Best: Brock Lesnar v Roman Reigns (WrestleMania 31)
Roman Reigns was still not in the good graces of the audience around WrestleMania 31, but the sentiment was softening. The fans knew he was here for the long haul and had begun to accept the face of the company. Of course, it helped when the quality of his matches improved, WrestleMania 31’s main event being a great example.
Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns smashed one another with the stiffest shots they could. This was not a fancy wrestling match, just two men beating each other into submission. Reigns presented a bigger threat to Brock Lesnar than many had predicted. It was an incredible hoss battle that included the best ending to any WrestleMania match in WWE history.
Worst: Royal Rumble 2015
There wasn’t much that worked with the Royal Rumble in 2015. The WWE Championship triple threat was fantastic, but everything else that followed flat-out sucked. The biggest culprit was the Royal Rumble Match. It was a match with all the potential in the world, but it failed to produce any great moments for the audience.
Daniel Bryan being eliminated halfway through the match turned the fans sour, and it only went downhill from there. The excitement had been sapped from the arena, and the lack of star power as the Royal Rumble entered its final stretch hurt the match. The Royal Rumble was there specifically to get Roman Reigns over, and all others were sacrificed to that. Not even a surprise return from The Rock could save this disaster.
