Ranking What Was REALLY The Best Wrestling PPV Every Year 1990-2020

31. 1990 - WWF WrestleMania XI

WCW promoted pay-per-views with superior in-ring action in 1990, but call it nostalgia - and you should, because without that stinging, inescapable feeling, the main event is just two rancid ar*eholes doing tests of strength - WrestleMania VI was the best because it was monumental.

Too many of the matches were too short to mean or develop into anything, but the inner child is still delighted by the procession of beloved, outsize heroes doing what made you love them in short, welcome bursts. Match quality was high-end, even electric in places: Jake Roberts and Ted DiBiase told a wonderfully basic but absorbing story, and the Rockers were on peak (and outrageous, given they were hungover as f*ck) form in a mini-banger opposite the Orient Express.

That main event, watched through the lens of said child and not the disgusted adult, remains a very canny tale of symmetry-as-unpredictable-drama perfect for its innovative and politicised all-babyface dynamic.

It was a massive occasion, too - easy, all these years later, to get lost in when you don't much fancy looking at the absolute state of Roddy Piper.