8 Things WWE Have Promised For WrestleMania 33 (And Must Deliver)
Have they been building up to a huge payoff or major disappointment?
WrestleMania has more nicknames than most other WWE Pay-Per-Views combined. It’s ‘The Grandest Stage of Them All’, ‘The Show of Shows’, ‘The Showcase of the Immortals’, and, apparently, ‘The Ultimate Thrill ride’.
WWE is promising a great deal with this year’s event, marketing the show as a non-stop, action-packed juggernaut that everyone can enjoy - the sports entertainment equivalent of a theme park ride. Although the company is highly experienced when it comes to building hype for their mega-shows, the sheer amount of adverts and soundbites plugging Mania across RAW, Smackdown and the WWE Network these days is staggering.
There’s a very real and present danger here that WWE could be shooting themselves in the foot by promising a little too much for WrestleMania 33. Each year, the Show of Shows is supposed to be bigger and better than the last, but we all know WrestleMania events fluctuate wildly in terms of quality and popularity.
As we edge closer to the show in question, WWE is beginning to ramp up excitement by foreshadowing huge moments and feud finales. If these things don’t come to pass, WrestleMania 33 could suffer from a lack of payoff and wasted opportunities.
8. That Seth Rollins Will Wrestle
The feud between Triple H and Seth Rollins is one of the best-built rivalries heading into this Sunday.
Seth’s babyface run is really
starting to hit its stride, Triple H has been absolutely savage on the mic, and
the entire angle has been bolstered by Triple H’s coalition with Owens and Joe,
his real life role as a talent ‘creator’ in NXT, and the fact that Seth could
potentially miss another WrestleMania thanks to injury.
But their match is on, quelling rumours and supposedly leaked plans that Finn Bálor was supposed to replace Rollins when the time came to duke it out with Triple H. WWE has booked Triple H vs Seth Rollins in a non-sanctioned match, so after months of build with little payoff, we need to see Seth and Triple H go one on one. Otherwise, it’ll feel like the last six or so months have been a waste of time, if Seth was never going to be able to compete in the first place.
It’ll
be like Stone Cold at Survivor Series ’99 all over again, and even if Finn Bálor gets the biggest pop of the night, the promise will still have been broken.