10 Totally Stupid Things WWE Has ALREADY DONE Since WrestleMania 34

2. Braun No-Man

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Former Tag Team Champion and current 10-year-old referee's son Nicholas will forever be the living breathing stick to beat WWE with should Braun Strowman's push eventually collapse like just about everything else in the company does, but apportioning blame on a WrestleMania visual gag will lose sight of bigger issue at play.

The big joke's punchline was too small - Braun and Nicholas gave up the titles one night removed from winning them despite the build-up to their victory featuring Strowman squashing the entire Raw tag team division by himself.

The creative direction for him following all this? Forming a makeshift tag team with Bobby Lashley.

Assuming the Greatest Royal Rumble will be an outlier (aside from the garish green belt he'll now have to cart around until he wins another proper one), Braun's creative direction as amounted to a sum total of f*ck all since the 'Show Of Shows'. As Raw's resident 'King Of Things', he's survived bad in between bouts of very very good before, but the 'Monster Among Men' won't have the fans' hearts forever.

The sooner he's slotted back into something meaningful, the better.

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