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

10. Bray Wyatt Vs. Randy Orton - WrestleMania 33

Don’t even think about the bugs on the mat. Don’t even waste your time remembering and complaining about those projections, or laughing at the gigantic sperm that followed Randy Orton down to the ring, or the maggots, or anything else. Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania 33 has gone down in history as an awful match, but the reasons are largely overblown.

Take the graphics and the nonsense away and you have one of the most disappointing bouts in WrestleMania history. It is easy to forget that Orton and Wyatt had actually been feuding for months, with a story that had gone down a number of alleys and actually been kinda fantastic at times. Orton had joined forces with Wyatt and Luke Harper, leading to suspicion on the latter’s behalf, and the new Wyatt Family had actually been quite the dominant force in WWE. All was going smoothly until Orton burned down Wyatt’s shack (or something like that), although that angle was also celebrated at the time.

WrestleMania 33 should have been the beginning of babyface Bray Wyatt, as the WWE Champion defended his championship and the honour of his muse against the nefarious Orton. Instead, we got a drudge of a match that didn’t even bother to look at second gear, with a depressingly predictable outcome and work that was arguably supposed to play down enjoyment. Utterly shambolic.