35 Years Of WWE WrestleMania Mistakes

4. WrestleMania 32 - Where To Start?

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Though the general in-ring action at Dallas' record-breaking WrestleMania 32 was largely fine, even great in places, the card was blighted from top to bottom by booking though not quite Russo-esque, at the very least Nashist.

We saw AJ Styles inexplicably lose his WrestleMania bow against Chris Jericho, who in advance of his revivifying programme alongside Kevin Owens was as washed-up as sea kelp. A tag title match for the super-hot New Day was nixed so their opponents could put over a trio of legends instead, in an angle which helped precisely nobody (two of the heel team departed over the next 12 months). Baron Corbin succeeded in the André the Giant battle royal to the delight of precisely none of the (alleged) 90+ thousand people in attendance, and the Roman Reigns coronation was once more a failure.

One match took the proverbial biscuit ahead of them all though: Shane McMahon's baffling clash with The Undertaker. If WrestleMania 22 had seemed like a distressing waste of his talents, 32's role for 'The Deadman' was basically criminal. With perhaps just a couple of major matches left in him, 'Taker was squandered on a non-wrestler, in a backwardly-booked feud ultimately designed around a middle-aged man jumping off a cage. Still, at least WWE wouldn't recklessly throw away a talented wrestler on Shane again the following ye... oh.

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