Worst WM Main Event of the Decade?

[xxshoyuweeniexx]

We’ve had some great Mania matches this decade, but the actually main events have kinda..been mixed to say the least for the most part.

Honestly it’s tough for me to decide between Miz vs Cena and any of the Roman ones that didn’t include Seth. But Roman vs Hunter edged it out for being not only on a super long show, but being a pretty boring f***ing match. At least Miz vs Cena had that Hate Me Now Miz video, the Rock, and Alex Riley’s weird briefcase.

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I hated Reigns/HHH, I think Reigns/Undy was probably worse but that one just made me sad. The WM32 main event went for like 45 minutes on a way too many hours show.

[Dub H]

As I said before Roman Reigns is the Reverse Mr.Wrestlemania his one good match is him getting his ass kicked for 90% of it.

[Cyno]

Reigns vs. Taker was brutal, though Reigns vs. HHH and Reigns vs. Lesnar II were really close runners up. And strangely, in spite of him being the common factor in all three, Roman wasn't the worst part of any of the matches.

[Mid-Carder]

Reigns v HHH for it happening at all in 2016 and for how awful it was.

[Mozenrath]

Dec 23, 2019 14:10:24 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Reigns vs. Taker was brutal, though Reigns vs. HHH and Reigns vs. Lesnar II were really close runners up. And strangely, in spite of him being the common factor in all three, Roman wasn't the worst part of any of the matches.

I was so disappointed with the Trips/Roman match.

"But Brad, why would you expect-"

Because Triple H versus Bryan was one of my favorite 'Mania matches of the decade, just real good, and I think a lot of it was because they trimmed the fat, plus broke out stuff like Triple H doing a tiger suplex.

Roman versus Triple H was too long, too much shit we'd seen before, and too slow.

Triple H likes to tell a story, and good for him, I guess, but if you've heard a story a dozen times, you get real impatient and want to either get to the end quick, or hear some element of the story you didn't hear from him the first dozen times you've heard it.

[bearned]

Reigns vs Taker

Should never have main evented.

[Ben Wyatt]

Reigns/HHH because of how forced and absolutely unnecessary it was.

Honorable mention to Miz/Cena because of the absolute terrible match ending that (along with the build being pure ass) killed Miz as a main eventer

[Facetious]

I'm torn between Taker and HHH vs Reigns. Miz/Cena is in third though. I know the concussion derailed it, but they really sacrificed a WM main event for to have the Rock go over lmao

[Bang Bang Bart]

Reigns vs. HHH for capping off the worst Mania of this decade.

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Roman vs. HHH because while Roman vs. Undertaker also sucked, it at least started off good. This was a boring slog right from the very beginning.

[bob]

Trips vs Roman -- the most over person in the match was Nakamua, who was still in NXT at the time, getting his name chanted by the crowd during it

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My mind has totally blacked out Reigns vs. Trips in a main event. Was it really THAT bad? (...seems to be winning...)

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Dec 23, 2019 15:24:01 GMT -5 mj0mn0m said:

My mind has totally blacked out Reigns vs. Trips in a main event.

You don't know how lucky you are.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

Reigns vs. HHH was bad and disappointing and dragged in ways that defy reason and should never have been allowed and put together that way. But Reigns vs. Taker, and I don't say this lightly, killed my childhood. I have watched a lot of bad wrestling matches, and I have felt a lot of emotions because of them. Boredom, awe, confusion, ennui, fascination, a longing for someone to throw up or have a breakdown and just kill the whole vibe so my lift home wants to leave the viewing party early. But never before had the main event of Wrestlemania been something I watched feeling utter embarrassment and sorrow until that match. Bad wrestling isn't good, but it doesn't usually make you actively sad.

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Having watched all of the really bad ones lately... I'm thinking I'm leaning Reigns / Triple H but it's VERY close between it and Reigns / Taker.

Miz / Cena's bad but it's mostly because of the ending. Beyond that it's kind of just a mediocre Raw match.

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Dec 23, 2019 15:35:24 GMT -5 This Player Hating Mothman said:

Reigns vs. HHH was bad and disappointing and dragged in ways that defy reason and should never have been allowed and put together that way. But Reigns vs. Taker, and I don't say this lightly, killed my childhood. I have watched a lot of bad wrestling matches, and I have felt a lot of emotions because of them. Boredom, awe, confusion, ennui, fascination, a longing for someone to throw up or have a breakdown and just kill the whole vibe so my lift home wants to leave the viewing party early. But never before had the main event of Wrestlemania been something I watched feeling utter embarrassment and sorrow until that match. Bad wrestling isn't good, but it doesn't usually make you actively sad.

Everything about that match was sad from the storyline to the in-ring work to the aftermath, it's the perfect example of what not to do. It really went BEYOND just standard storyline problems like most WWE matches. I mean look at this list, for most of these matches that are bad we can say "the storyline sucks" but very few can we say "well the storyline sucked, the match was bad and we have a legend being taken out while they do a horrible performance." Even the Reigns/HHH match didn't have that "damn they're making this guy who clearly can't go do this" thing about it. Nobody, regardless if they were against or for Reigns, didn't want that match going the way it did.

Reigns/Taker really defined everything I disliked about Roman's single's push pre-leukemia announcement.

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Dec 23, 2019 15:50:56 GMT -5 @kn said:

Dec 23, 2019 15:35:24 GMT -5 This Player Hating Mothman said:

Reigns vs. HHH was bad and disappointing and dragged in ways that defy reason and should never have been allowed and put together that way. But Reigns vs. Taker, and I don't say this lightly, killed my childhood. I have watched a lot of bad wrestling matches, and I have felt a lot of emotions because of them. Boredom, awe, confusion, ennui, fascination, a longing for someone to throw up or have a breakdown and just kill the whole vibe so my lift home wants to leave the viewing party early. But never before had the main event of Wrestlemania been something I watched feeling utter embarrassment and sorrow until that match. Bad wrestling isn't good, but it doesn't usually make you actively sad.

Everything about that match was sad from the storyline to the in-ring work to the aftermath, it's the perfect example of what not to do. It really went BEYOND just standard storyline problems like most WWE matches. I mean look at this list, for most of these matches that are bad we can say "the storyline sucks" but very few can we say "well the storyline sucked, the match was bad and we have a legend being taken out while they do a horrible performance." Even the Reigns/HHH match didn't have that "damn they're making this guy who clearly can't go do this" thing about it. Nobody, regardless if they were against or for Reigns, didn't want that match going the way it did.

Reigns/Taker really defined everything I disliked about Roman's single's push pre-leukemia announcement.

Also, who was Reigns / Taker even FOR? At least Reigns / Triple H was the logical payoff to the previous couple of years worth of storylines and if you were a Roman fan you more or less would've gotten what you wanted out of the finish. Reigns / Taker was just a half-baked bit of nothing where the build did far more to make you want to see Taker / Braun than the match they were actually doing and seems to have only happened because Vince thought that Reigns / Taker was a dream match that needed to happen before Taker stepped away, while the other side of the actual dream match people wanted was in a pointless tag match propping up a relationship that ended within the year anyway for the purposes of a reality show.

[warden]

Easily miz vs cena. I look at all those names listed and I see a bunch of main event names. Then there's the miz sticking out like a zit on prom night. You could argue roman vs trips or taker were bad and yea they weren't anything to write home about but same goes for this bout. And roman, trips and taker are big match names that just didn't live up to the hype it happens.

While miz vs cena was very much felt like a mid card act somehow stumbling into the main event of mania. All I remember is miz concussing himself and winning. What made it even worse was the fact that everyone wanted to see cena fight the rock that year and miz was this kid jumping up and down begging for attention. So yea that's the worst of the decade