10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About WrestleMania 38

8. The Broken Mousetrap

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"Sami Zayn Forever" was adorned on the side of the former Intercontinental Champion's tights during his feud with Johnny Knoxville, but it served as much as a tribute to himself as it did the Jackass franchise.

Zayn was awesome as a Sports Entertainment general for the duration of the programme, but never more was this needed and necessary than in their ludicrous plunder brawl on 'The Grandest Stage'.

Relying heavily on Jackass-inspired props (exactly as it should have done), the match was carefully split into sections guided by Zayn in order to help Knoxville and his pals navigate through the madness. A mousetrap table didn't cause quite the expected agony, but it needed to exist in order for the grander payoff to make sense.

Regrettably, it still actually had to function, and that's where a match constantly threatening to fall apart actually did. The broken prop didn't offer any snap, nor place any believable weight across Zayn's chest for the deciding fall. There were worse contexts for something to look hokey, but it was a less-than-ideal ending to something that otherwise ended up with an unexpected charm.

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