10 Times WWE Fans Were Outraged At WrestleMania
10. Sheamus Buries Daniel Bryan
In an endlessly fascinating Playboy interview of 2001, Vince McMahon revealed that, as a child, his early sexual curiosity manifested in a desire to insert dried, crushed leaves into the vagina of a girl who was "in essence" his cousin.
Vince has embraced this particular kink in his advanced years, as he has taken to inserting dried, crushed leaves into all of our orifices with his abrasive, unwanted booking.
At WrestleMania XXVIII, Daniel Bryan defended his World Heavyweight Championship against Sheamus. Bryan was over as a piss-funny deluded irritant who had fused his awesome technical skill into a hugely entertaining sports entertainment-sized package. He was such an emerging megastar that it hurt your eyes to look at him, and yet Vince McMahon went with Sheamus, who had more muscles. Fans were high on this charismatic, interesting new character who was a rare, pre-NXT banger practitioner, and to get Sheamus over as a sub-Cena scamp of an over-powered babyface, he was infamously squashed in 18 seconds.
This was an omni-failure. It formally turned Bryan face, and made Sheamus look less smart, and more opportunistic - a word drilled into our poor heads for years and years as a heel trait.
Randy Orton Vs. Kane was besieged by "Yes!" chants, and the toxic feeling carried all the way over to the post-RAW WrestleMania - over two years, even.