Is the one hour format part of the reason that NXT is the only brand that can book babyfaces?Īt first, I didn't think the two correlated that well, but then again, one hour a week means you limit the content that you have to film, and thus, the content that any single person on the roster has to be involved in. That part may or may not be okay, but that's fodder for a whole other blog post. However, it's undeniable that Mania now is far different than what Mania was even ten years ago. I can't really pinpoint exactly why you yourself feel that Mania isn't as special as it once was. Maybe you've moved on from WWE altogether and now feel the anticipation when WrestleKingdom or the Battle of Los Angeles, or, for whatever reason, TripleMania comes up on the slate. Maybe your WrestleMania happens on 205 Live when Drew Gulak does a PowerPoint presentation on why if you do a quebrada during your match, you're going to Hell. Maybe your wrestling fandom gives you little spikes each week instead of one giant endorphin rush on a set date on the calendar. People can be lifelong fans of something and never like it or consume it in the exact same way when they've finished with that thing, through death or disinterest, they did when they first started. No one is expected to like the same things in the exact same way for their entire lives. While I think the "objective" argument has more than enough merit, it could be that even if WWE perfectly set up its year so that Mania maximized drama and story for the important members of the roster, you might still look at it as not as special as it used to be. Maybe Mania has always been this oddball thing that no one really could classify and what you look for in your wrestling, your entertainment, is changing. Your perspectives are maturing and growing. The second, just as likely reason, is you're growing older and your tastes are changing. Mania's no longer about a year end culmination of things, but it's basically wrestling's Catalina Wine Mixer, and god help anyone if they bust McMahon's nut.
Braun Strowman to McMahon straining to do what he should've done three years ago. That's how you get from the tailor-made main event of Roman Reigns vs. Now it feels like Mania is less about the people on the roster and more like Vince McMahon trying to puff out his chest for the almighty "casual" fan who liked it when The Rock and Steve Austin were around or some shit. WrestleMania XII had two rivals going head-to-head in an epic by design, and so on and so forth. VI featured Hulk Hogan passing the torch to Ultimate Warrior (this before Warrior fumbled it and nearly set fire to the entire WWE at the time). WrestleMania V, for example, was the resolution to the Mega Powers EXPLODING. If you remember back to the WrestleMania events when you were a kid, the common theme was that they, with some exception, featured matches with people who were there all year long on the marquee role in some kind of culminating story. I'm going to go with the "objective" one first. I have two reasons, one is more personal, one might explain objectively why Mania could be feeling less special by the year. Why does Wrestlemania feel less special each year that goes by?
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