9 WWE Matches That Fell Apart On Live TV
8. Brock Lesnar Vs Roman Reigns (WrestleMania 34)
The WrestleMania main event. Unequivocally the biggest match in all of wrestling, and that's exactly how WWE want it. The biggest company puts on the biggest show and yada yada at this point you get the deal even when WWE seemingly didn't.
Vince McMahon was failing at the creative side of his job so spectacularly that a top babyface had a push laying in ruins, a top heel got cheered throughout a complete bludgeoning, and the WrestleMania main event itself was - rather than being the aforementioned highest level - becoming the most poisoned chalice in the entire industry.
Roman Reigns was a babyface so loathed that fans loudly and angrily protested his attempts to end the tyranny of Brock Lesnar. 'The Beast' really did have a stranglehold on the Universal Title from the comfort of his part time schedule, but this was the extent to which audiences were prepared to reject 'The Big Dog' in his latest attempt to end it. A comical amount of F5s couldn't end it. A shoot bloodletting couldn't end it. One last F5 did end it - itself a hilariously poor finish in the circumstances - bit the disparate state of things across the board highlighted that this was just the start of the company's most wretched era yet.
How could it feel like the end of anything anyway? Neither man was going anywhere. It's not as if you could market this as the retirement of your biggest star...