Super self-serious WrestleMania opening video packages are among my favorite things in the world.
Put all this stuff into a pile and vacuum our money up instead of spacing it out and trying to “take over a city” where the Uber drivers have no idea what a WrestleMania is and the best promotion you get at the airport is a badly propped-up banner beside an Au Bon Pain.īest: Melodramatic WrestleMania Openings WWE Network Or just split it up, who cares? The point is that we want to watch a lot of wrestling, but this is too much at once, and if you’re renting out a building for the garbage Hall of Fame ceremony and setting up for Mania in the stadium all week anyway, just run two nights in the stadium, make double your money, and stop asking us to find our way out of New Jersey at two in the fucking ante meridiem.īetter yet, run Axxess in a damn annex on the side of the building instead of in an abandoned ship yard in the middle of nowhere. You can run a nostalgia card on the first night with Triple H or some secondary championship main-eventing - or one of your multitude of “world championships” that deserve a spotlight somewhere other than in your opener - and run the rest of it with the modern stars on Sunday.
There was a full hour of content between Kofi Kingston winning and Becky Lynch winning that could’ve been cut completely and not changed the show for the worse. When you run your historic main event at midnight when people have already been in the building watching wrestling for seven-plus hours, you’re going to see diminishing returns.
While this is on brand for a lot of shows on WrestleMania weekend, but a 16-match card plus celebrity appearances plus comedy sketches plus impromptu fights plus musical performances plus pomp and circumstance for WWE existing while finding room for 49 personalities to appear, not counting special guest commentators for all the important matches and two entire battle royals full of people and celebrities is too goddamn much. The doors for the show opened around 3:30 on Sunday, and the main event didn’t start until literally Monday morning. It doesn’t need to be said, but this is officially the year when WWE needs to decide what the hell they’re doing with their long-ass pay-per-views. Here’s the Best and Worst of WWE WrestleMania 35 for April 7, 2018. Feel free to peruse the WrestleMania 35 tag page if we missed anything. Be sure to leave us a comment in our comment section below as well. One more thing: Hit those share buttons! Spread the word about the column on Facebook, Twitter and whatever else you use.
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