Everyone is chasing that sweet sweet WrestleMania moment. Many are great, but the greatest do indeed last forever. These are the 10 greatest WrestleMania moments of all time.
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00:47 - Honourable Mention
01:25 - Honourable Mention 2
01:50 - 10
02:32 - 9
03:16 - 8
04:04 - 7
04:50 - 6
05:34 - 5
06:16 - 4
07:18 - 3
08:10 - 2
09:08 - 1
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00:00 - Start
00:47 - Honourable Mention
01:25 - Honourable Mention 2
01:50 - 10
02:32 - 9
03:16 - 8
04:04 - 7
04:50 - 6
05:34 - 5
06:16 - 4
07:18 - 3
08:10 - 2
09:08 - 1
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00:00 Oh bloody hell, we've really made it hard for ourselves on this one, that's what she
00:04 said. You could argue that the biggest problem with WWE's booking strategies over the past
00:08 decade or so has been their reliance less on long-running stories and more on isolated
00:13 OMG moments, tiny little bits of celebrity involvement, shock swerves or silly surprises
00:20 that by themselves are fine but kinda tend to come at the expense of continuity, or workhorse
00:25 wrestlers who've been busting their hump for months only to find themselves bumped
00:28 at the last minute for Drax the Destroyer. But that's a grumble for another day. You
00:32 can't deny that Mania has seen a number of unforgettable moments that kinda echo through
00:36 the corridors of history or some other grandiose bollocks. I'm in a cheerful mood, let's
00:41 get positive with this one. I'm Adam from PartsFunknown and here are our Top 10 WrestleMania
00:45 Moments of All Time.
00:47 Honorable Mention 21 and 1. See, here's the dilemma with doing a list of greatest moments
00:53 or most significant moments, because sometimes a significant moment is also s*** like this
00:59 one, because it's impossible to argue that Chad Patton's hand hitting for the third
01:02 time with old Grim Tim's shoulders still on the mat was one of the most monumental
01:07 WrestleMania moments of all time. Unfortunately, the match that preceded it was a load of old
01:12 pants breaking The Undertaker's streak, not only his winning streak but his streak of
01:16 having the best match at every WrestleMania. And he didn't really follow up on it properly,
01:20 I suppose. I mean, I guess, with Brock, but it just makes you sad looking back on it now.
01:25 Honorable Mention, Things Are About To Be Broken. And the thing that is being broken
01:29 in this case is Tempest's heart that the Hardys' WrestleMania return didn't make
01:33 the cut of this list. There aren't very many WrestleMania returns throughout the show's
01:36 history, but regardless, this one is the best by a North Carolina country mile. I was also
01:40 there for this momentous return, and thus didn't have to hear Michael Cole's Sully
01:44 the Moment with his annoying commentary, "Things are about to be broken." Thank
01:49 you, Michael.
01:50 10. Hogan Slams Andre Some people may see this moment at number
01:53 ten and close the tab immediately, and fair enough to them, you can't please everybody.
01:57 This is, after all, maybe the most iconic moment in WrestleMania history, one of those
02:00 quintessential moments in all of WWE folklore, the moment when Grandpa Terry lifted gigantic
02:05 Andre and body slammed him to the mat, the moment that has been replayed in every WrestleMania
02:10 video package ever, the moment that comes at the end of, also, one of the worst matches
02:15 in WrestleMania history. And that, dear viewer, is why this moment is down here at merely
02:18 number ten. Because for as memorable, iconic, and significant as this moment is, boy is
02:22 this match ever terrible. Just goes to show, no matter how bad the performance, all people
02:26 will remember is the ending. Well, everyone except me. I remember everything. It's a
02:31 curse.
02:32 9. Will The Real Linda Please Stand Up? If this was a list of my favorite moments, this
02:37 would be number one with a bullet. Oh, to be one of the thousands in the crowd there
02:40 to leap to their feet when Linda McMahon rose from her chair. Of course, you could never
02:45 tell she was no longer in a comatose state if you merely looked at her face, but hey
02:49 ho. Vince vs Shane in its entirety could be turned into a theater production, and a good
02:53 one at that. You'd not be able to script a greater ending than the ending we received.
02:58 It's difficult to imagine that a show that had the biggest main event of the era, the
03:01 best TLC match ever, and Luke's favorite match ever, would still see McMahon family
03:07 bollocks be one of the biggest highlights, but there really is nothing to top that pop.
03:12 She wasn't sedated here today.
03:15 8. Kofi Mania Every once in a while, WWE would say "fine,
03:20 we'll do what you want, humph" and they would end up with one of the most universally
03:24 beloved moments in their history. It's just funny that we kinda know what we like. One
03:28 such time was when Kofi Kingston spontaneously caught fire prior to the 2019 Elimination
03:33 Chamber match, and rode that momentum to a WWE title match at WrestleMania 35 against
03:38 Daniel Bryan. A great match, where we won WWE's greatest feel-good endings, 10 years
03:43 after Kofi had hit his stride and WWE said no no, back to the midcard with you, Kofi
03:48 finally became WWE Champion. If you want to look at the bright side of things, with the
03:52 way it all panned out, Kofi got to win the WWE title in front of his kids, only further
03:57 adding to the sea of positives from this match.
04:03 7. The Double Turn Many people rightly point out that the double
04:07 turn executed by Bret Hart and Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13 was largely done in the
04:12 lead up to the show. And again, they'd be right, but that doesn't make this match
04:15 and moment any less special. Bret finally embraced being a cranky Canadian, which Tempest
04:20 tells me is every Canadian's base state, making the unbreakable Steve Austin pass out
04:24 in the sharpshooter, covered in blood, in one of the most striking visuals in WWE history.
04:29 There's a lot of debate over whether or not blood is necessary in wrestling, and
04:33 while not everything needs to be all the way up to Jon Moxley and the bloody fork in the
04:37 head, Austin pressing up on the mat while blood pours down his face is made all the
04:42 better by a little bit of the juice. This is maybe the best match in WrestleMania history
04:47 paired with one of its most perfect moments.
04:50 6. Icon vs Icon You could break this down into so many different
04:54 micro entities, whether it be the first face to face moment, or the thunderous pop when
04:58 Hogan kicks out of the rock bottom to Hulk up, or Jim Ross' excellent call of "He
05:02 beat Andre the Giant with that move" when Hogan finally hit Dwayne "The Dwayne"
05:07 Dwayneson with the leg drop. This is a WrestleMania moment made up of WrestleMania moments. If
05:12 you look at Rock and Hogan bell to bell with the sound off, it's, you know, it's
05:16 fine, but with the sound on and 60,000 Canadian Hogan fans losing their collective minds,
05:22 it's one of WrestleMania 18's only saving graces. I imagine most of those Hogan fans
05:26 were also at WrestleMania 6, meaning they got the special distinction of seeing Hogan
05:30 lose at WrestleMania twice, and who can say that? No one, take that Canada.
05:34 5. Austin sells his soul Ok, this was a bad decision. We've made that
05:39 clear in previous lists. Like, so bad that it tanked WWE's popularity to the point
05:43 that it never fully recovered. That being said, that was after the fact. During the
05:47 moment, this was the biggest heel turn possible to cap off the biggest main event possible
05:54 of the best WrestleMania possible. The image of Steve Austin shaking hands with Mr. McMahon
06:00 would have been impossible to consider two years earlier, and yet it happened. Sure,
06:03 it didn't make much sense to do this in Texas, where Steve Austin could have used
06:08 a puppy to beat The Rock to death with instead of a chair and still not be booed, but this
06:12 serves as the symbolic finale of WWE's hottest period.
06:16 4. I'm sorry, I love you WrestleMania retirement matches just don't
06:21 mean as much as they used to. Back when Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair had a highly emotional
06:25 send off for then 59 year old Ric Flair at WrestleMania 24, and while Flair couldn't
06:29 quite tear the house down like he used to, he and Shawn were certainly able to put together
06:33 a spectacular highlight reel. Of course, that would be mostly Shawn hitting two of the most
06:37 self-destructive moonsaults in wrestling history, but look at this f***ing snapshot. That is
06:41 top notch work. The story of the match was simple and effective, with Shawn clearly being
06:46 the better man, but hesitating when it came time to pull the trigger and put Flair down.
06:51 And pulling up on a superkick earlier in the match, Shawn had Flair dead to rights, and
06:55 as Flair staggered to his feet, eyes full of tears, telling Shawn to do it, do it, Shawn
07:00 simply said I'm sorry, I love you and kicked Flair's head off. This, coupled with the excellent
07:05 retirement send off the following night on Raw, makes this probably the greatest wrestling
07:08 retirement of all time, and Ric Flair never ever wrestled ever again, ever. And then Shawn
07:14 retired. And he also didn't wrestle. It's sad.
07:18 Number 3. The Miracle on Bourbon Street.
07:20 Just as Kofi Mania tapped into the fans' desires to see a long time underdog babyface
07:24 finally get their crowning moment at WrestleMania, in 2014 we got the original. This was simply
07:29 the time that WWE fans drew a line in the sand and said we're not going to be moved
07:33 under any circumstances until Daniel Bryan was placed at the top of the WWE mountain
07:38 with the WWE title in hand at WrestleMania. A lot of petitions had to be signed, and many
07:43 picket lines were marched in order to get him there, but Daniel Bryan was in the main
07:46 event of WrestleMania 30. It was a great main event, and a great main event with the right
07:50 winner. Yes, Michael Cole may have made the moment a little less excellent with his incessant
07:54 yelling on commentary, "The Miracle Kid, The Miracle Kid", but only slightly. This
07:58 is the feel-good WrestleMania ending earned by Daniel Bryan, who deserved it, and earned
08:03 by fans who stuck behind their guy and did not waver when WWE repeatedly told them they
08:08 weren't going to get what they wanted.
08:10 2. Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth
08:12 Any WrestleMania moment that can produce genuine tears from the audience almost certainly earns
08:16 a spot on this list. Following Macho Man, Randy Savage's extremely sports-entertaining
08:20 nonsense retirement match with The Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania 7, the match that
08:24 saw Savage hit 5 top rope elbow drops for a near fall, then get pinned with Warrior's
08:29 boot on his chest because Warrior got an answer from the Lord or something, it's a great
08:33 match trust me. Savage was berated by his longtime heel manager Sensational Sherry,
08:37 only for the OG Savage manager and real life wife Miss Elizabeth to make the save. Savage
08:43 was one of the best heels but most beloved babyfaces of his day, and this was the face
08:47 turn that gave the fans in LA the best moment of WrestleMania 7 by far, and to date one
08:52 of the most emotionally satisfying moments in WrestleMania history. Look at her tears,
08:56 look at fans openly weeping at the sight of Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth back together,
09:00 reunited, and it feels so good. You'd think this was Luke watching another screening of
09:04 Tall Girl or something, but no, it's better than that, this is real cinema.
09:08 And number 1, the heist of the century. How do you get out of a corner that you stupidly
09:13 put yourself into? Well by giving the people something that everyone will enjoy. Roman
09:17 Reigns vs Brock Lesnar was a WrestleMania main event that no one wanted in 2015, and
09:21 also in 2018 and 2022, but that's beside the point. But when push came to shove and
09:26 a decision had to be made about whether to end WrestleMania 31 with Roman standing tall
09:30 or Brock retaining the WWE Championship, WWE chose an option from the secret menu. They
09:36 closed the best iteration of their climactic show in 12 years with maybe the most creative
09:40 and well-booked ending in WrestleMania's long history. Just as Roman and Brock exchanged
09:45 excellent near falls that had everyone in Santa Clara biting, Seth Rollins' music hit,
09:50 and Seth sprinted to the ring with Money in the Bank briefcase in hand. Never before had
09:55 someone cashed in at WrestleMania, much less by inserting themselves into the main event
09:59 and becoming every indie fan's white knight in the process. Seth won the WWE Championship
10:04 in a perfect ending to a pretty excellent WrestleMania in a moment that is as universally
10:09 beloved as anything on this list. Everyone likes this, except perhaps Roman Reigns'
10:14 family. It's up there with the best Money in the Bank cash-ins of all time, one of the
10:17 best main events in WrestleMania history, and the greatest WrestleMania moment. Fight
10:21 us.
10:22 And that's our list. What's your favourite WrestleMania moment? Let us know in the comments,
10:25 and while we're talking about great WrestleMania stuff, check out last week's list, 10 Greatest
10:30 WrestleMania Opening Matches Ever. Here's a clip of that now.