Top 10 Pointless WrestleMania Matches

#6 John Cena vs. Bray Wyatt (WrestleMania XXX)

Bray Wyatt tried to get John Cena to show his dark side at WrestleMania XXX

Here’s one you may not have expected to see on the list. Sadly, it needs to be here. Not only did the match, and the entire feud, turn out to be pointless, but it was the beginning of the end for the Bray Wyatt character.

Wyatt was pretty new to the scene having debuted just the previous summer. His first match was at SummerSlam in 2013, less than eight months before this WrestleMania match against John Cena.

People really thought that Wyatt was going to be the guy who was eventually going to take over the role of the crazy dark guy once Undertaker hung up his boots. He was creepy, he had minions, he was super over with the crowd and he was essentially untouchable. In fact, he defeated Daniel Bryan as clean as clean gets at the 2014 Royal Rumble event, only a couple of months before Bryan won the WWE World Heavyweight Title at WrestleMania.

The machine, it seemed, really was behind Bray. Enter John Cena. Now, this entry isn’t about how John Cena “buried” Bray Wyatt or anything like that. My feelings on that matter are unimportant. It’s about the terrible, pointless, ineffective story.

Wyatt, a destructive person who played mind games and wanted to drag everyone into the depths of near-insanity with him, started targeting Cena, saying that he was soft and that he would need to embrace the darkness in order to stand a chance against the mysterious newcomer. The match itself wasn’t necessarily bad, but it certainly wasn’t good.

Bray tried to get Cena to embrace his anger while Cena poorly acted like he was conflicted, as though he might actually do it. The main issue here is two-fold. One, Cena NEVER had a problem being vicious when he needed to be. The man has had hellacious I Quit and the Last Man Standing matches, First Blood matches and everything else you can think of -- all while being the white meat babyface that he has played for almost a decade and a half.

Bray trying to make him be vicious for the first time was impossible because it wasn’t “for the first time”. They played the match as though Cena was cautious to even throw a punch because he was afraid to descend into the darkness or some silly thing like that.

In the end, Cena would overcome and defeat Wyatt at WrestleMania. It was Bray’s first loss. He would go on to defeat Cena in a really bad cage month the following month before Cena beat him in a Last Man Standing match the month after that. During none of this did Cena ever “change” or act more vicious -- he was regular John Cena doing regular John Cena things, including showing extra aggression when necessary.

Bray lost his aura and although there have been glimpses, he hasn’t gotten it back. He went on to lose to The Undertaker at the next WrestleMania, got beat up by The Rock the next year, lost a terrible match to Randy Orton after that and showed up for a few minutes in the pre-show battle royal at WrestleMania 34.

Bad booking, not John Cena, caused the demise of Wyatt, but it was this WrestleMania feud and match that started it all. Nothing changed for Cena and nothing changed for Wyatt, either, except for losing momentum and staying in the middle of the card instead of moving up to the top. The pointless match was siply a waste of time.