10 Pay-Per-View Main Events WWE Could Actually Call The Worst EVER

8. Brock Lesnar Vs Roman Reigns (WrestleMania 34)

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It didn't really matter what Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar did to one another at WrestleMania 34 thanks to boos, beachballs and boredom buried within the audience just waiting to explode. That was the brutal truth about the issue between them and WWE's distaste for both of them, rather than the kayfabe one the company had limply tried to establish.

And what a ludicrous and stupid story it was.

After a year of beating everybody - everybody - with a single F5, Lesnar delivered so many to 'The Big Dog' that finishing moves as we once knew them were lost to grainy Network archive footage. Designed around triggering the biggest reactions from crowds and teasing conclusions, the F5s failed at both. And they failed over, and over and over again.

The two weren't doing anything outwardly bad, but the New Orleans faithful let their emotions flow like Roman's claret. His blood only only boiled theirs, resulting in the audience missing Lesnar's win assuming it wasn't likely to come. They weren't prepared to go looking for it.

One had to wonder how Roman felt as Lesnar dragged a jagged arm across his head for the supposedly "safe" gash at the contest's pathetically misunderstood "climax". Especially when no comeback of significance was permitted before the winning fall like the result remotely mattered. Stone Cold Steve Austin's changing the course of the entire industry at WrestleMania 13, this - unsurprisingly - was not.

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation over 7 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 30 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz", Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 50,000,000 total downloads. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett