9. Not Having Rock/Hogan Go On Last At WrestleMania
WrestleMania 18 must be one of the most disappointing in WWE history. Considering the talent at the company's disposal, the card was relatively week and the creative uninspired (Edge and Booker T fighting over a Japanese shampoo commercial?). At least the card had one true WM-calibre 'dream match' - The Rock versus Hollywood Hulk Hogan. Billed as Icon vs. Icon, Rock and Hogan was a match with unequalled star power.The crowd reaction to their match, which wasn't anything special from a technical standpoint, was incredible. No need to trade suplexes and other high spots, The Great One and the Immortal Hulk Hogan had the 68,237 in attendance gripped from their opening stare-down. Rock versus Hogan was billed high up the card, going on third from last (with the poor Women's Title match acting as an obvious cool down before the main event) but, really, it should have closed the show. Nothing could equal it in terms of spectacle and the crowd were totally burned out afterwards. The upshot was that the reaction to Triple H and Chris Jericho's Undisputed Title match paled in comparison. The Toronto faithful were eerily quiet as Y2J and The Game battled for the most important prize in the company (supposedly). That their match was a let-down from an in-ring standpoint didn't help, either. Jericho, Triple H and others have since come out and said that The Rock and Hogan should have went on last. How they didn't see it at the time is beyond me...(although, in fairness, Jericho did).
