by Hanley! » Apr 01, '19, 3:15 pm
I disagree that someone can only stay white hot for a couple of months. WWE's biggest stars were white hot for years. There will eventually come a time when fans lose some of their enthusiasm for any main event name, but it shouldn't have been nearly this soon for Becky. Bad booking is what has cooled her off.
That being said, she's the only one of the three that I really care about. She's a great performer, she's been over beyond her push for years now, and she's finally getting the credit she deserves. And no matter how much the company actually like her, and regardless of whether or not they continue her push after this show, the fact that she's in the first women's main event of Wrestlemania and may win the first women's main event of Wrestlemania is a big freaking deal. Not only that, she'll also become only the second person to main event Wrestlemania who isn't from North America (the first being Andre the Giant). She's also just a really likable performer so it's hard not to support her.
Kofi is just such a weird situation. He's a really likable talent, and they actually seem to be telling a decent enough story with him. So part of me would like to support him, despite him being part of the irritating-as-fuck gimmick that is the New Day. But it's way, way, way too soon for him to be winning a world championship. He was mid-card for life like a month ago. That he could now win the championship that Hogan pinned Andre for is actually a little sad to me. It shows how badly the roster has been flattened out that it takes so little to become more popular than just about everyone else on the show. And he could go back to being just another guy just as quickly.
It would be easier to cheer for Kofi to win the title if it hadn't already been devalued so much by other midcard WWE champions in recent years like Jinder and Bray. If everyone else that won the belt had been genuine main event guys then the status of the title would lift Kofi if he held it. But now I think everyone would just see it as the throwaway reign that it's destined to be. Also, harsh as it might sound, he's not really good enough to be world champion. He's a great tag team or midcard guy, but not everyone deserves to be the champion. I do think him winning would be a nice moment, and I'd probably enjoy watching it, but I also kinda think that they shouldn't do it.
Rollins is the one I wouldn't care about literally at all. I don't watch the shows anymore, I just see the odd clip on my social media and hear results, but from the outside looking in it does seem like he's cooled off quite a bit. The Lesnar feud sounds boring, but that's nothing new with Lesnar. I also think Rollins himself seems a bit dull though. He made his name through his in-ring work, and frankly there are too many guys in the business - and in WWE itself - who wrestle that style better than he does. He doesn't have much to distinguish himself anymore.
For the fourth year in a row though, I have no intention of watching Wrestlemania anyway. I might catch the main event the next day if it sounds good, and if people are raving about anything else maybe I'll give it a look. But I just don't care about WWE enough these days, and the long shows sound torturous to get through. Besides, there are genuinely great looking cards the two days prior with NXT Takeover and the ROH/NJPW G1 Supercard from Madison Square Garden. Wrestlemania isn't going to compare and I'll have had my fill of wrestling at that point.