Opinion Piece - Worst Wrestlemania Ever
29. WrestleMania XXVII – John Cena vs. The Miz
A WrestleMania main event used to build another match. SURE, OKAY.
It seemed cool to rank this higher based on the coolness of the entrances — Miz’s Watchmen-flavored career retrospective set to ‘Hate Me Now’ by Nas and John Cena hugging children while DMX prayed and a gospel choir sang — but even that’s not enough to excuse a horrible match that seemed to permanently damage Miz’s brain (and career) and ended in a double count-out. Uh, the first time. After that, the WrestleMania guest host (who has general manager powers, I guess) declares that WrestleMania can’t end that way, so he restarts the match only to ATTACK THEM BOTH. A guy who wasn’t in the match put himself over the two that were, and a WrestleMania main event is used to set up some other WrestleMania main event. 100% garbage, and somehow even worse years later.
Best: This match was a major reason for the CM Punk “pipebomb” promo later in the year.
Worst: It is also responsible for two consecutive The Rock vs. John Cena WrestleMania main events, making it not only the worst Mania main ever, but the MOTHER of bad Mania mains.
