11 Biggest Missteps On The Road To WrestleMania 38

11. WrestleMania SmackDown (And Raw)

A recent phenomenon for WWE, the company apparently has decided that not only is WrestleMania too big for one night, two nights aren’t big enough to contain everything.

Enter: WrestleMania SmackDown. What could only be described as a desperate way to make fans care about the last show before the big PPV – er, PLE – now sees WWE booking an Intercontinental Championship match and the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal for the blue brand go-home show rather than finding space over the course of two nights.

The go-home show should be the hard sell for Mania, tying up loose ends, and possibly adding some late stakes to any other matches. At worst, any matches on that show should have ramifications for Mania. Instead, it looks more and more like a spillover for the excess of WM 38 and less like something of importance.

For God’s sake, the Andre battle royal, once a 30-man match that produced the near-iconic moment of Cesaro slamming Big Show out of the ring, now consists of 17 men because “budget cuts” have shrunk the rosters to the point where you can’t even get to 20 viable entrants.

And of course, we also got “WrestleMania Raw” this Monday, so the Mania branding continues to expand.