Road To WrestleMania 31 - Week 6

As another slow week comes and goes the biggest match on my mind is the IC Title Ladder match, it seems almost certain that Bryan will be part of the match as well as Harper, R-Truth, Barrett, Ambrose and my favourite Ziggler. Just looking at the participants, thinking about the event and the obvious similarities to the Money in the Bank match you can’t help but feel this will be the show stopper, the show stealer, the best match of the whole night; especially when every other match seems to be a disappointment in the eyes of most of the fans.

I’ll tell you honestly, this week was fun. I am enjoying WrestleMania season as usual, maybe not as much as the past couple of years (last year especially) but it’s not the worst thing in the world. I do think this stems from the Main Event not being the match most of us wanted to see. There is a lot of matches that could be amazing like Rollins vs Orton, Wyatt vs Taker, Sting vs Trips; but it doesn’t grab the attention quite like Bryan’s fight last year or other great Mania moments. But really what do we expect? This is WWE, a company by this point that have lost touch with its fans. A company that blatantly doesn’t listen to the fans and the only reason fans still watch is because they are life long fans of wrestling or maybe because there is one good storyline they want to watch and in this case it’s the build to the IC Title Ladder Match. Ok maybe not all of the fans, I’m obviously talking about the one specific group that you could classify as IWC or maybe just readers of this article. There are a lot of fans who are casual but I don’t think they make up the core audience of WWE.

I almost didn’t write this article, I am interested but not enough. People are right to complain and say that it doesn’t feel like Mania season. It’s because it’s not. If there is any bigger of an indication that Vince needs to step down it is now.

WWE have some amazing man made stars at there disposal and we know they love their man made stars. Take Dolph Ziggler, the new People’s Champ (according to Booker T). He has the fan base, he has the talent in ring and on the mic, he has the song, the look, he is overall the full package. So WHY do WWE insist on pushing the opposite of this for the one simple fact of their philosophy “Bigger is Better”?

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