10 Best Things To Come From The WWE's Worst Moments
Bad News/Good News.
Roman Reigns is a f*cking good egg.
Not wanting to risk his own potential precarious health and that of others, he was brave and bold enough to tell Vince McMahon that the WrestleMania main event wasn't for him, thanks very much, either on the day of or right before he was due to challenge for the Universal Championship against Bill Goldberg.
"I'm next...out of the door" was about as much as he really owed the company considering the circumstances, but its likely he laboured over this tough decision just as he'd had to over all their bad ones over a series of WrestleManias that have tainted a legacy already damaged by changing times WWE weren't adjusting with. Not that his boss will have seen it that way.
McMahon has never been so tethered to the rules of the real world in his own unreal life, and was likely furious with things even if he had to put on a brave face under legal advice and for the good of his own miraculous wellbeing. It has at least made this weird, weird WrestleMania even more unpredictable at least. May some good will come from that?
Maybe Orlando Florida was the first place to run out of toilet paper, because WWE made ice cream from piles of sh*t when it first it hit the fan...
10. Meet The New Boss, Same As The Young Old Boss
Triple H was a convivial host and ridiculous banter hound during the first empty arena edition of SmackDown.
It came from a place of spontaneity - something WWE are almost always great with yet never embrace - after the world gradually came to realise that it was going to have to sake serious events a little more seriously.
An empty gym show was both necessary and novelty in the eyes of 'The Game', who introduced it with a welcome tone of escapism before making Michael Cole's life hell for the next two hours. Ripping the p*ss out of his partner, he affectionately attacked his ability as an announcer, pointed the camera on him for the craic and even coloured in his soul patch just to fill a little more time.
Matches in the venue didn't have to play out to total silence because he was busy making cracks about Asuka running in "from the crowd" or picking on Jeff Hardy for playing to the empty seats. Much of WWE's output would go on to be a reminder of the troubled times outside, but Triple H's clowning genuinely served as a helpful way to forget.