7 Reasons Why I Regret Staying Up To Watch WrestleMania 32

6. If You Didn't Wrestle In The Attitude Era, You Don't Count

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Another fairly thrown together match on the show saw WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day take on three members of the League of Nations, in this instance Sheamus, Rusev and Alberto del Rio. Confusion reigned over this match going in; was it for the titles? was it 3-on-3? 4-on-3? Would The New Day get a fourth member?

As it transpired, attempting to answer any of those questions was pointless. The match was 3-on-3, but with little spice behind it it may as well have been a second hour RAW bout. Seemingly, it existed for the post-match antics and nothing else.

Now, I'm not going to throw shade on Stone Cold Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels or Mick Foley, certainly not. The problem here is that a match between six current stars existed purely for nostalgia, so that three men who were in their prime over a decade a go could look strong.

This is an issue that truly exposed itself with the big three matches of the night. Of the six men that performed in those three matches, four of them performed in WrestleManias before WrestleMania XX. Three were on the WrestleMania X-Seven card (Shane, Taker, Triple H), and the missing one appeared at WrestleMania XIX (Brock). If you still think the WWE is into creating new stars, that fact should silence you.

The main issue is that this happens every single year. It may be fun, but think about it like this; in 15 years time, can you imagine Kofi Kingston, Sheamus and Dolph Ziggler coming out to embarrass the stars of the future? Watching this depressing attempt to rekindle past glories too on a whole new level of sadness in the small hours of the night.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.