Wrestlemania/YMMV

This is the page for "Your Mileage May Vary" tropes seen at WWF/E WrestleMania.

See also the WrestleMania main page, Moments of awesome at WrestleMania, and Wall Bangers.

Wrestlemania YMMV Tropes:

• Crowning Moment of Awesome: The signature WrestleMania Moment, Hulk Hogan bodyslamming Andre the Giant at WrestleMania 3 in front of the largest crowd for an indoor sporting event in American history. This is the Crowning Moment of Awesome that all other Crowning Moments in pro wrestling are measured against, and is widely considered the apex of the wrestling boom of The Eighties.
• Crowning Moment of Funny: WrestleMania 18's match where the Hardcore championship changed hands from Maven, Spike Dudley, The Hurricane, Mighty Molly, Christian and back to Maven.
  • Wrestlemania 24 was billed for months as "The Biggest Wrestlemania under the sun", because it was in Florida with an open arena. When it finally happened...it was cloudy.
• Heartbreaking in Hindsight: Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero came out on top at WrestleMania 20 as World Heavyweight and WWF title winners. After nearly twenty years of trying to reach the pinnacle of his profession, Benoit made Triple H tap to the Crippler Crossface in a Triple Threat with Shawn Michaels. Benoit's post-match celebration with Eddie Guerrero - then the WWE Champion - was a sight many smarks cried tears of happiness over.
  • Then Real Life stepped in: the next three years ruined the image forever. It was harkened back upon positively after Guerrero's death in 2005. But after Benoit's double murder-suicide in 2007, WWE has attempted to pretend Chris Benoit never existed.
• Misaimed Fandom: WrestleMania 18's "dream match" between Hulk Hogan (in his "Hollywood" persona) and The Rock. Despite being a heel, Hogan got more cheers from the crowd than The Rock. Rock turned this to his advantage, as he decided not to fight it, and basically turned heel in mid match, and then turned back once the match was over.
• Shocking Swerve: WrestleMania 17 had the twist ending to the show's main event, where Steve Austin turned heel and teamed up with longtime rival and WWF owner Vince McMahon to defeat The Rock and win the WWF Championship once again.
• Tear Jerker: WrestleMania 24 saw Ric Flair's career come to an end with defeat to Shawn Michaels in a "Career Threatening Match" - Michaels, with tears in his eyes, inaudibly tells Flair "I'm sorry, I love you" before reluctantly hitting Sweet Chin Music and ending Flair's career... of course, it didn't.
  • It was at least partially a case of Real Life Writes the Plot. Most insider sources claim that, yes, Flair did in fact plan on retiring for good after his match to Shawn, at most making one or two guest spots without really much ring-work. But a lifetime of bad financial planning loomed over him, and after tacking progressively more frequent "one-time only" appearances in different companies around the world, he settled for a longer-termed contract with TNA.
• They Just Didn't Care: Wrestlemania 27 had a WWE Heavyweight Championship match between Alberto Del Rio and Edge, but it was inexplicably scheduled first on the card. Edge retired soon after, with his Wrestlemania main event bout wasted on a card opener.
  • Rumor has it that if the WWE had known about his injury, they would've made a bigger deal out of the match.
    • They did know he was injured, but not that injured. Edge thought he had at least on more year in him before retiring. After getting checked out it was determined that that was not the case.