10 Ways WWE Is Killing WrestleMania

7. Multi-Man Mundanity

Goldberg Mania 33
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The Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal was presented and received as something pitched between pointless filler and PR exercise.

The field of combatants was curious, the winner even more so. Mojo Rawley - a man who is barely over and even less talented - was given the win. Men who have entered fantastic performances in the long year since WrestleMania 32 (Sami Zayn, most notably) were positioned as fodder.

The match itself has become a running joke (The McMahon Doghouse Battle Royal!), it's that meaningless - and the majority of the men who participated in it were lumbering punchlines.

That Samoa Joe didn't appear says it all. Doing the square sum of absolutely nothing at WrestleMania 33 was considered less damaging than being associated with it. WWE has plans for him; they didn't want him to appear in it because he's meant to actually matter.

Dolph Ziggler, American Alpha, The Usos - effectively two thirds of the SmackDown roster we're supposed to find reasons to care about the other 364 days of the year? Nuts to them!

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