I’m not the guy who is normally out here telling WWE or any other wrestling promotion to make booking decisions or run the business based on feedback from social media. Now and again, however, the feedback is so loud and so unanimous from hardcore and casual fans alike that it’s important to stop and listen. This is one of those moments where WWE needs to stop and listen. There was not enough actual wrestling on the first night of WrestleMania 42.
The problem wasn’t the number of matches. Seven is a perfectly reasonable number for the first night of a two night ‘Mania. The problem is most of the matches were not given enough in-ring time. Four of the seven lasted under nine minutes, which caused two different problems. First, those matches never achieved their full potential because they couldn’t properly tell a story and build momentum, and second, their abbreviated lengths caused the commercials that came after them to feel less like appropriate breaks and more like out of touch cash grabs.
