22 Days Of WrestleMania (#4 Best WrestleMania And Match)

4. WrestleMania 21
I'm not quite sure many people would consider this WrestleMania as one of the five best ever, and I can see that argument. Neither championship match was spectacular, the Big Show sumo match was a joke, and women's match was pretty bad in it's own right. But what was good on this show, ranks among the best the event has to offer, and was enough to make up for all the wrong. Yesterday, I spoke of the Owen/Bret match (#5 Best Match) being the greatest opener, the opener here (Eddie Guerrero/Rey Mysterio) wasn't too far off. This began a long feud that deservingly dominated the Smackdown airwaves for a good portion of the year. Then it was the first ever Money in the Bank ladder match featuring six of the top wrestlers. Despite featuring ladder match veterans such as Christian, Chris Jericho, and eventual winner Edge, it was Shelton Benjamin who stole the show. Of course the WWE really did nothing with his popularity, which was a huge mistake. The Randy Orton/Undertaker match is actually much better than I expected, mostly because it was one of the few times we were led to believe the Undertaker's streak may actually be in jeopardy. But best of all was the classic between Kurt Angle and Shawn Michaels (#6 Best Match). Even if it wasn't the last match or so, it still had the main event feel. So even though Batista and John Cena's world championship wins were special in the sense that they were both first time winners, it was Michaels and Angle who left their stamp on this industry forever.

4. Dudley Boyz vs. Hardy Boyz vs. Edge + Christian (WrestleMania X-Seven)
These three teams were the reason that tag team wrestling made the comback it did in the new millenium. At WrestleMania 2000, they stole the show with their ladder match. At SummerSlam '00 they took it up a notch by adding tables and chairs to the mix. The bar was already set at a level where they pretty much had to kill someone to make it as good. Somehow the six men in this match found a way to top themselves with all six men walking out of the arena on their own two feet. In a card that featured two top technical wrestlers going at it (Benoit/Angle), two WrestleMania superstars going toe-to-toe (HHH/Undertaker), and the two biggest stars since Hulk Hogan squaring off in their "sequel" to WrestleMania XV (Rock/Austin), the six competitors found a way to still steal the show with their daredevil antics. Some of these wrestlers have gone on to make their names as singles wrestlers, but they will forever be remembered for laying their body on the line in the TLC matches.