Ranking All 35 WWE WrestleManias From Worst To Best
21. WrestleMania X8
On paper, the 2002 edition of WrestleMania should have ruled
six ways to Sunday.
Instead, we got a piddling, middling Mania that underperformed at nearly every turn. Booker T and Edge feuded over shampoo, Scott Hall stunk up the joint with Steve Austin, Ric Flair got owned by Undertaker, and Kurt Angle had an average match against Kane.
Worst of all, the main event wasn’t the real main event.
Triple H garnered a questionable slot at the top of the card (get used to that), facing Chris Jericho in a match where the ending was obvious to everyone with a pulse. And even excusing that, they didn’t deliver a good match. The saving grace, of course, was The Rock versus Hollywood Hogan in a battle that exceeded the wildest expectations. It wasn’t a technical masterpiece by any stretch, but man was it electric in Toronto for that match.
Beside the Rock/Hogan match, it’s worth fast-forwarding to Arn Anderson’s perfectly timed spinebuster during the Flair/Taker match. Otherwise, there isn’t a ton to really rave about.