5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE WrestleMania Raw (27 March - Review)

3. Too Little, Too Late, Part 1

Damage CTRL
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Watching WWE do the hard sell for a WrestleMania match that has had an underwhelming build is both frustrating and comical at the same time.

It’s aggravating because the company clearly was capable of telling a competent story at least part of the time but waited until the bitter end, but it’s also funny because they still try to sell you that this is an epic struggle that has been a top-notch feud for months.

Damage CTRL versus Becky Lynch, Lita & Trish Stratus should feel like a big deal, with two Hall-of-Famers, two of the Four Horsewomen and two rising stars competing in a six-woman tag. But instead, Becks (either inadvertently or deliberately) said the quiet part out loud when she eviscerated Damage CTRL for doing absolutely nothing of note other than the same thing over and over since SummerSlam.

Lynch shredded the heel trio, painting them as a stable stuck on Groundhog Day, unable to do anything of note and not moving on from their rivalry.

For us, we can only hope she’s prescient about one thing: that this feud ends at WrestleMania 39.

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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.