10 Ways WWE Can Prove The Critics WRONG At WrestleMania 37

10. On Sundays, They Often Do

When people don't go ballistic in their praise of a WWE pay-per-view, even when the action is mostly strong, the tribalist mutants hold what is on the surface a decent argument: if WWE is a disgrace, as bad as the pathetic death throes of WCW, how could they possibly run such high-quality shows on Sunday nights?

Your writer hasn't ran the numbers, but a typical WWE pay-per-view does very well in the recurring Star Ratings series. **1/2 is average; *** is pretty damn good. Almost invariably, half of the matches on a WWE pay-per-view exceed the latter. Numbers are lost on certain people. These events are invariably praised on this author page and indeed throughout much of the critical community; the ever-controversial Dave Meltzer awarded a WWE RAW match ****1/4 last week, and nothing on the AEW Dynamite show presented 48 hours later matched it.

So why the general, unwavering disdain?

CM Punk said it, and you'll listen to him: WWE can always be better. With the vast financial resources the company boasts, and the world-class talent roster they have recruited to spend it on, what WWE accomplishes on Sundays represents the absolute bare minimum. Those Sundays can and should be better. WWE could hire or utilise expert wrestling minds to craft stories, allow wrestlers to express them, and pay off this elite-level storytelling in amazing unregulated matches that celebrate the incredible range and scope of the pro wrestling art. Tag team wrestling. Lucha libre. Strong style. All of it.

Many top-level WWE PPV matches are very good to excellent. They don't have to be riddled with checklist tropes and worked in the same rhythm.

And they don't always have to be built so unremarkably...