9 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Raw (Feb 17)

3. This Is How We Get To Taker?

AJ Styles The OC
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Look, you don’t need the most creative method, but WWE apparently has cast the simplest, most obvious route to set up a WrestleMania match short of one wrestler challenging the other.

During his return promo Monday night, AJ Styles talked about how great he was and how no other wrestlers could stack up against him. He expanded that to include wrestlers from any era and started rattling off names: Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, Hulk Hogan…

Yup, he just mentioned Taker’s name during the buildup to Mania. It’s probably something like Beetlejuice, where if you say his name three times, he’ll appear. And then we’ll have our Mania match between the two.

While there’s nothing technically wrong with this, it’s just unimaginative to have this match come about because of an offhand comment like that.

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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.