Zombie stunt at WrestleMania Backlash is WWE’s saddest moment

Professional wrestling may have never stooped lower than this cheap cash grab that ruined one of the best events of the year.

Damien Priest is confronted by two zombies. Picture: WWE

WWE sure knows how to put a damper on a good thing.

WrestleMania Backlash continued a recent string of WWE pay-per-views filled with great matches and compelling stories, but many will remember this one for the terrible, cheap-plug zombies.

Thankfully the actual wrestling was good enough to stop one of the company’s worst ideas from truly dragging the show into the muck.

But Zombie Lumber Jacks?

A group of zombies attack The Miz and Damien Priest.

Yes, read that again. WWE turned the lumberjacks for The Miz-Damien Priest match into zombies as basically a big ad for former wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista’s new movie, “Army of the Dead,” which sponsored the show.

Kudos to The Miz and Priest and John Morrison for trying to make the most of this absolute disaster. They even teamed up to fight the zombies at one point.

WWE put the zombies in context by showing a tweet from Bautista saying he couldn’t make it but “some of my friends will”.

But it all made for one of the worst things WWE has ever done. They even dimmed the lights and filled the ThunderDome video board with spooky house graphics.

Somehow the zombies, which arrived from all around the arena and scared the broadcast team away, knew not to enter the ring during the match.

But they made sure to “eat” the Miz in the middle of it following his defeat.

WWE even had Priest’s bow-and-arrow routine lead to an ad for the movie after he won.

The match felt so secondary. Compromising your creative and product on a pay-per-view that much to promote a movie just leaves a bad taste.

Miz will likely be right back on “Monday Night Raw” this week with some lame excuse for how he survived.

The Miz unloads punches on a zombie.

Either that or we get a Zombie Miz and Morrison, who was also eaten. Just for due diligence, we have now seen WWE burn a man alive (The Fiend) and have one eaten alive by the bloodthirsty undead in the past six months.

— New York Post