10 WWE WrestleMania Matches That Failed To Live Up To The Hype

WrestleMania is the grandest stage of them all, but sometimes the pressure is a little too much.

by John Bills
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Despite WWE’s current creative malaise, WrestleMania remains the biggest stage in professional wrestling. The company has well and truly driven ‘WrestleMania Moments’ into the ground but the springtime event is the childhood dream, the most important show of the year and a veritable pilgrimage for pro wrestling fans from across the world.

The hottest feuds and the biggest storylines traditionally pay off at Mania, but this doesn’t always lead to fireworks and history being made. Pro wrestling is performance art after all, and sometimes human beings aren’t quite able to match expectations, build-up, and excitement. Sometimes, it just doesn’t live up to the hype.

Not all of these matches were necessarily bad, although some of them certainly can’t be stowed away in the ‘good’ category. The problem was as much expectation as reality, as much about the hopes of fans as the struggles of the performers on that most pressured of stages. Take solace in the number of Hall of Fame performers included, that’s for sure.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.