10 Problems WWE Has With Modern WrestleManias

The main event is supposed to be exactly that - the poster child for the larger show that makes everything else worth sitting through.

Not only is WWE now trying to push two World titles – one with over fifty years’ worth of history, the other with less than fifty weeks – but they’re also attempting to market secondary big name non-title matches as PPV headliners. That’s exactly what happened at SummerSlam last year, wherein the Universal Title match, the WWE title match, AJ Styles vs John Cena, and Brock Lesnar vs Randy Orton all fell in the running for main event status - with the latter inexplicably going on last instead of either title bout. Well, maybe not Dolph Ziggler.

It’s not hard to see WWE doing the same at this year’s WrestleMania, particularly with Roman Reigns vs The Undertaker now very much on the cards. But all this does is create an awkwardly paced, top-heavy show, and only raises expectations further for the real main event (i.e. the match the closes the evening). That’s exactly what happened when a slightly unpopular Triple H took on an even less popular Roman Reigns in the main main event of WrestleMania 32 - a match that was forced to follow higher quality encounters, and was thus booed into oblivion.