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WWE is rumored to have intentionally structured WrestleMania Night 1 to underdeliver, with the belief that it would make Night 2 feel like an “all-time” show by comparison. Officials backstage have called it a “contrast play”, with some denying the claim. 🔥🔥 (Via @Fightful)

If tomorrow sucks, #WrestleMania is dead as we know it. All the extra fun stuff like surprises, cameos, and backstage interviews have been replaced by ESPN ads, Applebees commercials, video packages, and announcer yapping. Corporate dipshits screwing with creative. 4 hour show, about an hour 20-ish of wrestling. Two hours of bullshit. The talent works hard, none of this is on them, but these matches are pretty typical for TV or PPV. I'm not asking anyone to go out and k*ll themselves, this ain't AEW, but there used to be a Mania-match feel that was absent from most of Saturday's matches. Night 2 has potential, but we're still going to have APPLEBEES COMMMERCIALS. Mania can definitely still have it's moments (congrats Bianca), production and entrances are badass, but that Mania day feeling inside is gone. It's like how McDonalds used to look in the 80s/90s compared to the gray box of shit it's become now. That's what this has done to my nostalgia. Brag about your gates and your viral moments all you want, but back in the day even the bad WrestleManias still felt like WrestleMania. Y'all have absolutely murdered that feeling. Thanks, @WWE. As a fan of 44 years I can't tell you what that means to me.