I even have to confess, I can not remember the last time I used to be this unenthusiastic about WrestleMania, and that features the years I wasn’t even watching and maintaining the weekly shows consistently. Regardless of what, I used to be all the time excited, but this yr feels so different and uninspired. After tonight, I noticed we’re likely going to be getting the identical things time and again for the following three weeks on “Raw” (and certain “SmackDown,” but that is a unique story for a unique day) and it should feel much more repetitive and unexciting.
While I like watching Brock Lesnar take a beating from Oba Femi, we’ve got three weeks left of their confrontations. Those hopefully all end with Femi going over, outside of possibly the last one where Lesnar gets the upper hand going into the ‘Mania match, but regardless of the way you slice it, we get three more segments of Paul Heyman coming out to speak for Lesnar, then a confrontation of some kind. Perhaps they’ll switch it up and Femi speaks one week, but even that would not make things feel any different.
Speaking of Heyman, after he had Seth Rollins arrested tonight, we absolutely have a couple of more masked men segments moving forward. The boys in black hoodies were noticeably absent outside of Rollins himself tonight, so there’s a 100% likelihood that Heyman is terrorized by them, wondering which one is Rollins, for a minimum of per week or two.
The Women’s World Championship match seems like an entire afterthought, which is wild, considering it’s Stephanie Vaquer and Liv Morgan. We will get more backstage brawls between the pair, like we saw last week, and again this week, with Vaquer taking out Morgan on the stage when she made her entrance alongside Dominik Mysterio. It looks as if the ladies have said all the pieces they should say to 1 one other, so brawling at every likelihood is actually all they’ve left.
Finally, Roman Reigns and CM Punk will likely proceed their run of important event segments going into the “Grandaddy of Them All.” Hopefully things get more interesting, with the angle involving Jey Uso, but after these previous few Punk segments (and, alright, the very fact I actually don’t like CM Punk), I haven’t got much faith there, either. While I’m really hoping I’m mistaken, and we possibly get a Bron Breakker return to boost the Heyman and Rollins stuff, I do not foresee plenty of crazy, exciting things happening between now and April 18. We’re actually coasting along on the “Road to WrestleMania,” and it doesn’t feel like WWE goes to place much effort into making it interesting until the massive nights roll around.
Written by Daisy Ruth