5 Biggest Missed Opportunities From WWE WrestleMania 36

2. Not Giving Braun Strowman A Decent Title Win

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This writer has a sneaking suspicion that this complaint could very easily get misconstrued as little more than a case of 'angry man yells at cloud' because we should celebrating the fact that Braun Strowman finally won the Universal Championship, so allow me to be clear: Braun Strowman winning was absolutely the right choice. It's just the matter in which he picked up the victory left something to be desired.

No this writer is not suggesting that Goldberg should have stuck around for a 10 minute-plus match because, yeah, we all know how that usually goes, but there was so much more they could have done with this match than what we ultimately got.

A contest that just consisted of two wrestling moves - both of which were finishers - the Universal Title match saw both men unleash a finisher-filled game plan that would have been excellent if they were playing one of WWE's endless long line of video games. But this wasn't a video game and it only resulted in a match that felt far more repetitive than anything with a mere two-minute run-time had any right to be.

It's a sad state of affairs when Goldberg's critically-reviled match with 'The Fiend' at Super ShowDown was far more exciting than this one - and that is not how Braun Strowman's Universal Title reign should have started.

Unfortunately that wasn't WrestleMania's only championship issue...

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Michael Patterson is an experienced writer with an affinity for all things film and TV. He may or may not have spent his childhood obsessing over WWE.