14 Times Really Weird Sh*t Went Down At WrestleMania 32

7. Thank God For Celebrities

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Every WrestleMania has to include at least one celebrity appearance for no real reason other than their celebrity. It’s a central tenet of the show: back in the first year or two, it’s all that separated it from Starrcade.

This year, the celebrity in question (aside from Snoop Dogg, who so convincingly murdered Sasha Banks’ theme tune that he actually took the shine off his cousin’s entrance) was retired basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, who was there to riff off his storied rivalry with the Big Show.

You know, dating back to that episode of RAW back in 2009 where he knocked him down. I think there was glaring then, too. Come on, you must remember.

Crowd favourite Damien Sandow was the poor sap there to be eliminated from the match by Shaq and Show. The two giants were then eliminated by a concerted effort from the remaining sixteen men, taking the confrontation nowhere.

That seemed to be the theme of a lot of the matches and angles on display at WrestleMania 32: they meant nothing, and/or they went nowhere.

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