WrestleMania XXVII was a momentous evening for a single reason - after seven years, The Rock was finally -FINALLY - back in WWE. On February 14, 2011, "The Great One" made his long-awaited return to the company, announcing that he was going to be guest hosting the event. In the weeks that followed, WWE's live gates jumped up as fans anticipated the next appearance of The Rock. Apart from that, WrestleMania XXVII was a bust. While The Rock was responsible for the show doing huge business, reviews coming out of the event were overwhelmingly negative. There was only a single match on the show worthy of the name WrestleMania, and from top to bottom, the card was incredibly weak. The show's problems, in retrospect, were no surprise. WWE had been in a creative slump for months, with The Nexus angle bombing badly in late 2010 and erasing a lot of optimism fans had for the future of the company. That trend continued when The Miz became WWE Champion - his run was undermined at every opportunity, and the result was a weak champion and poor TV. In the end, those problems all came to a head at WrestleMania. While there's certainly no shortage of things WWE would have fans forget about WrestleMania XXVII, here are the top 10...
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
