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I totally agree. The WWE championship match has good heat, but with the Rock missing two Raws going into Mania, it really seems less important than it should.
Punk and Taker have a great story going at the moment with some fantastic heat, but only because WWE lucked out with Paul Bearer's death. While I'm sure they are sorry he passed, the writing staff has to be breathing a sigh of relief that he died when he did. If he hadn't, how could you build one of the biggest matches on the card with a goofy 4 way match?
The Shield is wrestling three other random guys, just like the last few PPVs. While I love the group, we've seen this match before, just with a few different people.
Del Rio and Swagger actually have the best thing going as far as storytelling from the start of the program, but nobody cares. Casual fans don't care, as Jack has only been back on TV for a month or so. And he lost the smarks when he fucked up with that DUI and nearly ruined his shot.
Those are the four officially scheduled matches at the moment. Of course Brock and Trips are going to fight, which should be fun to see. At least that story is fairly decent, and people care about it because Paul Heyman is a fucking genius on the mic. I guess they're putting Ryback and Henry together for the most boring big-man Wrestlemania match this side of Brock vs Goldberg.
But we're less than 3 weeks out from Mania and most of the undercard has no match or hot feud to bring them into one. And of those handful of matches they've actually booked, 4 of the guys aren't even full time. This year's buildup has been incredibly weak.
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