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19. Payback > WrestleMania?

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It's widely agreed that this year's WrestleMania was one of the weakest of the last few years (or arguably ever), with decent wrestling being undermined by horrendous booking choices at every turn.

Payback may have suffered similar issues, with 50/50 booking and shock value endings done solely to annoy fans, but at least we got a mostly-entertaining main event and a killer bout between Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens.

In short, even though WrestleMania had the freaking Rock show up, Payback still had a more consistent entertainment value, and wasn't booked quite as blatantly with the intent to enrage fans.

If Mania made us think Vince genuinely hates us, Payback downgraded it to a more general dislike.

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