#2 Was there anything for the fans to be happy about?
Vince McMahon used to live by a very simple mantra, ‘send the fans home happy’. On occasion, this has made big events, especially Wrestlemanias feel a little predictable. Of course, Daniel Bryan was going to win the title at Mania 30. A Hulk Hogan main event match was only going to finish one way, and Stone Cold would forever get one over on his boss eventually. But somewhere along the line, this idea seems to have evaporated.
After the car crash of a Women's Money in the Bank ladder match opener, the crowd were again disappointed by a messy finish to the tag-team title match and then seeing their hometown hero fail to regain his WWE Championship.
The night even ended with the least popular superstar becoming Mr Money in the Bank not long after he ruined one of the most popular entrances in the company today. There was so little for the fans to cheer about last night, and considering there isn’t a lot of promise surrounding WWE’s ratings at the moment; this is a perilous game that Vince is playing.
It’s fine to annoy the crowd now and again, after all, you won’t fully appreciate the things you want to see if you don’t occasionally have to sit through things you don’t. But to build an entire show around fan disappointment is just not good enough from a company that claims to be the biggest wrestling organisation on the planet.
