Wrestlemania this year was an odd animal.
If it was a roller-coaster, like they wanted us to think by repeating "thrill-ride" constantly, then it was one that started high and just kept dropping lower.
AJ vs. Shane was a spot-fest but overall it wasn't bad. I mean, yeah, if you take out Shane's big spots, it was slow and clunky, but throwing in the submissions for Shane really added some spice and AJ sold surprise really well. The match worked a lot better than it should have given that Shane looked gassed by the half-way point.
The tag match was a lot of fun and, obviously, had the moment of the night. It really should have been last because no one was topping that.
What else?
Did not care about Cena vs. Miz whatsoever because it was just a vehicle to have Cena propose on TV. Complete waste of the momentum the Miz was building. Did not care about Lesnar vs Goldberg, though Goldberg hit some vicious spears that make Roman's spears look silly. I wish they'd both go away, to be honest. And does Lesnar have the worst German suplex in all of wrestling?
HHH vs. Rollins was fine. A slow, methodical Triple-H beating is what he does now.
The show should have ended there.
Actually, what should have happened is for Wyatt to get the rub by beating the Undertaker. Would have made all the sense in the world as a real passing of the torch from one brand of evil to another. Instead, he goes out to one of the least popular top babyfaces in WWE history. Eh.
Tthe WWE's formula for getting a face over seems to be "have them kick out of everything". Is that really supposed to make the audience root for them? It's literally stacking the odds heavily in favor of the good guy when you know they're virtually unpinnable.
Anyway, the RAW after Wrestlemania is almost always better than Wrestlemania. Hope that continues and that Smackdown follows that tradition.