Listing The Best Matches From All 35 WrestleManias

WrestleMania II: The British Bulldogs vs. The Dream Team (WWE Tag Team Championship Match)

WrestleMania II was very experimental in format. The show was held in three separate locations around the country: New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the consensus seems to be that unlike its predecessor, this gamble did not pay off. The show featured a largely disjointed feel, and very few of its matches were anything special.

The last match of the Chicago portion of the show, however, was a great tag team match pitting the team of Davey Boy Smith and the Dynamite Kid, The British Bulldogs (accompanied to the ring by no less than Ozzy Osbourne), against the WWE Tag Team Champions: The Dream Team of Brutus Beefcake and Greg “The Hammer” Valentine.

Dynamite, by this time in his career, was a shell of the worker who had been part of the first ever Meltzer-certified Five Star Match only two years earlier due to mounting back problems, which were apparent at the end of the match when he was unable to celebrate in the ring. But that didn’t affect the match itself.

In fact, the finish of the match saw Dynamite take a downright frightening bump all things considered. As Dynamite stood atop the top rope, Smith pushed Valentine into the corner, where he nailed the Brit, knocking him to the unforgiving floor outside. Valentine fell backward onto the mat, where Smith pinned him to end the match in a hurry.

While WrestleMania 2 is hardly the best installment of the show (indeed it is one of the worst), this was a solid match and definitely worth a watch.