Ranking All 35 WWE WrestleManias From Worst To Best

25. WrestleMania 13

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It’s hard to believe this if you tell a fan, but there was a point at which WrestleMania was not the spectacle is has become today.

As WWF moved into the 90s, Mania declined in prominence, becoming “just another show” on the company’s PPV schedule. Don’t believe it? Look at the card for WM 13. Yes, you had talented wrestlers, but a lot of them were miscast or earlier incarnations of the men who would become immensely popular. Consider: Rocky Maivia (The Rock) versus The Sultan (Rikishi), The New Blackjacks (Bradshaw), Hunter Hearst Helmsley (Triple H), and Billy Gunn (pre-DX).

The matches were mostly average or bad, with the I Quit match between Bret Hard and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin being the obvious exception. Excise that match, and WM 13 can be tossed onto the heap.

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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.