10 Worst WWE Set Designs

4. WrestleMania 32

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WrestleMania 32 was cumbersome, unnecessarily big and pretty f*cking boring. So too was its set.

The Dallas iconography was on point and in keeping with the sheer size and scale of AT&T Stadium, but a great big star for the stage and logo housed immediately above it was about as uninspiring as the card itself.

WWE had literally never had so much space to play with. Especially considering how artificially inflated the audience was - all the empty seats and this was the most the could be a*sed with? Perhaps they couldn't compete with the vastness of the venue itself - WWE's permanent return to stadiums over the last decade and a half has seen them challenge themselves with bigger and better setups with nearly every passing year.

It happened with ticket sales and perhaps the same could be said for the visuals - the former Cowboys Stadium was possibly a location simply too grand for their fanciful designs.

 
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