11 Main Event Mistakes WWE Have Made In 2022
7. The King of Snubbed Style (April 8)
What a tortured, tangled web of incomplete ideas the fallout from WrestleMania 38 has been.
Does anyone else remember the first superstar to interact with The Bloodline following their victory lap on the RAW After WrestleMania? It wasn’t Drew McIntyre, it wasn’t RK-Bro, it wasn’t even Brock Lesnar.
In the closing moments of the 8 April 2022 episode of SmackDown, Roman Reigns gave The Usos their marching orders to challenge RAW Tag Team Champions RK-Bro to a Tag Team Titles unification match at WrestleMania Backlash. Moments later, Shinsuke Nakamura emerged, presumably looking to avenge injured tag partner Rick Boogs. Nakamura was greeted by Reigns with faux empathy before receiving dual superkicks from his cousins. Certainly, this was done in service to a future feud for the Undisputed Championship at WrestleMania Backlash, yes? Roman had put on a classic at the 2021 show of the same name with Nakamura’s former tag partner Cesaro. Who's to suggest he couldn’t do the same with ‘The King of Strong Style’?
WWE, apparently. The catalyst was shoved to one side, and Nakamura began trading wins with Sami Zayn instead. Shinsuke has vowed revenge against the Bloodline sporadically since, but nothing has come of it. Instead of a classic main event for the biggest prize in the business, WrestleMania Backlash became about the tag championship unification match (which was eventually pushed to a later date), then a trios showdown against McIntyre and RK-Bro with no stakes whatsoever.
While we’re on the subject of the Scottish Warrior…