10 WWE WrestleMania Matches That Infuriated The Fans

by John Bills

1. Brock Lesnar Vs. Roman Reigns

Lesnar Reigns
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In the not too distant future, entire books will be written that focus only on the saga of Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns. WWE’s obsession with crowning Reigns on the biggest stage has bloated beyond parody, offering diminishing returns with every passing year. Reigns beat Triple H at WrestleMania 32, nobody cared. Then he beat The Undertaker at WrestleMania 33, but still, nobody cared.

For WrestleMania 34, Vince McMahon had a bigger plan. Brock Lesnar was going to carry the Universal Championship for, well, forever, becoming ever more hated along the way. A variety of challengers stepped to the plate, only for Lesnar to defeat them after hitting just one F-5. All of this was to build to Reigns overcoming the odds at WM34.

And so it came to pass, except not quite. Lesnar smashed Reigns all over the place, hitting suplexes and F-5s with gay abandon, hitting six of the latter before defeating The Big Dog. Yes, WWE built up this moment for an entire year, only to just have Lesnar win anyway.

The fans quite rightly revolted against the match, showing way more interest in crowd fights and beach balls than the hugely physical contest going on inside the ring. Never in WrestleMania history has a crowd so comprehensively turned its back on a match, let alone the main event for a top championship.

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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.