10 Greatest WWE Years Ever

8. 1992

Behind the scenes, 1992 was a rough year for WWE. A massive steroid scandal and trial threatened to undo the name the company had made for itself in the 1980s and the resulting controversy forced WWE to release some of its biggest names (The Ultimate Warrior and The British Bulldog) or otherwise move them away from the main event spotlight (Hulk Hogan). For the business side of things, the scandal was a tragedy. However, in any tragedy there is room for opportunity and opportunity is exactly what WWE found in 1992. By being forced to move away from their physically bigger stars, WWE gifted fans everywhere with one of the greatest years in wrestling history from an in-ring perspective. Things got interesting in a hurry this year as Ric Flair shocked the world by capturing the WWE Championship in the greatest Royal Rumble match of all time and would go on to lose it to Randy Savage at WrestleMania VIII in one of the most underrated WrestleMania title matches of all-time. On that same show, Bret Hart would capture the Intercontinental Title from Roddy Piper in an equally underrated contest and go on to drop it to the British Bulldog at SummerSlam 1992 in front of one of the largest crowds the WWE ever drew. These champions all proved capable of putting on show stealing quality matches and they had no shortage of opponents to put them on with as the WWE also used this time to shine some undercard spotlight on rising stars. The most notable among them would be Shawn Michaels who used the year to build his famous Heartbreak Kid persona en route to a WWE Championship match against Bret Hart at Survivor Series, but you also had Razor Ramon debut and give WWE fans a chance to root for the bad guy. On the other side of things, Mr. Perfect would make his long-awaited face turn during an extended angle with Macho Man Randy Savage. WWE may have not moved away from the big man era entirely willingly, but they still managed to do so in spectacular fashion.
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