10 Most Heated Matches In WWE History
2. Bret Hart Vs. The British Bulldog - WWF SummerSlam 1992
The WWF enjoys a special relationship with the United Kingdom. The promotion was flailing domestically in 1992. Physiques, mysteriously, had began to shrink. The returns of Hulk Hogan, the company's biggest ever star, were diminishing - and his replacement, the Ultimate Warrior, had failed to fill his big boots.
However, as result of its nascent relationship with Sky Sports in the UK, the Federation was able to maintain, by booking London's cavernous Wembley Stadium, the gigantic numbers it enjoyed at its late eighties peak. Headlined by Brit Davey Boy Smith, it is no exaggeration to compare his home country popularity with the bond Hogan enjoyed with North American audiences.
The main event has endured as a classic - but the sustained, blustering reaction carried it. The Bulldog was so out of it that at times, he was the apocryphal broomstick the very best were able to carry to a five-star match.
Their sequel - at In Your House: Seasons Beatings - was the superior match, but as incredible as it was in its pacing, progression and storytelling, the roaring shadow cast by the original remains so large that many have consigned it to history.