Bobby Lashley vs. Drew McIntyre, WWE WrestleMania 37 Night One (4/10/2021)

This was for Abobo’s WWE Title.

The highlight of the first hour of this show was less so this match and the half hour preceding it, in which they had to stall for a weather delay before Vince finally just insisted the show went on anyways despite all the rain. A great show of who had it on the fly (Kevin Owens mainly) and who absolutely didn’t (Seth Rollins, still one of the worst talkers in the history of media).

As for the match, I can tell you with great certainty that it happened.

It definitely took place. Not bad, not especially great, but functional and fine. A return to form, which is to say mediocre to good but in front of people (non-hostages) this time.

The best version of this is eight minutes of bombs and some prop bumps but yeah whatever. The second half of this got closer, as Drew hit a big silly dive and they traded cool power moves. But on the whole, it’s that classic thing they do of adding too much onto a thing that seems very self evident. It’s the WWE. People get shoved into boxes they don’t fit into. Interesting edges get rounded off so they can it into the shapes that one (1) person in the world finds more interesting and sexually exciting. You get what you get outside of that. Sometimes it’s a match being good. Other times it’s a good heel keeping the title and one of these unbearable anointed ones eating shit for a moment, however brief.