5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (April 12)
3. Shoot Promo Shoots Holes In Logic
Did Vince Russo book the main event of WrestleMania 34? He certainly didn't book the entire show - women were featured prominently and favourably, nothing was stuck on a pole, and a Japanese starlet wrestled in a marquee title bout - but did he book that main event? This was a crazy swerve absolutely nobody saw coming: after three years of Roman dominance and a full year of F5 protection designed explicitly to put Roman's kick out of it over, Roman withstood five before, in a total shocker, eating the pin.
He must also have scripted Roman's post-'Mania RAW promo.
"Everything felt off," Roman said. "The thing that eats me up the most is the fact that Vince McMahon himself couldn't even look me in the eye and smarten me up." The implication here is that wrestling is a work, and Vince refused to let Roman know that the plans had changed. This is almost as impossible to buy as the notion that Vince, the only person on the planet who sees him at literal face value, is at loggerheads with Reigns. The worked shoot narrative is meant to add a layer of reality to pro wrestling. This is a preposterous development. Is Roman going to refuse to "go up" for the F5 in Saudi Arabia?
Roman, comprehensively and cleanly defeated on the night, is somehow scheduled to challenge Brock Lesnar, in a nonsensical storyline development, on a card - Greatest Royal Rumble - on which women are not permitted to wrestle.
Bro. Bro. It must be Russo.