50 Ups & 50 Downs For WWE's Decade: The 2010s
8. Brock Lesnar Vs Roman Reigns, WrestleMania 34
After a year of beating everybody with a single F5, Lesnar delivered so many to 'The Big Dog' at 2018's 'Show Of Shows' that finishing moves as we once knew them were lost to grainy Network archive footage. Designed around triggering the biggest reactions from crowds and teasing conclusions, the F5s failed at both. And they failed over, and over and over again.
In olden times when wrestling stakes meant more, this would have been catastrophic. As a modern era spectacle, it merely became part of the p*ss-poor patchwork.
The two weren't doing anything outwardly bad, but the New Orleans faithful let their emotions flow like Roman's claret. His blood only only boiled theirs, resulting in the audience missing Lesnar's win assuming it wasn't likely to come. They weren't prepared to go looking for it.