9 Big Problems With WWE Heading Into WrestleMania 41

3. Multi-Man-A-Mania

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A major problem throughout this WrestleMania build has been the gross over-reliance on multi-person matches (more than two participants or teams). There are at least two triple threats on deck and possibly as many as three or even four more title matches featuring three or more opponents/teams.

If that holds and you assume a 14-match card over two nights, that would mean more than one-third of the matches would be multi-person bouts. That is both unprecedented and unforgivable.

Cramming additional wrestlers and tag teams into marquee matches is reflective of lazy, unfocused booking. Even if a triple threat might be good on the night, the booking often feels forced as they shoehorn an extra person or people into a match. Rhea Ripley is the poster child for this, but even the Seth Rollins/CM Punk/Roman Reigns feud has had its hiccups.

Jamming the entire men’s and women’s midcards into mutli-person/multi-team title matches so “everyone gets on the Mania card” is just a way of giving fans in attendance plenty of opportunities to head up to the concourse for a snack or bathroom break.

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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.