10 Things WWE Messed Up At WrestleMania 32

10. The Kickoff Show

Talk about two hours of our lives we can never get back.

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The WrestleMania 32 Kickoff Show featured three matches: Kalisto vs Ryback for the United States Championship, The Usos vs The Dudley Boyz, and the 10-woman Divas tag team match. Not that most of the live crowd were able to enter the arena for two of them.

The matches weren't particularly bad - excluding the Divas match which was a horrible waste of everyone's time - but the Kickoff Show should be designed to draw in those without a WWE Network subscription. If you were watching on YouTube or the USA Network, chances are you weren't swayed.

The 80-odd minutes between matches was mostly used to air overplayed promos that have been doing the rounds for the last two weeks. The pre-show match hype was a carbon copy of what was presented on SmackDown just three nights earlier.

It was a two-hour kick-off for the sake of having a two-hour kick-off, nothing more. Aside from Lita revealing the new WWE Women's Championship, the show did very little to create buzz for WWE's biggest event of the year.

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