Top 10 Pointless WrestleMania Matches

#7 Edge vs. Booker T (WrestleMania x8)

The sign in the crowd says it all

Is there really even that much to be said about this match? Booker T came into the WWF in June 2001 as the WCW Heavyweight and United States Champion, having become a double champion in March on the final episode of Monday Nitro.

He relinquished the US Title to Kanyon as a show of solidarity of the Alliance during the InVasion angle and would lose the WCW Title to The Rock a couple months later at SummerSlam (he lost it to Kurt Angle for a very short period of time before this, but gained it back quickly).

After the InVasion storyline ended, Booker teamed up with Vince McMahon and the Big Bossman in a reprisal of the Austin vs. McMahon storyline. That was extremely short, lasting less than two months, and Booker never got a proper match with Austin. They did have that classic grocery store segment that saw Austin completely humiliate Booker, but that was it.

In any event, Booker T was pretty much a chump once the Alliance vs. WWF storyline was over. Edge, by contrast, had broken out as a singles star. He won the 2001 King of the Ring tournament and won the Intercontinental Championship at SummerSlam.

Christian turned on him because he felt marginalized like he was the second fiddle to the more popular Edge. Christian joined the Alliance and Edge eventually vanquished him. He finished the InVasion storyline as the Intercontinental and United States Champion, and the titles were merged. He also had a decent feud with William Regal, where he lost the IC Title.

What I’m saying here is that the men were on pretty different career trajectories, with Booker T’s stock lowering from March to December 2001 and Edge’s stock significantly rising during that same time period. But both men were without anything to do at WrestleMania, so WWE concocted a ludicrous Japanese shampoo commercial for the two to fight over, and they had a forgettable match.

Edge would go on to become an even bigger singles star when he feuded with Kurt Angle on SmackDown when the original brand split began, and Booker trod water for a while. This match could have jumpstarted both of their careers right before the brand split, but instead, they just got lazy.