You can call this a sentimental pick if youd like, but when you participate in one of the greatest matches in WrestleMania history, you automatically are going to get preferential treatment. Ricky Steamboat won the second match in WrestleMania history and was undefeated at the event until WrestleMania IV, when he lost to Greg The Hammer Valentine in the first round of the WWF Championship tournament. He would get one more WrestleMania moment at Mania XXV, when he, Roddy Piper and Jimmy Snuka took on Chris Jericho. Steamboat managed to turn back time, and at age 56, he had fans buying into him beating Y2J. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rQn65xG8fs Oh, and he also won the Intercontinental Championship from Macho Man Randy Savage at WrestleMania III. That contest has widely been considered one of if not the best matches at Mania.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
