33 WWE WrestleMania Opening Matches Ranked From Worst To Best

26. Battle Royal - WrestleMania IV

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When one of the participants - Reymond Rougeau - completely no-sells being eliminated, you know you're watching something particularly inconsequential.

And, since this is a 1980s Battle Royal, you know you're watching something particularly basic. Still, it was not completely without merit. Harley Race took a wicked bump to the outside. To underscore his inherent magnetism, the Junkyard Dog awoke the stiffs populating the Trump Plaza with his headbutt routine. And, in a choice finishing sequence, Bad News Brown turned on his partner in crime Bret Hart to take home a trophy even Pete Rosenberg wouldn't mark out at the sight of in the WWE warehouse.

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