10 Bad WWE Matches From Great WrestleManias
7. Triple H Vs. Booker T (WrestleMania XIX)
This match isn't necessarily "bad" as a whole, but the ending sure as hell was.
Triple H's implicit racism towards Booker T throughout their 2003 feud created what many believed to be the perfect foundation for Booker's Cinderella Story to come true at WrestleMania XIX. Unfortunately, in what was perhaps the most despicable example of Triple H's fondness for burying hot talent, The Game successfully defended his championship against the former five-time WCW Champion after taking 23 full seconds to pin him following a Pedigree.
Aside from being an unlikely way to close the match, this ending has reflected very poorly on The Cerebral Assassin ever since. Booker T was only one of many casualties from Triple H's so-called "Reign of Terror," which saw him put a stranglehold on the World Heavyweight Championship for the better part of three years. But out of all of them, from Rob Van Dam to Kane to Goldberg to Scott Steiner (well, okay, Triple H wasn't the one who made him look bad), Booker's loss to Triple H felt the most damaging.
He did finally get a run with the Big Gold Belt three years later as KING BOOKAH, but this loss still stings years later.