WrestleMania is the biggest wrestling\nevent of the year! Complete with the Hall of Fame ceremony and the more recent\nadditions of NXT Takeover and the multitude of independent promotions that also\nrun events during the week, the hosting city becomes a melting pot of wrestlers\nand fans. This year is the thirty-fifth anniversary of WrestleMania and we here\nat Pro Wrestling Journal thought it\u2019d be fun to give you our top ten Mania\nMoments as we ramp up to the Show of Shows. Keep in mind that this is purely a\npersonal list and not based on any real merits other than what I enjoyed. Let\u2019s\ntake a look!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10.\nThe Shield\u2019s WrestleMania debut-WrestleMania 30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you follow me and my writings, you know\njust how much I love The Shield. I think this was one of their best entrances\nas a unit, coming through the massive crowd with their muzzles. They looked\nintimidating as they circled the ring, ready to take on Kane and the New Age\nOutlaws. The fact that they won their Mania debut match just makes this moment\neven sweeter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9.\nCharlotte Flair\u2019s entrance repeats history-WrestleMania 34<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A few years prior to her match with Asuka,\nFlair was part of Triple H\u2019s WrestleMania entrance alongside fellow NXT alumni\nAlexa Bliss and Sasha Banks. How fitting that in her own glamorous golden\nentrance, she would involve some male NXT talent. Everything in WWE comes full\ncircle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8.\nThe Streak is broken-WrestleMania 30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As a child, the Undertaker was amazing. As\nan adult, he\u2019s still just as amazing but I truly believed that he was going to\nretire with the Streak intact. I still have his 18-0 dvd and watch it when I\nfeel nostalgic. To see the referee count to three and the titantron flash 21-1\nwas like being sucker punched in the gut. I was so shocked and upset. Even now\nI specifically avoid watching the end of that match and it\u2019s been five years.\nI\u2019m not over it; don\u2019t judge me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.\nCharlotte Flair wins the new WWE Women\u2019s Championship-WrestleMania 32<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Not to take away from the women of the\nDivas Era, but there was something about watching a new champion be crowned\nwith a new championship. The Divas title was officially gone, both the belt and\nthe name of the division. It was now simply the women\u2019s division, the women\nwere called superstars, and we got a belt that was on par with the men\u2019s top\nbelt. It felt like the women were finally starting to get the respect they\ndeserve, instead of being relegated to eye candy and sexualized five-minute\nbouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6.\nSeth Rollins becomes the Kingslayer-WrestleMania 33<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I loved everything about the feud between\nSeth Rollins and Triple H. Rollins also had fantastic gear for this match. He\nhad me worried a bit about his knee, but seeing him overcome Triple H, slaying\nthe King of Kings, and officially becoming the Kingslayer was deeply satisfying\nin a way I hadn\u2019t felt about a feud blowoff match in a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5.\nEdge spears Jeff Hardy in mid-air in TLC 2-WreslteMania X-7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I think this is one of the most iconic\nvisuals in WrestleMania history. I remember seeing Jeff dangling while holding\nonto the tag team belts and Edge launching himself from the ladder. I remember\nthe sound their impact made on the match. It was awesome! Even now, I still go\nback and watch the whole match just for that one moment. I almost wish we could\nsee a repeat of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.\nShawn Michaels\u2019 career is over-WrestleMania 26<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The whole build up to this feud was\namazing and the contrasting color schemes of The Undertaker and Shawn Michael\u2019s\nring gear was just icing on the cake. The whole idea of Undertakers then-intact\nstreak and Michaels\u2019 career being on the line created a sense of importance.\nWhen the bell rung and it had sunk in that Michaels\u2019 career was over, I was\nshocked. I remember just staring at my television in a sort of disbelief; it\ndefinitely left an impression on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.\nEdge wins the first-ever Money in the Bank briefcase-WrestleMania 21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Edge was one of my absolute favorites\ngrowing up and the Money in the Bank ladder match is still one of my favorite\ngimmick matches to this day. This is another one of those iconic moments in\nWrestleMania history as it was the beginning of Money in the Bank. I still\nfondly remember Edge gripping the little black briefcase as the very first Mr.\nMoney in the Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.\nThe Hardys return-WrestleMania 33<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I rarely use this phrase, but I marked out\nwhen the Hardys\u2019 theme at WrestleMania 33. My roommate and I had just started\non the latter portion of our Mania snacks when that familiar beat dropped. When\nthe brothers actually stepped out onto the ramp, I almost cried. The Hardys have\nbeen a favorite team of mine since I was a little girl and though I had\nfollowed their career in other promotions, seeing them in WWE was like seeing\nthem at home. Them winning he tag titles only sweetened the return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.\nSeth Rollins cashes in-WrestleMania 31<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This will go down as one of the most\niconic WrestleMania closings in history. You can still find videos and gifs of\nRollins helicoptering the WWE belt pretty much all over social media. From the\ncash-in to aforementioned helicoptering, the closing moments of this\nWrestleMania were definitely some of the most memorable in a while. I hope to\nsee this clip in Rollins\u2019 eventual Hall of Fame induction video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WrestleMania is the biggest wrestling event of the year! 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