6 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 37 - Night 2

6. How Do You Blow That?

Rob Van Dam Riddle The Great Khali
WWE

WWE has all but ruined Riddle on the main roster by turning him into a goofy caricature of a stoner, making dumb jokes and being generally annoying to everyone around him.

But on Sunday, they paired him up with a Hall-of-Famer who could have actually delivered a really perfect, symbiotic moment: the Great Khali. Well, he was there initially, but it was Rob Van Dam showing up that really made you think that this was going to be the meeting of the minds.

Here was RVD, the original WWE stoner character, alongside the 2021 version in Riddle, and the best they could think of was to have Van Dam act as Khali’s translator, and then have Riddle do Mr. Monday Night’s “RVD” shtick.

Good Lord, these writers had how long to come up with that dud?

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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.