10 Expectations Vs. Reality For WWE WrestleMania 35
8. Kurt Angle Vs. Baron Corbin
Expectation:
At time of writing, this is actually happening. And who really cares, honestly. It isn't 2005 anymore. Kurt Angle isn't the ultra-intense, ultra-credible wrestling machine of old. Chad Gable managed only a decent effort from Angle on this week's RAW, in a match that only really worked because the crowd willed them over the line. Angle was great back in his day - phenomenal - but he's cooked now. And so why not book the man, in a mad fit of his old shooter intensity, to take Baron Corbin down immediately, punch the back of his head in, and obliterate him with a trifecta of German suplexes? And then, for added comedy value, perhaps Corbin, to underscore how much of a worthless coward he is, could start tapping before Angle even applies the Ankle Lock. This could enable one last classic Kurt comedy reaction, in which he wears an expression of disgusted bafflement, before he turns the screw.
This isn't a Baron Corbin RAW match; it doesn't need to go 20 minutes just to fill time.
Wait...
Reality:
WWE knows that we dislike Corbin, and will drag out his stalling and trash-talking to rouse our support of Angle for a good number of woefully ineffective minutes, and we're pissed, because we need those minutes. We need those minutes to sleep.