10 Things I Hate About WrestleMania
1. Its Still WrestleMania
In 2016, WWEs unofficial party line when it comes to addressing fan complaints about the nosediving quality of the weekly television shows goes something along the lines of, Whatever, marks. Youre still watching!.
While thats not true of everyone, the points fairly valid. We talk a good game about rioting and boycotting and hashtag cancel WWE Network, but how many have actually done it? Out of all of them, how many have stuck to their guns?
WrestleMania is a done deal for many people, regardless of their ambivalence toward the current state of the product or the current state of WrestleMania itself. If youve already got the Network, why wouldnt you get in the beers and tune in on the 3rd, complaints or not?
And, lets face it the show is massive, and the hype is infectious. Last years event was lauded as a genuine triumph, despite the lazy, godawful narrative building up to it. As everyone expected, the storytelling on the night continued to be simplistic at best.
However, it turns out that an empty spectacle is still a spectacle, and the roster delivered their end of the bargain, working their asses off even without the support of WWE creative.
The show was deemed to be a success, despite everything. Chances are this Sundays show will perform a similar miracle on our lowered expectations. Its not the WrestleMania I grew up with in the early nineties, or the late nineties or even the late noughties.
But its still WrestleMania, after all that.