10 Impulse Reactions Following WWE WrestleMania 33
4. False Projections
A main stage reminder of why Bray Wyatt should be a million miles away from that main stage, the WWE Title match showed creativity with the smoke and mirrors employed, but couldn't deliver a dynamic contest between the two stoic performers.
Though Randy Orton's sudden RKO for the finish looked on paper to be a mercy-killing of a drawn out tale, the odds are this will lumber on for a rematch or two in the coming months as is WWE's usual form.
But if there was a night to keep it quick, it was this one. Orton and Wyatt are simply not stadium wrestlers, and Bray belongs nowhere near a top title in today's workrate-intensive WWE.
Being slow is not psychology. Doing odd crab stares before your big moves is not psychology. And promos need context as well as syllables.
From the day they arrived on the main roster, the Wyatt character has been a square plug trying to fit in a round hole, and this was no greater evidenced than in the predictably drab payoff to an otherwise absorbing storyline.
For months, it was a Randy tale. What were his motives for joining the family? Did he have an endgame?
The second it moved to Bray's hocus pocus and inspiration from whatever horror movie he'd seen that week, the story lost total direction and a disconnect with the match itself was an inevitability.