1. The Demise Of Creative Direction
For some time the WWE has suffered from the hangover left from the dusk of the golden era of professional wrestling that ended as the Ruthless Aggression era sometime in 2007. Since then a new PG era has dawned in the WWE which has had to slowly come to terms with the systematic thinning of its talent pool as big name superstars left the company or retired. Coupled with this exodus of big name wrestlers, there has been a severe cut back on promos and storylines. Matches are seemingly plucked from nowhere and thrown together with little, if any, creative direction. Wrestlemania 30 is a perfect personification of this. Batista vs. Randy Orton is a boring match up without creative direction. The direction might have been an angle on who of the two men was the man, with perhaps Ric Flair playing a role in promoting the Wrestlemania Main Event as ten years in the making, beginning in the days of Evolution and culminating at Wrestlemania 30 to determine who was and is the best wrestler. Instead we have the mess of Daniel Bryan now affecting this Main Event just weeks away from Wrestlemania happening! There is no hype, no promotion and no creative flair to even attempt to make this Main Event exciting. Cena vs Wyatt is another example of a match that has no real creative drive behind it and offers little for fans to buy into apart from watching Cena predictably beat Wyatt or fall to the Wyatt familys interference and take on a Bryan like role as adoptive member of the family in the year to come! With a lack of creative flair, a lack of promotion and a lack sound booking decision making, the WWE has pulled together a Wrestlemania event that I believe will be just as bad if not worse than last years Boremania. Perhaps what is most troubling is that I dont see this bizarre trend of following last years disappointing Wrestlemania with a distinctly more disappointing Wrestlemania stopping anytime soon, which leads me to suggest that the Greatest Wrestlemania of all time has probably already happened and it happened many years ago!