8 Ups And 11 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 33

10. Gratification Too Soon

Bayley WrestleMania 33
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So let’s make sure we have this straight: The fatal four-way elimination match for the Raw Women’s Championship boiled down to Charlotte Flair and defending champ Bayley, with the Huggable One retaining, right?

Not commenting on the match itself, but what in the blue hell was the point of having Charlotte lose the title at Fastlane then? She had an unbeaten PPV streak going and was the champ. Instead of beating Bayley at Fastlane and then losing to her at Mania (exactly like she did Sunday), they blew what could have been an awesome moment.

So instead of that WrestleMania moment that WWE so cherishes, we got Bayley dropping a Macho Man elbow to defend her title in a good but not great title match. Talk about missing the boat.

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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.