7. The Rock vs Hogan Should Have Closed WrestleMania 18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71fvi2cSH_o Sometimes the audience makes the match. Never has this been truer than when Icon met Icon on March 17th, 2002. I refer of course to when The Great One took on The immortal Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 18. Probably the biggest match in the history of the WWE, with exception to Hogan vs Andre, seeing these two across the ring from each other tore the roof off the Toronto Skydome. It's hard to do it justice in writing. This was a real dream match (sorry Cena/Rock) and the crowd went totally bananas for Hogan. The match itself was kinda, sorta, alrightish. Truthfully you wouldn't want to watch it with the sound turned down. But that didn't matter. This was the match everybody wanted to see. It was the big one: the main event. Except it wasn't. Triple H vs Chris Jericho was. Keep in mind that anything following that reaction was going to die a thousand deaths, this fued was already running cold before the night began. Booked poorly from the off, Jericho's first title run is mentioned for little else than his undisputed title victory against The Rock and Austin at Vengeance 2001 for good reason. The stereotypically cowardly heel, Jericho just never seemed like championship material. As a consequence, the anticipation for the bout was lukewarm. After The Rock vs Hogan, it was dead on arrival. And while Triple H vs Jericho was never going to be a classic, it should have gotten a decent reception earlier in the show. Instead Wrestlemania 18 ended on a dull note and felt like a worse show overall as a consequence. I'm not the biggest Hogan fan, but this was his night.