14 Times Really Weird Sh*t Went Down At WrestleMania 32
6. I Come To Bury You And To Praise You, I Think
In the penultimate segment of the night, The Rock appeared flanked by a dozen or so cheerleaders, set fire to a model of his own name with a giant flamethrower, and then announced to the people in attendance how many of them there were.
Suddenly, a wild Wyatt appeared! Accompanied by Erick Rowan and Braun Strowman, Bray Wyatt came to the ring to challenge or threaten The Rock for giving people hope or something like that. The Rock was as confused as the crowd. In fact more so, given that he couldn’t make up his mind whether he was there to put Wyatt over or to run his usual childish takedown promo and bury the man.
He’d end up taking on the Lesser Of Three Wyatts, Erick Rowan in an actual impromptu ‘match’ that literally only lasted six seconds, ripping off his leisurewear to reveal ring gear underneath. As an aside, I love the idea of The Rock always wearing his skimpy wrestling gear under his clothes like some kind of kinky superhero.
Was this lightning fast match purely intended to expunge Daniel Bryan’s record-setting 18 second loss after his heartbreaking retirement last February? Who’s to say… whatever the case, the preceding promo was an odd mixture of respect and contempt, as though The Rock was juggling performing a standard crowd-pleasing Rock promo with trying not to completely bury the talent in the ring with him.
If that's what he was attempting, he failed: all three Wyatts looked like clownshoes. What's more, he drove the show off a cliff. There was no rise in the crowd's flagging spirits before the doomed main event. If anything, they sagged still further - and a returning John Cena, there to save The Rock from a post-match Wyatt Family beatdown, didn't help matters.