Ranking All 35 WWE WrestleManias From Worst To Best

20. WrestleMania 29

The Undertaker Triple H
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This was the PPV that turned “Once in a Lifetime” from the previous year into a bald-faced lie.

WWE went back to the well after a hugely successful John Cena/Rock match to force a contrived rematch for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 29 in a match that couldn’t live up to expectations or the previous year’s version. The main event wasn’t bad, but it didn’t match up to the previous year.

Then you had Triple H defeating Brock Lesnar to stave off retirement. People tend to forget, but the early years of Brock’s second WWE run was nearly killed off by early losses to Cena and Hunter that were just baffling in all respects. But hey, we’re not the billionaire wrestling promoters.

Mania 29 did give us a classic Undertaker/CM Punk, as well as The Shield and Team Hell No in separate tag matches, so it wasn’t all bad. But yeah, it’s still in the bottom half of the lot.

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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.