10 WWE WrestleMania Matches That Had To Follow Something Infamously Terrible

3. The Women's Battle Royal Following The Kid Rock Medley (WrestleMania XXV)

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G*ddamn Kid Rock and g*ddamn Kevin Dunn while we're taking names in vain anyway.

His horribly misjudged medley at WrestleMania XXV would have been rotten enough had it just been a slightly drab interruption such as the weird Drowning Pool number or WrestleMania X8 or weirder still Run-DMC performance at WrestleMania V. It was overlong and deeply unwelcome before the reality set in that this was the entrance music for ever entrant in the Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal.

Spitting out his (s)hit "So Hott", Rock was cavorted on by the sea of entrants dancing and jigging their way to the ring in order to obscure Santino Marella in drag on his way to to the ring.

"It's Sunny I feel sorry for" sounds like the sort of sentiment a liberal grandparent might share when reviewing the post-WWE trajectory of the 'Golden Haired Fox', but it was impossible not be sympathetic. Buzzing to be back in the brightest possible spotlight, her solitary moment was lost to this vapid display of outdated chauvinism masquerading as a "tribute".

This was, perhaps, the lowest ebb. And then the bell rang...

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