5 best WWE matches outside of the United States

#1 Hulk Hogan vs The Rock (WrestleMania x8 - Toronto, Canada)

Icon vs. Icon on the Grandest Stage Of Them All.

What else could it be? Not only is it one of the biggest WWE matches of all time (rivalled only by Hogan vs Andre and Rock vs Austin), but it featured one of the loudest, most amazing crowd reactions you will ever hear as a fan. In a packed SkyDome in 2002, The Rock and Hulk Hogan squared off in a dream match. Icon vs. Icon, as WWE billed it.

Going into the match, WWE had The Rock play the babyface while Hogan was the villainous leader of the nWo, which had just returned to wrestling as the original trio, debuting in WWE only one month prior at No Way Out.

They immediately targeted The Rock, and history was set in motion. For those unaware, two places in which The Rock has often had a, we'll say difficult, time with the WWE Universe are New York (as you can hear in his title match later this same year against Brock Lesnar) and Toronto. Canada as a whole didn't seem to take The Rock's side very often. That would play into this match and the rest of Hogan's WWE career.

Chances are that Hulk Hogan was going to go back to the red-and-yellow sooner rather than later, and the 68,000 people in Toronto did everything they could to expedite that process. All The Rock needed to do to elicit the most raucous boos from the crowd was, well, just be there.

Everything Hogan did was cheered at a fever pitch, and The Rock was booed as if he was the biggest bad guy in the history of pro wrestling. At the end of the night, The Rock would beat the Hulkster, but the two men would shake hands. When Scott Hall and Kevin Nash tried to interfere and ruin the moment, Hogan and Rock teamed up to stop them, which culled some favour with the Toronto faithful.

The atmosphere was amazing and it will go down as one of the most memorable and most iconic matches in WWE history.