10 Worst Booked Dream Matches

4. The Rock Vs Stone Cold Steve Austin (WrestleMania X7)

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The legendary 'My Way' video package that accompanied the iconic WrestleMania X7 clash between Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock was ingeniously brilliant on two fronts.

It was f*cking fantastically edited, for one. Surely inspiring generations of budding video editors and nu metal wannabes in equal measure, it - much like the show it was created to support - reflected an organisation firing on every cylinder. A blissful juxtaposition of an of-the-time banger and the raging inferno brewing between the industry's two top stars, it's retained much of its perfection to this day.

And so to the second reason it's so inspired - because it basically chalks off the rubbish bit of the story.

In their incredible interview with Jim Ross, Austin very deliberately puts the odd inclusion of Debra as The Rock's manager "out of the picture", as if to provide the perfect way to erase it from the angle and anybody's memory of it. A pointless and convoluted point of contention between the pair when absolutely none was needed, Debra's involvement existed only to give the two more reason to fight when the main one - the f*cking WWE Championship Austin had rehabbed a broken neck to reclaim - was more than enough.

 
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