Top 10 Pointless WrestleMania Matches

#3 Fandango vs. Chris Jericho (WrestleMania 29)

Fandango hits his top rope leg drop

shortly

defeating Chris Jericho in his debut match

They had their hearts in the right place. Well, at least Chris Jericho did because according to the stories, it was Jericho who asked to put Fandango over at WrestleMania. Just one month after debuting the Fandango character on an episode of SmackDown (after almost four months of vignettes and a name change from Fandango to Fandango), he had his debut match in a victory over Chris Jericho at WrestleMania. Think about that.

You debut as a brand new character after a disappointing prior run and a month later you are defeating Chris Jericho at WrestleMania. That has to mean you’re going to be huge, right?

Nope. Despite his gimmick and theme song becoming ironically huge, WWE did nothing with him. He lost the rematch with Jericho on the next PPV, Extreme Rules. He suffered a concussion before the Payback PPV a few weeks later and was taken out of a triple threat match for the Intercontinental Championship.

It’s rumoured that he was supposed to win the match, but that is just speculation based on the fact that his replacement, Curtis Axel, ended up winning the title. Fandango made his return on July 1, 2013, about a month after the concussion. Since then, he’s essentially been a joke. All of his WrestleMania appearances since his debut (30, 31, 32, 33, and 34 as of this writing) have been in losing efforts in the Andre the Giant Battle Royal. That’s one hell of a fall from grace.

It’s completely unclear as to exactly what happened. Was he just a pet project of Chris Jericho that the former multi-time World Champion hoped to get over? Because if that’s the case, he did get over, and WWE still ruined him almost immediately.

This match is one of the top three most pointless matches in WrestleMania history because it had exactly zero impact on anything that happened after the show. I’d rather that it never happened at all.