10 Deadly Mistakes WWE Must NOT Make Before WrestleMania XL

10. The Beast Ends The Story

This was not the right call.

Cody Rhodes, who'd been conveyed as a determined, boisterous God since his April 2022 comeback, was ultimately felled by Roman Reigns in a 'Mania phenomenon that yielded a counterfactual result. Rhodes was the guy, the one to beat Roman, the one babyface who has possessed the same natural, gripping charisma not seen since peak-John Cena.

And then he lost.

And then he got battered by Brock Lesnar.

Rhodes vs. Lesnar will doubtlessly be a grandiose contest the likes of which WWE markets itself on, but how will they consummate the accurate result? Cody's lost all momentum. The audience was cheering when he got mauled by Lesnar - a move that is undividedly WWE's wrongdoing - so a Cody Rhodes victory may not be the enviable conclusion it once was, though it's unquestionably the correct one.

Cody, in theory, needs to get past Brock to get back to Roman. There's a way of tying this senseless heel turn together; Lesnar, unable to challenge for the top prize as long as it's on Roman's shoulder, could have been employed by Paul Heyman to mutilate Cody with the affirmation of a title contest.

It's too elaborate a story beat for WWE's inconsequential and trivial 'storylines'. But it works, so long as Cody slays 'The Beast'.