6 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 36 (Part 2)

5. Just A Match

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Not every match at WrestleMania can be a barnburner, four-star classic, but if you have a match at the biggest show of the year, you should be doing something to try to make it memorable in some fashion.

Bobby Lashley and Aleister Black had a first-ever match Sunday night, ending with Aleister countering a spear with a Black Mass. The match itself could have been a contest at the top of the second hour of some random Raw, flown in here, and we never would have been able to tell the difference. It was just a normal, run-of-the-mill, subpar match.

Maybe part of that feeling is because there was zero buildup for a match announced more than a week before Mania, but it was impossible to get invested in the match. Even Lana’s involvement at the end – stopping Lashley from hitting the Dominator and insisting he spear Black – was forgettable.

This was a total palate cleanser of a match, one that will be forgotten before Raw airs. At least the right guy won.

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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.