WWE: The Top 15 Most Underrated Matches In WrestleMania History

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3. The Undertaker vs. Ric Flair: WrestleMania 18

The WWE’s additions of several of WCW’s top talents after Ted Turner’s organization went out of business in early-2001 added a lot to an already stacked WWE roster.  And one of the biggest stars to head over to the WWE was Ric Flair when he made his WWE return in late-2001.

By the beginning of 2002, Flair began feuding with The Undertaker, who was in the midst of his heelish persona as Big Evil.  Taker began focusing on Flair after The Nature Boy interfered in one of Taker’s matches, and he wanted a match with Flair at WrestleMania 18.  His methods of getting said match, however, were particularly brutal as Taker beatdown Flair’s friend Arn Anderson and his son David.

The Nature Boy eventually accepted Big Evil’s challenge and the two squared off at WrestleMania 18 in 2002.  Despite Flair not having been in the ring much in recent memory by this point, the match was very good with a lot of solid storytelling involved.  It picked up greatly towards the end when Double A came out of nowhere and hit Taker with a spinebuster.

Flair was unable to keep Taker down, however, and after a tombstone piledriver, Big Evil had finally put away Flair to improve to 10-0 at WrestleMania.  For a show that was centered around Hulk Hogan vs. The Rock, this match stood out in its own right, but doesn’t get the respect it deserves from most of the WWE universe.

Big Evil’s win over The Nature Boy at WrestleMania 18 deserves way more credit than it gets and it undoubtedly ranks among the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history.