10 WWE WrestleMania Matches That Infuriated The Fans

9. Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal - WrestleMania XXV

Santina Marella
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By the time WrestleMania XXV came around, WWE had largely given up on women’s wrestling as a serious athletic attraction. The company was one year away from merging the Women’s and Divas championships, but both titles were conspicuous by their absences on the WMXXV card. If you can name either champion going into the show, you should probably go outside and get some sunshine, although be sure to make it part of your state-mandated one piece of daily exercise.

The only women’s match on the WrestleMania XXV card was a battle royal, ostensibly to crown the very first ‘Miss WrestleMania’. Better to be Miss WrestleMania than to miss WrestleMania, right? Well, in the case of this shambles, most performers might have been better off missing the show entirely. No one received an entrance, as all the competitors walked to the ring as Kid Rock spewed out another abomination in the background.

The match itself was one of the worst in WrestleMania history, a shambolic battle royal that wasn’t helped by announcer apathy and the clear presence of Santino Marella in the middle of it all. Sorry, Santina Marella. Of course, he won, because this was peak ‘WWE sees women as eye candy and comedy’.

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