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When you talk about the ideal wrestling dream match, there are a number of legendary and iconic professional wrestlers from every era of the sport. Among these names are the obvious ones, the likes of the recent heroes of the sport; Hollywood Hulk Hogan, Macho Man Randy Savage, Bret "Hitman" Hart, The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker and to jump a little closer to the present, John Cena, Jeff Hardy, Randy Orton and Batista.

The early days of the NWA was based on a simple module. You get over with the fans, you earn cash and you do the same the next night. You bust your butt off in the ring, you go backstage and cut a promo hyping your next match or a feud and the deal is done. This was long before the need for overhyped blood and the "T&A" factor was needed, because simply, the wrestlers had paid their dues and EARNED their respect and knew what was required to captivate an audience without the need for it. Naturally, managers and mouth pieces were still used because as a famous man once said along the lines of, the key to every wrestlers success lies behind the mouth of a great manager. The likes of Fred Blassie, Skandar Akbar, Gary Hart, Bobby Heenan and Jimmy Hart are among the host of names that fall under this iconic category that helped bring wrestling to the top of its game. Never underestimate the power of a mouthpiece, and this was shown in some of the greatest dream matches of all time, including The Rock "N" Roll Express versus The Midnight Express, Ric Flair versus Harley Race and Terry Funk versus Jumbo Tsuruta.

As the years went by however, the sport of professional wrestling continued to evolve with the time. Organisations such as Extreme Championship Wrestling began to form, which based their style more along the lines of real life in exchange for the usual flash, and Glam gimmicks. Attitude, beer, smoking, women and violence were common sites in the old ECW, but one thing that certainly was not lacking was the quality of their wrestling matches which often put their soon-to-be rivals in the WCW and WWF to shame. ECW indeed bought a unique style to the world of professional wrestling which would soon rattle the foundations of the sport as in the late 90's, the WWF introduced the "attitude era", fronted by Stone Cold Steve Austin, a beer drinking, bad mouthed fan favourite, a style so obviously influenced by the popular ECW style. This lead to many memorable dream matches including the likes of

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