There are now just under two weeks until WrestleMania, and while things look at least a little better than they did, say, a month ago, it’s still not sunshine and rainbows for WWE. The #1 contender to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship still isn’t where he needs to be, people are continuing to get hurt left and right, and one of the main selling points for the Pay Per View, apparently, is that The Rock will be there in some unknown capacity! We’re not going to get hyperbolic and start screaming that this could be the worst WrestleMania ever, in fact, it may end up being quite good when all is said and done. But with that in mind, we still have some concerns…
10. Is This All Too Little, Too Late?
Faced with a potentially hostile Philadelphia crowd, WWE did the only thing they could think of with their erstwhile future #1 guy, Roman Reigns. Already bereft of his crowd entrance (rumor is the increased vitriol towards Reigns forced WWE’s hand in that respect), Reigns’ appearance in front of the audience at Raw last night was short and to the point. He came out, he said he was going to kick Triple H’s ass, he still somehow managed to work in a cheesy line about how he is The Authority now, and then he left. Which is exactly what he should have been doing for months at this point! Thirteen days before WrestleMania, WWE finally appeared to figure out what Roman Reigns’ strengths are in cutting promos: don’t give him enough time to look stupid. Of course, they followed it up later in the show with a backstage segment where Reigns came off as a slasher movie villain, ambushing Triple H and Stephanie in an attack that was…actually, Triple H fought him off pretty easily and escaped, so it wasn’t his best plan ever. There’s a reason why Seth Rollins was considered the brains of The Shield, you know. The point is, WWE is finally doing the small things that might have made an audience more receptive to Reigns in the first place. But this close to the end, it feels like it’s too late to save the WWE World Title match at WrestleMania.
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