Why WWE WrestleMania No Longer Has The Best Matches Of The Year
2. WrestleMania 37-38: Is Woman The Future Of Man? (II)
Granted, women wrestlers don’t have magic wands, and their matches can naturally fall short of expectations (Rhea Ripley vs Asuka, Becky Lynch vs Shayna Bazsler, WM35’s main event). But think about this: the first time WWE gave two full-time women 30 minutes - Sasha Banks and Bayley at NXT Takeover: Respect - the match won PWI’s Match of The Year award. The second time - Becky Lynch and Charlotte at Evolution - it became Dave Meltzer’s highest ever rating for a WWE women’s match, 4.75 stars.
Picture Becky Lynch and Bianca Belair headlining one of WM38’s two nights in a 25-30-minute war. Isn’t that the stuff MOTYs are made of? The way to find that out is by giving them enough time to tell their story, instead of allocating it to 76-year-old-non wrestlers or annoying YouTube personalities.
The Four Horsewomen, Asuka, Bianca Belair, Io Shirai, Shayna Baszler, Rhea Ripley, Alexa Bliss and a few others; there's a virtually endless amount of great singles matches to be extracted from that group. Therein may lie WWE's most plausible chance of scoring a PWI MOTY award on WrestleMania once more. Worth a try, isn't it?