10 Ways WrestleMania 36 Will Shape WWE’s Future

10. A Brand Devalued

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That the WrestleMania brand will be devalued by 36 seems inevitable.

Nothing about this 'Showcase of the Immortals' will look, sound, or feel like past events. This is the biggest, most over-the-top event on WWE's calendar, and an incomparably wild carnival of everything that makes Sports Entertainment Sports Entertainment, and it's going down in a barren gym. Drew McIntyre may raise his newly-won WWE Championship aloft staring at a wall instead of basking in the adulation of 90,000 screaming fans. A show that's all about creating moments will generate clips that stick out obnoxiously on future highlights packages, while outsiders and casual fans may point and laugh at what might be the only wrestling show they watch all year.

This thing is being sold as "Too Big for One Night." In reality, it's the smallest scale WrestleMania in history. Those advertisements couldn't be faker.

Going through with WrestleMania 36 in this format leaves WWE with an unenviable rebuilding job on their hands. Vince McMahon will need to work fastidiously and relentlessly to repair any damage done by relegating 'The Grandest Stage' to the smallest one because even if 36 is a great show, the optics of it, most certainly. are not.

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