10 Worst Booking Decisions in WrestleMania History

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7. WrestleMania XI Main Event

WrestleMania XI is well known for being one of the worst Mania’s of all time and if you take the main event of the show as your main reasoning, that seems about right.  The final match of WrestleMania XI was between a former professional football player who’d never wrestled a pro wrestling match in his life in Lawrence Taylor against a guy, although underrated, who’s biggest accomplishment in the WWE was in the form of a 1987 Slammy Award for best head in Bam Bam Bigelow.  Not exactly a star-studded match with a lot of future implications on the line.

What makes this craziness even worse was the fact that pre-main event was an extremely meaningful match for the WWF Championship between Diesel and Shawn Michaels.  That would’ve been the perfect main event.  Diesel, who would go on a dominant run as champion pitted against his former friend and current best heel on the roster almost seemed like a dream pairing at the company’s biggest event.  But for some insane reason, Taylor and Bam Bam were deemed the main attraction.

Diesel and Michaels went on to have a very solid championship match, in fact, it was basically the only redeeming quality of that show.  The main event turned out to actually not be that bad but it was more spectacle than anything with Taylor’s football buddies and Bigelow’s heel friends all hanging at ringside.  It was all over in about 11 minutes and Taylor, once again, not a WWF superstar was carried out for his WrestleMania moment, a moment that should’ve been celebrated by Diesel.