10 WrestleMania 32 Mistakes WWE Must Avoid This Year
5. Give AJ Styles The Win
Ask yourselves this: what good did Jericho beating AJ Styles at WrestleMania 32 do?
It didn’t make Jericho look a great deal stronger – the man
has already completed a Hall of Fame-worthy career about three times over, and
2016 was one of his greatest years because of his character work, not because
of his ability to win matches. AJ Styles might have gone on to win a WWE
Championship opportunity the next night on RAW, but surely that would still
have put Jericho above Styles within
the title pecking order. It just didn’t benefit anyone; it ended their feud on
a sour note, and came off more like WWE getting cold feet about the former ‘Mr
TNA.’
WrestleMania 33 presents the perfect chance to right that wrong. AJ had a magnificent 2016, holding the WWE Championship for 140 days and competing in several Match of the Year contenders. But now he’s saddled with Shane McMahon at WrestleMania, a match he absolutely cannot lose. If Shane McMahon, a 47 year old man who has wrestled two matches in the last eight years (one of which he lost, the other of which he was eliminated from via TKO), can beat AJ Styles, one of the most technically gifted wrestlers on the planet, WWE’s already fragile logic will be completely broken in half.
It’s a simple decision: Shane winning accomplishes nothing, it just makes AJ look daft.