10 Negatives Heading Into WrestleMania 33
One last chance to grumble and grouse before this Sunday's big show...
It’s easy to get hyped for WrestleMania. And, when’s all said and done, this year’s show will likely have been a good one. Everyone will bring their A-game, Shane will pull off some preposterous stunt, Pitbull will murder one of his own songs, we’ll all boo Roman Reigns until he inevitably pulls out something badass, and everyone will go home happy. Job done.
That being said, before those things do or don’t happen, it would be remiss not to mention some of the stumbling blocks we’ve encountered in the lead up to the big show.
As is often understandably the case, this year’s WrestleMania build hasn’t been perfect. For the average fan who doesn’t follow the dirtsheets, a number of feuds may have a rather rushed feel about them, while the odd few that were announced well ahead of time have seemed to trundle through the motions at certain points.
So, in the interest of getting any qualms out of our systems ahead of this year’s event, this article runs through ten negatives heading into WrestleMania 33, beginning with a moan about unused talent...
10. Guys Getting Lost In The Shuffle
Coming out of this year’s Royal Rumble, there seemed to be a number of fresh faces on the cusp of something special. Braun Strowman was looking pretty much unstoppable, Samoa Joe had just debuted on the main roster and was bulldozing through any and all challengers, while over on SmackDown, Luke Harper was finally getting the chance to break out as a babyface singles star.
And yet, fast forward to today with WrestleMania on the horizon, and none of those three has anything of note scheduled for the show.
They have essentially made way for bigger stars—the Undertaker, Triple H, Randy Orton—and seen the feuds in which they were previously involved fizzle out into nothing. Now, they’ll probably have to settle for a spot in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, rubbing shoulders with jobbers like Jinder Mahal, Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel.
Ultimately, and despite showing such promise, they’ve managed to get lost in the shuffle that is the WrestleMania match-making process, and given where they were just a few months back, that can only be seen as a bad thing.