1. Vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin - WrestleMania X-Seven
Has there ever been a more lauded professional wrestling event than WrestleMania X-Seven? Every now and then I find myself going back to it and being amazed at how well it stands up, how strong the event is today. Nothing sums this up more than the main event show, a shoe-in for greatest main event match in the history of WrestleMania. This was everything that was wonderful about the rivalry between these two great competitors, with the volume ramped up as far as it can go. The crowd are in to everything, the brawling is intense and the pace is fast. the crowd adores Austin throughout, and Rock plays off this wonderful. He really was a fantastic performer in a whole variety of roles. Austin sides with the devil (Vince McMahon) in order to capture the WWF Championship from The Rock, and once again Rock fails to end WrestleMania as World Champion. In hindsight, this doesn't matter. Rocky was an integral part of the greatest financial era in professional wrestling history, and one half of the rivalry that defined it. He worked beautifully as a face, incredibly well as a heel, and could create iconic moments like no other. WrestleMania is where these moments become immortal, and that is an adjective one could most definitely throw towards The Rock.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
