WWE WrestleMania 39 Results: Star Ratings for All Matches from Saturday's Card
The bar is likely impossibly high for anyone to surpass following Saturday's WrestleMania 39, a show that wrote the concluding chapter in several top feuds and produced some of the best in-ring content in recent WWE history along the way.
From two instant classics at the top of the card to continued excellence from Seth Rollins and Logan Paul, Night 1 of WWE's annual Showcase of the Immortals was a stellar presentation with plenty of high-end star ratings to be dealt.
Who earned what and why?
Find out with this recap of one of the best WWE productions of the last decade.
The results for Saturday's show and star ratings for each match are as follows:
There was every reason to believe that Rhea Ripley and Charlotte Flair were going to tear the house down at WrestleMania. There was precedent in the form of their 2020 show-stealer, and in the three years since that match, both had become better and more complete workers.
Few could have expected the instant classic that took place Saturday night, though.
A physical, hard-hitting, high-drama contest kept fans inside the extraordinary SoFi Stadium engrossed throughout, even getting them to bite on a few near-falls along the way.
A grueling championship clash in which it felt like two badass women battling for a coveted prize and their legacies, it delivered beyond even the loftiest of expectations.
Ultimately, it was Ripley who finally realized her potential and defeated Flair with a last-gasp, top-rope Riptide to avenge her previous losses to The Queen and announce to the wrestling world that this is her women's division now.
It was Flair's greatest performance, which is saying something given the star-heavy showings she has delivered throughout her Hall of Fame-worthy career.
For Ripley, it feels like the start of a new era of her run with the company; one that will, hopefully, be chock-full of all-time bangers like this.
Both women should be proud of what they accomplished on that stage and in that moment. If the smile painting an exhausted, beaten and battered Flair's face in the moments immediately after are any indication, it is safe to say they already are.
It is appropriate that WWE dusted off the "WrestleMania Goes Hollywood" tagline for this year's show because the main event of Saturday's show was a fitting third act to a sweeping Hollywood drama.
The intensely personal storyline involving Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, and The Usos concluded on the grand stage in a five-star affair that will have fans uttering its name alongside the likes of Ricky Steamboat vs. Randy Savage, Bret Hart vs. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels vs. Razor Ramon for generations to come.
High praise? Absolutely, and not based on recency or the result of the moment, either.
Faced with incredible pressure to deliver a match that lived up to of the greatest stories in company history, Zayn, Owens, and The Usos captivated the audience with an emotional rollercoaster ride that left fans in awe and tears streaming down their faces.
From the near-falls that had fans believing their heroes' championship aspirations would go up in smoke to the electric comeback late that concluded with Zayn rocking Jey Uso with a Helluva Kick and telling him, "I'm sorry, Uce," the match and everything therein was a thing of pro wrestling beauty.
And the apology to Uso? Outstanding babyface stuff that stayed true to the story that preceded it. Here was a guy in Zayn who had been lied to, manipulated, betrayed and left lying, but when it came time to put the dagger in the heart of The Usos' reign as champions, he still felt compelled to apologize to a guy he became close to, and felt for, before doing so.
The intensity, the emotion and the jubilation of 80,000 screaming WWE fans as Zayn and Owens celebrated their long journey from an American Legion building in Reseda, California, to the grandest stage in professional wrestling made this not only a classic match but one of the best in the long and prestigious history of WrestleMania.
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