5 Things I learned from WrestleMania IV (1988)

#2 Lazy booking makes for a boring show

One of many terrible finishes on the card.

I think that there are two major problems with this show. One is there are way too many matches. Having 16 very short matches on a card wore out the audience. The biggest issue is the many, many overbooked finishes.

We had Andre cheating in front of the ref and getting away with it. We had Dino Bravo getting disqualified for pushing a ref in the way. We had Hulk Hogan not being disqualified alone despite using a chair first.

We had Valentine grabbing tights for the win. We had Bam Bam counted out despite the fact he was on the ring apron and being hit by his opponent. We had a megaphone attack on a ref.

We even had back-to-back cane attacks to decide matches as well. If you add in what occurs in the title match, that is nine finishes involved cheating in some way. It is way too much lazy booking for an important show.