9 Biggest Opportunities WWE Missed At Wrestlemania 32

4. Learning Anything From NXT

If you need a laugh, pop over to Twitter and search for everyone who was said, on Friday, that TakeOver might be better than WrestleMania. Thousands. Tens of thousands. The disparity was so predictable it was almost comical.

Say what you want about diminished expectations or indie credibility, TakeOver: Dallas was a staggeringly well-booked card that not only had a match of the year candidate, but two title bouts that were somehow able to follow it.

Balor and Joe dusting each other up at the end of the last NXT taping aside, there wasn't a great deal of fanfare or build-up to any of these contests. Asuka and Bayley teamed up a fortnight ago, and the extent of Nakamura's interaction with Zayn was a grainy mobile phone promo. Not months of confusing booking and decisions getting made on the fly, just putting great wrestlers in the ring with each other and letting them paint their own picture.

The main roster might have considerably more airtime to fill, but we must be breaking records for the amount of energy dedicated to fleshing out angles that fans aren't interested in. Nobody bought a WrestleMania ticket on the off chance they'd get to see Stardust, Sin Cara, Zack Ryder, The Miz or Ziggler, and 90% of all enjoyment in that match was derived from the three occasions Zayn and Owens ended up alone in the ring.

If TakeOver needs to teach WWE anything (beyond the fact that wrestling fans still reeeeeeally like the sight of blood) it's that less is more.