10 Wrestlers Who Didn’t Deserve To Be On WWE PPV Posters

3. Booker T – WrestleMania 22

This poster’s notoriously bad. For its simplistic image and choice of Superstars together it doesn’t warrant being a poster for a house show, never mind to promote ‘The Grandest Stage of Them All’. It features an image of John Cena planting Booker T with a running one-handed bulldog. Why? That remains a mystery. Cena and Booker T weren’t feuding at the time or even on the same brand.

WWE.com actually went so far themselves as listing this poster number 4 in their ‘10 Absolute Worst Pay-Per-View posters ever’ list, ahead of the atrocities they used in WCW for SuperBrawl 2000 and Great American Bash 2000. WWE.com wrote regarding the poster for WrestleMania 22: ‘In 2006, The Show of Shows returned to Chicago — one of wrestling’s greatest cities — in a show that certainly was “Big Time.” But one thing didn’t feel “Big Time,” and that was the poster.’

Booker T has to be singled out through no fault of his own for not belonging on the poster for doing nothing of consequence on the show itself, getting squashed and embarrassed in an Intergender Handicap match with The Boogeyman. If WWE were going to use an old photo they could have at least used one with Cena and Triple H, given they headlined the event for the WWE title. Or have put Rey Mysterio front and centre who won that year’s Royal Rumble and was undergoing the biggest push of his career at the time.