12 Ways WWE Can Still #FreeWrestleMania From Sucking

11. Keep Celebrities Away This Year

I don't want to jinx anything... but it appears that so far, there are no celebrity angles planned for WrestleMania. It's also likely that, at this late stage, there's no time to plan anything. This is excellent news. The mainstream publicity from having a minor celebrity take a spot on the card can't offset the potential for a young performer getting over in front of the biggest audience of the year. I understand that WrestleMania was built on celebrity involvement and courting mainstream media approval, but that was when it needed the rub. Three decades later, WrestleMania is a multimedia behemoth that brings millions of dollars and considerable regeneration to whatever city hosts it. It gets no shine from tabloid newspapers and TMZ telling the general public that some reality TV personalities and a faded movie star are going to stand in the corner of a wrestler they've never heard of. As much as I actually quite fancy seeing Stephen Amell in a WWE ring with Stardust again: if last year is anything to go by, he'll be winding up shooting Arrow's fourth season when WrestleMania is on, and he's the only non-wrestling celebrity I can think of who might bring something of his own to the table apart from Ronda Rousey, who doesn't seem to be available. Let's ditch the celebrity angles this year. No one's going to miss them. Except maybe TMZ, but I'm sure there's a Kardashian they can out or a reality TV star who's just been dumped.
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