10 Perfectly Over-Booked Wrestling Trainwrecks
5. Sting Vs. Triple H (WrestleMania 31)
Sting vs. Triple H at WrestleMania 31 doesn't conjure great memories for most fans. 'The Game's' victory was egregious, and a gross misuse of his opponent's long-awaited WWE debut, with the outcome reeking of the McMahons' desperation to deliver one last 'f*** you' to WCW's festering corpse. Reducing the bout to complaints about its outcome is totally joyless, though, and swerves everything great about this so-bad-it's-good clash.
The action up to the halfway mark was as pedestrian as you'd expect, but things heated up when Sting trapped Triple H in a Scorpion Death Lock. Out came the elderly Billy Gunn, Road Dogg, and X-Pac, each in varying states of decay (and male pattern baldness). D-Generation X took control, but the New World Order's music hit, and the match became a full on dad-fest.
A hilariously sluggish brawl followed, with Scot Hall somehow consenting to a back body drop on the outside, before Shawn Michaels arrived, taking Sting out.
Seven interferences later, the match boiled down to a sledgehammer-wielding 'Game' and his opponent, who snapped the weapon with his signature baseball bat. The car crash eventually came to an end as Hunter blasted Sting with the hammer's remains for the 1-2-3, much to the chagrin of anyone taking it too seriously.