9 Match Star Ratings For WWE WrestleMania 36 (Night Two)
3. Fatal 5-Way Elimination Match For The SmackDown Women's Championship
One doesn't want to be cruel in this review, because WrestleMania 36 was a committed effort all across the board that, if nothing else, did succeed in its aim of creating new discourse for a few hours. It succeeded in more; it succeeded in conspiring to create two actual fabled WrestleMania Moments.
All that said, Tamina is not good.
Sorry.
She went on a pinning spree during her otherwise fine I guess hoss blitz, and she leaned on the top rope at one point when making a standing cover. The referee had to politely tell her to not do this, when really, that was the job of her decade-plus experience.
Bayley's approach to trash talk helped carry what was a slog of a duration - never has "go home" become more literal - but it bordered on the daft at points. Did she instruct that "dancing machine" Naomi to dance her way to the back, or have I just been driven insane?
Naomi's comebacks were creatively done and barely even contrived - she deserves a lot more - but the Bayley Vs. Lacey Evans phase went on for an eternity. Almost as long as it takes the lady herself to say her own last name.
Dissension was planted between Sasha Banks and Bayley at the (well done) finish, which created not rapt anticipation but a new meme: they're saving it 'til SummerSlam!
Star Rating: ★★½