Top 10 Pointless WrestleMania Matches

#5 Genichiro Tenryu & Koji Kitao vs. Demolition (WrestleMania VII)

Kitao and Tenryu are interviewed by Regis Philbin prior to their WrestleMania VII match

Kitao and Tenryu have had extremely different careers. Both working in the short-lived Super World of Sports promotion, Kitao had debuted as a wrestler in late 1989 and was less than 2 years into the business when this match happened.

Tenryu had been a wrestler for 15 years at this point and had already won the prestigious Triple Crown, which was the top championship for All Japan Pro Wrestling. He continued to wrestle through 2015. Kitao didn’t really do much, wrestling in 1997 but never achieving anything significant.

Tenryu showed up a couple of more times in the WWF, but only as an enforcer-type character with Mr Fuji and Yokozuna. Super World of Sports had a working relationship with the WWF, and many of the WWF guys worked in Japan for them during their short 2-year run.

This specific match at the 7th WrestleMania event had no build and just sort of happened. The Japanese contingent defeated Demolition, a legendary team that split up shortly after this. It wasn’t even the real Demolition, as the third member, Crush, had taken the place of Ax, who left the WWF in late 1990.

It was essentially a post-intermission cool-down match (it followed the Savage vs. Warrior retirement match) that nobody cared about. Nobody knew who the Japanese guys were and Demolition was done. The match happened, but it didn’t need to and was a sad way to see Demolition go.