Ranking EVERY WWE WrestleMania Main Event From Worst To Best
20. John Cena Vs The Rock (WrestleMania 28)
Long, laboured and ultimately one giant lie, the 'Once In A Lifetime' meeting between John Cena and The Rock was less failure and more flub as a year's worth of build culminated in annoyingly ordinary affair.
The Miami locals were ultimately kind to their returning hero, but an injury to 'The Great One' was just one of the underlying factors that hamstrung WWE's biggest box office main event ever. Drawing buys from 1,217,000 homes, WrestleMania 28 was an astronomical success, but the disappointing response to such enormous anticipation saw the following year's rematch lose nearly 200,000 purchases from that number.
An advert for the wrestler 'Big Match John' hadn't yet become, the contest didn't inspire a reaction in the audience between bookending roars for the opening and closing moments. Finisher trades late on inspired a better sequel, but little else within the match gave anybody a reason to ever revisit it.