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WrestleMania 28: Ranking the Worst-Ever WrestleMania Ideas

Posted: Mar 23rd 2012 By: mikeiles

WrestleMania has been the signature event for WWE since its inception in 1985. Many great memories get made at this show every year.

However, this is WWE and Vince McMahon, so there have also been a number of horrible ideas and matches that turned out to be epic failures for one reason or another.

There are a slew of ideas to choose from, but this is just a personal preference of garbage that has been put on the screen.

Here are the six worst WrestleMania ideas of the last 27 years.

No. 6 Lawrence Taylor

WWE loves to use major athletes and celebrities at WrestleMania to generate mainstream publicity and sell more pay-per-views. It is a good idea in theory, and one that has worked to perfection at times, but Lawrence Taylor was not one of those times.

The NFL linebacker was put into a feud with Bam Bam Bigelow at the Royal Rumble, and they were given the main-event spot at WrestleMania XI.

Unsurprisingly, the match was not very good. It may have been a fun spectacle for some, but as a match to close the biggest show of the year, it was a disaster.

No. 5 A McMahon In Every Corner (WrestleMania 2000)

veryone knows that Vince McMahon's ego is bigger than most countries in the world, but WrestleMania 2000 is when he really showed how arrogant he is.

Rather than let the wrestlers in the main event--Triple H, The Rock, Mick Foley, Big Show--have the spotlight to themselves, the entire McMahon family had to be involved in the match.

If that wasn't bad enough, Vince McMahon had to show his power by being the deciding factor after screwing over The Rock to make nice with his daughter Stephanie.

No. 4 WrestleMania In Three Different Locations

When WWE was still figuring out what to do with WrestleMania, Vince McMahon came up with the brilliant idea to hold the show at three different venues simultaneously.

There were 12 matches total, with each venue getting four. The Nassau Coliseum had a main event of Mr. T vs. Roddy Piper in a boxing match. The Rosemont Horizon was given the British Bulldogs vs. The Dream Team for the tag titles. The Los Angeles Sports Arena had Hulk Hogan and King Kong Bundy in a steel cage for the WWE title.

Nothing came off well, with the crowds not being hot for anything they saw, and the gimmick looked like nothing more than a lame excuse to sell more tickets than just holding the show at one venue.

No. 3 The Austin-McMahon Alliance No One Asked For

Not to keep beating on McMahon, but for every great idea he has had, there is at least one horrible one to negate it.

The most infamous heel turn that no one wanted to see, nor expected, was when McMahon and Steve Austin joined forces at WrestleMania X-Seven.

This was one of the best events in WWE history, and the match between Austin and Rock was going great. The ending confused everyone, especially the extremely pro-Austin Texas crowd that had no idea what to make of what they just saw.

It's no surprise that immediately after this alliance, business started to plummet.

No. 2 Hulk Hogan Wins An Impromptu WWE Title Match

No one can say that Hulk Hogan is not the best in the world at making sure he always looks like the strongest wrestler in the world.

At WrestleMania IX, in which the announcers were wearing togas because that's such a good idea, Hogan decided to come out and console Bret Hart, who had just lost the championship to Yokozuna.

Hart was so weak and unable to defend himself that he thought it would be good to send Hogan in to defend his honor, and we got an impromptu title match that Hogan won in about 20 seconds.

Hogan sucks.

No. 1 Goldberg vs. Lesnar (WrestleMania XX)

In the scheme of things, Goldberg vs. Lesnar probably isn't the worst WrestleMania idea ever, but the idea of it had a lot of potential. These were two big monsters whose different styles could have made for a really good/great big-man match.

But Lesnar was tired of the WWE schedule and was leaving the company. Goldberg's contract was up after the event, and considering how badly WWE (namely Triple H) buried him, he had no interest in coming back.

Neither star cared about the match, which was obvious from the start. The New York crowd destroyed both of them for leaving, which actually made a bad match funny.

And, oh by the way, the addition of Steve Austin as special referee made him the biggest star in the match.

It was a disaster of epic proportions.