10 WWE Worst WrestleMania Gimmick Matches

10. Dean Ambrose vs Brock Lesnar (WrestleMania 32)

There’s an element of grading on a curve here - unlike a lot of the matches on this list, this street fight isn’t downright terrible. Ambrose is massively charismatic, and Lesnar carries an undeniable aura and sells well when called upon to do so.

With the talent involved, though, this should have been far better. It’s a street fight in name only, tame even by WWE’s PG era. Ambrose swings a kendo stick and a chair a few times and lets off a fire extinguisher; Brock demonstrates that he’s more powerful than any weapon.

All this leads to a match that should have been bonkers and brutal but winds up quite dull. Most frustratingly, this seems to be due to Lesnar’s unwillingness to take it up a notch. Ambrose has since discussed his attempt to pitch something exciting and crazy, but Lesnar wasn’t interested, even though all of Ambrose’s notions were for spots that would do dreadful damage to him and make the Beast look more brutal still.

No one was expecting Ambrose to actually utilise Terry Funk’s chainsaw to slice Brock in half, but this was flagrant false advertising: we were sold a rampage and wound up with a run of the mill match. We’re not angry, we’re just disappointed.