6 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 37 - Night 2
Roman reigns supreme; Ripley has crowning moment; Fiend cheats death, jobs to RKO.
Well, that was certainly a definitive way to close out a WrestleMania.
Stomping (or chairing) your opponents into submission and then pinning their lifeless corpses has to be a the top of the list of ways to establish your dominance over a roster, and we should just take a moment to bow to the greatness that is Roman Reigns.
And kudos to the other guys in the match, Daniel Bryan and Edge, who together put on a show-saving performance in the main event of Sunday night’s WrestleMania 37. Up to that point, Mania’s second night wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t terribly memorable either.
It was tough to get the bad taste of the opener between Randy Orton and The Fiend out of our collective mouths, as WWE took a horrific feud and just saw it through with a terrible match to start the show. We won’t spoil it, but it involved black goo.
Throw in a subpar women’s tag title match and a lackluster Intercontinental Championship match and the undercard wasn’t cutting it. We did get some good performances in the United States Championship match and the rivalry between Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. But the Raw Women’s Championship and Universal Championship matches really pumped up the show’s stock.
Still, WWE managed to botch simple stuff, showing that the problem isn’t the talent, it’s the dopes writing this stuff. Maybe clean house there, and don’t axe the wrestlers.
Let’s get to it…