The WORST Moment From Every WWE WrestleMania

41. Lord Alfred Hayes Looks…Scared?! (WrestleMania I)

The first WrestleMania is rough to revisit.

There, it's been said. Obviously, anyone interested in the history of WWE or pro wrestling as a whole should endeavour to sit down and give it a watch, but don't go in expecting much. Most of the matches will bore you senseless unless you're content to bask in the retro atmosphere or enjoy how crowds reacted differently in 1985 before they'd seen practically everything the medium has to offer.

Rewatch 'Mania I and you'll almost certainly wonder if Lord Alfred Hayes had been shoved in front of the camera to conduct promos at the eleventh hour. Pretty much all of Alfred's interviews were rushed, poorly-produced and oddly formatted, which is shocking to think about given how much was riding on this show for Vince McMahon.

Throughout the night, Hayes looked for all the world like he was fearing for his life whenever the cams were on him. Worse, he welcomed in one wrestler to scream about their opponent, then immediately brought in said foe to retort. What? So, they'd just been standing idly by watching a rival talk smack about them? Literally a few feet away?!

None of this gave a great first impression for what'd become WWE's calendar focal point. Granted, wrestling didn't quite know how to soup up the TV presentation in '85, but the whole affair was clunky and disjointed. Lord Alfred takes the cake for his frankly bizarre, detached and 'there's a gun to my head' skits too.

Surely there was somebody better for this role than him? A potted plant might've sufficed.