10 Ways To Make WWE WrestleMania 36 NOT Totally Weird

1. Seriously, Do Not Do It

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If you're a WWE Creative Writer, you are licking your lips, strategically missing the bit with Vince's encrusted sh*t on them, at this development. Not the actual development, obviously - they are hacks, they aren't evil - but because this represents a free hit.

As an institution, WWE is creatively bankrupt. Every last post-WrestleMania season is an unwatchable and ice-cold mess of baffling pushes, tepid rematches, deeply ill-advised stipulation matches, and a sheer void of star power and buzz, once the part-timers have hibernated once more.

If WWE doesn't do WrestleMania now, it can always do WrestleMania in the mid-summer months. Better yet, they can do another Royal Rumble, another Elimination Chamber. They can do these things and WWE fans would want them to do these things. It's not as if there's a huge, ornate plan to uphold, one that might suffer, were plans to change. Plans always change. The only thing Vince McMahon knows about December is that's when Miracle on 34th Street Fights happen.

This represents a crisitunity for WWE to do what WWE does best - promote re-runs - only this time, we are positively begging for chin locks, just so long as we can hear the yawns.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!