10 Ways WWE Could Have Improved WrestleMania 36

The Firefly Funhouse Match was a triumph. Bray Wyatt picked through John Cena’s past so deftly and with such verve you could almost kid yourself that this had been the plan for Cena all along. A grand, satisfying piece of long-term storytelling twenty years in the making. They didn’t have to wrestle much but both men over-delivered all the same.

Unconventional but incredible, Cena and Wyatt told the weekend’s most gripping tale. It would have been a worthy headliner for this year’s “Show Of Shows”. As things stood, it was a very tough act to follow not least for an underwhelming and disappointingly brief title fight.

By the time Brock Lesnar hit the mat for the decisive pin we were still struggling to process what had come before, buzzing off of the Funhouse’s trippy aesthetic and trying to count up all the references and Easter eggs. Drew McIntyre can always say he main-evented ‘Mania but his “WrestleMania moment” might actually have been better served slightly further down the card.

In years to come people will talk about The Firefly Funhouse Match alongside Shawn Michaels Vs. The Undertaker or ‘Taker Vs. CM Punk as a main event that should have been.