10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About WrestleMania 39
2. A Raw Deal
This point might be flawed, since everybody's social media is curated differently and Twitter is a bubble used by a minority of television viewers before it is configured into an echo chamber.
But did you read any takes, even as WrestleMania 39 unfolded with its peaks of excellence, to the effect of "Man, this show is great and I can't wait to check out Raw afterwards?"
No.
The joy of WrestleMania 39, as unbelievable as it was, was fleeting - at least to those who know better, or feel like they know better. Many fans live-tweeting the show experienced it as a one-off. The idea that WrestleMania is the one night per year that draws the casual fan was all too real over the weekend.
How bad a TV product must WWE Monday Night Raw be, for something like Rey Vs. Dominik Mysterio to happen and not entice the disillusioned, lapsed base to watch the episodic story beats?
The answer to that question arrived 48 hours later, as it always does.
Raw was a putrid, tedious sludge of a show. Veering between oppressive (Brock Lesnar dismantling Cody Rhodes) and redundant (Seth Rollins leading a singalong when his night one entrance was replayed in full on night two), the show was the expected disaster.
A ratings hit in 2023, Raw was never going to win back those ran off over the last several years - and was in fact so dismal that it may alienate those enthused about Triple H's approach to it.