10 Things WWE Regrets About WrestleMania

10. Celebrity Stunt Shows

Butterbean, Bart Gunn, Brawl For All
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For every shock feat like Bam Bam Bigelow pulling a worthwhile match out of New York Giants' linebacker Lawrence Taylor at WrestleMania XI, there's a miserable spectacle like 'Mania XV's dreary 'Brawl For All' nonsense or Mr. T and Roddy Piper unconvincingly working a boxing match at 'Mania 2.

These stunt shows were ill-advised at best and flat out awful in execution.

Akebono's sumo contest with Big Show was similarly bad (who really thought the world needed to see Show in a thong?), but at least all of the above had something in common: they were promoted as physical competition. Therefore, it's almost excusable to put them on the card. The same can't be said for those damn musical interludes.

Kid Rock, Pitbull, Machine Gun Kelly, Flo Rida and more have gobbled up valuable minutes on the biggest show of the year by playing mini-concerts nobody asked for. If WWE looked back on history, they'd see that these were a total waste of time.

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