The Greatest Match From Every WWE WrestleMania

The debut of three soon-to-be all time greats provides rare quality in an otherwise messy Wrestlemania. Kurt Angle, here at the peak of his initial hilariously overzealous whitebread babyface gimmick, walks into the match holding both secondary titles, but walks out with neither, without personally dropping a fall.

Jericho and Benoit had worked all over the world while Angle was not even a year into his main roster run, but the Olympian’s relative inexperience doesn’t hold him back at all. The technical chops on display here far outstrip anything else on the card - there’s a bit of everything in here, from chain sequences to high flying (is there a more aesthetically pleasing moonsault than Angle’s?)

Jericho has the crowd on his side here, but the match serves as a coming out of sorts for all three in their WrestleMania debuts. On a stodgy show, this match has the zip and excitement the card needed far more of. It was abundantly clear that these men were the future of the business.

That proved to be the case - within four years, all three men would have WrestleMania main events under their belts.