5 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE WrestleMania Raw (March 28)

5. Rendering Everything Pointless

You can almost imagine the conversation in the writers’ room as they laid out the Seth Rollins/Vince McMahon segment: “We’ll have Vince say that all Seth had to do was ask to be on the WrestleMania card, that he didn’t have to jump through all those hoops. It’ll be wild! Rollins will feel like a goof, and fans will laugh!”

And yeah, there was some comic value in having Vince let the air out of the balloon by saying that Seth should have just asked him for a match rather than putting himself through Adam Pearce & Sonya Deville’s trials and tribulations.

But at the same time, doesn’t that one line just render the WWE officials’ entire existence moot? It certainly rendered the past several weeks of Rollins desperately trying to get on the Mania card meaningless. It’s like that friend who points out that the outcome of Raiders of the Lost Ark would have been exactly the same with or without Indiana Jones – you want to punch them for making you feel like a dope for sitting through everything. (The difference is that Raiders rules and Raw is substandard.)

Seriously though, Vince just rendered Pearce & Deville obsolete. Why should any superstar give any credence to anything they say from here on out? Just go to Vince if you’re off the PPV or not on Raw that night. The two of them are idiots throwing up meaningless roadblocks.