3 More Ups And 3 More Downs From WWE WrestleMania XXXIII

1. Where’s The Destroyer?

Samoa Joe Seth Rollins
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Of all the wrestlers who made an appearance during WrestleMania XXXIII (or the kickoff show), there was one glaring omission:

Samoa Joe.

Triple H’s hand-picked destroyer injured Seth Rollins in his first night and has been doing the Game’s bidding ever since. Yet, when he could have used him the most, Joe was nowhere to be found. Triple H was battling Seth Rollins to try to put him out of wrestling for good, and instead of calling on his secret weapon to annihilate Rollins, he lost one-on-one.

It was the sort of thing that could have played out very differently. Samoa Joe tries to help Hunter, but someone – maybe Sami Zayn or a returning Finn Balor – runs interference and allows Rollins to overcome the odds and win. Instead, Joe’s absence was a pretty noticeable thing.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.