100 Greatest WWE Matches Of All Time (Ranked)

WWE has put on literally hundreds of thousands of matches across the decades. Many of them have been instantly forgettable, or at least only rudimentary in nature and immediately replaced by the next shiny thing dangled in front of fan faces week after week. Then, there are the special ones - matches so pulsating and memorable that they've been filed away for another go-around.

There will be matches here that you've dug out to watch countless times. That's how great they are.

This collection exhaustively looks at banner moments from the height of the WWF 'Hulkamania' boom in the 1980s, the battle-weary "lows" of the 'New Generation' era, the raunchy peak of 'Attitude', WWE's decision to go PG, and even into modern times. To put things into perspective, the earliest bout sampled happened in 1987. The most recent on the list? It'll be fresh in your minds from shows Triple H has produced in 2025.

Recency bias is always a concern when dubbing things "the greatest of all time", but it's important to be balanced and not discount anything just because it's new. Striking a balance between teary-eyed nostalgia and the excellent in-ring action put on today was always going to be difficult, but it'd be foolish to overlook the modern era just because we're all currently living in it.

So, after endless re-writes, re-drafts, selection changes and more mental torture than a Scott Steiner maths promo, here it is: 'The 100 Greatest WWE Matches Of All Time'. Your choices may differ, and the actual numbered rankings will definitely change to suit individuals, but there's a lot to enjoy no matter what style you're into.

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This might seem like a very strange starting point, but...have you seen how great Bret and Owen Hart were as a fleeting tag-team in 1994? They worked a higher-profile pay-per-view match vs. The Quebecers at the '94 Royal Rumble, but that paled in comparison to a bout taped less than a few weeks before that one. Bret and Owen matched up against Rick and Scott Steiner at the 11 January Wrestling Challenge tapings, and it was a thing of beauty.

The WWF included this match on their WrestleFest 1994 VHS release, so it's been immortalised. Good thing they did too, because simply seeing an in-his-prime Bret mix it with a still-athletic Scotty Steiner was awesome. Typically for four guys like this, they refused to phone it in - the pace picked up once Owen entered (injecting energy into matches was one of his biggest strengths), and then the quartet were off to the races after that.

One of the biggest compliments you could give this match is that everybody looked like they wanted to win. There were never any moves for the sake of doing moves, or dizzying amounts of spots just because they wanted to 'get their s*** in'. No, this was a Bret Hart match, and he favoured psychology and storytelling over ripping it with no rhyme or reason.

Bret and Owen memorably split when the latter kicked the former's "leg outta [his] leg" at the Rumble. Had that not happened, then there's a real chance the WWF might've plonked this on a bigger platform come the spring or summer. We got robbed of that, people. Robbed!