10 Ways WWE Can Prove The Critics WRONG At WrestleMania 37

6. And Also...

Drew McIntyre
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Cesaro.

Cesaro isn't the immense TV star presence his devoted fanbase projects him to be, but he is a sensation in the ring at his best, and more to the point, this isn't dreamy-eyed fan-casting anymore. He is getting the push. Virtually all established precedent renders this meaningless, and to support a point that really doesn't require much support - you'd have to be utterly brainwashed and Fedpilled to believe that WWE is good at mapping out consistent character arcs - Cesaro is getting the push that Shinsuke Nakamura was set to receive. To take Cesaro's push at optimistic face value, you'd have to ignore the events of literally this year.

Critics - informed by things that happen all of the f*cking time - will say that Cesaro is bound, sooner rather than later, though he's done very well to last more than three weeks, for Main Event.

But this one is sticking for now. Cesaro is on course to work Seth Rollins in a match that should by rights deliver to a ****+ level.

When? Fastlane, or WrestleMania?

The storyline or what passes for it is dire, drenched in Seth's pious blathering crap, but that's WWE for you. Under the wave of awful scripted sh*te, they can still deliver a breakthrough win on the biggest stage, position Cesaro for a Universal Title match in the summer, and - this is crucial - gradually cultivate the feeling that getting behind a performer actually means you'll get to see them in a few months' time.

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