Top 10 Intercontinental Title matches in WrestleMania History

#4 Bret Hart def. Champ Roddy Piper (WrestleMania VIII, 1992)

Now we’re getting into the classics. These are tough calls because it’s a mixture of figuring out the best matches in-ring combined with the story behind them and the historical significance.

I would call this the third best match on the list (behind numbers 1 and 2) but its historical significance is lacking. This was just a really great match between two of the best pro wrestlers of all time.

Piper and Hart didn’t have a gripe or a grudge (this was babyface vs. babyface) and Piper had only very recently won the title at the Royal Rumble, a match that saw him as the replacement for Hart, who had gotten injured and couldn’t get his rematch against The Mountie, who had just defeated him to win the title.

Piper won the belt and ended The Mountie’s reign at just 2 days, and it was on for WrestleMania. Hart was on his way up the card (he would become WWF Champion for the first time by defeating Ric Flair in October of that year) and Piper was on his way out as an active competitor in the WWF.

This was Piper’s last match until he wrestled Jerry Lawler at King of the Ring 1994, over two years later. Piper would only wrestle a handful of other matches for the WWF (including the Backlot Brawl with Goldust at WrestleMania XII) before leaving for WCW in 1996. One thing that does give this match historical significance is that Hart defeated Piper clean via pinfall, and became one of the very few men in history to do so.

Edited by Arvind Sriram