10 Things I Hate About WrestleMania
5. Booking The Entire Roster Onto The Card
In recent years, WWF/E have begun trying to give as many wrestlers on their roster as possible a 'WrestleMania moment and pay-day. This was never the case in the early days of the event.
Oh, there have always been Battle Royals... but in the old days they were surrounded by gimmickless singles matches, which were the true focus of the card.
These days there arent just Battle Royals, there are multiple-team tag encounters, triple threats, and now a multi-man ladder match. Overbooking is a horrible hangover from the Attitude Era, and it seems that WWE are hellbent on clusterf***ing the WrestleMania card every year now, purely to shoehorn every active wrestler on the roster onto the show.
It's great that so many talented people are getting a little extra cash... but time spent on their characters and programmes the rest of the year would be far more helpful. For example, Zack Ryder is a man buried so deep in recent years that youd think hed died of something contagious.
His work as the less enthusiastic half of a mid-level tag team on the developmental brand has, pathetically, been the highlight of his career since those halcyon days of the summer of 2011.
And now hes in the Intercontinental Title ladder match at WrestleMania 32. Someone who'd only started watching the product in, say, 2013, would be forgiven for wondering who on earth this 'Ryder' guy is and how he's appeared out of nowhere to get an IC title shot.
People on the undercard shouldnt be on the biggest show of the year, but then the word undercard shouldnt cover half to two-thirds of the roster. WrestleMania isnt a consolation prize for having a crappy spot the rest of the year. Its supposed to be the Showcase Of The Immortals, not the Parade Of The Zeroes.
Lets turn these zeroes into heroes and then figure out where they belong come WrestleMania season.