10 Live Observations From Attending The Raw After WrestleMania 32

3. Where Were All The Stars?

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The Raw after WrestleMania is often seen as the most important of the year, but this one didn't feel like it - apart from the debuts, it could have been any episode of Raw, and a large part of the blame falls on the fact that most of WrestleMania's top stars simply didn't appear.

Shane McMahon and Roman Reigns were in attendance, but there was no Undertaker, no John Cena, no Rock, no Brock Lesnar, no Dean Ambrose, and no Triple H (though it's hard to complain too much about the last one, given that if he was there, they would have had to set up a Reigns rematch). 

It's understandable that some of these men were selling injuries and others had commitments, but the show was still missing something.

Some of the absences didn't even make sense from a storyline standpoint. The Undertaker had promised punishment for Vince McMahon, but he was nowhere to be found when Vince was out on the stage. 

Likewise, Lesnar was victorious and could have laid claim to the WWE Championship, but he and Paul Heyman just didn't show up.

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013