Criz

WWE is a promotion on the back end of a hot streak, running on an institutional confidence that has transformed into blind arrogance. The road to Wrestlemania last year was a complete mess, building matches that never happened and failing to build the matches that actually happened, leading to a cold set of shows and a universally panned main event. The John Cena Retirement Tour was one of the biggest wasted opportunities in that company's history, right up there with The WCW Invasion. They spent months focusing the Netflix shows around Jey Uso and Seth Rollins to no one's benefit. And their complete lack of elevating anybody new during the hot streak has lead to relying on a beat down, ice cold Drew McIntyre to be the foil for Cody Rhodes, who himself is as cold as he's been since coming back. They had a terrible 2025, yet they still thought people were gonna come running for these WrestleMania tickets when they're priced as high as they've ever been in the same city as last year's mediocre shows? This is blind arrogance, and a slapdash Mania card and another messy build are only going to make these issues worse.