Sometimes there isn't enough pomp and pageantry to go around. These are the 10 worst WrestleMania entrances of all time.
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00:55 - 10
01:47 - 9
02:39 - 8
03:32 - 7
04:29 - 6
05:38 - 5
06:26 - 4
07:20 - 3
08:14 - 2
09:32 - 1
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00:00 The pump, the pageantry, the endless fireworks as WWE sets fire to the sky itself in an attempt
00:08 to smoke out God.
00:10 No gods or kings, only mania.
00:13 One of the reasons why we love WWE's biggest show of the year is that everyone gets involved,
00:17 gets prom levels of fancy, and throws as much glam buoyancy at you until you drown in it.
00:22 Wrestlers wear their most beautiful frocks, the set is ozimandianly big, and of course
00:27 those special entrances, Shawn Michaels zip lining down to the ring, Austin walking through
00:33 the shattered glass, Undertaker emerging through the tortured, grasping soles.
00:38 There are countless amazing WrestleMania entrances, but no one gets it right every time, and 60%
00:44 of the time, WWE gets it wrong every time.
00:47 I'm Adam Hailing from PartsFunknown, and here are 10 Worst WrestleMania Entrances.
00:53 10.
00:55 Jack Swagger WrestleMania is a long show.
00:58 Even before they started taking the absolute piss at Mania's 32-35, it was a long show.
01:04 One of the reasons why is that everyone gets an entrance.
01:07 Are you winning?
01:08 Have a lovely big entrance.
01:09 Are you losing?
01:10 Have a lovely big entrance with a live band playing your theme song.
01:13 At WrestleMania 29, Jack Swagger got no entrance, in fact a jobber entrance.
01:18 The live feed came back from a video package, and Jack was already in the ring with his
01:22 music playing.
01:23 So, by any and all definitions, that's a jobber entrance in a world title match at
01:28 WrestleMania.
01:30 There was a mini racist mobile by the ring, presumably that Jack and his ornery grandpa
01:34 Zeb Coulter rode down to the ring on, but the viewers at home didn't get to see it,
01:38 perhaps because the Jack Jack man was in the doghouse at the time, having just been charged
01:41 for driving under the influence a month earlier.
01:44 He would have got a WrestleMania entrance, then he got high.
01:47 9.
01:48 Mysterio No, poor Rey's knees.
01:50 No one in wrestling history has been jobbed out more than Papa Mysterio's patellas, and
01:54 that's not helped along by his entrance.
01:56 See, the standard fare for Rey's entrance, especially at big shows, would involve being
01:59 catapulted through the air by a quick-rising trapdoor before executing a superhero landing,
02:04 often dressed as a superhero.
02:06 Snicked.
02:07 What a daredevil.
02:09 Hello.
02:10 At WrestleMania 26, his trapdoor no-sold his entrance, refusing to budge.
02:15 Rey's pyro went off, the kind that would normally accompany him popping up through the floor,
02:19 but then the camera hastily cut to the crowd as people backstage started shouting "Fuck,
02:23 fuck, oh fuck, fuck" into their headsets.
02:26 After covering the crowd for what felt like ages, the camera finally cut to a super jarring
02:30 close-up of Mysterio on the ramp, eyes widened out apart from having pegged it round the
02:34 corner up onto the ramp.
02:36 Probably Dom-related sabotage.
02:37 He's always had it in for him.
02:39 8.
02:40 Bray Strawman Oh, Bray.
02:42 Darkness is your friend.
02:43 Unless that darkness is a UV light, in which case it's not your friend.
02:46 Turn it off.
02:47 Bray can usually be relied on for two things.
02:49 Spookums, a varying quality, and a killer entrance.
02:52 Ever since the beginning, he's had one of the best.
02:55 Darkness lit by lantern light, with the WWE universe providing that Firefly magic.
03:00 Beautiful, unique, perfect.
03:01 Which made his entrance at WrestleMania 31 all the more disappointing because of one
03:05 simple thing.
03:06 It happened while it was still light out.
03:07 Wyatt was wrestling The Undertaker, whose entrance also suffered, but nowhere near as
03:11 much as Bray's because it involves spooky scarecrows borrowed from a local am-dram society
03:16 doing zombie walk nonsense, and Bray walking down to the ring via lantern light in the
03:21 afternoon.
03:22 Bray, my dude, you don't need the lantern.
03:25 You can see.
03:27 We can all see.
03:28 Us in your silly party city Wizard of Oz boyfriends.
03:31 7.
03:32 We all fall down
03:33 Look, walking isn't easy.
03:35 One foot in front of the other.
03:37 Slow down, professor.
03:38 And never is it harder to walk than on the grandest stage of them all.
03:41 Seth Rollins famously almost fainted during his WrestleMania 35 entrance, and while he
03:45 narrowly avoided disaster, not everyone has been so lucky.
03:49 At WrestleMania 20, Ultimo Dragon, one of the most decorated luchadors of all time,
03:53 tripped over not once, but twice on his own cape during his entrance to the Cruiserweight
03:57 Open, which has been carefully edited around on the network.
04:00 Also edited around on the network, Mandy Rose slipping and falling on the rain-soaked ramp
04:04 at WrestleMania 37 during her entrance alongside Dana Brooke.
04:08 What has not been edited around, because screw Drax, I suppose Big Dave doesn't even go here,
04:13 Batista at WrestleMania 35 tripping over the middle rope on his way into the ring to face
04:17 off against Triple H in a big, boring match.
04:19 And honestly, the fact that Ultimo Dragon having a tiny tumble was cut around, and one
04:24 of the most famous actors in the world stacking it hasn't, that's very, very funny.
04:29 6.
04:30 Randy rides the sperm
04:31 Oh, WWE.
04:32 You and your graphics.
04:33 While it would be easy to dedicate a worst entrances list to WWE's often appalling use
04:38 of 3D-rendered AR text sneezes, I just want to stop seeing that big gold Roman, or the
04:44 big time Bex, or Bianca's terrifying disembodied mouth Pokemon.
04:49 But no, this entry is about a different type of graphic, the one that was projected onto
04:53 the entrance ramp during Randy Orton's ludicrous match against Bug Life Bray Wyatt at Mania
04:58 33.
04:59 It was a bad night for projections that night.
05:01 Stop it.
05:02 Bray had a good entrance, because this time he waited until the sun went down, but Randy's
05:05 made the audience piss themselves.
05:08 He came out, did his pose, and then walked down to the ramp as what was supposed to be
05:12 a giant snake writhed on the ramp underneath him, however, with its big bulbous head and
05:17 swimming tail, looked just like a giant sperm, ladies and gentlemen, one with a terrible
05:22 frame rate that would judder and clip under his boots as he walked.
05:25 Very funny to think of Orton looking down during his entrance and whispering to himself.
05:28 Oh, f***ing hell.
05:30 So later, at Mania 35, he came out between two giant AR turds.
05:36 Why?
05:37 5.
05:39 Paul's Bulls*** - Part 1
05:41 There are very few things that are always funny.
05:43 A man getting hit in the crotch by a football, old people swearing, and Triple H's WrestleMania
05:47 entrances, the end result of typing "big tough guy" into Google Images and going with the
05:51 first thing you see.
05:52 And what could be more tough than a giant tricycle, an incredibly slow-moving police
05:56 chase, and Stephanie McMahon looking like Sandy at the end of Grease?
06:00 The size of the lapels on that leather waistcoat, oh Trips, never change.
06:04 I was there in person to see that, and I fell off my f***ing chair at his little vroom vroom.
06:08 It looked like him and Steph were being pulled over on their way home from seeing the Rocky
06:11 Horror Picture Show with the rest of their married friends.
06:14 Triple H has managed some cool entrances in the past, the big king in yellow at Mania
06:18 30 being a particular favorite.
06:20 This, however, was not one of his best.
06:22 That bike is so goddamn funny.
06:24 Stop being so funny, bike.
06:26 4.
06:27 John's Bulls*** - Part 1
06:28 John Cena can be relied on for a ridiculously overblown WrestleMania entrance dripping with
06:33 more patriotic cheese than an Old Glory stitched together from 100 Kraft singles.
06:38 Sometimes this works, like the marching band at 24, the honor guard drill at 26, or the
06:43 gospel choir at Mania 27.
06:44 But what did not work quite as well was the mobster entrance at Mania 22.
06:49 "Mania 22!"
06:50 Featuring the cast of Bugsy Malone and also a teedy tiny CM Punk riding down to the ring
06:55 on the bulletproof bomb before Cena emerged wearing his dad's coat and fired a f***ing
07:00 gun into the air.
07:01 Ah, Chicago's greatest export, comedy mobsters.
07:05 Just imagine if WWE did that today.
07:07 At WrestleMania 39, Logan Paul comes down to the ring waving a f***ing beretta around,
07:11 or Austin Theory bursts out dressed as a member of the Cornbread Mafia firing a weed cannon
07:16 into the crowd.
07:17 Oh John, you're the toughest boy in the high school play.
07:20 3.
07:21 Paul's Bulls*** - Part 2
07:23 It's WrestleMania season, so it's time to treat you to a round of frosty Triple H milkshakes.
07:27 And sure, I'm making fun of the man for getting quite serious burns, and I'll reckon with
07:31 that when I'm dead, but this is pretty funny though.
07:34 Now we all know that Triple H is a big toughie, and his entrance at WrestleMania 29 for his
07:38 match against Brock Lesnar is very much indicative of that.
07:40 And on paper, it's one of the good ones, emerging from a giant version of Vader's old helmet
07:45 like he'd been birthed out of sheer metal itself.
07:48 However, the entrance backfired hilariously as Triple H emerged.
07:52 He was sprayed across the midsection with not smoke, but dry ice, which caked his tummy
07:57 and left him looking like he had a delicious vanilla glaze, completely obliterating the
08:00 effect they'd hoped the entrance would have.
08:03 Absolutely fair play to Trips for toughing it out and no-selling the fact that the dry
08:06 ice had just given him second-degree burns, but there's no way that any entrance that
08:10 could be described as "Satanic Bukkake" isn't making it onto this list.
08:14 2.
08:15 John's Bulls*** - Part 2
08:17 Send in the clones.
08:20 Those daffy, laffy clones.
08:24 Send in those soulful and doleful schmaltz by the bowlful clones.
08:32 They're all ready.
08:37 Circa 2009, it was the height of the Cena wins LOL phenomenon, and most hardcore fans
08:42 were firmly of the opinion that one John Cena was a John Cena too many.
08:46 Well at WrestleMania 25, WWE gave us Cenas until we can't stands no more, sending out
08:51 a small army of John Cena clones in matching shirts and caps to line the entrance ramp
08:55 and do the "you can't see me" gesture.
08:57 I tried to count them all, and there's like 50 of them.
09:00 And hey, don't get me wrong, finding 50 grown men who are willing to suspend their dignity
09:04 by wearing John Cena wristbands, that must have been a Herculean task.
09:07 And there are some people for whom this is their very specific kink, but oh no thanks
09:11 not for me.
09:12 There is a very fine line between grandeur and embarrassment, and the idea that John
09:16 Cena either cloned himself and then released those clones into the wild to die when he'd
09:20 finished with them, or that he'd assembled a bunch of his friends and paraded them around
09:24 in his own merch is a bizarre road to where's Wally.
09:27 It just read deeply lame to me.
09:30 Maybe I'm the only one, but hey, speaking of that, number one, Paul's Bulls**t Part
09:33 Three.
09:34 Now look, we're on YouTube, we're no strangers to product placement.
09:38 Sometimes a little help from a serial or a Raid Shadow Legends helps to keep the lights
09:41 on in this era of generally dwindling ad revenue across YouTube's barren wasteland.
09:47 But if Oli ever asks me to wear a metal Terminator poncho in a skit that even SNL would regard
09:52 as a little cheap looking for a spoof, then that would be the beginning of my 30 days
09:56 notice.
09:57 The second-hand embarrassment I felt from re-watching this WrestleMania 31 entrance
10:01 burned more than any dry ice ever could.
10:04 In a bit of air quotes "brand synergy", WWE partnered with Terminator Genisys, easily
10:09 the worst Terminator movie by the by, to see Daddy Trips walk out looking like he just
10:13 killed the Tin Man and fashioned him into the dad version of one of those entire dead
10:16 animal scarves that posh women used to wear in their Downton Abbeys for some reason.
10:20 "I'm gonna look cool, right?" said Triple H.
10:23 "Oh, very cool," said the costume designer, handing him a bunch of Terminator skulls with
10:27 a straight face and a liar's heart.
10:29 Daddy Paul has done a lot of very silly things in the name of testosterone at WrestleMania,
10:33 but this is by far the silliest.
10:35 And that's our list.
10:36 What's your least favorite WrestleMania of all time?
10:38 Let us know in the comments, and if you want to check out last week's list, that's 10 times
10:42 WWE got WrestleMania wrong.
10:44 And it's great.
10:45 Have a peek.
10:46 After 38 WrestleManias, there's a litany of treasured memories, feelings that WWE got
10:51 their biggest show of the year right, Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 30, Ric Flair's retirement,
10:55 Shawn Michaels' retirement, Bianca vs. Sasha to name but a few, but this list is all about
11:00 the times where fans walked away from WWE's flagship show, thinking bloody hell, that