8 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 31

5. Big Buzzkill

It€™s tough to have hate for the Big Show, who by all means seems to be a decent human being. But as a character, Big Show is the absolute worst. His constant face-heel turns and poor booking has left him as a larger version of X-Pac €“ fans find it hard to care or get invested in him as a performer. So it€™s only natural that Big Show wins the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. While it€™s a career achievement for the 20-year veteran, it€™s the manner in which Show did it that was so insanely frustrating. In the span of the match, Big Show eliminated Hideo Itami, Cesaro, Ryback and Damien Mizdow, all crowd favorites who really were the only ones in the match fans truly were invested in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2YZyivfgfY It€™s as if Vince McMahon was reading Twitter and wrestling websites all week, figured out who the fans really like and then had his biggest heat vacuum eliminate all of them.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.