10 Ways WWE Can Guarantee A WrestleMania 34 Sell-Out

10. Streamline The Card

One of the biggest issues dogging recent WrestleManias has been a lack of meaningful matches on the undercard. The main events retain their prestige, but the lesser bouts tend to be hastily thrown together, and of little significance in the grander scheme. They often take the form of half-hearted multi-person spotfests that scream of cramming as many people into the bloated five-to-six hour run-time as possible, obliterating the prestige of making it onto the card in the process.

Both Women’s Title matches suffered this fate at WM33, as did the Raw Tag Team Championships. The latter served as an effective vehicle for the Hardy Boyz’s return, but the women could definitely have benefited from stronger individual narratives and focus, as Naomi and Bayley’s victories meant very little in the end.

WWE should streamline next year’s card, and build these matches around clear cut one-on-one feuds, thus ensuring meaningful outcomes which should then make the ever elusive “WrestleMania moment” easier to attain. More singles matches means more wrestlers will miss out, but that’s a small price to pay if it helps make the undercard feel important again.