10 Ultra-Rare WWE Championship Matches You've Definitely Never Seen

The discovery and safe retrieval of Tom Magee and Bret Hart's "Holy Grail" match was a substantial moment for longstanding fans of both 'The Excellence Of Execution' and the product in general.

Revered for how it sold Magee as "the next Hulk Hogan" to Vince McMahon just two years into 'The Hulkster's run, the WWE Network playback featured comments from the wrestlers themselves as well as select others to offer their contextualised takes on why the match was particularly brilliant to watch for the boys and boss in the back as much as it was the fans in the arena.

The real magic of the match finally getting broadcast via the streaming service was how it had been forever thought lost. One of the few things WWE simply didn't have, compared to the hundreds of thousands of hours of footage they've simply never shown. Whether it was house shows recorded for posterity, dark segments either side of television tapings or outdoor novelty events, the cameras were almost always rolling but the company's careful control of what got out left much of it a mystery for many a year.

Their stance has softened over the decades, with DVDs and now an entire Network to keep loaded with content, so while none of these are out there as of this writing, this isn't to say they never will be. Even if not all of them sound overly appealing...

There's something quite sweet about the idea of Stone Cold Steve Austin ensuring one of the men that helped him get over in WWE got a huge main event payday once he made it to the top, even if that isn't perhaps the whole story here.

In his first run of house show headliners after winning the big one at WrestleMania XIV, Austin spent most of the time forcing then-European Champion Triple H to look at the lights in crowd-pleasing Stunner-and-home main events.

For one night in Lowell, Massachusetts, this wasn't the case.

With the D-Generation X leader off the show completely, the top spot fell to Savio Vega just as it had done at February's No Way Out: In Your House when Shawn Michaels required time to let his back heal just enough to do the honours for Austin at the 'Show Of Shows'.

Back then, it made instant history as one of the worst mystery partner reveals in company history. Here, the fans were likely kinder to the Los Boricuas gaffer before he too returned the favour for their 1996 Beware Of Dog 2 Caribbean Strap Match classic.