Why WWE Has Finally Fixed THIS Historic Flaw
WWE has entered a period of the year the company typically manifests without meaning to on an annual basis.
The post-WrestleMania lull is almost as rich a tradition as the 'Show Of Shows' itself at this point. An open acknowledgement that business has boomed for the time being, that the big programmes have peaked or petered out, and rematches, retreads and curios are required to fill the ample television time away from the biggest event of the year.
There's no fixing vibes, energies or other abstract concepts that can't easily be harnessed. The 2023 post-WrestleMania Raw was evidence of that, not that it particularly attempted to do anything about that whiplash of public sentiment between Night One and Night Two. But with much of the audience checking out in the aftermath of WrestleMania, WWE takes on a uniquely experimental shape.
Strange and out-of-the-blue pushes have found wrestlers both deified and despised by the audience thrust into spots seemingly at random as the dust settles on the 'Grandest Stage' and the company goes looking for who might light it up in 12 months' time. Jinder Mahal became WWE Champion in the lull. Cesaro got his one proper shot at doing the same in the lull. Every new babyface Champion fell afoul of Kane at one point or another in the lull. It's lull stuff and a 19-year monopoly means it's never going away.
Or is it?
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