Top 5 best pure ladder matches in WWE history

Ladder matches are supposed to be one of the most dangerous type of matches in WWE. It might be quite common now a days and the novelty factor might be wearing off – but the match still packs a punch.The concept has come a long way since Razor Ramon and Shawn Michaels took a ladder to Wrestlemania X and stole the show. The triangle ladder matches between The Hardys, The Dudleys, Edge and Christian took its popularity to new heights.As time passed, the ladder match became considered as just another match. A pure ladder match relies on the ladder to tell a story, rather than using it to extend one.This list examines the five best pure ladder matches in WWE history.

#1 Edge & Christian vs The Hardy Boyz vs The Dudley Boyz - Wrestlemania 2000

E&C all the way!!

The match that began the ladder revolution – or more specifically the TLC folklore. The Hardys vs Edge & Christian vs The Dudleys in a ladder match is a match that hasn’t been surpassed in 15 years since their initial encounter took place.

While their ensuing Summerslam and Wrestlemania 17 matches cannot make this list on a technicality (those were TLC matches, not pure ladder matches), the Triangle ladder match from Wrestlemania 2000 certainly can.

The match was devised as the way to determine exactly who the better team was and the six men tore the place down. The spots involving ladders were the best that the world had ever seen – Edge would spear a ladder-climbing Jeff Hardy from the top rope, Jeff would deliver a Swanton Bomb to a prone Bubba Ray Dudley from the top of a ladder.

But the enduring image is of Edge and Christian embracing their heel personas by climbing the ladder after Matt Hardy and sneakily pushing Hardy off the top of the two ladders on which a table was kept to resemble a platform and claiming the tag team titles.

There began the era of tag team wrestling that totally reeked of awesomeness.