10 Must-See Matches That ALREADY Make 2018 Wrestling’s Greatest Ever Year
4. Triple H & Stephanie McMahon Vs. Kurt Angle & Ronda Rousey (WWE WrestleMania 34)
Perhaps the best example of what WWE is still the best at in 2018, Ronda Rousey's maiden voyage into pro wrestling's choppy sea was a riotous success and should be a safe selection for the main roster's best of the year when such lists are compiled in December.
Magnificently curated to magnify every single one of the former UFC Champion's intense qualities whilst disguising her multiple weaknesses in these early career stages, the battle was something of a throwback to a simpler (read: better) time when this used to happen for every performer.
Kurt Angle and Stephanie McMahon offered differing novelty values - McMahon for her rare in-ring appearance and Angle for his renewed status as a WrestleMania returnee - but both used their Sports Entertainment pedigree (nyuk nyuk) alongside ring general Triple H to bring heft to a contest that could have easily collapsed.
'The Game' was initially arrogant in the face of the newcomer, until she battered him into near-oblivion with a series of strikes that lifted the crowd almost as high as they did Hunter himself. Stephanie's abject fear of her inevitable comeuppance was sublime, as too was the timing with which every moment of gratification came. Planned to the letter perhaps, but the dictionary definition of a long-held primary objective - don't sell the audience the whole truth, sell them something better.