By animek on Skatehive
We’re just a few days away from the biggest wrestling event, WrestleMania by WWE, but sadly, it’s been announced for months as the worst WM ever, and there are several reasons why it’s stuck in that standard. The most worrying part is how wrestling now looks more like merchandise than a sport. Since TKO bought WWE, we’ve seen radical changes. On a corporate level, it feels like: “We have the brand, we just need to sell,” and that’s how WM ticket prices ended up being double what they were last year. Then came the cancellation of the Orlando event to hold it in the same city as last year, with the same wrestlers, the same stories—it all feels recycled. The fans’ frustration was so obvious that in two months they haven’t sold even half the tickets for a stadium that holds over 70,000 people. That’s already a huge sign of how bad the event is going. Then we’ve got forced storylines like Roman vs. CM Punk, which started one day because Roman was bored and wanted to fight Punk just because