10 Bad WWE Pay-Per-Views One Tweak Away From Excellence

8. WrestleMania IV

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Why it's bad: WrestleMania IV births the start of one of the biggest and most commercially and creatively successful angles in company history in crowning Macho Man Randy Savage as the brand new WWE Champion, but fans almost had to work as hard as the new titleholder himself just to get to the event's thrilling climax.

Long long long and dull dull dull, this one's a slog even for those watching through the rose-tint of 1980s nostalgia.

One Tweak: Clean it all up!

Nothing can be done with the funeral atmosphere within Trump Plaza nor the fact that the card has a lot of filler due to the 14-man WWE Championship tournament, but at very least offer a few less f*ck finishes (or finishes at all) to make it worth everybody's while.

On a 16 match card, six of the matches don't have clean finishes, and three that do are cheapened by interference. Despite all the intended prestige and pomp of the event, a lot of it feels increasingly dirty.

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