14 WWE WrestleMania 34 Impulse Reactions

2. Nick Or Less

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What, so you didn't have a ten year old boy coming from the crowd as Braun's partner in your office sweepstakes?

Look, the over-arching positive from this whole...f*cking weird mess was that Braun Strowman is absolutely bulletproof. He is the King of 'Things'. Give 'The Monster Among Men' some things, and he'll make sure they Get Those Hands. At WrestleMania, he got a load of New Orleans-themed extras, the cart they rode in on, and a planted audience member to win the belts with.

Braun battered The Bar with the same ease he'd shown on Monday Night Raw over the last month or so, with the added value of a petrified little boy tagging in then immediately back out when faced with the prospect of a growling Cesaro.

Poor Nicholas (the named young'un) may face a torrent of abuse or adulation dependent on the some of the prize-level d*ckheads that file into the post-WrestleMania Raw, but this is surely a 24-hour pay-per-view gag at best. It's going to be odd. Regardless, Strowman's again managed not to be the butt of the joke - his star is still on the ascendancy. Meanwhile in the main event...

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