10 PPV Main Events WWE Sacrificed For Part-Time World Champions
6. The Fiend (C) Vs. Roman Reigns-WrestleMania 36
The main event of Night One of WrestleMania 36 was four finishers from the loser, three finishers from the winner and lasted just over TWO minutes.
Ohhhhhkaaayyyyyy... where to start with this one? For those unfamiliar with how WWE ordinarily operates around WrestleMania season, it usually starts with the Royal Rumble match in January. The winner advances to face the champion of their choice at WrestleMania while the other brand's champion awaits a challenger to be determined through one or a series of qualifying matches, usually in the form of an Elimination Chamber match in either February or March before the big show in April.
Or if you're Goldberg or Roman Reigns, you just call dibs, I guess.
As seems to be the case in most run-ups to WrestleMania, WWE accidentally created the hottest commodity on the books and it wasn't the one that they planned on. Regardless, after considerably cooling off on Roman Reigns push (he went a full calendar year before even being CONSIDERED for another run with the title), it looked like the planets were aligning for Roman to return to the main event just in time to be the answer for WWE's newest unstoppable monster. Surely, this was tailor-made for the WrestleMania main event, right?
Oh, yeah. Goldberg.
Because we can't have nice things, the aftermath of Royal Rumble 2020 went as follows: The Fiend loses title to Goldberg, Roman's next in line, Roman's out, Braun Strowman's in, Braun Strowman is champion because reasons.
This could have been SO much simpler.