6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 40 - Night 2 (Results & Review)

3. Drew’s Broken Dreams

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For the past couple of months, Drew McIntyre has been chiding Seth Rollins to stop focusing on the Bloodline and to remain zoned in on his World Heavyweight Championship feud with the Scot. McIntyre’s warnings might as well have been made into a mirror, and that was laid bare Sunday night.

Moments after winning the World Title by toppling Seth Rollins, McIntyre hopped out of the ring to climb onto the announce desk and jaw with guest commentator CM Punk, a man he’s been obsessed with for several months now, despite Drew's insistence that he was laser-focused on the championship.

That proved to be his undoing, as Punk dropped McIntyre on the desk, removed his brace and beat down the new World Heavyweight Champion, which triggered Damian Priest to cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase. One South of Heaven later and we had yet another new World Champion.

That little flurry of activity resolved so much in a short span: Drew’s prophetic warnings turned out to be ones he should have heeded himself; Punk put himself in the mix as a true agent of chaos, managing to disrupt the World Title picture from the sidelines; and Priest finally rid himself of the briefcase and put that to bed, becoming a World Champion.

Whether Damian works as champ is an open-ended question, but it was time to sh** or get off the pot with that and either pull the trigger or have him lose the cash-in. The next few weeks will determine if this was the right call.

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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.