6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 40 - Night 1 (Results & Review)

3. Missing All The Drama

Rey Mysterio Dominik WrestleMania 40
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Last year, Rey Mysterio tangling with his son Dominik was a true highlight of WrestleMania 39. It was dramatic and cathartic all at once as the rebellious son was finally confronted with what he professed to want, but ultimately couldn’t handle: his father’s rage.

Saturday, WWE ran it back as a tag match, with Andrade joining Rey and Santos Escobar teaming with Dom-Dom. The match was absent any of the drama or tension of last year’s bout. Instead, it was a heatless, disjointed, overbooked match that could have taken place on SmackDown and wouldn’t have felt out of place.

The last-minute substitution with Dragon Lee being written off so Andrade could turn on Dominik just a week after joining him and team with Rey was really jarring. It’s also not like LWO doesn’t have three active, healthy members who could have stepped up when Lee went down.

This was a bathroom break match if there ever was one, which is a shame.

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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.