50 Ups & 50 Downs For WWE's Decade: The 2010s

11. Triple H & Stephanie McMahon Vs Ronda Rousey & Kurt Angle, WrestleMania 34

Perhaps the best example of what WWE remained the best at this decade, Ronda Rousey's maiden voyage into pro wrestling's choppy sea was a riotous success. Magnificently curated to magnify every single one of the former UFC Champion's intense qualities whilst disguising any early career weaknesses, the battle was something of a throwback to a simpler (read: better) time when this used to happen for every performer.

Kurt Angle and Stephanie McMahon offered differing novelty values - McMahon for her rare in-ring appearance and Angle for his renewed status as a WrestleMania returnee. But both used their Sports Entertainment pedigree (nyuk nyuk) alongside ring general Triple H to bring heft to a contest that could have easily collapsed.

'The Game' was initially arrogant in the face of the newcomer, until she battered him into near-oblivion with a series of strikes that lifted the crowd almost as high as the punches did Hunter himself. Stephanie's abject fear of her inevitable comeuppance was sublime, as too was the timing with which every moment of gratification came. Planned to the letter it may have been, but it was dictionary definition of a long-held primary objective - don't sell the audience the whole truth, sell them something better.