The Ruthless Aggression Era saw WWE looking to transition from the hugely successful Attitude Era to the future. There was still plenty of attitude, but there was renewed emphasis on great in-ring work, thanks to the likes of Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Edge, and Rey Mysterio.
Stars such as John Cena, Batista, Randy Orton, and Brock Lesnar exploded onto the scene and wasted little time establishing themselves as the faces of the era.
Those three, along with the aforementioned greats (and more), turned in some of the finest matches in company history.
In celebration of the era that catapulted WWE out of the Monday Night Wars and into the unknown, join B/R's Erik Beaston and Graham Matthews as they relive the best of the best from that period, ranked by in-ring quality and their significance to the era's history and to WWE as a whole.
Matches taking place between Mr. McMahon's "Ruthless Aggression" speech on the June 24, 2002, episode of Raw to the end of 2008 are eligible for this list.
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