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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 1, 2019 1:35:21 GMT -5
16’s an outlier in that 2000 was a strong year for PPV, just not Mania. (Though The DVD release was important as the first time WWE went heavy on special features and historical retrospective.) Yeah, the Rumble was great, Backlash was arguably the best one ever, but 'Mania itself was kinda meh. As for the worse, 32 was dull as hell, 9 and 11 are near the bottom, etc, but I think 2 is the one I find the most miserable to watch because the format was fraught with awkwardness and problems that just yank me out of enjoying the show. The 2000 Rumble match is gash IMO. But the undercard on that show, f***ing hell. Tazz/Angle, Hardys/Dudleys, HHH/Foley. All that and Mae Young’s old swingers too!
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Post by Clutchhausen on Apr 1, 2019 1:38:46 GMT -5
27 by far.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2019 1:42:19 GMT -5
To be honest I don't even think 27 is that bad. It's not great, or even at all good, but I can name three pretty good matches on it. That's more that I can give it than, I dunno, 29.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Apr 1, 2019 1:42:39 GMT -5
11 is just so dull, as if it were an In Your House show with some celebrities attached to it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2019 10:30:48 GMT -5
27 and it isn’t even close.
Miz vs Cena was the worst Wrestlemania main event of all time. The whole show was about The Rock... The only saving grace was HHH/Taker which was a brilliant match looking back at it.
WM11 had Diesel vs Shawn and LT vs Bam Bam. That was the height of the New Generation and the New Generation was my childhood so I loved that era.
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Post by BRV on Apr 1, 2019 11:13:08 GMT -5
WrestleMania XI is a straight-up house show with a few celebrity appearances tacked on to give it the veneer of a big deal. Even the location - Hartford, Conn. of all places - feels underwhelming. I watched that show during the height of my wrestling fandom as a kid and even I got bored with it by the time Bob Backlund and Bret Hart stumbled their way through a sleepy I Quit match.
As much as people bag on WrestleMania 32 for being too long or the results being contrary to the story that was being told - both of which are totally legitimate complaints - every single match at WrestleMania 32 is better than any match at WrestleMania XI. Even the garbage-ass main event that literally put me to sleep (Roman Reigns vs. Triple H) was better than anything on the WrestleMania XI card.
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Post by edgestar on Apr 1, 2019 11:20:20 GMT -5
WrestleMania XI is a straight-up house show with a few celebrity appearances tacked on to give it the veneer of a big deal. Even the location - Hartford, Conn. of all places - feels underwhelming. I watched that show during the height of my wrestling fandom as a kid and even I got bored with it by the time Bob Backlund and Bret Hart stumbled their way through a sleepy I Quit match. As much as people bag on WrestleMania 32 for being too long or the results being contrary to the story that was being told - both of which are totally legitimate complaints - every single match at WrestleMania 32 is better than any match at WrestleMania XI. Even the garbage-ass main event that literally put me to sleep (Roman Reigns vs. Triple H) was better than anything on the WrestleMania XI card. Hartford is getting MITB this year. Salt and Pepa better be there, reminiscing about when they were hanging all over Bret!
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Apr 1, 2019 11:44:50 GMT -5
Well, I'd never sit through 11, 15, 25, or 27 again. Those were all terrible.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Apr 1, 2019 11:44:57 GMT -5
32 and it's not even close. 11 did the best it could with a limited roster and rapidly waning interest in pro wrestling. 32 took its incredible roster, booked the show appallingly from start to finish, a main event with Triple H who had no business being world champion in 2016, and a downright insulting show. It's the only time I've ever stopped watching wrestling in my life and I've still only ever seen it once.
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Post by salz4life on Apr 1, 2019 11:49:28 GMT -5
I said this in a similar thread a few months ago, Wrestlemania 25 does not deserve to be in the company of the worst Manias. It’s not a great show and it has some crap on there but the good outweighs the bad. I’d either say 1, 2, 11 or 27 is the worst with 11 probably edging out the rest. I have a problem with 16 due to the card not containing one regular singles match but there’s a couple of matches on there that spare it. The only thing I really dislike about 25 is the main event. It was just not a main event level match at all for me.
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Post by salz4life on Apr 1, 2019 11:50:55 GMT -5
11 is a chore for me to watch again. Another one that is a chore is 4. I think sometimes it gets a pass because of it's historical "value".... but it is really long and has a lot of filler.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 1, 2019 12:12:07 GMT -5
I've only seen the first 20, and of those, it's WM 16 with its shitty ending having HHH retain the title.
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Post by Shai on Apr 1, 2019 12:14:40 GMT -5
32 for many, MANY reasons. It's the only time I ever turned off Wrestlemania
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Post by EZ: Broken Bae on Apr 1, 2019 12:31:53 GMT -5
I've never seen IX or XI. While they're probably as bad as everyone says I'm sure they at least finish a couple hours before 32 does.
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Post by grungesmurf on Apr 1, 2019 12:48:11 GMT -5
From the ones I’ve seen easily 12
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Post by AJ Smudgico on Apr 1, 2019 12:49:24 GMT -5
32 HHH was shoehorned into the main event that nobody wanted so he can say he headlined in front of over 100,000 at Mania. The show was bad but his self-serving, ego-boosting reasoning to headline made it all the worse. I cannot sit through that show
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Post by captainhindsite on Apr 1, 2019 13:03:36 GMT -5
In the past, I've said WrestleMania IX, but after watching the WrestleManias in a marathon, I'm going with XI. While IX and 32 were really bad shows and are deserving of the vitriol that they get, they had at least one decent match. WrestleMania XI, however, has no redeeming qualities. Just curious how long did the marathon take
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Apr 1, 2019 13:13:00 GMT -5
11 and it's not even close.
Until I just looked it up, the only match I remembered Shawn/Diesel, which for a Mania main event was good, not great.
9 was bad, but at least you got the impression that they were trying.
32 wasn't great, but it doesn't belong on this list.
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Post by chronocross on Apr 1, 2019 13:17:12 GMT -5
From the early shows, I got to go with WM11, it was boring and dull, hated all the cameramen all around the ring which hindered a lot of the matches (Diesel/HBK, Razor/Jarrett).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2019 17:49:57 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it's the worst, but 32 was the first Mania for me after not watching or following WWE for a few years.
I probably would have stopped watching again immediately afterwards if I hadn't started lurking here.
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