11 Biggest Missteps On The Road To WrestleMania 38
8. WWE Championship Hijinks
It’s hard to believe but there already have been three
WWE Championship title changes in three months this year, when there were three
in all of 2021.
We saw Big E enter 2022 as the WWE Champion, with fans happy that the big man finally was getting the recognition he deserved (but disappointed in the lackluster title reign). He dropped the title to Brock Lesnar at Day One in a match where the Beast was added to the multi-man field at the last minute. Then Brock dropped the title to Bobby Lashley at Royal Rumble due to Roman Reigns’ interference.
Brock then won the Rumble that night and then won the WWE Championship back at Elimination Chamber. Now, Big E is home with a broken neck sustained in a nothing tag match as part of a mid-card feud, and Lashley returned from the sidelines to challenge Omos in an instant grudge match.
The hot-potato nature of the WWE title is a bit silly when you think about it, and when you realize that Roman Reigns has had his title on lockdown for 575+ days. That flux in the build to WrestleMania is just haphazard and a bit disjointed, and it makes the title seem secondary to the blood feud between Lesnar and Reigns.
And really, is there a reason for needing the WWE
Championship as part of this feud, other than for the marketing of the
match? More on that later…