7 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE WrestleMania XX
2. Fatal Bore Way 2
The trouble with trying to summon emotion where there blatantly isn't any to mine is how obvious it looks to those attempting to invest in it.
For that reason, it's pointless to try and contextualise any sense of tension between the sad squads in this card-filler. By 2004, almost every WrestleMania was designed to be every bit the 'Showcase Of The Immortals' it was marketed as, full of thrills, spills and personal grudges finally settled on the 'Grandest Stage'. This never proves true, but the heavy-handed narrative results in matches outside of that remit looking all the more exposed as a result.
Defending Champions Rikishi & Scotty 2 Hotty were too good for this sh*t (as too, broadly speaking, were The APA), but the contest at least gave The World's Greatest Tag Team and The Basham Brothers 6:08 to tell their grandchildren about. Good for them. Dud for us.
What? If copying and pasting with blatant indifference to the wrestlers is deemed acceptable for WWE, it'll do here too.