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Worst in the World: Triple H vs Randy Orton-WrestleMania 25

(Special thanks to an anonymous user for suggesting this match. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below.) The main event of WrestleMania is the one match above all else that the WWE should want to get right every year. After all, it's the finale to the company's biggest show of the year, they absolutely want to end their biggest show with the biggest bang possible. On top of that, having their marquee match get overshadowed by a better match earlier on the card really doesn't do them any favors, and it just makes that marquee match come off as less than. Last week, I looked at Hulk Hogan vs Sgt. Slaughter, a bottom-five WrestleMania main event from WrestleMania VII, and one that was vastly outdone by the match between The Ultimate Warrior and Randy Savage earlier in the show. This week, we'll take a look at another one of those overshadowed main events, that being the main event of WrestleMania 25 between WWE Champi...

Worst in the World: WrestleMania XV: The Ragin' Anticlimax

(Special thanks to an anonymous user for suggesting this post's idea. If you'd like to see a match covered on the Worst in the World, leave a comment down below.) 1999 was one of the most important years in the history of the then-World Wrestling Federation. After being thoroughly beaten in the ratings battle by WCW for nearly two years, the WWF had regained its footing mid-1998, and would head into '99 on a winning streak in the Monday Night Wars that would never end. At the same time, WCW had begun to fall apart, with the now infamous Fingerpoke of Doom being the first of many nails in the coffin of the company. With their main competitor going from a genuine threat to a distant second, the WWF was absolutely on fire. With that said, it's kind of surprising that, in one of the best years the company ever had, the WWF put on one of the worst WrestleManias of all time in WrestleMania XV. It feels weird to say that. After all, this is the show that featured the first Wre...