10 Worst WWE Roads To WWE WrestleMania

SequelMania, as it was nicknamed with nothing in the way of affection, WrestleMania XXIX was lacking almost entirely in imagination.

CM Punk had turned heel half a year earlier purely to give John Cena an opponent to face in the summer. Punk also conveniently acted as a Royal Rumble sparring partner for The Rock ahead of his rematch with him. His arms were evidently long enough to box with God; Rock defeated him, as confirmed by his pre-match promo. He referenced his mother's battle with cancer. He was never going to lose after that.

As if the rematch wasn't obvious enough well before 2012 drew to a close, it was set in stone when John Cena won the Royal Rumble match before the title match took place. It was another indictment of WWE's part-timer era. The Rock acted like a man of the people, criticising the "misery" of CM Punk's epic title reign. But he wasn't there. How would he know? The whole Dusty Rhodes reach-out-and-touch-my-hand schtick was dissonant. He withdrew his the second he left New Jersey.

It wasn't the only rematch scheduled for the Show of Shows. Even fewer people wished to see Triple H even the score with Brock Lesnar - the crickets which sounded after his SummerSlam 2012 retirement tease all but confirmed that. And yet, we got it anyway. Sure enough, the interminable match was received with even less noise. There were moments in which only absolute silence could be heard. It might as well have been fought at the outer reaches of space.

At least then, Triple H's big head would have exploded.