10 Deadly Mistakes WWE Must NOT Make Before WrestleMania XL
6. The Judgment Day Falls Flat
Though Dominik Mysterio and Finn Balor both lost at WrestleMania 39, The Judgment Day remains one of the hottest things on WWE television.
There was a long period in 2022 when the initially Edge-helmed faction made for arduous viewing. The segments were desolate, the directionless characters lifeless, and the matches simpleminded; it sucked. Bad.
What changed it?
Dominik Mysterio.
Dom's addition to the group, which now comprised Finn Balor, Damian Priest, and Rhea Ripley, brought them life when, before, the third-generation Mysterio had been something of a deplorable buffoon between the ropes, too green even for WWE's rocket-fuelled push standards. He's amended his in-ring blunders to such a degree that The Judgment Day can come away from any given week as WWE's most must-see segment; Dom's 'Mania 39 entrance underlined this.
The group's prosperity came under Paul Levesque's command, with Vince McMahon's creative leadership nearabout seeing the group become supernaturally entwined. Edge was against this idea, sensibly, and thankfully the decision didn't go ahead even after his own removal from the group. This Vinceism - the idea of making any dark and broody gimmick supernatural - must stay away from the group in its current form; they're a Paul Levesque success story, of which there are dismally few.