Top 5 WrestleManias of the recent era
WrestleMania is the WWE’s biggest show of the year, and has been for the past thirty-two years, taking place at the very end of March or the very beginning of April. Ranking all thirty-one WrestleManias so far would take a lot of time, and would be very difficult to do.However, ranking the five WrestleManias of the modern era (2011-now) so far, in order of worst to best is quite easy, and this is a list that does just that. From WrestleMania XXVII in Atlanta to WrestleMania 31 in San Francisco, here is a ranking of these five WrestleManias in order of match cards, match quality, arena and impact.Who knows? Maybe WrestleMania 32 in a couple of months can be even better.
#5 WrestleMania XXVII (Atlanta, Georgia)
Kicking off the list is what is quite possibly the most beautiful WrestleMania stage of all time. It was unnecessarily flashy, and undeniably shiny, but that’s what made it so great.
Sadly, that might be the only good thing about this WrestleMania.
WrestleMania XXVII opened with a fine World Heavyweight Championship Match, where Edge retained against the winner of the largest Royal Rumble of all time, Alberto Del Rio. Cody Rhodes picked up a much needed win against Rey Mysterio in a decent match. Randy Orton and CM Punk put on a good display, where Orton came out victorious. And Triple H lost to The Undertaker in a stellar and brutal match. All this might sound good, and it was.
This WrestleMania was brought down due to its other matches. There was an out-of-place two-minute eight-man tag match in which Kane, The Big Show, Kofi Kingston and Santino Marella walked over The Corre. There was a random mixed tag team match featuring Trish Stratus just before the main event. Stone Cold Steve Austin was the special referee in a match featuring Jerry Lawler and Michael Cole, and there were even two dark matches. Yes, two dark matches at WrestleMania.
All of this, of course, came before the robbery that was the main event. John Cena would challenge for the WWE Championship against the champion heading into the show, The Miz. That isn’t even the worst part. The match ended in a double count out. A WrestleMania main event ended in a count out. After this, the host of the show, The Rock, came out and ordered that the match be restarted, this time in a no disqualification contest. This was only so that The Rock could attack Cena and cost him the match. What seemed more focused on going into this match was The Rock and Cena’s problems, and that, ultimately, was what the spotlight was on.
WrestleMania XXVII, worst of all, served as a placeholder for WrestleMania XXVIII.
