50 Must-See WrestleMania Matches

49. Triple H Vs. Sting – WrestleMania 31

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A spectacle in the truest sense of the word, this match was all flash and no substance. Well, it had plenty of substance, but nothing that made any sense.

After 13-plus years of apparently doing absolutely nothing since the collapse of WCW, the company’s franchise player Sting finally surfaced in WWE. His motives were shaky – he was looking to take down the Authority but did little besides interfere in a Survivor Series match – and focused on Triple H. That morphed into a strange reimagining of the WCW vs. WWF Monday Night Wars.

So of course, you know how that proxy battle would end. But it was what happened during the match that makes this a must-see trainwreck. The two biggest factions of that era – the nWo and D-Generation X – got involved in the match, making it the only time the two groups ever came face to face.

Either you loved it or you hated it, but you couldn’t deny that it was a sight to behold.

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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.