5 Opening WrestleMania Matches That Ruled (And 5 That Sucked)

4. Tag Team Battle Royal - WrestleMania XIV

Don't you just love those battle royals full of way too many guys you don't even care about? The WrestleMania XIV opener was a fifteen-team affair full of no-hopers like the New Midnight Express, the Headbangers, Too Much, The Rock and Roll Express, Steve Blackman and Flash Funk, the DOA and oh God there were so many crappy teams in this match. It also featured the return of the ultra-over Road Warriors as LOD 2000, complete with new craptastic entrance gear (which took them about five whole minutes to take off) and Sunny as a manager. Supposedly, Sunny was lumped with them as a way to get her on the show so that her backstage rival, Sable, wouldn't be the only one with a 'Mania appearance. The 'action' consisted mainly of kicking, punching, throwing over the top rope, punching, stalling, choking, punching and kicking and throwing and lying around. It was, shall we say, less than inspired. The inevitable LOD win was about as obvious as Tammy Sytch getting a DUI, too. Seriously, no other team could have possibly won the thing. The whole thing lasted nearly ten full minutes. Triple H versus Owen Hart or Aguila versus TAKA Michinoku, which took place later on the card, would have been so much better in the opening slot.