11 Biggest Missteps On The Road To WrestleMania 38
4. THE BIGGEST WRESTLEMANIA MATCH OF ALL TIME
Sorry, but that needs to be screamed at you in all-caps.
WWE is very prone to overhyping and overselling matches with superlatives they don’t deserve, but calling the third WrestleMania match between Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns the biggest Mania match of all time is just a bit too much, isn’t it? We’ve seen them tangle at WM 31 and 34 (with Brock winning both), plus a few other PPV matches sprinkled in.
Oh, but this one is now for two titles. Yeah, let’s look at that. Roman cost Brock the WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble PLE, so Lesnar entered the Rumble and won the match, then announced he was challenging Reigns. Done. Easy.
But then Brock won the WWE Championship, adding that title to the mix. At first, they called it “Champion vs. Champion,” then “Winner Take All,” and finally settled on “Championship Unification.” So that would suggest that one of the two titles is going away, right? They wouldn’t actually do away with the WWE Championship, the most prestigious title, a 59-year-old championship with an unparalleled lineage (and Jinder Mahal), in favor of the Universal Championship, would they?
Regardless, this sell-job is overkill. The plot and interactions between Roman and Brock are selling the match, not the fact two titles are involved, or that the official tagline for this match is: “The Biggest WrestleMania Match of All Time, Winner take all, Championship Unification Match!”
Like we said, overkill.