10 Awesome Wrestlers With Surprisingly Bad WrestleMania Records
4. Booker T (1-5)
Booker T was comfortably the biggest name WWE were able to acquire for the Invasion angle. While the likes of Hulk Hogan and Goldberg opted the stay at home and wait out their bloated WCW contracts, Booker helped lead a lowly Alliance group through the ill-fated angle. He wasn’t booked particularly well through the Invasion itself, but Booker did eventually become a big WWE star in his own right, and eventually retired with a World Heavyweight Championship run to his name.
At WrestleMania, however, Book was a disaster. His first appearance came through a quick loss to Edge at X8, and he lost a World Heavyweight Title match to Triple H (that he probably should have won) the following year. He was slightly more successful at WrestleMania XX, where he and Rob Van Dam successfully defended their tag team titles against three other teams, but it was all downhill from there.
At 22, Booker and his wife, Sharmell, lost to The Boogeyman. He was unsuccessful in the following year’s Money In The Bank Ladder Match, and at WrestleMania XXVIII, Booker signed-off on his ‘Mania career by sitting on the loser’s side in the Team Johnny vs. Team Teddy 12-man tag team match.
The WrestleMania XIX loss was particularly damaging, as it came at the end of a feud that Triple H had dominated using thinly-veiled racial overtones. Winning there would have completely changed the complexion of Booker T’s WWE career (he had to wait a further four years to capture his first major championship), but it wasn’t to be.