7 Most Infuriating Last Minute WWE PPV Changes

3. Vince Whimsically Decides To End The Streak - WrestleMania XXX

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Speaking personally for a brief moment, having attended WrestleMania XXX, I denied how harebrained a decision this was.

It made little sense to bestow a rising star like Bray Wyatt with the nod. It wasn't too long ago that Mr. Kennedy was considered the future of the wrestling business. Things change. Conversely, unless John Cena was in the process of turning heel, he wouldn't have benefited from breaking the vaunted Streak.

WWE were crafting a peculiar brand of postmodern storytelling in 2014. Daniel Bryan was verbally buried throughout the same storyline which saw him ascend to the top of the card under some duress. Lesnar's victory would see him reach unprecedented levels of meta monster heeldom. Fans would reject his victory - and demand vengeance - precisely because he was perceived to be undeserving of it.

His status as a mercenary would have augmented him with nuclear heat with which to transfer to someone like Roman Reigns. Reigns would have beaten the 1 in 21 and 1 but without incurring the ire of the fans who'd grown sentimentally attached to the streak.

In retrospect, this was nonsense. Lesnar was too incredible a spectacle to truly boo, he hadn't committed to WWE in the long term, and despite Paul Heyman's best efforts, his protracted absence from WWE TV cooled his momentum.

The decision to end the Streak should not have been taken mere hours before the event; a decision of such magnitude should have been taken with the utmost care - or not taken at all.

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