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00:00 It's been said before, by me no less, so you know this is right, that the main event

00:03 of WrestleMania is the most important wrestling match of the year. No other match is tasked

00:08 with making as much money, compelling as many pay-per-view purchases, or getting as many

00:11 people from as many different places into one building. You could argue that over the

00:15 years the WrestleMania experience as a whole has become more of a draw than any single

00:19 match, but you wouldn't know from how WWE are treating this year's main event of night

00:23 two has a lot going on. Reigns vs Lesnar 3, Title vs Title, Winner Take All, Winner Take

00:29 Paul, Tribe vs Ponytail, God vs Titan, and I'm pretty sure the loser will be taken out

00:35 back at the AT&T Stadium and shot. I think it's in the contract. And by right, it should

00:39 be very good. Because ever since Mania went to two nights, all the main events have been

00:43 stellar. Boneyard, McIntyre Brock, Belair Banks, Edge, Brian Reigns, which got us thinking

00:47 about all those times when the biggest and most important wrestling match of the year

00:52 has been a bit...pants. I'm Adam Hailing from PartsFunKnown and here are 10 Worst WrestleMania

00:57 Main Events Ever. So here's a little trade secret for you.

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02:30 10. Undertaker vs. Roman Reigns - WrestleMania 33

02:34 This probably wouldn't be on the list if Undertaker had left his dirty laundry in the

02:38 ring for his fiend mom to pick up and then actually retire from wrestling. This would

02:42 have given the match an emotional weight that would have papered over some of the, how to

02:45 put this, sadder portions of this match. But now that Undertaker has wrestled other matches

02:50 and actually released a documentary about how disappointed he was in his intended farewell

02:54 match against the big dog, that's given us free reign to point at it and say, yeah,

02:58 s*** that. Undertaker spent most of the match wandering around like he'd lost his keys.

03:03 It was glacially paced, clocking in at a ludicrous 25 minutes, and each blown spot just makes

03:08 your soul feel that little bit smaller. The end of a WrestleMania main event shouldn't

03:13 make you feel relieved it was over. No matter how much we love the devil's favourite demon's

03:17 favourite brother.

03:18 9. Triple H vs Randy Orton - WrestleMania 25 We spoke about this match last week so

03:23 I won't go on about it too much, but yeah, could have been everything there. So white

03:26 hot feud, two guys in their prime, full of familial rage. Should have been a big, horrible,

03:31 violent spot fest. Instead, WWE tried to go a bit clever with it, implementing the rule

03:35 of Trips got DQD to lose the title because that's exactly what you want to blow off

03:39 a feud featuring home invasions and loved ones being killed, with a match that centres

03:43 around the ref telling Triple H to "calm down big lad" following him around like a

03:47 concerned parent, reminding him not to play too rough with the other boys. Thrilling stuff.

03:52 Also, the crowd was burned out from Taker HBK earlier, to the point where even Trips

03:55 and Orton busting out each other's finishes in the first few minutes couldn't spark a

03:59 reaction. Terribly booked, awkwardly placed on the card, the match never entered second

04:03 gear. So big moments, like Triple H catching Orton's leg mid punt, they barely raise a

04:08 murmur. "It's so awkward."

04:10 8. Triple H vs Chris Jericho - WrestleMania 18

04:13 Triple H has only main evented two WrestleManias as a babyface. This is the second one. It's

04:17 also bad. Sorry Triple H, please retweet for awareness. Similar problems plagued this match

04:21 between Trips and Y2J. Two legends had already provided an emotional main event a few matches

04:26 earlier and the booking also hamstrung how the match could be effectively agented. Rock

04:31 vs Hogan left the crowd poop from cheering, but also, WWE hadn't really booked a Triple

04:36 H vs Chris Jericho feud going into the event. They'd booked a Triple H vs Stephanie McMahon

04:41 feud, with the first ever Undisputed Champion perennially being the third most important

04:45 element at play. That meant when the actual match started and the heel took control, Jericho

04:50 didn't have enough credible heat on him to provide that extra juice a match needs to

04:54 draw the audience in for the big comeback. Also, the production of the match is so f***ing

04:58 weird. Triple H entered to a s*** drowning pool cover of his theme, and even worse, there

05:03 was no video package for the main event of WrestleMania. The year after My Way? What

05:08 the f*** are you playing at, WWE? The last reminder to the audience and crowd of why

05:13 they should care, and it's gone. Madness. And they really didn't care. And trust me,

05:17 the crowd really didn't care. Again, sorry Triple H.

05:20 #7 - Psycho Sid vs The Undertaker - WrestleMania 13

05:23 This was supposed to be Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels too, but that didn't work out because

05:27 it conflicted with Shawn's current position of being CEO of Prick Incorporated. Instead,

05:31 Bret contented himself with wrestling one of the best Mania matches of all time with

05:34 Steve Austin, leaving show-closing duties to WWF Champion Psycho Sid vs Hieronymus Bash.

05:46 In terms of work, it's a little bit like promising someone a Black Forest Gatto and then serving

05:50 them a plate of wet soil with a small flag planted in it and on the flag is written the

05:54 word 'sorry'. For starters, Bret interrupts the match to have a moan, and HBK is insufferable

06:00 on commentary, so we're constantly reminded of what the match could have been. There's

06:04 insanely long rest spots, almost no WrestleMania main events take place in front of a crowd

06:09 this quiet. They perk up for the final few spots, but for the longest time this match

06:13 appropriately dies a death.

06:15 #6 - Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar 2 - WrestleMania 34

06:18 Ah, the difficult second album, especially when one of the reasons people like the first

06:22 album isn't on the second album, and also the album is really boring and everyone hates

06:26 it and shouts so loud that you can't actually hear the album and that makes you hate it

06:30 even more. This metaphor got away from me a bit at the end there. Point is, at WrestleMania

06:34 31 Lesnar fought Reigns and everyone thought it would be terrible, but in actuality it

06:39 was great. They clobbered 7 bells out of each other. The audience turned Lesnar's super

06:43 baby face, so that gave us the match story, and then the shocking twist ending. Three

06:47 years later, Lesnar and Reigns met again and bloody hell, literally and proverbially. The

06:52 crowd were bored of Lesnar's finished spamming by this point, but still hated Reigns, leaving

06:56 them without a dog in the fight, pun definitely intended. Without the promise of a cash-in,

07:01 the crowd turned on the match and turned on it hard, and neither man could do much of

07:05 anything to bring them back, with each finisher and kick out compounding the frustration that

07:09 after three long years of the Roman experiment, nothing really had changed. I was saying Boo

07:16 Urns.

07:17 #5 - The Miz vs John Cena - WrestleMania 27

07:19 AKA that time that a main event of Raw main-evented WrestleMania. No number of expertly crafted

07:25 Hate Me Now video packages could elevate just how low-rent Mania 27's WWE Championship

07:29 match felt. Surprisingly, after spending the last four months booking Miz to look like

07:33 a joke champion, it did not create a trademark "big fight" feel when it came to Cena

07:37 running up on Miz for that title. Then the match ended by double countout, which left

07:41 everyone feeling confused and angry. Then The Rock came out. Then the anonymous Raw

07:45 General Manager schtick. Because again, this is an episode of Raw. The match is restarted.

07:50 The heel wins. The main event of WrestleMania. Sure, why not. I know that with the relentless,

07:55 desperate march of wrestling, the Mania main event is rarely the big end of year blow-off

07:59 that it used to be, but using the biggest match of the year for nothing else other than

08:03 to set up next year's WrestleMania, how can this feel anything other than cheap?

08:08 #4 - Hulk Hogan vs Sgt. Slaughter - WrestleMania 7

08:11 While it's true that Hulk has been part of some of the best moments in WrestleMania

08:15 history, he's also definitely been part of some of the worst. After the one-two punches

08:19 of Mania's 5 and 6, Hogan vs Savage being superb and Hogan vs Warrior somehow living

08:25 up to the hype, the wheels massively fell off the wagon with Mania 7. Warrior's WWF

08:30 title run had underperformed, so Vince pivoted back, as he always does, to Hulk Hogan. Warrior

08:35 lost the belt to Sgt. Slaughter, a forever mid-carder, unconvincingly promoted to main

08:39 event heel by becoming an Iraqi sympathiser as WWE used the real-life Gulf War to make

08:44 some sweet cash. While flag-waving US face vs dastardly foreigner was a tried and tested

08:49 formula, take that Frenchie WrestleMania 3, the foreign menace usually wasn't plastered

08:54 all over the news at the time alongside real footage of real people real dying. Fans did

08:59 not respond to the storyline, to the point where WWE had to change the venue for Mania

09:04 7, owing to shocking ticket sales. Then the main event happened, and believe it or not,

09:08 Hulk Hogan vs 42-year-old never main evented at PPV before Sgt. Slaughter wasn't match

09:13 of the year. It was intensely boring, slow to the point of comatose, filled with clumsy,

09:18 unimpactful moves. Not even Hogan doing a rare blade job could inject much into a match

09:22 that had already died before it started. It's just a horrible watch.

09:25 3. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice - WrestleMania 8

09:29 This was really sh*t, although you wouldn't know it from the crowd, they were bafflingly

09:33 loud throughout this walk, punch, walk, kick, rest, hold, riddle, snooze. WrestleMania 8

09:38 was supposed to be Hogan vs Flair, didn't happen for a bunch of different reasons which

09:42 we've gone into before, trust me we have. Because Vince got a Hogan, instead of ending

09:46 with the super personal Flair vs Macho Man WWF Championship match, which saw a new baby

09:51 face champion crowned FOR F*CK SAKE, they went with Hogan vs Sid Justice. Nothing on

09:56 the line, no reason to care apart from the company saying MAYBE it might POSSIBLY be

10:01 Hogan's farewell match. And it wasn't. It was also a match that was booked to end

10:05 in a f*cking DQ. You heard me, the main event of WrestleMania 8 ended in a disqualification

10:10 and a botched disqualification at that. Papa Shango was supposed to break up the pin following

10:15 Hogan's leg drop but the timing was off so Sid Justice had to just kick out instead.

10:18 An accidentally monumentous moment that received zero fanfare because it wasn't supposed to

10:23 happen. Then a post-match beatdown before The Ultimate Warrior could make his return.

10:27 Hooray. The Ultimate Warrior then of course be gone from the company again before Summer

10:31 Slam so just boo. Boo to it all.

10:33 2. Yokozuna vs Bret Hart WrestleMania 9

10:36 Don't go anywhere, we're staying with Hulk Hogan for a bit more. 1992 and 1993 were

10:41 huge transition years for WWE. Between WrestleMania 8 and WrestleMania 9, as a result of poor

10:46 booking and the steroid scandal, WWE lost the following people. Ric Flair, Sid Justice,

10:52 Roddy Piper, British Bulldog, Ultimate Warrior, Jake Roberts, and for most of the year, Hulk

10:57 Hogan. Vince also insanely relegated Macho Man to the commentary desk, putting the final

11:02 nail in the coffin of the 80s wrestling boom. In an almost mad scramble, Vince promoted

11:06 Bret Hart to the face of the company and found the biggest non-steroid user he could find

11:11 in Yokozuna to play the villain. So what should have been Hart vs Macho Man became Hart vs

11:15 Yoko which isn't great as the Big Samoan couldn't work longer than a 10 minute match

11:19 but hey Hart would surely beat him right? New face of the company etc etc. No, after

11:24 a sluggish nothing match in which Yokozuna infamously went to the finish 5 minutes early

11:29 because he was dead on his feet, the bad guy won. Then Hulk Hogan came out, challenged

11:33 Yoko to a title match which was accepted, then he won because Vince got cold feet on

11:37 running with anyone less than the Hulkster at the top of the company. A terrible moment

11:41 to kickstart the most terrible era in wrestling history.

11:44 1. Triple H vs Roman Reigns WrestleMania 32

11:49 Our first Mania. It was my first Mania that I've ever attended and I cannot tell you

11:53 how dispiriting it was to watch this live. Fun fact, I've never actually gone back

11:57 and watched it in its entirety on the network and you couldn't make me at f***ing gunpoint.

12:02 Between Babyface Cena and Babyface Reigns there have been a number of "we don't

12:05 want this" Mania main events but usually the fans get angry about it and that energy

12:09 translates into something that's at the very least entertaining. The aforementioned

12:12 Mania 31, Mania 22 when the fans turned Cena heel and Triple H babyface, Mania 23 same

12:18 thing but at Mania 32, I don't know man, it just broke us. The show was too long, everyone

12:23 was tired, there was no way out, Bryan was gone for real this time, Ambrose had just

12:28 had a stinker with Brock, everyone else was injured, there was just nothing but Roman.

12:33 It was unwanted, inevitable but even so they took 27 god damn minutes to get there. They

12:39 booked a really dull match and f***ing shushed us. As the match went along, a miserable time

12:44 watching live. Can't imagine how bad it must have been for you poor sods watching

12:47 at home. Are there worse matches? I mean probably. I mean Lawrence Taylor vs Bam Bam Bigelow

12:52 is a ludicrous match that has a midcarder vs a footballer in the main event of WrestleMania.

12:56 The fatal four way at Mania 2000 was a bit s*** as well but both were a million times

13:02 more fun and just alive feeling than this dog's cock. What a shame.

13:06 And that's our list! What's been your least favourite WrestleMania main event of

13:09 all time? Let us know which match it is and why in the comments and don't forget to

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