18 Ups & 12 Downs From The WWE SmackDown Live Era
7. Burning Down The House
A surprisingly superb WrestleMania programme was set ablaze by one of the worst examples of WWE's impatient silliness, even though the worst was somehow yet to come.
Randy Orton burning down the Wyatt Compound (before they found a dirtier "House Of Horrors" to fight in a month later) was an overreach in the extreme from an 'Apex Predator' that had, up to that point, saw through a masterful scheme to take his leader's title.
The symbolism was on the nose enough for a Wyatt story, but the whole thing coming just weeks before their intriguing WrestleMania tangle made Orton look like a raging malevolent !*$% rather than an evil genius completing his destruction derby.
The big visual was spaffed out here too. Spooky bullsh*t for the rest of the way couldn't touch Orton's inferno, whilst their 'Show Of Shows' projection-filled title switch absolutely stunk.