33 WWE WrestleMania Opening Matches Ranked From Worst To Best

4. Money In The Bank Ladder Match - WrestleMania 23

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Stephanie McMahon tends to sell only at WrestleMania, as if one measly table spot somehow excuses 364 days' worth of dire dominance. As if to underscore the folly of this trope, she stole it wholesale from bloody Hornswoggle, whose own one-blackly-comical-bump per year hardly obscures his legacy as a terrible character. Here, 'Swoggle, in a moment of involuntary hilarity, was driven from ladder to canvas by Mr. Kennedy's Green Bay Plunge.

This underscores also the expansive palette of a match some write off as one-note fun; ranging from hilarious to borderline disgusting, in Jeff Hardy's near unwatchable famous leg drop spot, this was a blast with brains.

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