10 Things That Must Happen At WrestleMania 33
9. Long Live The King
As wonderful as it would be to see Austin Aries pull off a
huge win on The Grandest Stage of Them All, the Cruiserweight Division would be
dead in the water were it not for Neville. The man has single-handedly
reinvigorated a surprisingly lifeless and uninteresting facet of WWE’s
programming, and after missing out on Mania due to injuries last year, Neville
ought to walk out of this year’s event with the Big Purple Belt held aloft.
Besides, this feud has got legs. While a lot of modern rivalries grow stale after one or two encounters, Neville vs Aries feels genuinely novel at this point. It’s still the high water mark for 205 Live – both men have got understandable and believable characters, and Austin Aries is doing a surprisingly good job of being a likeable rascal opposite Neville’s stern ‘King of the Cruiserweights’ character.
His reign should continue, partly to give the belt some stability, but also so we can see these two duke it out further through Easter and into Payback.