14 Times Really Weird Sh*t Went Down At WrestleMania 32
1. For Once, Vince Didn't Send People Home Happy
Leaving the Undertaker aside - and given that he was working on behalf of the biggest heel on the show, you kind of have to - the two biggest babyface wins of the night came in the first and last matches of the show.
Those wins belonged to Zack Ryder and Roman Reigns: a hero that no one really gave a !*$% about, and a hero that no one liked. That’s an exaggeration, but not by much.
The last time people left WrestleMania - live or at home - feeling this bleak, it was at WrestleMania 2000, when for the first time a heel won in the main event. This time, the winner was a babyface, but the distinction is a fine one, given Reigns lack of popularity with the core WWE fanbase, and especially with the kind of committed fan that spends hundreds of dollars to watch WrestleMania live on a giant screen from the nosebleed seats.
Ambrose lost. AJ Styles lost. Neither Sasha Banks nor Becky Lynch unseated Charlotte to win the brand new, much-coveted WWE Women’s Championship. No one that anyone cared about won the battle royal. Popular comedy midcarders The New Day were schooled by the big, bad frustrated main eventers that make up the League Of Nations. And Shane McMahon failed to win control of RAW away from the his tyrant father and the Authority.
Gimmicky appearances from stars of the nineties aside, this wasn’t a crowd-pleasing WrestleMania. It’ll be interesting to see what happens on the post-Mania RAW...