The ladder match has become one of the most popular match types in the history of WWE. The first to take place in WWE was actually between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels in 1992. Many give Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon credit for the first in WWE history. Here is a list of all the WWE ladder matches that have taken place.
List of all the WWE ladder matches in history:
All WWE Ladder Matches From 1990-1999
Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. Took place on WWF Wrestling Challenge in 1992.
Razor Ramon vs Shawn Michaels for the WWF Undisputed Intercontinental Championship. Happened at WrestleMania X in 1994.
Shawn Michaels vs Razor Ramon for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. Happened at SummerSlam 1995.
Shawn Michaels vs Goldust for the WWF Championship. Happened at Xperience in 1996.
Triple H vs The Rock for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. Happened at SummerSlam 1998.
Big Boss Man vs Mankind for the WWF Hardcore Championship. Happened on Raw in 1998.
The Rock vs Mankind for the WWF Championship. Happened on Raw in 1999.
Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon vs Steve Austin for 100% WWF ownership. Happened at King of the Ring 1999.
Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy vs Edge and Christian in the final of Terri Invitational Tournament. Happened at No Mercy 1999.
All WWE Ladder Matches From 2000-2005
Edge and Christian vs The Hardy Boyz vs The Dudley Boyz for the WWF Tag Team Championship. Happened at WrestleMania 2000
The Hardy Boyz vs Edge and Christian for the WWF Tag Team Championships. Happened on Raw in 2000.
Chris Jericho vs Chris Benoit for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. Happened at Royal Rumble 2001.
Kurt Angle vs Chris Benoit for Kurt Angle’s Olympic Gold Medals. Happened at Judgment Day 2001.
Rob Van Dam vs Jeff Hardy for the WWF Hardcore Championship. Happened at SummerSlam 2001.
Edge vs Christian for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. Happened at No Mercy 2001.
Rob Van Dam vs Eddie Guerrero for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Happened on Raw in 2002.
The Undertaker vs Jeff Hardy for the WWE Undisputed Championship. Happened on Raw in 2002.
Rob Van Dam vs Jeff Hardy to unify the WWE Intercontinental Championship and the European Championships. Happened on Raw in 2002.
Triple H vs Shawn Michaels for the World Heavyweight Championship. Happened at Armageddon 2002.
Eddie Guerrero and Tajiri vs Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin for the WWE Tag Team Championship. Happened at Judgment Day 2003.
Rob Van Dam vs Christian for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Happened on Raw in 2003.
Chris Jericho vs Christian for the vacant WWE Intercontinental Championship. Happened at Unforgiven 2004.
Kurt Angle vs Mike Haywood for Angle’s Olympic Gold Medals. Happened on SmackDown in 2005.
Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero for the custody of Dominick. Happened at SummerSlam 2005.
Edge vs Matt Hardy in a loser leaves Raw match. Happened on Raw in 2005.
All WWE Ladder Matches From 2006-2010
Sabu vs Rob Van Dam to become the No. 1 Contender for the ECW World Championship. Happened on ECW in 2006.
Rob Van Dam vs Big Show for Van Dam to pick the date of his future ECW World Championship match. Happened on ECW in 2006.
Jeff Hardy vs Johnny Nitro for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Happened on Raw in 2006.
Paul London and Brian Kendrick vs William Regal and Dave Taylor vs MNM (Johnny Nitro and Joey Mercury) vs The Hardys for the WWE Tag Team Championship. Happened at Armageddon 2006.
The Hardy Boyz vs Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin for the World Tag Team Championship. Happened at One Night Stand 2007.
Jeff Hardy vs Carlito for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Happened at Raw’s 15th Anniversary in 2007.
Chris Jericho vs Shawn Michaels for the World Heavyweight Championship. Happened at No Mercy 2008.
Jeff Hardy vs Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship. Happened at Extreme Rules 2009.
Christian vs Shelton Benjamin for the ECW Championship. Happened at Tables, Ladders & Chairs in 2009.
Dolph Ziggler vs Kofi Kingston and Jack Swagger for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Happened at Tables, Ladders & Chairs in 2010.
John Morrison vs Sheamus to become the No. 1 contender for the WWE Championship. Happened at Tables, Ladders & Chairs in 2010.
All WWE Ladder Matches From 2011 to 2015
Christian vs Alberto Del Rio for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship. Happened at Extreme Rules 2011.
Triple H vs Kevin Nash in a Sledgehammer Ladder match. Happened at Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2011.
Dolph Ziggler vs John Cena in a Money in the Bank Ladder match. Happened at Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2012.
Adrian Neville vs Bo Dallas for the NXT Championship. Happened at NXT Arrival in 2014.
John Cena vs Alberto Del Rio, Kane, Sheamus, Cesaro, Bray Wyatt, Roman Reigns, and Randy Orton for the vacant WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Happened at Money in the Bank (2014)
Dolph Ziggler vs Luke Harper for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Happened at Tables, Ladders, Chairs, and Stairs in 2014.
Daniel Bryan vs Bad News Barrett vs R-Truth vs Dean Ambrose vs Dolph Ziggler vs Luke Harper vs Stardust for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Happened at WrestleMania 31 (2015)
Seth Rollins vs Dean Ambrose for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship – Money in the Bank (2015)
Finn Bálor vs Kevin Owens for the NXT Championship – NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn (2015)
The New Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston) vs The Lucha Dragons (Kalisto and Sin Cara) vs The Usos (Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso) for the WWE Tag Team Championship. Happened at Tables, Ladders, and Chairs in 2015.
All WWE Ladder Matches From 2016 to 2019
Zack Ryder vs Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn vs Dolph Ziggler vs Sin Cara vs The Miz vs Stardust for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania 32 (2016)
James Ellsworth vs AJ Styles for a SmackDown Live contract and for a title shot at the WWE World Championship. Happened on SmackDown Live in 2016.
The Miz vs Dolph Ziggler for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Happened at Tables, Ladders, and Chairs in 2016.
The Hardy Boyz vs Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson vs Enzo Amore and Big Cass vs Cesaro and Sheamus for the Raw Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania 33 (2017)
The Authors of Pain vs Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano for the NXT Tag Team Championships. Happened at NXT Takeover: Chicago in 2017.
Adam Cole vs EC3 vs Richochet vs Velveteen Dream vs Killian Dain vs Lars Sullivan for the NXT North American Championship. Happened at NXT Takeover: New Orleans.
The Miz vs Seth Rollins vs Finn Balor vs Samoa Joe for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Happened at the Greatest Royal Rumble.
Elias vs Bobby Lashley with a guitar hanging in the middle of the ring. Happened at TLC in 2018.
The Street Profits vs Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch vs The Undisputed Era vs The Forgotten Sons for the NXT Tag Team Championships. Happened at NXT TakeOver: XXV in 2019).
Kevin Owens vs Shane McMahon in a loser leaves WWE match. Happened on Smackdown on October 4th, 2019.
Io Shirai vs Mia Yim in a ladder match to determine which team gets the advantage at Takeover: WarGames. Happened on the November 13th, 2019 edition of NXT.
Adam Cole vs Dominiki Dijakovic in a ladder match to determine which team gets the advantage at Takeover: WarGames. Happened on the November 20th, 2019 edition of NXT.
All WWE Ladder Matches From 2020 to Present
Andrade vs Rey Mysterio for the WWE United States Championship on RAW (January 20, 2020).
John Morrison vs Kofi Kingston vs Jimmy Uso for the Smackdown Tag Team Championship. Happened at Wrestlemania 36, night one (April 4, 2020).
Io Shirai vs Chelsea Green vs Mia Yim vs Tegan Nox vs Dakota Kai vs Candice LeRae to earn an NXT Women’s Championship match. Happened on the April 8th, 2020 episode of NXT.
Damian Priest vs Cameron Grimes vs Johnny Gargano vs Velveteen Dream vs Bronson Reed for the NXT North American Championship. This happened at NXT Takeover: 30 (August 22, 2020)
Sami Zayn vs Jeff Hardy vs AJ Styles for the Intercontinental Championship. This took place at Clash of Champions (September 27, 2020).
Pete Dunne vs Kyle O’Reilly to earn an advantage for their team in the WarGames match. This took place on the November 25, 2020 episode of NXT.
Santos Escobar vs Jordan Devlin for the NXT Cruiserweight Championship. This took place at NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver (April 8, 2021).
** We will update the list of WWE ladder matches as they happen! If you spot a match that is missing, let us know in the comment section.
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