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As part of the build-up to tonight’s Night of Champions premium live event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, WWE used the event’s pre-show to unveil its official ranking of the 10 greatest Steel Cage matches in company history.
The countdown segment aired during the Night of Champions pre-show, giving fans a look back at some of the most memorable steel cage bouts across multiple eras of WWE programming. While the company has produced countless cage matches over its decades-long history, this ranking represents WWE’s own curated selection of the ten it considers the very best.
The timing of the reveal makes sense. Night of Champions is one of WWE’s marquee Saudi Arabia events, and the pre-show countdown format is a well-established way to generate buzz and get fans in a nostalgic frame of mind before the live card gets underway. Steel cage matches carry a particular weight in wrestling history — they’ve been used to settle long-running feuds, blow off heated rivalries, and produce some of the sport’s most iconic moments, making a list like this genuinely meaningful to hardcore fans.
With the full list now out in the world, expect plenty of debate among the WWE fanbase about which matches made the cut, which ones were left off, and whether the rankings themselves hold up to scrutiny. That kind of conversation is exactly what a list like this is designed to spark.
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