Exposing The Modern Myth About WWE WrestleMania

Shane McMahon has been verbally burying Braun Strowman for weeks since returning after the Royal Rumble and booking an all-former WWE Champions Elimination Chamber without him. Strowman's anger with this exclusion was both reasonable and not.

If Braun stopped and had a f*cking long talk with himself about how his 2020 went, he might take a step back and think of 2021, politely, as a rebuilding year. But from an admin stance - and WWE love love love you to see all this as an Office Space hellscape with awful bosses and sh*tty supervisors and sterile break rooms - the belt he held last year is the WWE Championship in all but name, as evidenced by the time the colour of the strap changed when the Champion moved shows in a draft. This part of his argument was worthwhile.

McMahon disagreed. And has proceeded to go into great detail on how this 7-foot behemoth is actually a pigsh*t buffoon ever since.

Because 'The Money' isn't like the rest of us. He's a walking (and skipping) contradiction like few in wrestling history. And not just because one of his nicknames is 'The Money' and he enters a room to the strains of "Here Comes The Money" despite often trying to present himself as your down-to-earth mate and/or an edgy ex-shooter who's more fight club than country club.

Fuelled by a hedonistic mix of the arrogance and ignorance of a brat that never had to grow up, McMahon the character looks at Strowman as an opportunity to poke a bear rather than run from it. McMahon the man, meanwhile, sees past Braun entirely. He just sees pirate ship to jump off and a building with people in again.

And thus, a WrestleMania - WrestleMania, "Grandest Stage", "Show Of Shows", "Grandaddy Of Em All", that WrestleMania - feud was born. The feud is none of those nicknames. But at this point, is WrestleMania itself? And if not, what is it?

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