Ranking Every PPV World Championship Steel Cage Match From Worst To Best

Title: WWF Championship

Match Time: 32:22

Was it ever going to be any other match.

The Harts knew each other better than they knew themselves. It was near-impossible for them to have a bad match together and they had one of the greatest in WWE history inside the steel cage.

This was the company’s second ever five-star match and one of only a few under the WWE umbrella to be given the rating. However you view Dave Meltzer’s rating system, this is a match that’s held in a very high regard.

Bret and Owen were the masters of storytelling, selling their sibling rivalry throughout the match as if they were never related, but born into a state of conflict.

Owen’s attack as he entered the cage at the start of the match was the catalyst of this half an hour brawl of technical proportions. They used violence with the cage; they used technical smarts to gain an advantage over each other; they used power to assert dominance.

At every turn and change in momentum, they were able to tell a new story.

When steel cage matches weren’t as common as they are today, Owen’s leg getting caught in the cage to allow Bret to climb out was a perfectly inventive and unique way to end a match that couldn’t split the participants.

The only negative to come out of this match was that it had to go on second last before the dreaded Undertaker vs. Undertaker main event.