The Greatest PPV of all time - Wrestlemania - Round 3

[Guest The Great Ahmar]

Following the first round Wrestlemania 1,2,4,9 and 11 are all gone from the search to find the Greatest PPV of all time. Round saw 5,10,15,16 booted out of the quest. Round 3 is here and 5 will be eliminated.

 

 

Here is how it works:

 

- Much like the TWO Survivor elimination style that Chris2K ran you vote for your least favorite.

 

- All the PPVS will be under there names sakes. Meaning all the Wresltemania's will be under Wrestlemania

 

- The promotions involved will be WWE/F, NWA/WCW, ECW, TNA

 

- On some rounds you can vote for more than one PPV.

 

- If you haven't seen the PPV you can still vote it out on the fact that you haven't seen it.

 

- For some of those who haven't seen much of the WCW and ECW PPV's I'll be posting up cards of the events so you can base you vote on that if you like. If someone can find some bits of the show on a video site, then great and post it here.

 

- The cut off point for PPVS in the future is now. Meaning any PPV from now on doesn't count in this quest for The Greatest PPV of All time.

 

- And lets try and get some good debate going in these threads with no single word posts.

 

We'll start for are quest with the WWE/F and Wrestlemania.

WrestleMania III (March 29, 1987)

 

Hulk Hogan beat Andre The Giant to keep the World Title

Rick Steamboat beat Randy Savage to win the IC title

Harley Race beat Junkyard Dog

Roddy Piper beat Adrian Adonis

Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart and Danny Davis beat Dynamite Kid, Davey Boy Smith and Tito Santana

Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake beat Jacques and Raymond Rougeau

Butch Reed beat Koko. B Ware

Honky Tonk Man beat Jake Roberts

Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff beat Brain Blair and Jim Brunzell

Rick Martel and Tom Zenk beat Bob Orton and Don Muraco

Billy Jack Haynes and Hercules Hernandez battled to a double count out

Hillbilly Jim, Haiti Kid and Little Beaver beat King Kong Bundy, Lord Littlebrook and Little Tokyo

 

WrestleMania VI (April 1, 1990)

 

Ultimate Warrior beat Hulk Hogan to win the World Title

Demolition beat Andre The Giant and Haku to win the Tag Team Titles

Ted DiBiase beat Jake Roberts

Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire beat Randy Savage and Sensational Sherri

Rick Rude beat Jimmy Snuka

Earthquake beat Hercules

Brutus Beefcake beat Mr. Perfect

Roddy Piper and Bad News Brown battled to a double count out

Hart Foundation beat the Bolsheviks

Barbarian beat Tito Santan

Orient Express beat the Rockers

Jim Duggan beat Dino Bravo

Big Bossman beat Akeem

Rick Martel beat Koko B. Ware

WrestleMania VII (March 24, 1991)

 

Hulk Hogan beta Sgt. Slaughter to win the World Title

Nasty Boys beat Hart Foundation to win the Tag Team titles

Big Bossman beat Mr. Perfect by DQ therefore doesn't get IC title

Ultimate Warrior beat Randy Savage in a retirement match

Jake Roberts beat Rick Martel in a blind fold match

Virgil beat Ted DiBiase

British Bulldog beat Warlord

Undertaker beat Jimmy Snuka

Koji Kitao and Genichiro beat Demolition

Earthquake beat Greg Valentine

Legion of Doom beat Power and Glory

The Rockers beat Barbarian and Haku

Kerry Von Erich beat Dino Bravo

Jacques Rougeau beat Tito Santana

 

WrestleMania VIII (April 5, 1992)

 

Randy Savage beat Ric Flair to win the World Title

Natural Disasters beat Tag Team champions Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster by CO

Bret Hart beat Roddy Piper to win the IC Title

Hulk Hogan beat Sid Justice

Sgt. Slaughter, Jim Duggan, Virgil and Big Bossman beat Nasty Boys, Repo Man, and the Mountie

Undertaker beat Jake Roberts

Shawn Michaels beat Tito Santana

Tatanka beat Rick Martel

Owen Hart pinned Skinner

WrestleMania XII (March 31, 1996)

Shawn Michaels beat Bret Hart in a 60 minute Iron Man match to win the World Title

Roddy Piper beat Goldust in a Hollywood Backlot match

Undertaker beat Diesel

Ultimate Warrior beat Hunter Hearst Helsmley

Steve Austin beat Savio Vega

British Bulldog, Owen Hart and Vader beat Yokozuna, Ahmed Johnson and Jake Roberts

Free For All: Body Donnas beat Godwinns in the finals of the tournamnet to win the Tag Team Titles

 

WrestleMania XIII (March 23, 1997)

 

The Undertaker pinned Sid to win the WWF Title

Bret Hart beat Steve Austin in a submissions match via ref stoppage

Legion of Doom + Ahmed Johnson beat Nation of Domination in a Chicago Streetfight

Rocky Maivia pinned The Sultan to retain the IC Title

Owen Hart + British Bulldog went to a double count out with Vader + Mankind (WWF Tag Team Titles)

Hunter Hearst Helmsley pinned Goldust

 

WrestleMania XIV (March 29, 1998)

 

Stone Cold Steve Austin pinned Shawn Michaels to win the World Title

Ken Shamrcok made The Rock tap out to the ankle lock to win the title (decision reversed when Shamrock wouldn't let go.)

The Undertaker pinned Kane

HHH beat Owen Hart to retain the European title

Cactus Jack and Terry Funk beat New Age Outlaws in a dumpster match to win tag team titles

Mero and Sable beat Goldust and Luna in a mixed tag match

TAKA beat Aguila to retain the Lightweight Title

LOD 2000 won the 15 team battle royal

 

WrestleMania X-Seven

 

- Chris Jericho defeated William Regal to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship

- Tazz and the Acolytes defeated the Right to Censor

- Kane defeated The Big Show and Raven to win the Hardcore Championship

- Eddie Guerrero defeated Test to win the European Championship

- Kurt Angle defeated Chris Benoit

- Chyna defeated Ivory to win the Women's Title

- Shane McMahon defeated Vince McMahon

- Edge and Christian defeated The Dudley Boys and the Hardy Boyz in TLC 2 to win the WWF Tag Team Titles

- The Iron Sheik won the 18 Man Gimmick Battle Royal by eliminating Hillbilly Jim

- The Undertaker defeated Triple H

- Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated The Rock to win the WWF World Title

 

WrestleMania X8 – Skydome; Toronto, Ontario 3/17/02

 

- I-C Title: Rob Van Dam beat William Regal to win the title

- European Title: Champion Dallas Page beat Christian

- Hardcore Title: Champion Maven fought Goldust.

Due to the 24/7 rule the title went from Maven to Spike Dudley to The Hurricane, Molly, Christian and back to Maven by the end of the night

- Kurt Angle beat Kane

- The Undertaker beat Ric Flair

- Edge beat Booker T

- Steve Austin beat Scott Hall

- Tag Team Title Elimination Match: Champions Billy & Chuck beat The Hardy Boyz, Dudley Boyz, & APA

- The Rock beat Hulk Hogan

- Women's Title: Champ Jazz beat Trish Stratus & Lita

- WWF Title: Triple H beat Chris Jericho to win the title

WrestleMania XIX – Safeco Field; Seattle, WA 3/30/03

 

- Cruiserweight Title: Champ Matt Hardy beat Rey Mysterio

- The Undertaker beat The Big Show & A-Train

- Women's Title: Trish Stratus beat champ Victoria & Jazz to win the title

- WWE Tag Team Title: Champions Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas beat The Guerreros, and Chris Benoit & Rhyno

- Shawn Michaels beat Chris Jericho

- World Heavyweight Title: Champ Triple H beat Booker T

- Hulk Hogan beat Vince McMahon

- The Rock beat Steve Austin

- WWE Title: Brock Lesnar beat champion Kurt Angle to win the title

WrestleMania XX – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 3/14/04

 

- US Title: John Cena beat The Big Show to win the title

- World Tag Team Title: Champions Rob Van Dam & Booker T beat Mark Jindrak & Garrison Cade, The Dudley Boys, and Rene Dupree & Rob Conway

- Christian beat Chris Jericho

- Handicap Match: Ric Flair, Randy Orton & Batista beat The Rock & Mick Foley. This was Foley's first match in 4 years

- Playboy Evening Gown Match: Playboy cover girls Sable & Torrie Wilson beat Stacy Keibler & Jackie Gayda

- Cruiserweight Title: Champ Chavo Guerrero beat Nunzio, Shannon Moore, Funaki, Ultimo Dragon, Rey Mysterio Jr., Tajiri, Akio, Billy Kidman & Jamie Knoble

- Goldberg beat Brock Lesnar. Steve Austin was referee.

- WWE Tag Team Title: Champs Rikishi & Scotty 2 Hotty beat The APA, The Bashams, and The World's Greatest Tag Team

- Women's Title: Champ Victoria beat Molly Holly. As a result, Molly lost her hair.

- WWE Title: Champ Eddie Guerrero beat Kurt Angle

- The Undertaker beat Kane

- World Heavyweight Title: Chris Benoit beat champ Triple H & Shawn Michaels to win the title

 

WrestleMania 21 – Staples Center; Los Angeles, CA 4/3/05

 

- Rey Mysterio beat Eddie Guerrero

- Money in the Bank Ladder Match: Edge beat Chris Benoit, Kane, Shelton Benjamin, Chris Jericho & Christian to get a title shot whenever he wants

- Eugene is attacked by Hassan in the ring. He is saved by the returning Hulk Hogan.

- The Undertaker beat Randy Orton

- Women's Title: Champion Trish Stratus beat Christy Hemme

- Kurt Angle beat Shawn Michaels

- Pipers Pit with Steve Austin

- Sumo Match: Sumo wrestler Akebono beat The Big Show

- WWE Title: John Cena beat JBL to win the title

- World Heavyweight Title: Batista beat Triple H to win the title

 

WrestleMania 22 - Allstate Arena; Chicago, IL 4/2/06

 

- World Tag Team Championship: Champs Kane & The Big Show beat Carlito & Chris Masters

- Money in the Bank Match: Rob Van Dam beat Matt Hardy, Lashley, Finlay, Ric Flair, & Shelton Benjamin

- U.S. Title: JBL beat Chris Benoit to win the title

- Hardcore Match: Edge beat Mick Foley

- The Boogey Man beat Booker T & Sharmell

- Women’s Title: Mickie James beat Trish Stratus to win the title

- Casket Match: The Undertaker beat Mark Henry

- No Holds Barred: Shawn Michaels beat Vince McMahon

- World Heavyweight Championship: Rey Mysterio beat Champ Kurt Angle and Randy Orton to become the new champion

- Playboy Pillow Fight: Torrie Wilson beat Candice Michelle

-WWE Championship: Champ John Cena beat Triple H by submission

 

WrestleMania 23 - Ford Field; Detroit, MI 4/1/07

 

- Money in the Bank Ladder Match: Ken Kennedy beat Edge, C.M. Punk, King Booker, Jeff Hardy, Finlay, Matt Hardy, and Randy Orton

- The Great Khali beat Kane

- U.S. Title: Champion Chris Benoit beat MVP

- World Heavyweight Championship: The Undertaker beat Batista to win the title

- The ECW Originals (Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Sandman, and Tommy Dreamer) beat The New Breed (Elijah Burke, Kevin Thorn, Marcus Cor Von, and Matt Striker)

- Donald Trump's Hair vs Mr. McMahon's Hair: Bobby Lashley beat Umaga

- Lumber Jill Match for the Women's Title: Champion Melina beat Ashley

- WWE Championship: Champion John Cena beat Shawn Michaels

[Guest Wolverine]

How WM12 survived the last round with no votes is a miracle. Taker vs. Diesel was good but other than that ... anyway, it gets my vote.

 

EDIT - OMAR, did you mean to make this multiple choice?

Edited June 15, 2007 by Wolverine

[Guest Laffy]

I voted for just wm 6 as i hated it.

 

Edit: can you put a vote in for me on 12, 13 and 14 as i did not realise i could vote for more than one. cheers.

Edited June 16, 2007 by Laffy

[Guest The Great Ahmar]

How WM12 survived the last round with no votes is a miracle. Taker vs. Diesel was good but other than that ... anyway, it gets my vote.

 

EDIT - OMAR, did you mean to make this multiple choice?

 

I did indeed

[Guest Kanenite]

I voted Mania 7 and 12. For me 7 had to many crappy/average matches, some of them were great though, eg. Warrior vs Savage and Nastys vs Hart Foundation. 12 Wasn't great either, Bret vs HBK was alright but there just wasn't enough action in an hour to make it great, Diesel vs Taker was good and I enjoyed the Backlot Brawl but the rest was meh.

 

Gotta say this is running really well so far OD, you're doing a great job.

[Guest The Beltster]

WMVI was the best EVER, its a shame its likely to be voted out.

[Guest FreeSpirit]

WrestleMania's 14 and 20 be gone

[King 277]

Why is 12 still here,get out.

[Guest Jimmy Redman]

I think every mass vote round I'm just going to vote for everything I havent seen, which tends to be a lot. I've liked all the WMs I've seen.

[Murph 93]

I'm going to keep voting for WM23 to go out.

[Guest Gooneronastick]

WMVI was the best EVER, its a shame its likely to be voted out.

 

WM3 and WM17 were excellent too but WM 6 is/was a cut above all the others :good222:

[Guest Wolverine]

I did indeed

 

Oh, cool. Can mods please add votes for 3, 6, 7, 14, 18, 20 and 22 then?

 

Heathens, stop voting off WM8!

[Guest SuperKick Kid]

 

Heathens, stop voting off WM8!

 

Agreed, Wrestlemania 8 is a personal favorite of mine and it was great.

 

Flair vs Savage, Bret vs Piper, Return of the Warrior, Dont forget Flair's AWESOME promo after his match. There was other good stuff in there too. The opening bout between Tito and HBK was good too.

 

I think its one of the most enjoyable Wrestlemania's to date and it definately stands the test of time.

 

Undertaker vs The Heelishly awesome Jake Roberts was good too. It was good and to the point.

 

I really enjoyed that PPV.

 

However, I truly think that Wrestlemania 19 is the best. To me, that WM had everything.

 

Hogan vs Vince, HBK vs Jericho, Rock vs Austin, Lesnar vs Angle, HHH vs Booker T, I mean I really think this was the best. Sure it had the handicap match stinker, but most if not all Wrestlemania's have their stinkers.

[Guest The Bisch]

18 had many matches that ranged from mediocre to terrible: The four way tag match, Edge v Booker T, Steve Austin v Scott Hall, Lita v Trish v Jazz as well as the most forgettable Mania main event ever

[Guest SuperKick Kid]

18 had many matches that ranged from mediocre to terrible: The four way tag match, Edge v Booker T, Steve Austin v Scott Hall, Lita v Trish v Jazz as well as the most forgettable Mania main event ever

 

With Hogan vs Rock on that card, it will never be forgotten.

[Guest The Bisch]

When I mentioned the most forgettable main event ever I was referring to HHH v Jericho, Perhaps you'd forgotton that was in the main event slot (which would kinda prove my point :P ) Edited June 16, 2007 by The Bisch

[Guest SuperKick Kid]

When I mentioned the most forgettable main event ever I was referring to HHH v Jericho, Perhaps you'd forgotton that was in the main event slot (which would kinda prove my point :P )

 

My mistake, I misread your post. I thought you said it was the most forgettable Wrestlemania ever, missed the "Main Event" part.

[Guest Kanenite]

Agreed, Wrestlemania 8 is a personal favorite of mine and it was great.

 

Flair vs Savage, Bret vs Piper, Return of the Warrior, Dont forget Flair's AWESOME promo after his match. There was other good stuff in there too. The opening bout between Tito and HBK was good too.

 

I think its one of the most enjoyable Wrestlemania's to date and it definately stands the test of time.

 

Undertaker vs The Heelishly awesome Jake Roberts was good too. It was good and to the point.

 

I really enjoyed that PPV.

 

I've gotta agree with you. I've always liked Mania 8, the whole atmosphere and matches gave a great show. Piper vs Bret was a leader to be Piper's best match and Flair vs Savage was great, should've been the Main Event though.

[DC 536]

WMVI was the best EVER, its a shame its likely to be voted out.

The show was a one-match card (obviously not literally), which is why I couldn't vote for it. Not one of the other matches on the card (maybe the Tag Titles switch) meant anything, and there were no memorable matches outside the main-event.

 

WM18 was promoted on the back of one match, but had Flair v Undertaker and HHH v Jericho that meant something too.

[Guest The Great Ahmar]

A quick bump/reminder of sorts for people who haven't voted. Do so now!!! Or run the risk of losing your favourite Wrestlemania. You can vote for as many as you like.

[Guest The Beltster]

The show was a one-match card (obviously not literally), which is why I couldn't vote for it. Not one of the other matches on the card (maybe the Tag Titles switch) meant anything, and there were no memorable matches outside the main-event.

Thats wrong and as a person who I assume was a wrestling fan at the time, you should know thats not true.

 

Almost every match on that card meant something, alot were conclusions of huge ongoing angles/feuds at the time.

 

Martel vs Kokom, Rick Rude vs Superfly, Barbarian vs Tito and Orient Express vs Rockers didnt mean anything, however all the other matches did.

 

1. Hogan vs Warrior goes without explaining.

2. Demolition vs Collossal Connection was for the tag titles and these teams had been feuding for months with Andre and Haku taking the titles from Demolition months earlier.

3. Jake vs DiBiase was for the Million $$$ Belt which Ted NEVER defended after a long drawn out storyline where Jake stole the belt and put it in the bag with Damien. It also set up the DiBiase vs Bossman feud.

4. Bossman vs Akeem was the final showdown between former tag team Twin Towers.

5. Mr. Perfect vs Brutus was the culmination of the Brutus vs/Hennig and Genius feud where Beefcake had cut Genius' hair and Perfect wanted revenge. His perfect record was on the like and broken too, and there was tons of intrigue as to whether Hennig would lose his hair or not.

6. Duggan vs Bravo was the blowoff to their 3/4 month long TV feud.

7. Hart Foundation vs Bolsheviks happened after the Harts had challenged the winners of the tag title match and was a squash to build the Harts as dangerous opponents for Demolition.

8. Earthquake vs Hercules was a big deal in that they were REALLY pushing 'Quake hard as an opponent for Hogan and Warrior and thus far he had only squashed jobbers. Hercules was seen as a guy who might be able to overpower Quake and Quake killed him, it was a big deal at the time.

9. Roddy Piper vs Bad News Brown was the blowoff of their feud which started at the Royal Rumble.

10. Savage & Sherri vs Rhodes and Sapphire was the continuation of the feud between Savage and Rhodes which lasted through SummerSlam months later.

 

Pretty much all the matches meant something, were blowoffs to feuds or angles etc, it was a hugely stacked card, the ONLY reason in my opinion that people consider it a one match event was because the main event was so huge it simply overshadowed all the other matches that meant something. Same with WM3.

 

Aside from all that, I fully expect an Attitude Era WM to win. Most marks are people who were introduced to wrestling during that time period and have a soft spot for it, which is fair enough I guess.

[DC 536]

Thats wrong and as a person who I assume was a wrestling fan at the time, you should know thats not true.

 

Aside from all that, I fully expect an Attitude Era WM to win. Most marks are people who were introduced to wrestling during that time period and have a soft spot for it, which is fair enough I guess.

I should have been clearer and stated that, to me, it was a one-match card. As for an Attitude Era card winning, you're probably correct, but I personally want WMVII to win.

[Guest Twig]

Aside from all that, I fully expect an Attitude Era WM to win. Most marks are people who were introduced to wrestling during that time period and have a soft spot for it, which is fair enough I guess.

 

Well, as with the favorite wrestler thread, people aren't going to vote for what/who they haven't seen. And it's more a thing of a younger generation not being old enough to be seriously appreciatively into or remember clearly these older shows. And most marks are kids... many of them probably barely remember the attitude era... like I barely remember Hogan's title runs.

[Guest Wolverine]

Could crazy people stop voting for 8 and 13? Thank you.

[Guest The Beltster]

12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22 and 23 are still there and they were all pathetic, while V is gone and soon so will III, VI, VII, VIII etc...crazy!

 

I wish people would go back and actually watch the shows they are voting off simply because they havent seen them, thats insane.