Ranking What Was REALLY The Best Wrestling PPV Every Year 1990-2020

27. 1994 - WWF WrestleMania X

Shawn Michaels Jon Moxley
WWE.com

In which the WWF returned to and improved on the ingenious formula of King Of The Ring: build a show around more than one Bret Hart match, and book an angle to build towards another big Bret Hart match down the line, because Bret Hart was the absolute f*cking best.

Bret lost to brother Owen, thus setting him up as a credible summer challenger after he vanquished Yokozuna later in the night, in a tremendous booking manoeuvre. Even better was that opener itself; a tense yet sublime technical exhibition, with Owen in just magnificent show-off form, it mutated into a full-on scrap with every smug and vicious transgression of the brotherly bond. A beautiful match of such depth, worked so convincingly, it still had competition for match of the night honours in the form of the pioneering ladder match between Razor Ramon and Shawn Michaels.

There wasn't a whole lot else to it - the main event was nicer than it was good, though Randy Savage Vs. Crush was fun - but there didn't need to be.

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