10 Problems WWE Has With Modern WrestleManias

This is a problem WWE has with all of its PPV events, as well as Monday Night RAW. While Vince and co seem to think more content = better content, the majority of fans miss the days when WrestleMania would last four hours.

Last year’s event, Kick-Oportion included, was seven hours long. Seven hours. In that time, you could watch four average length movies, fly from London to Dubai, or get a good night’s sleep, as plenty of UK-based fans would probably rather do. Asking somebody to sit still for that amount of time is frankly preposterous, particularly if that time isn’t spent watching something of a consistently high quality.

With NXT TakeOver: Orlando, WrestleMania 33, RAW, Smackdown, 205 Live, Talking Smack and NXT, WWE will be broadcasting just under twenty hours of live wrestling over the space of five days. That's almost an entire day of content, a quarter of which is taken up by Mania alone.

WrestleMania 32’s insufferable length led to good matches being cut short, poor matches being stretched too long, and an overwhelming sense that the thing was never going to end. You might argue that the majority of people will probably skip the pre-show, but then that begs the question: what is the point in the pre-show? Surely a half-hour Talking Smack-esque segment in which Renee Young efficiently hypes the card would suffice.

It’d certainly be preferable to a two hour slog packed with filler matches like The Usos vs The Dudley Boyz or Team Total Divas vs Team B.A.D and Blonde.