Robbie's Top 10 WrestleMania Video Packages Of All Time - 8. Vince McMahon vs Hulk Hogan (WrestleMania 19)

It’s WrestleMania Season, folks, and I couldn’t be more excited. Pat McAfee and I are gonna be making content surrounding the “Showcase of the Immortals” all week long from the Heartland office, then we’re flying down to the Big Easy and taking over ‘Mania weekend like only Barstool can. Last year, I ran a countdown series of my 20 Favorite WrestleMania moments of all time, culminating in a 6000+ word blog on Daniel Bryan winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 30, so this year I decided I’d shake things up a bit and give you my Top 10 WrestleMania video packages of all time. If you’re a wrestling fan, you probably know that the pre-match promos WWE makes are bar-none the most hype shit of all time, so I’ve complied my favorite ones to share with you every day leading into April 8th.

8. Vince McMahon vs Hulk Hogan (WrestleMania 19)

Today’s video package is from one of my all time favorite WrestleMania matches…Vince McMahon vs Hulk Hogan: 20 Years in the Making. I wrote at length about the match and moment itself during last year’s countdown series, but what I didn’t write much about was the perfect video package that set the match up. It encapsulated both the story that was being told to us leading up to this March 30th, 2003 encounter AND the real-life dymanic of Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan’s relationship for the previous twenty years. It asked the chicken-and-egg-esque question of who created Hulkamania? Was it Hogan himself, or Vince McMahon, who gave him every available opportunity to achieve greatness? This angle truly blurred the kayfabe line and for the first time in my then four-year-old life made me realize what a “big match feel” felt like, and this video package was the first one that ever put my heart in my throat, so because of that, it ranks…

Catch up on the rest of the list below!

10. Shawn Michaels vs Ric Flair (WrestleMania 24)

9. The Undertaker vs CM Punk (WrestleMania 29)