10 Best WWE Matches of the Year 2003

#7 Hulk Hogan vs. Vince McMahon - WrestleMania XIX

20 years in the making

Most wrestling fans who have seen it would easily include WrestleMania XIX from 2003 as one of their all time favorite WrestleManias, if not their favorite. The show featured a classic encounter between Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho, Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle in a stunning main event, and Steve Austin's final wrestling match, an exciting affair with The Rock. The matches on the under-card also ranged from passable to decent.

Surprisingly though, the most overlooked match of the show, and possibly that year, was the Street Fight between Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan, that was literally 20 years in the making. Even before the Hulk Hogan scandal in 2015, this was still one WrestleMania match that was barely ever mentioned as one of the greats.

For a match between a then 49 year old Hogan and 57 year old Vince McMahon, the two men worked very hard. It got pretty violent at points with a barrage of chair shots resulting in a lot of blood loss for both men. Vince executed an amazing Hogan Atomic Leg Drop from the top of the ladder through the announce table; we even had an appearance from Rowdy Roddy Piper for the first time in seven years, when he hit Hogan with a lead pipe quite hard in the head. Hogan took home the win after three consecutive leg drops. The match was far better than it had any right to be, than anyone thought it would be.