Classic Wrestlers That Never Had A Classic Mania Match...

[DANJ!]

Ted DiBiase sticks out the most. The WMIV match with Macho is memorable, but mostly for Savage winning the belt and the MegaPowers officially forming. Outside of that, he has a pointless match with Beefcake, an OK match with Jake, Virgil, tag title match against Earthquake & Typhoon, and a tag title match against Hogan & Beefcake. Eh.

Mr. Perfect... he always had good matches at Mania but that's about it. Blue Blazer at V, Beefcake at VI, Bossman at VII, Luger at IX... none of 'em were bad, but nothing that'll put him in the top 25.

Jake the Snake: He usually had a good ass feud going into Mania... but the match itself would never deliver. To his credit, he was such a star during his run he never had to settle at Mania with a thrown-together match just to get him on the card. They always had him in an actual program (except for Mania II, but that's probably only cause he had just debuted the month before).

Add on...

 

[Tommy Fits]

Jimmy Snuka

 

[Riley Escobar]

Kane

 

[Big Jo]

Sting

 

[Big Van Vadehhh]

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Kane

Naw man Undertaker vs Kane was classic at WM 14, that match was one of the best co-main events ever for a mania. Fued was built up so great.

That was his only moment though. Wrestlemania 20 was crap

 

[Riley Escobar]

Naw man Undertaker vs Kane was classic at WM 14, that match was one of the best co-main events ever for a mania. Fued was built up so great.

That was his only moment though. Wrestlemania 20 was crap

In that case I might have to rewatch it, remember thinking the match was nothing special at all. Didn't catch the buildup as I was a little nikka when it happened live

 

[Sypress]

Andre The Giant

 

[DANJ!]

Andre The Giant

And sure, it wasn't a classic match in the sense of having all kinda cool flips and wristlocks and ladder spots or whatever the fukk... but you'll be hard-pressed to ever see anything that discusses Mania's history without that image of them facing off.

 

[Sypress]

And sure, it wasn't a classic match in the sense of having all kinda cool flips and wristlocks and ladder spots or whatever the fukk... but you'll be hard-pressed to ever see anything that discusses Mania's history without that image of them facing off.

thats a classic moment, not a classic match. Everyone always talk about that moment and the records they broke, but no one talks about the full match....for good reason

there match wasnt even the match of the night....that belongs to Macho vs Steamboat

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

Rick Rude
Bam Bam Bigelow

 

[DANJ!]

thats a classic moment, not a classic match. Everyone always talk about that moment and the records they broke, but no one talks about the full match....for good reason

there match wasnt even the match of the night....that belongs to Macho vs Steamboat

Like I said, it wasn't a move-for-move good match... but the images of the faceoff, the bearhug, the slam... those things made that match classic. And also, at the time you couldn't get a bigger match than that. No other match Vince were capable of given the 1987 roster would have packed that stadium like that... and the crowd was into every piece of the match. I mean, hell nobody talks about Hogan/Warrior move-for-move either but that match is another one I'd say was a classic because of the anticipation and how it grabbed the crowd.

 

[DANJ!]

Oh yeah... Vader.

 

[Nintendough]

smh, this thread is gonna be a Reach-O-Rama from the looks of things.

 

[Da King]

Kane

Taker/Kane at WM14 was indeed classic, the buildup alone made it classic


as a kid I was scared for taker going in that match