Every WWE Five Star Match Ranked From Worst To Best

7. Bret Hart Vs. Owen Hart - Steel Cage SummerSlam 1994

A novel approach to the traditional steel cage match, that novelty may have accounted for Uncle Dave's maximum praise. He seemed more impressed by the ability of the Hart brothers to work around what was at the time a literally fenced-in stipulation, as opposed to the content of the match itself. The cage, assembled only to settle the most personal of grudges, required claret to resonate with an audience conditioned to expect brutality.

Or at least it did, until brothers Bret and Owen innovated a new dramatic layer: suspense.

This did lead one to suspect the psychology, since this was a blood feud without the blood and perhaps should have been a fight, as opposed to a retreat - but the urgent and expertly-timed escape and thwart attempts were done so well that anybody watching, even those years later, even those rewatching equipped with knowledge of the result, must experience genuine, full-on palpitations. They were also done a bit too much, leading to a slightly repetitive middle act.

The outlier in WWE's canon of classics, it was nonetheless a hugely inventive and at times unbearably dramatic match sold to perfection with a frantic desperation and exhaustion.