10 WrestleMania matches that didn't live up to the hype and expectations

#6 CM Punk (c) vs Chris Jericho - WWE Championship (WrestleMania XXVIII)

At least they made amends with the Street Fight at the next PPV

CM Punk's legendary WWE Championship reign was easily the best thing on WWE programming in early 2012. As the most popular superstar on the roster, he was killing it on the microphone and inside the ring on a daily basis, living up to his self declared moniker of being the Best in the World.

So when Chris Jericho, another legend attached with Best in the World moniker, made his return to WWE during the same time, a dream match between the elite athletes at WrestleMania seemed evident. Given a history between the two and the talent that they possessed, the expectations for their WWE Championship match at Mania XXVIII were already towering way before the actual event.

And just like it happened with the Styles-Nakamura clash six years later, Punk and Jericho failed to enthrall the fans in Miami Gardens. Despite wrestling one of the pure technical matches, the two fell way short of the expectations that the everyone had with men of their caliber, thanks to the burden of following End of an Era and preceding the Once in a Lifetime match.

Both of them were actually were lucky that they made up for this match by wrestling a brutal fight in Chicago a month later. Jericho, however, was not as lucky five years later....