Top 10 Pointless WrestleMania Matches
WrestleMania is the Show of Shows, the Grandest Stage of them All, the Showcase of the Immortals. Sometimes, it’s also the grand stage of garbage. That’s what this list is about. It includes not necessarily the worst WWE matches to ever happen at WrestleMania, but the matches that shouldn’t have happened at all.
These are matches that had no reason to exist. They should be stricken from the record books and wiped from everybody’s memories. Some, indeed, are worse than others (just read on and you’ll see) but they all need to just disappear.
You may be surprised by some of the entries on this list, but when you read what I have to say about them, I bet you will agree with me. The stories leading up to them are either bad or non-existent and sometimes the story didn’t end with the match. That makes some of these matches even more pointless than they would have been if they were just a one-and-done!
Read ahead and try to forget these pointless matches from WrestleMania history.
#10 Yokozuna vs. Lex Luger (WrestleMania X)
In the first of two WWF Championship matches that evening, Yokozuna defended his WWF Championship against Lex Luger, the co-winner of the 1994 Royal Rumble match. This wasn’t necessarily the worst booking decision of all time, because it was pretty unique. The reason the match was pointless is that nobody wanted Lex Luger to win and nobody believed that he was going to win.
After Hulk Hogan left the WWF in 1993, Vince McMahon tried to create his replacement. Instead of going with something new and different, something the fans wanted, he instead went with a carbon copy -- the overly patriotic, much-too-tanned, blonde, muscle-bound Lex Luger. The crowd wanted Bret Hart -- the regular guy, mild-tanned, dark haired, medium built Bret Hart. Sound familiar?
In any event, Lex had failed to win the hearts of the crowd, and the WWF Championship, in the summer of 1993. He spent the fall and winter trying to get another shot and eventually got to enter the Royal Rumble match. 1994 was only the second year that earned the winner a shot at the WWF Championship at WrestleMania, and it was Luger’s only chance to avenge his loss to Yoko from SummerSlam.
At the same time, Bret Hart had a score to settle with Yokozuna that went back to the previous year’s WrestleMania, in which Yokozuna defeated him for the WWF Championship when Yoko’s manager, Mr Fuji, threw salt in Bret’s eyes.
Again, the overall story was good, because both men had a reason to want a shot at the champion and it was something very different for the WWF to do, especially for its time. But Luger was the wrong guy to do it with because the majority of the crowd didn’t have any interest in him. Maybe using Bret and his brother Owen Hart, who were feuding at the time, would have been a better idea.