6 WrestleMania Title Matches That Should Have Been Triple Threats

6. WrestleMania 33 - Bray Wyatt Vs. Randy Orton Vs. LUKE HARPER

One of the worst WWE Championship matches in WrestleMania history actually had a really good build-up, to a point. Randy Orton had destroyed the Wyatt Family from within and left newly-crowned champion Bray Wyatt to fend for himself at ‘The Show of Shows’.

It was a rare modern-day case of long-term WWE storytelling, that lasted over six months from start to finish and a narrative that WWE were so committed to that even a record-equalling 16th world title reign for John Cena was not going to change their 'Mania plans.

However, it was WWE’s refusal to budge from this narrative that was part of their undoing, as it was actually Luke Harper who came out of the Wyatt Family split as the hot babyface. Harper had always been a performer appreciated by the more engaged fans, and was starting to turn believers out of the casuals with his character and in-ring work over the course of his turn. Without him, the Wyatt-Orton match descended into farce.

Even when Harper accidentally won a battle royal to earn a WrestleMania title match, WWE wrote him out of the angle when they should have rolled with the punches. They felt that the promise they had made to Orton - the Royal Rumble victory and title triumph indebted to him after his SummerSlam pummelling at the hands, and elbows, of Brock Lesnar - was worth more than developing Harper, who they have only ever pictured as a support act.