10 Ups And 13 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 35

5. Reigns’ Return Lacking

Roman Reigns Drew McIntyre
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This is not a knock on Roman Reigns winning his big return match. In fact, it’s a knock on how lackluster it was.

Drew McIntyre had done a nice job turning into the evil heel who dominated Reigns and his Shield brethren in recent weeks, making this mini-feud a little more interesting. But maybe this writer’s expectations were a little too high, as this match felt like a disappointment.

Reigns winning was by far the right call, but it never felt like he was truly in jeopardy. There was no big exchange of finishers or trading bombs, just Roman firing up and hitting a few moves and a spear to win clean.

It’s good to have Reigns back, but you just wish WWE had scripted a more epic return match for him. If this was the best they had, then maybe his comeback should have been delayed a bit rather than being fifth from the top on a seven-hour PPV.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.