Ranking every WrestleMania of the last decade

#8 WrestleMania 33

Thank You Taker

While this year’s WrestleMania had a beautiful set and some good matches, there were a lot of bad matches and drawn out encounters that brought the show down.

The highlights of the show were The Hardy Boyz returning to the company to win the Raw Tag Team Championships, Brock Lesnar vs. Goldberg, Kevin Owens vs. Chris Jericho, and the show-stealer between AJ Styles and Shane McMahon. Despite all this good, the bad matches levelled out the show.

The Intercontinental Championship match was terrible, The Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal was wasted on Mojo Rawley, neither Women’s Championship match was anything worth re-watching despite the happy endings, the mixed tag team match was bland, Triple H vs. Seth Rollins was slightly disappointing, and Bray Wyatt vs. Randy Orton was complete trash.

Despite how bad Orton vs. Wyatt was, the match that was the most problematic was the encounter between Roman Reigns and The Undertaker.

Aside from the fact that fans wanted to see Cena, Styles, Braun Strowman or even Finn Bálor face The Undertaker instead, the buildup to the match was lazy with little more than three interactions between the two on TV.

The match featured the return of Jim Ross to commentary and was made ‘No Holds Barred’, but the match was a struggle to watch as Reigns beat down The Undertaker and hit him with several spears to win the match.

After Reigns got his firework celebration, The Undertaker left all his gear in the ring, and the show ended with one of the greatest wrestlers of all time hanging up his boots for good.