8 Ups And 11 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 33

8. Mixed Tag A Mixed Bag

WrestleMania 33 John Cena Nikki Bella
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One of the best parts of SmackDown since the roster split has been the ascension of the Miz as an upper-midcard heel. So naturally, he and wife Maryse got to play second fiddle to a Total Bellas angle at WrestleMania.

The feud between the two couples wasn’t entirely bad (though it originally looked to be Dean Ambrose and Renee Young who were gearing up for the rivalry), with Miz and Maryse doing a brutal takedown of John Cena and Nikki Bella’s relationship. And Cena and Nikki used some colorful language to show their anger.

The match itself was absolutely nothing special, with Miz getting cheered like crazy as he slow-walked through a pedestrian match with Cena. Of course, the end saw Cena and Bella hit their finishers for a double pin. And then… Cena proposed to Nikki in the middle of the ring. Obviously, she said “yes.”

Cute moment, but it was a super-clichéd moment as well.

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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.