Who had the best Wrestlemania matches & storylines?

[Silkk]

Leave out Shawn Michaels, brehs!

This

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Question for the older heads. With Hogan and Bundy at WM2, I know Bundy broke Hogan's ribs storyline wise but up until that point were they even feuding? I got into wrestling a few years later but it always seemed like one night on SNME, Bundy showed up and broke Hogan's ribs and boom, there was your WM2 main event.

I'm not sure.. if Bundy and Hogan had any prior contact to SNME but Bobby Heenan had been feuding with Hogan dating back to their AWA days so there was always a challenger from Heenan waiting in the wings...

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

I forgot to mention why these were the choices

I just wanted the top tier Hoss main eventers for each generation

 

[TRIPLE M]

The answer is Macho Man Randy Savage
Wrestlemania 2 - George the Animal steel saga
Wrestlemania 3 - Ricky Steamboat fued( injured steamboat, Bruno Sammartino came out of retirement to challenge him in disgust, Steamboats return )
Wrestlemania 4 - the face turn
Wrestlemania 5-Mega Powers explode
Wrestlemania 6 - Dusty Rhodes and his reign as King
Wrestlemania 7- Retirement and reunion with Elizabeth
Wrestlemania 8- The Comeback vs Flair
Wrestlemania 9- Fued with his best friend Crush

The lead up to all that was fire

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

You forgot Cena's debut WM match at WM20 vs Big Show.

Cuz I was about to say "wait aint no way Cena first WM match was him winning the championship"

 

[Love Sosa]

Hoegan

 

[Tres Leches]

hogan
reigns
cena (too much miz and bray wyatt )

 

[Metal Face]

HOEgan > Cena > Reigns

 

[Rell84shots]

Not listed, But Savage vs Steamboat is some of the best storytelling you'll ever see. Savage crushing Steamboat's throat with the ring bell showed how deranged Savage became.

 

[HipHopStan]

Question for the older heads. With Hogan and Bundy at WM2, I know Bundy broke Hogan's ribs storyline wise but up until that point were they even feuding? I got into wrestling a few years later but it always seemed like one night on SNME, Bundy showed up and broke Hogan's ribs and boom, there was your WM2 main event.

I wasn't around yet, but I did watch some tapes later on in life which documented the build up to their match and it went like this...

Bundy and Heenan were getting in front of the camera almost every week talking about how Bundy had been training hard and they were ready and challenging Hoegan to a WWF Championship match, which would go unanswered, because Hoegan was too busy doing talk show appearances, autograph sessions, and doing lectures for the kids. This eventually incensed Bundy, so he attacked Hoegan after Hulk had a successful title match against Don Muraco at a TV taping (SNME wasn't a thing just yet.) Bundy delivered 6 of those Bundy splashes to Hulk in the corner and on the canvas and left him lying in the middle of the ring. It was one of the first times the audiences had to watch Hoegan be carried out on a stretcher. Kids were crying and parents were hugging them trying to shield them from the uneasy sight. So that set up their WM 2 cage match.

After typing that out, it made me realize that storyline took some elements from Rocky 3, which Hoegan starred in.

EDIT - I stand corrected. SNME was a thing by that time and that's where the Bundy attack occurred.

 

[jadillac]

Y'all are picking Cena based on the quantity and not the quality. None of his WM matches stood out or had any emotion behind them.

Hogan's main events with Warrior, Macho, even Slaughter to a degree had emotion/passion behind them.

Roman's first match with Brock at 31 had emotion behind it from the great Heyman promos about Romans family, and the match itself was very good. And thr last match beating Brock was like a culmination.

Cena doesn't have those moments....to me

 

[DANJ!]

The matches are debatable, I'd say Cena had the best matches... but Hogan's storylines leading up to Mania were all-time classics, especially the ones with Andre, Savage, Warrior and Vince.

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Everyone Bloodline this and Bloodline that

He ain't got one vote

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Everyone Bloodline this and Bloodline that

He ain't got one vote

if the thread was who had THE best story line leading to WM then Roman would have a lot of votes

 

[VegetasHairline]

Everyone Bloodline this and Bloodline that

He ain't got one vote