a few European uppercuts, Helmsley unleashed a spinning back heel kick, but connected with the knee, betraying the snooty ring general pitch. After some clumsy Irish whip counters, Helmsley won with the quickly-abandoned Ace Crusher.

He stole that one from John 'Johnny Ace' Laurinaitis.

He also stole his position, years and years later, as the Head of Talent Relations and developmental head honcho after a controversial and epic main event career driven, in no small part, by his romantic association with Stephanie McMahon. The raw talent, who struggled to project himself as superior, was said to have brought "civility" to the World Wrestling Federation.

In reality, he altered the very complexion of it, onscreen and off.

Fittingly, the most divisive pro wrestling figure ever epitomised that legacy by both dominating a sterile and often boring main event scene and creating WWE's most critically-acclaimed in-ring product ever.