Top 10 Pointless WrestleMania Matches

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WrestleMania has come and gone. Are any of your favourite matches on this list?

#4 The Undertaker vs. Shane McMahon (WrestleMania 32)

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Shane McMahon jumped off the Hell in a Cell at WrestleMania 32

I hated this storyline and I did not like the match. The jump from the top of the Hell in a Cell structure was the only thing that's memorable about the match. Shane McMahon returning to WWE was an amazing and shocking moment, but it went downhill almost immediately. They had some vague story about a “lockbox” that Shane owned that had secrets about Vince -- personal, business, it was never explained -- and that was only spoken of one time.

To summarize, Vince gave Stephanie McMahon some sort of stupid fake achievement award, but Shane, who apparently caught wind of this somehow, made his return after being gone for almost seven years to protest.

Stephanie was still technically in charge of RAW along with Triple H, and Shane said that he hated the direction they were going, so he was returning to right the ship. He also said that he had a lockbox of Vince’s secrets that he would reveal -- I guess -- if Vince didn’t give him what he wanted. Not really sure.

In any event, Vince said that Shane could run RAW if he won a match at WrestleMania, but if he lost, he would have to leave and hand over the lockbox. It was revealed that Undertaker would be Shane’s opponent. Shane lost, handed over the lockbox (we assume since it was never mentioned again) and then never went away.

In fact, he started to run RAW literally the night after he lost the match that stipulated that he had to win in order to be the General Manager of RAW.

That’s the definition of pointless. Stipulate that a guy has to win a match to run the show. He loses the match and then gets to run the show anyway, effectively in less than 24 hours after losing the said match. There was so much wrong with this storyline. The match existed because they somehow couldn’t come up with a way to get Undertaker on the card and because they wanted Shane to jump from a high place. Just terrible.

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Edited by Shruti Sadbhav
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