10 Times Outside Factors Totally Changed WWE WrestleMania

10. A SHAMBOLIC Approach To Customer Service (WrestleMania XXX)

If he could get away with it - if the match drew just enough money and merely silenced the crowd, as opposed to pissing them sufficiently to risk a mass exodus - Vince McMahon would have The Great Khali Vs. Baron Corbin headline WrestleMania.

All of these things that we hold so affectionately in our hearts - superb technical wrestling, babyface performers we enjoy an organic bond with - don't mean a bloody thing to the COO.

This is how we almost arrived at a main event attraction in Randy Orton Vs. Batista at WrestleMania XXX. That Daniel Bryan guy you love so much? You can still love him, in a 10 minute midcard match, as he squares off against Sheamus - and this time, unlike WrestleManias XXVII and XXVIII, it is actually happening and won't last just 18 seconds!

Rounded off by CM Punk Vs. Triple H - a match Trips wanted in order to funnel that sweet, sweet hardcore fan heat - WrestleMania XXX was almost a grotesquely wasteful drizzles of a show. We were spared it through, let's see here: CM Punk's shocking walkout, Batista's status as persona non grata, and the absolute, deafening refusal of WWE fans to receive an abrasively stubborn narrative.

It's precisely this sort of of bullsh*t that lands WWE in a mire of brand distrust right now - and worryingly for them, the fans may no longer have the heart to fight back.