10 Worst Booked Dream Matches
2. Daniel Bryan's WrestleMania Main Event (WrestleMania XXX)
WWE don't deserve the time and space they'll get to suggest that everything that happened between SummerSlam 2013 and WrestleMania XXX was carefully crafted storytelling designed to tug at the heartstrings of the nascent "Yes Movement" and deliver the best possible payoff at the exact right moment.
History is written by the winners, and we can only one day hope the man that won the main event definitively catalogues what a f*cking pain in the a*se it was to try and get to the top of your profession despite audiences already deigning you more than worthy of the spot.
Dragged out over several torturous months and nearly as many torturous matches with Randy Orton, Daniel Bryan's journey to WrestleMania glory was needlessly angst-ridden in all the worst ways. His stupid matches with 'The Apex Predator' devalued the belt. The stupid inclusion of The Big Show threatened to devalue the "Yes" chant. Being forced to abort a side project with The Wyatt Family devalued Bray. Not booking him to win the Royal Rumble devalued Rey Mysterio. These are not successful chapter points in the DVD menu of this wretched tale.
In fact, the only one that upped anybody's stock will never be seen. Had CM Punk never left, Bryan would have surely been beating Sheamus in the midcard. With no disrespect intended to the 'Celtic Warrior', that may well have killed the card long before Brock Lesnar killed The Undertaker's streak.