How WWE WrestleMania 35 MUST End

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It's been a hard year and a half for Sasha Banks and Bayley on Monday Night Raw, but 48 good hours can undo a thousand bad ones in the modern era. At the Royal Rumble and subsequent Raw, both 'The Boss' and 'The Hugger' provided stature-enhancing competition for Ronda Rousey and themselves.

In matches laced with supreme psychology, inspired callbacks and the necessary knack for casting doubt, Rousey looked assured and solidified as the division's undisputed destroyer ahead of her clash with 'The Man'. As refreshing as it was to see Banks and Bayley back amongst it in the singles ranks, the prospect of tag team championships they've worked hard to establish not being around their waists at the 'Show Of Shows' seems yet another gross miscarriage of justice.

Almost as good together as they have been apart, the two have walked, talked, worked and even dressed like a tag team since accepting the instruction, making the proverbial chicken salad from mountains of chicken sh*t. Elimination Chamber potentially won't be their crowning glory, but a blockbuster doubles match on the 'Grandest Stage' would do just fine for both the team and the titles.

It won't have escaped your attention if you even clicked this link that a proposed curtain call was the paramount payoff - and there'd never be a better time since the last time to give NXT's legendary quartet their greatest moment together since 2015's similar showcase in Brooklyn.

Women making the main event of WrestleMania was a dream back then, and was a pipe dream less than a year before. And yet, before the futuristic climbs of 2020, it's here. Ronda Rousey's star power has helped, but the sheer ruddy-minded graft up and down cards from these four first ballot Hall-Of-Famers have ensured the 'Revolution' train has stayed on the tracks during WWE's typically tricky trajectory.

Championships aren't technically won and lost in wrestling, but the moments of personal and professional victory are legitimately earned. For these four legitimate trailblazers, closing the show on top of the wrestling world would their division's biggest victory of all time.

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation nearly 8 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett