Ranking 2016's WWE PPV Endings From Worst To Best

16. WrestleMania 32 - Roman Reigns Over All

A more obvious pick for 2016's worst pay-per-view ending you will not find: Roman Reigns' title celebration at WrestleMania 32 will go down as one of the flattest closing scenes in Mania history.

Roman's Mania coronation felt like an inevitability from the moment Triple H threw him out of the 2016 Royal Rumble, and his eventual victory was a perfect storm of of blandness. The main event was a 27-minuter that felt at least twice that long, and it came at the end of a sluggish, overlong pay-per-view. They tried to go for the slow-building, "epic match" formula, and they failed miserably.

16 months after facing universal rejection as the 2015 Royal Rumble winner, Reigns' WrestleMania moment was in the bag. Nobody asked for it, nobody wanted it, yet WWE swam against the tide regardless, and it resulted in a deflating end to the biggest show of the year.

If WWE officials were expecting a hero's reception for Reigns' victory, they were greatly mistaken. Half the audience headed for the exit as Reigns hoisted his newly won WWE Championship overhead, and the rest only stuck around to jeer the man. Kevin Dunn & co. did their best to mute the boos, but anyone paying attention could recognise the vitriol that showered him.

It's a shame that Roman Reigns' first big 'Mania moment ended this way. The guy's a lot better than some give him credit for, and it's not his fault that he's been asked to play a character that downplays his strengths and highlights his weaknesses. Still, WrestleMania 32 is part of Reigns' legacy now, and nothing can change that.