After 30 years and 300 matches, WrestleManias self-billing as the Showcase of the Immortals is actually a fitting description. WrestleMania has become so woven into the fabric of professional wrestling that its impossible to imagine a spring without it. No matter how terrible a buildup to Mania might be in a particular year, there never is a thought to do away with it or to brush it aside. As WWEs centerpiece event of each year, WrestleMania is the place where major feuds culminate, where grandiose spectacles occur and where the unbelievable happens. While that might sound like hyperbole, consider all of the great matches that have occurred during the past 30 WrestleManias. Consider all the moments burned into your brain that you can relive just by shutting your eyes (or watching the WWE Network). There are countless memorable matches that stand out. Thats where this list comes in to play. Trying to rank the best matches by star ratings is a futile effort, and it also ignores some of the most significant and enjoyable matches to occur in WrestleMania history. Rather, consider this a collection of must-see matches the technical masterpieces, the spectacles and the trainwrecks that every wrestling fan should watch. Doing so means there will be some outstanding matches left out, but thats part of the challenge, and part of the fun.
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.
