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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.

#2 WrestleMania VII

One of the most emotional moments in WrestleMania history

This one is a personal favorite of mine, as it was the very first WrestleMania I got to watch live. Well... on television, anyway. I was 13 years old at the time. Ask me about scrambled PPV signals sometime, kids.

It was 1991. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System had just been released in the United States. Iraq had just invaded Kuwait and the U.S. and its allies were on the brink of a full-on conflict. The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear was in theaters. And WrestleMania was returning to Los Angeles, CA for the first time since WrestleMania 2.

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The main event saw the Immortal Real American Brother Jack Dude Hulk Hogan take on WWF Champion and Iraqi sympathizer for some reason Sgt. Slaughter. Looking back, the entire angle was kind of tasteless, considering everything that was happening in the Middle East but, at the time, it was pretty captivating. Plus, Slaughter was pretty convincing in the role and the build-up to the match was great.

Speaking of great build-up, the man who Slaughter beat for the title, The Ultimate Warrior, was taking on the man who cost him said title, Randy "Macho King" Savage, that same night in a retirement match. Savage had been trying to win the belt from Warrior for months to that point with no success, and the feud had boiled over to this point. The match between the two was epic and it's worth a number of watches. Say what you want about the Ultimate Warrior, but you can't watch this one and say that the man never had any great matches.

Plus, the post-match reunion between Savage and Elizabeth still makes me cry just thinking about it.

There's a lot of filler on this show, although the Hart Foundation/Nasty Boys Tag Team Championship match is fun. But, even the filler is entertaining. There's the blindfold match between Jake Roberts and Rick "The Model" Martel that, in a vacuum, seems weird but, if you had been following the story between the two, was a great climax to their feud.

It's a fun show and worth a watch.

About the author

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