10 WrestleMania Matches History Deprived Us Of (That Weren't Actually Impossible)
7. Kevin Owens Vs. Sami Zayn - WrestleMania 32
Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn's late spring rivalry delivered big between the ropes, but their years-long tension, carried over from WWE development territories both unofficial (PWG, ROH) and official (NXT), deserved a far grander stage than Battleground - and the grandest one might have excused that (still awesome) bout's more indulgent, content-heavy approach.
Instead, Zayn and Owens had to settle for a subplot in an ultimately meaningless multi-man ladder match, won by Zack Ryder to spike social media traffic. Ryder had taken a photograph with new Intercontinental Champion Razor Ramon at WrestleMania X, the dynamic of which was subverted twenty two years later for the sake of a brief Twitter trend.
WWE was acting in a short-sighted vein, even by their standards.
Carelessly tossing midcard acts into multi-man ladder matches and battle royals come springtime just reinforces to casual fans that the new crop of wrestlers are unimportant, interchangeable.
Showcasing the new guard in a state-of-the-art match, one the knowledgeable fans in attendance would have received with both emotion and awe, might have convinced some of the casuals that wrestling isn't just an annual one night stand.