10 Dumbest Ways WWE Promoted WrestleMania Matches

10. The Rock Vs. Hollywood Hulk Hogan - WrestleMania X8

All the Rock and Hollywood Hulk Hogan needed, before their Dream showdown in Toronto, was to size one another up - to register the simplest, most understated body language.

This was very much the inter-generational Dream Match it was promoted as. All we needed was room to dream - particularly since the match itself required our imagination. We needed only to watch, as Hogan and Rock, having established their credentials as the biggest stars in company history, silently conveyed their star power to one another and the audience alike. Their sharing the same ring was enough to put over the occasion.

A pay-per-view poster incarnate, we needed only this to raise the goosebumps and contact our local pay-per-view carrier. It doesn't get more personal than risking one's amazing legacy to the guy they always said was more significant than you - the haunting ghost of the past, or the sobering reality of the present.

Less was more.

More was added.

So, so much more. Hogan drove a truck into an ambulance that was carrying Rock's already "crippled ass". This spot of attempted murder, so unnecessarily OTT, cheapened the occasion with residual Attitude Era hijinks and depicted the nWo as ageing, unimaginative hacks all too successful in their mission to poison the WWF.