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5 things to binge on the WWE Network this week - part two: classic WrestleManias

If you're upset about this year's WrestleMania, just remember you have 35 other ones to watch instead.

#3 WrestleMania X

WrestleMania X has a lot of firsts. It's the first WrestleMania to be held in Madison Square Garden since the original. It's the first WrestleMania to have two WWF Championship matches. It's the first to not feature Hulk Hogan at all. And, it featured the very first on-camera ladder match in the promotion.

A little background: earlier in the year at the Royal Rumble, both Bret Hart and Lex Luger wound up eliminating each other, and thus named co-winners of the match. Due to this, they both earned WWE Championship matches at WrestleMania. To make things fair, however, the wrestler going into the second match that night would have to wrestle an earlier match. After all, whoever won that first match would eventually have to wrestle two matches, as well.

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The order was determined by a coin toss, which Luger won. This meant that Bret would have to face his younger brother, Owen, in the first match of the night. And it was a banger of a match. It was, literally, the longest match of the night but you wouldn't know that by watching it. Both the story between the two going into the show, as well as the technical ability of each performer made this one of the most captivating WrestleMania matches of all time.

Speaking of which, the ladder match between Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon for the Intercontinental Championship also holds a position on the Greatest WrestleMania Matches of All TIme list, too. Even today, it still holds up - especially when you consider that the ladder they used was the only ladder they had. Keep that in mind as you watch.

Now, this was 1994, so there's still some of that early 90s cheese - Men on a Mission (two hip-hop guys with a rapping manager) took on The Quebecers (two guys in Mountie uniforms) for the Tag Team titles. It also saw the beginning of the Harvey Wippleman/Howard Finkel feud that led to Tuxedo Matches between the two and our brains are on fire just thinking about those, so sorry about that.

But, overall, this was a stellar WrestleMania - a serious upgrade from the previous year and just a fun show in general.

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Kevin Christopher Sullivan has been writing online professionally since 1999, which makes him probably older than you. He's written for sites such as Uproxx and Austin.com. He's also performed stand-up comedy, attended Butt-Numb-A-Thon and E3, and owns some pretty cool t-shirts. He lives outside of Austin, TX with his wife, daughter and four annoying cats. And, yes, he knows who he has the same name as.

When he's not watching and writing about wrestling, he's probably playing video games, advocating for mental health issues, or yelling at something in his house for not "working the way it's supposed do, dang it!"

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Edited by Greg Bush