5 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw After WrestleMania (April 4)

3. Reigns’ Bland Climax

Roman Reigns Paul Heyman
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So, after winning “the Biggest WrestleMania Match of All Time” and becoming the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion, we got that promo, a greatest hits album with a promise to drop a new track on the next edition.

Way to take a molten crowd and piss it all away, WWE.

Reigns came out and he and Heyman talked up the Bloodline’s accomplishments, raving about Roman’s position at the top of the card during WWE’s most profitable year ever (a year where they released nearly 100 wrestlers) and then promised to reveal their next steps on SmackDown on Friday.

The worst part was that this came at the end of a largely uneventful, bland post-Mania Raw, so a show that desperately needed some juice just fizzled out and ground to a halt at 11pm Eastern Time. It was a horribly uninspiring ending.

Sure, the “next steps” could be huge and redeem things, but for those of us who mainly watch Raw, it was a wet fart of a finish.

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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.