10 Most Disappointing WWE Moments Of 2016

The entire wrestling year revolves around WrestleMania. It’s not only WWE’s biggest show, but the company’s most important. This is the season finale, the huge moment that everything else leads up to, and when it doesn’t deliver, it sets a damning tone for the year as a whole.

This year’s WrestleMania won’t go down as one of the worst of all-time, but it was a turgid, lifeless event and a chore to get through. It did nothing to get wrestling fans excited for the rest of the year, and while there were a handful of decent matches, ‘Mania 32 was a big disappointment.

The Triple Threat for the rebranded Women’s Championship was a highlight, as was the customary Intercontinental Title Ladder Match. Nothing else stood-out, however, and though matches like Chris Jericho vs. AJ Styles and Brock Lesnar vs. Dean Ambrose fell way short of expectations, worse was yet to come.

Shane McMahon pulled-off an incredible dive in his Hell In A Cell match against The Undertaker, but it was a criminally long and uneventful match until that point. The Rock squashing Erick Rowan in six seconds did absolutely nothing for anyone, meanwhile, and the 27-minute main event between Triple H and Roman Reigns is a certified insomnia cure, and a complete waste of time given the outcome’s predictability.

WrestleMania 32 was an absolute chore to get through. It wasn’t wholly bad, but fans have come to expect so much more from WWE’s marquee event. There was almost nothing to get excited about at this year’s ‘Mania: here’s hoping WWE have learned from their mistakes, and 33 is a barnburner.