10 Biggest WrestleMania 33 Missed Opportunities
5. No Great Women’s Match
While WWE have unquestionably increased their focus on women’s wrestling in recent years, the Women’s Revolution remains far from perfect. Raw’s division is incredibly top-heavy, and SmackDown’s group are still hungover from a lazy, uninspired WrestleMania build. Aside from the odd angle or two, the women still aren’t always given the same level of focus as their male counterparts, and WrestleMania highlighted this.
You’d think a company that claims to be so focused on women’s wrestling would give the performers a showcase match on the Grandest Stage of Them All, but no. The SmackDown offering was a rushed six-minute sprint, and the Raw four-way, while good in spurts, suffered from a botched exposed turnbuckle spot and a disjointed match layout.
If women’s wrestling is as big a priority as WWE claim, they’d have given them the opportunity to have a blow-away match. The turnbuckle spot isn’t their fault, but the Raw bout would have fared better as a standard Bayley vs. Charlotte clash, and the SD equivalent was a total afterthought. Sadly, WWE passed up an excellent chance to keep the Revolution moving forward in 2017.