By Rob Siebert
Editor, Fanboy Wonder

It’s funny how time can be a show’s enemy. After the Women’s Title match went on at Wrestlemania XXXII, I was thinking this show had overachieved tremendously. At the very least, it was as good as its two immediate predecessors. But by the time the show closed, I’d completely soured.

Incidentally, yes, I call it Wrestlemania XXXII, as opposed to just Wrestlemania. Because WWE clearly doesn’t care what we want. So why should I care what they want?

Has a pay per view ever gone 45 minutes over the way Wrestlemania did? There are a few things about this show worth complaining about. But the biggest one, for my money, was the huge overrun. They had a two-hour long pre-show. You’re telling me they couldn’t have put that damn battle royal in there? Better yet, how about having The Rock milk the damn flame thrower a little less? I’m sure I’m being dramatic. But I left this show feeling like WWE has no respect for people’s time. Or worse, takes their audience for granted.

After Wrestlemania, I legitimately considered taking time away from WWE programming for awhile. And I’ve been a fan for almost 20 years, so that’s no small feat. It isn’t just about Wrestlemania. It’s about everything that’s come in the past year. It’s about this stuff not being nearly as fun anymore. Imagine that, right? A television show being fun to watch. We’ve all spent so much time complaining about this stuff in recent weeks, you eventually get to a point where you wonder whether or not you still enjoy having it in your life.

So I took the night off from Raw, the Raw after Wrestlemania no less. And what did I learn? That I’ll always be a wrestling fan in one way or another. My favorite wrestling podcaster, The Solomonster, once said that WWE is like “the home team.” You love ’em, so you don’t give up on them no matter how much they piss you off sometimes. To that I say: Yeah, I guess so.

That being said, I’m not turning in my fan card just yet. I’ll be taking about the events of this week in due time. But in the end, Wrestlemania XXXII taught me that I do indeed have it in me to leave WWE behind. And to say the very least, that’s not what they wanted anyone to think after their biggest show of the year.

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