Worst mania ever?

[fw91]

32.

[Nickybojelais]

I've narrowed it down to 4, 11, 32 or 34.

If it wasn't for HBK/Taker 25 would have definitely made my list.

[Woo]

I voted other as WM31 is the worst imo. From Bray vs Taker, Reigns vs Brock, Sting vs HHH and that awful Rock/Rousey/HHH/Steph segment. Hated that show.

Edit: I haven't seen 32, but HHH on the main event, 17 years past his peak? That makes it one of the worst automatically.

Tbh you could choose any Mania post XX that features The Rock and it might be the worst.

[darbus alan]

32 barely edges out 11 for me. As bad as 11 was, at least it didn't last for roughly a gazillion hours.

[Starshine]

32 just for the fact it's so much longer than the other worst ones. Like, I could get through 2, 9 and 11 and while I wouldn't enjoy them, at least I'd have time to do other things. I just am so over these 5 hour long Manias, and I used to leave the shorter shows feeling energised and excited. For the last three I've just ended up being tired and grumpy.

There really is something to the saying: "leave them wanting more."

[repomark]

Most manias have at least one or two redeeming features - but 11 is the one with the fewest.

The over emphasis on celebrities in the opening montage sums it up for me. They show a clip of every Wrestlemania to that point and not one wrestler - with the exception of Andre - is shown. Vince was expecting a whole new audience to tune in because of Lawrence Taylor - and almost seemed reluctant to tell people this was actually a wrestling show.

Some really inexplicable guest celebrities cameo throughout and take top billing; with often embarrassing results. The kid off Home Improvrment beating Bob Backlund at chess is the best example; but the bloke off NYPD Blue ring announcing is a decision I will never understand and I still chuckle at his intonation announcing “Big Daddy Cool Diesel.”

You know you are in trouble when the card kicks off with the stellar Luger & Bulldog v The Blu Brothers. The non finish off Double J v Razor Ramon also sets the tone for an unsatisfying event. Even Bret Hart has a stinker on this show - with his I Quit match v Backlund 25mins of Piper sticking a mic in their faces, The polar opposite of the match he would have with Austin two years later.

I enjoyed Owen Hart revealing Yokozuna as his surprise tag partner and winning the belts from the Smoking Gunns - but even this is tinged with sadness. Clearly Yokozuna has gained a lot of weight since his last WWE stint and is far less mobile.

Diesel v HBK is far and away the best match on the card but it is no where near as good as it perhaps should have been - especially when you look to their later Good Friends Better Enemies match in 96. It was hurt by them trying to make out Diesel was in some way the underdog against the far smaller Shawn, and the crowd starting to side with HBK after the Sweet Chin Music spot where the ref is down outside the ring.

LT v Bam Bam was better than it should have been, but no way great and did nothing for anyone in the match. Bam Bam didn’t get the baby face run he was promised and left WWE soon after; the Million Dollar Corporation stuttered through 95 before disbanding; LT never wrestled again. The whole exercise achieved nothing.

So yes, 11 gets my vote.

[burdette25159]

Sure Mania 32 is a long bore of a show to sit through but XI makes 32 look like WM X-Seven by comparison, XI had the fewest redeeming features of any wrestlemania, the overload of celeberties (Didn't WWF learned their lesson that TOO MANY celeberties spoil the broth? They didn't learn that lesson by 1995) to the point that the opening montage had no wrestler focus (except for Andre, also, Hogan and Savage were in WCW at the time) and focused on the celeb involvement in WM history), the matches were terrible, even Bret Hart had a bad night as he delivered his worst WM performance (Hart vs McMahon at XXVI doesn't count in my book), Hart announcing that Yokozuma was his mystery partner was nice, Diesel retained in A MATCH THAT SHOULD HAVE GONE LAST instead of Bam Bam vs LT in a match that featured LT's all Pro Team and the Mostly Hulkamania era has been filled Million Dollar Corporation. In the end, WMXI looks like a Three Hour Long Commercial Free "PPV QUality" special episode of Superstars compared to WM32

[Jake, The Jake, Jake]

Lotta folks sleeping on Wrestlemania 2 in here.

[arrogantmodel]

Apr 2, 2019 20:18:17 GMT -5 Jake, The Jake, Jake said:

Lotta folks sleeping on Wrestlemania 2 in here.

The first Wrestlemanias can get a pass because it was new, they were still working things out, and they didn't get the Rock & Wrestling boom yet. It took three years for it to become a big event.

Now XI had no excuse. Sure, scandals and talent being injured and leaving hurt, but they had a big run in the 80s and early 90s. They knew how to put on a show. But this was just abysmal.

XI is trash. I was like twelve years old, and I knew I was watching shit.