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 fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.