8 Ups And 11 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 33

6. Why Bother Showing Up?

Braun Strowman Big Show WrestleMania 33
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Sami Zayn. Big Show. Braun Strowman. Dolph Ziggler. Luke Harper. American Alpha. SmackDown Tag Team Champions the Usos.

Following up on the previous point, all of these wrestlers got to trot down the ramp and lay on the ropes for 10-15 minutes before getting tossed to set up an NFL player getting into the ring and taking out Jinder Mahal.

In the lead-up to Mania, Zayn had to win a career-threatening match just to enter the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. Strowman versus Show was hyped to be a big showdown. Harper had just broken out and broken free from the Wyatt Family. American Alpha were the former tag champs, and the Usos are the current champs.

All of them essentially were cannon fodder to be tossed in the lead-up to Rob Gronkowski bowling over Mahal and then celebrating with Mojo Rawley. This writer isn’t opposed to WWE trying to get mainstream appeal, but looking at the list of wrestlers who essentially were bit players as a result that’s enough to make this a negative.

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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.