10 Biggest Surprises In WWE's 100 Greatest Matches Book

5. No Mention Of Hogan/André's TV Rating

Hulk Hogan Andre the Giant WrestleMania IV
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None of Hulk Hogan's matches against André the Giant exactly vied for 'match of the year' status. Hogan's typical formula combined with an increasingly immobile André was on the whole a recipe for an absolute snoozefest.

That doesn't mean that their biggest bouts should not still earn a place on the list of 'greatest matches of all time'. WrestleMania III's Hogan-André affair naturally wasn't a patch on the Steamboat-Savage masterclass from earlier in the evening, but it is nevertheless considered one of the most defining battles in the history of televised wrestling.

Hogan and André's 1988 clash in Indiana was similarly momentous - but DK's book makes no mention as to why. Quite aside from citing the show's mammoth 15.2 Nielsen rating, or its enormous 33 million viewers - both records for American wrestling at the time - the spread simply describes the match, and what it meant going forwards into WrestleMania IV. Quite the oversight.

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