Mid-Tier Match Reviews — page 2

WrestleMania 32 is still considered one of the worst entries in the event’s illustrious history. It stands as a terrific example of a company treating its audience as cash cows and not as actual people to be entertained. It started the trend of painfully long Big Four PLEs, a trend that would continue unabated until the COVID Pandemic. It featured some of the weirdest booking decisions imaginable, including a few that even the youngest or most casual of viewers would question. And it concluded with a main-event that only one person really wanted.

Triple H and Roman Reigns were put in the unenviable task of closing the show in front of a tired, annoyed, and in some cases frustrated live audience. Dave Meltzer accurately described the sentiment going into the main-event as “fruit after its expiration date”. Say what you want about the guy, from time to time his analyses do, in fact, hit the mark. This match did indeed leave a bad taste in many people’s mouths, to the point that many people left the show either disappointed or outright mad. But were they mad because the whole show was, top to bottom, long and filled with questionable storyline conclusions? Or was the main-event really as bad as the live audience, spoiled by what happened the night before at NXT TakeOver: Dallas, claimed it to be?