10 Things I Hate About WrestleMania
3. They Have A History Of Screwing Up The Main Event
Actually, that last quibble has teeth. WWEs track record at booking their WrestleMania main event is 50/50 at best (ironic, given that 50/50 is the booking style they favour these days).
Now, there's no such thing as a multiple main event, no matter what WWE tries to have us believe. The last match on the card is the main event. Everyone knows that. With that in mind, WrestleMania has a significant history of blowing that main event over and over again.
Cena vs. Miz at WrestleMania XXVII was just a glorified teaser for the WrestleMania XXVIII main event of Cena vs. The Rock, and everybody wanted to see Hogan vs. Flair at WrestleMania 8, not Hogan vs. Sid.
At WrestleMania 21, the overweening quality of the Undertaker vs. Orton and Angle vs. Michaels bouts ruined the crowd for the slower, more pedestrian championship matches with the Cena vs. JBL and Triple H vs. Batista at the top of the card.
Similarly, even if Triple H and Stephanie McMahon hadnt thoroughly emasculated Y2J leading up to it, their main event match at WrestleMania X8 wasnt ever going to hold a candle to Hogan vs. The Rock earlier on the same card. It was the event match of the year.
Austin vs. The Rock III at WrestleMania XIX went on second to last when it was clearly likely to be Austin's last WrestleMania match as a competitor. In the absence of that match Lesnar vs. Angle was a fine main event (botched shooting star press notwithstanding), but this was the last hurrah of the Attitude Era, and a grace note to Austin's career. It should have headlined the show.
Want more? Everyone could tell a month in advance that Undertaker vs. Michaels should have headlined WrestleMania XXV. Just as had happened at WrestleMania 21, the matches that had to follow it (Cena vs. Edge vs. Big Show and Triple H vs. Orton) played to an exhausted crowd.
This massive error in judgment was corrected the following year, when - with Michaels' career on the line - the rematch headlined the show.
Finally, the whole card was horribly overbooked at WrestleMania 2000, no match more so that the four-way main event, in which each wrestler represented a McMahon, making eight separate agendas in one match. Oh, and the most hated heel in the company won this massive clusterf***.
Ill give you three guesses who that was...