Why WWE Is Playing A Dangerous Game With WrestleMania 38

It's a very amusing, all-timer ego trip tale layered with an hilarious element: the guy wasn't even running the show. He was just there to assist, as if the man had actual authority on the matter. "How am I doing boss?" Shane asked, tilting his head skyward.

"Well you hardly made them go banana, you delusional little sh*t."

Shane McMahon received waves of heat from "the boys", WWE recognised that the Rumble was a failure, and he was bounced out of the company by his own father. This Succession-like plot point is the best thing WWE has penned in aeons, only, it wasn't fiction.

Consequently, WWE is left now without a direction for Seth Rollins - who, just to reiterate, couldn't lose cleanly to a man WWE is building as the heel equivalent to Bruno Sammartino - nor can they rely on the services of a precious part-timer. Another part-timer that poses an issue ahead of WrestleMania is Ronda Rousey.

Writing as a parent who was lucky enough not to have to give birth, Ronda's Rumble showing was impressive enough for how she managed not to fall asleep for 10 minutes of life without a child in the same room as her at all times, but it wasn't impressive in itself nor as impressive as anything Bianca Belair and Sasha Banks did. She looks sluggish and disinterested out there, and on RAW, WWE failed to recall that, despite being an in-ring prodigy, Ronda was always a strange, timid figure on the mic. She "swallowed a dictionary," to use a British idiom, learning every word except "promo". Her interaction with Becky Lynch was a stark reminder of how dramatically the wrestling landscape has shifted since 2019 - by which time, realistically, the programme had already peaked.

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