Top 20 Wrestling Pay Per Views of the 1990s

We’re lucky that we have the internet and streaming media now because televion cable and pay per view providers were the only way to watch the competition between WCW, WWF, and ECW in 90s North America. Though Streaming services are absolutely convenient, it took the magic away. Vince McMahon, Eric Bischoff, and Paul Heyman were absolutely fierce about keeping their pormotions alive. However the true experience of revisiting 1990s wrestling is how it is the most transformative period in wrestling. Not only was it the end of the Gold Age of Wrestling (1984 – 1992) but we had the dark age of wrestling with New Generation Era and WCW-Hogan era (1993-1996), and we also had a renaissance with the Attitude Era and NWO era (1996 – 1999). Both WCW, WWF, and ECW would ever get noticed if they didn’t take influence from Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling’s hardcore wrestling style, All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling’s gender alternative, or All Japan Pro Wrestling & New Japan Pro Wrestling’s invasion angle. Because wrestling fans from the 1980s already grew up, wrestling had to do the same as well. There’s no wonder why many of us wrestling fans look fondly with this era. Even taking off our nostalgia glass, this period of wrestling is so much better than what we have now. We didn’t rely on just spotfests or high flying gymnastics, we had grappling, starpower, epic moments, and storylines to not only help build our characters but also the business as a whole. As a wrestling historian, I had absolutly fun going back and top a Top 10 Best shows of each year of the 1990s decade. It’s because lost so much today that back thin had everything. If I could go back and relive all of these moments I would. After experiencing almost earything that ’90s wrestling offered, what was the best night of wrestling in from 1990 – 1999? 

Top 10 Greatest Wrestlers of All Time

There has to come a time where a site that talks about wrestling has to make a good argument to who’s the greatest wrestler of all time. There just wouldn’t be wrestling without the wrestlers, but who really deserves all the praise? Every wrestling fan has their own personal favorite wrestling that they mark out to, so thetoplister has to make a credible pick in deciding who really is the best grappler/performer in professional wrestling. Here on thetoplister, we do really care about giving so many people recommendations, but it has to be the best recommendation, not the most popular one. Otherwise, having Hulk Hogan, The Rock, John Cena, Brock Lesnar, and Shawn Michaels would have been too predictable to the point where we’re being dishonest. When you’ve been wrestling as long as we have (watching so many different promotions and all) you should know that there are better out there. So what really is the criteria to be an all-time great wrestler? Here are your criteria.

If a wrestler has three or more of these qualities, then they deserve to be on the list. Notice that we didn’t include number of victories here? Otherwise, Goldberg & Dr. Death Steve Williams would have made it on the list, but in wrestling, it’s not how many wins you make, it’s how many times can you get yourself back up in every defeat without losing relevance. It takes years to hone your skills, have the right booking to keep you relevant in your career, and the challenge of getting the fans’ approval in order to reach that level of credibility. This is a tough business to stay in but these ten wrestlers (and a few honorable mentions) managed to prove to us that they are deserving of such praise.