Ranking the 5 most disappointing WrestleMania main events
It must be that time of year again. With WrestleMania fast approaching and WWE fans clamoring for content about the Showcase of the Immortals, its time to reflect back on why we still watch professional wrestling's biggest event year after year.
Hang on. Most disappointing Wrestlemania main events? Roman Reigns has this covered in modern times.
A main event can't be disappointing if everyone knows the outcome and expects a dull match ahead of time, can it?
Going back a little further than this most recent run of ill-advised closers (I almost feel bad for Reigns — a very talented in-ring performer in his own right), here is a list of the main event matches that left fans bitterly disappointed with what they had seen and wondering about what could have been.
#5 Triple H vs The Rock vs Big Show vs Mick Foley — WrestleMania 2000
Picture this scene to close out your biggest show: Vince McMahon is ordering his cronies Briscoe and Patterson to count to three and seal a win for Triple H against a lifeless Rock, who can’t even get up for a final pedigree.
The next thing you know, glass shatters and more than 19,000 lose their minds as a returning Stone Cold lays waste to everyone via steel chair. Cue the Brahma Bull hitting a People's Elbow finish to send the audience into utter delirium.
Yes, this show is still etched in the hearts of professional wrestling die-hards and the main event will live long in the memory. This was Backlash 2000.
Wait, what? Backlash? What happened to the grandest stage of them all? How could they have possibly topped this the month prior? Well, to all you young fans out there who’ve been told the Attitude Era was all sunshine and rainbows, Wrestlemania 2000 was just awful.
The pay-per-view equivalent to throwing the entire locker room at the wall to see what sticks, the four-way elimination main event with a McMahon in every corner was just the tip of this overcrowded iceberg.
The triangle ladder match and the fact that WWE could have had someone wrestling a broomstick and still fill arenas meant this disappointing closer did not do much long-term harm. A simple reroute got them back on-course in time for their next show.
Mick Foley and Big Show getting their five minutes in the main event (less than that in the seven-foot giant's case) is the only reason this was even a thing. Maybe Vince McMahon does have a soft spot in his heart after all.