10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About WrestleMania 38
4. Edge Vs AJ Styles
Commentary will tell you it was a classic. Video packages will tell you it was an epic. Edge and AJ Styles themselves may one day swear blind it was one of best matches of their careers.
It was none of these fancy things.
Well executed rather than particularly well worked, the contest often moved at a glacial pace when a genuinely methodical one would have done. The psychology was sound too, but it came at great cost in the building - overthought for much of its bulky runtime, the choice to have an indulgent WWE Solid Wrestling formula match in a mammoth stadium was a doomed one.
When it got hot - a “This Is Awesome” chant from one kickout late in the day felt like fans doing the heavy lifting rather than the wrestlers - it was only for the briefest flurry before a distraction finish spelled the end for Styles.
It served, just about, to launch Edge’s new goth stable. But a big TV angle could have done that too - and in half the time.