2 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 28
1. Once Is Enough
The 'Once In A Lifetime' meeting between John Cena and The Rock was a long, laboured, lie that saw a year-long build result in an irritatingly ordinary affair.
The Miami crowd were on fire for to their returning hero, but an injury during the match sustained by 'The Great One' was just one of the underlying factors that hamstrung what was WWE's biggest box office main event ever. Drawing buys from 1,217,000 homes, WrestleMania XXVIII was an astronomical success and the most-bought in company history, but the disappointing in-ring response to such enormous anticipation saw the following year's rematch lose nearly 200,000 purchases from that number.
An advert for the wrestler 'Big Match John' hadn't quite become at that point, it was slightly lumbering until all the bombastic finisher trades late on.