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WWE WrestleMania 37 is on the horizon for the superstars of Monday Night RAW and Friday Night SmackDown. Now that WWE Fastlane, the final pitstop on the road to WrestleMania, has come and gone, the WrestleMania 37 card is starting to take shape.
Matches for both nights of WWE's biggest show of the year are getting announced on Monday Night RAW and Friday Night SmackDown. In addition, other rumored matches are set to be announced in the coming days during the continued build-up to the showcase of the immortals.
However, with only a couple of weeks left before WrestleMania 37 takes place, there are several storylines and match-ups that need some work.
Certain storylines lack the logic or story development that one has come to expect with a WrestleMania match.
Let's take a closer look at 5 WrestleMania 37 feuds that WWE needs to improve before the event.
#5 Bobby Lashley vs Drew McIntyre (WWE Championship)
Bobby Lashley winning the WWE Championship for the first time in his career was incredibly overdue. Lashley is one of the most physically impressive and dominant WWE Superstars on the Monday Night RAW roster. However, at 44 years of age, many within the WWE Universe had assumed that Lashley's time to become WWE Champion had passed him by.
Nevertheless, since being paired with MVP and founding The Hurt Business in 2020, Lashley has been a changed man on WWE television.
After Bobby Lashley assisted The Miz in defeating Drew McIntyre to steal the WWE Championship at Elimination Chamber, he defeated The Miz 8 days later to win the title for himself. Many in the WWE Universe assumed we would see Lashley face McIntyre on the grandest stage of them all.
It's the route to this WWE Championship match that is disappointing. McIntyre vs Lashley was randomly confirmed during an episode of Monday Night RAW, with the former WWE Champion not having to earn it.
Since then, Lashley has put a "hit" out on McIntyre during Monday Nights. This totally contradicts "The Almighty" nickname and gimmick he is currently portraying. Why should Lashley be afraid of his WrestleMania opponent? He's already proven to be capable of beating him down, which resulted in McIntyre losing the title at Elimination Chamber.
The storyline feels like something is missing. There is no doubt that the match between Drew McIntyre and Bobby Lashley at WrestleMania 37 will be great, but it could be so much more.
#4 Big E vs Apollo Crews (WWE Intercontinental Championship)
The WWE Intercontinental Championship feud between Big E and Apollo Crews has been going since January on Friday Night SmackDown. After defeating Apollo Crews to retain the Intercontinental Championship at Fastlane, Big E has beaten Crews in 3 seperate Intercontinental Title matches.
However, the feud between the two doesn't look set to conclude anytime soon. After Big E defeated his opponent at Fastlane, Apollo Crews once again viciously attacked the WWE Intercontinental Champion. While a WrestleMania 37 match between Big E and Apollo Crews is yet to be announced, it's a safe bet the match will be confirmed in the immediate future.
The main issue and problem with this storyline now is why does Apollo Crews continue to have Intercontinental Championship opportunities? After turining heel on SmackDown earlier this year, Apollo Crews has undergone a metamorphasis of sorts. Crews has embraced his Nigerian roots and begun speaking with a Nigerian accent on WWE television. But he continues to lose to Big E when it truly matters.
At this point, logic would state that Crews has exhausted all of his opportunities to challenge for the Intercontinental Championship. But because he continues to attack Big E on SmackDown and after their matches on pay-per-view, he's still the number one contender? It doesn't make sense.
There's no doubt that Big E and Apollo Crews have good chemistry. But at this point, we've seen the match several times. There needs to be some evolution or development for the WWE Universe to continue to be invested in the storyline going forward.
#3 Bad Bunny vs The Miz (WWE WrestleMania 37 Night 1)
Since performing at WWE's Royal Rumble pay-per-view in January, rap sensation Bad Bunny has become a staple of WWE television. Bad Bunny is a Billboard Music and Grammy award winner. He was also the most streamed artist on Spotify in 2020. Therefore, it's very obvious why WWE wants him to regularly appear on Monday Night RAW.
Since making his WWE debut in January, Bad Bunny has been embroiled in a feud with The Miz and John Morrison. After partnering up with Damian Priest on WWE television, Bad Bunny has won the 24/7 Championship and gotten physical with The Miz and John Morrison on several occasions.
This has led to The Miz challenging Bad Bunny to a match on the grandest stage of them all, to which Bad Bunny has accepted. This is your typical WrestleMania celebrity attraction match, which is sure to generate a ton of headlines in the mainstream press.
While the story makes sense, The Miz continues to be embarrassed by the WWE "outsider." There is so much potential to make this storyline even better. The Miz won the WWE Championship at Elimination Chamber, defeating Drew McIntyre with an assist from Bobby Lashley. However, Miz lost the Championship 8 days later on Monday Night RAW.
WWE should leverage this short title reign for The Miz by emphasizing that The Miz could go from the pinnacle of WWE as WWE Champion, to rock bottom by losing to a rapper who has never competed in a WWE ring before.
This would generate real stakes in the match for The Miz and lead the WWE Universe to want to see the former WWE Champion hit rock bottom.
#2 Braun Strowman vs Shane McMahon (WWE WrestleMania 37)
WWE's Shane McMahon and Braun Strowman storyline has played out on television as completely bizarre, and not in a good way. As far as one can tell, this storyline centers around Shane McMahon continuing to insult the intelligence of Braun Strowman, referring to him as "stupid" on several occasions.
Since returning to Monday Night RAW, the WWE Universe has seen Shane McMahon cut random, long-winded and nonsensicle promos, cover Braun Strowman in green paint and play hopscotch. This juvenile humor has led to stale segments that have been tough to watch and are just bad television in general, irrespective of it being professional wrestling or not.
We have seen Shane McMahon actively avoid facing Braun Strowman in a match in recent weeks. McMahon faked a knee injury to get out of the scheduled WWE Fastlane encounter between the two. However, Shane McMahon eventually revealed his true colors when he later attacked Braun Strowman with a crutch.
To say that the Shane McMahon vs Braun Strowman storyline needs improvement would be an understatement of gigantic proportions. The whole direction of this story needs a complete reset.
There's no doubt that Shane McMahon will do some crazy, high risk spots at WrestleMania, while Braun Strowman will perform an incredible feat of strength. But, without a proper story for the WWE Universe to be emotionally invested in, all of those spots are meaningless.
#1 Sasha Banks vs Bianca Belair (WWE SmackDown Women's Championship)
The WWE Universe was thrilled when Bianca Belair won the 2021 Women's Royal Rumble match. She eventually decided to face Sasha Banks for the SmackDown Women's Championship at WrestleMania 37.
The prospect of two of the top female superstars in WWE facing off for the first time on the grandest stage of them all was a mouth-watering prospect.
The match and storyline wrote itself. A first-time ever match between the SmackDown Women's Champion and the Royal Rumble winner, there really wasn't much more that WWE needed to add to it.
Unfortunately, WWE decided to center the feud around people who aren't even in the match. In recent weeks on Friday Night SmackDown, WWE has continued to involve Reginald and the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax.
Carmella's former sommelier had become increasingly interested in the SmackDown Women's Champion before he was fired by Carmella. Since then, Reginald has aligned himself with Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler on WWE television.
With Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair forming a tag team of sorts on SmackDown, the duo unsuccessfully challenged for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships at Fastlane. Reginald once again played into the events.
Hopefully, now that Fastlane is said and done, the main focus of the Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair WrestleMania storyline can be the competitors in the match, instead of Reginald, Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler.
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