10 Best WWE Set Designs

6. WrestleMania X-Seven

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It had been four years since WWE had held a major pay-per-view event in a stadium the size of the Houston Astrodome, and even longer since they'd had the match to actually sell one out.

Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock deserved the honour of having a 'Grandest Stage' showdown take place on an actual grand stage. It spoke to how long it had been for the company away from massive buildings that neither had walked an aisle quite like this one at any point during their relatively small peaks as wrestling and mainstream megastars.

Enormous golden pillars flanked the TitanTron, with the WrestleMania logo - like the show itself, in truth - too big for its own good. They've been chasing the high ever since, with the sets ironically being the only things about the on-screen presentation that have objectively bettered the past over the last two decades.

WrestleMania X-Seven was an overdue toast to the rampant success of the era without knowing that it simultaneously served as a fond farewell.

 
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