#4 Predictability in the storyline
Much of the Brock Lesnar – Goldberg feud this time around has played out like a patchy episode of Déjà Vu. Paul Heyman loudly extolling the virtues of his client, check. Brock Lesnar impressively puffing out his chest and not saying much, check. And most importantly, the opponent who eventually succumbs to the Beast, check.
It doesn’t even matter that Goldberg managed to unleash shock and awe tactics to keep Lesnar’s shoulders down for the 3-count at Survivor Series in between all of this; we all know how this rivalry is going to end.
With the former WCW stalwart highly unlikely to stay on with the WWE after the completion of WrestleMania 33, the only plausible outcome is that Brock Lesnar will get his own back and send him packing for good.
While affording him a fitting sendoff at the Show of Shows is a nice gesture on the part of the WWE, what irks me is that I can’t recall the last WrestleMania match in the recent past (other than Rock–Cena 2) that I was approaching with a greater dearth of intrigue.
If the outcome of one of the main events of Mania is already set in stone, where’s the Thrill in that?
