8 Ups & 6 Downs From Triple H's WWE (So Far)
1. The Bloodline
It's the story that has thrown the wildest and most unpredictable spanner into WWE's WrestleMania works.
It's the plotting so good you want to be in the building when it unfolds.
It's the performance level so sublime that it draws gushing praise from almost every corner of the wrestling commentariat no matter how hard it is to form consensus in the age of monoculture.
It's - at long f*cking last - something actually worthy of Roman Reigns exceptionally deliberate pacing, menace and fear-mongering after months of his Uso gaslighting running on fumes.
Sami Zayn was the missing ingredient, but it can't go underestimated how superb the rest of The Bloodline have been bouncing off him and risking the integrity of the act by selling so much for it. "Being Ucey" is now the best thing anybody in WWE can be, Zayn himself will fall heartbreakingly short before somebody topples Roman's empire, and the sprawling stories (and instantly iconic conversations about t-shirts) that have already spun out of the unit since the summer has etched the group into company history.