WWE Is Truly Making It Feel Like WrestleMania Season

For the last two weeks, WWE has been pushing forward in full-on road to WrestleMania build up. The card is beginning to take shape, the action is getting more intense and there’s a certain feeling of focus that usually tends to evade the weekly shows. Even though the main event is less than thrilling with an outcome that seems unavoidable and completely unnecessary, the emotion and passion that begins to fill the tank in late February, through March and into the beginning of April is definitely upon us.

Triple H has really stepped up, doing a lot less meandering and beating around the bush in his show-opening promos. He’s got a point, he makes it and he’s done. Stephanie McMahon, who does a great job being incredibly hateable, took it up an extra notch this week on RAW. Not only was she hateable, but she also seemed like a human being, which is something she tends to lack and makes her a weaker character overall. Her performance on RAW in which she gave up on trying to deliver her speech and instead went on a passionate rant against her brother Shane McMahon was fantastic. That was a “WrestleMania season” promo.

Some things are still up in the air, such as the AJ Styles & Chris Jericho team, who defeated The New Day in a non-title match this week and will be taking them on in a few days on the next edition of RAW with the WWE Tag Team Championship on the line. This won’t be the feud that is going to ride the tag titles into WrestleMania, but having two big stars teaming up the way Y2/AJ are makes it feel very “WrestleMania season”. There’s something brewing there inside of Jericho, and we’re going to find out what it is very soon, likely on Monday night.

The Divas Championship build has been stellar. WWE has actually been setting this up for a number of months now, with Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks forming a loose partnership of necessity that is now being broken apart as they fight for a bid at Charlotte’s title at WrestleMania. They had two very good matches, neither of which ended in one woman getting the victory because they’re just so evenly matched, and now Charlotte — who has been taunting both women for weeks and cheated over and over the beat Lynch earlier this year — has to take them both on in a Triple Threat match. This is absolutely perfect storytelling because of its sheer simplicity. Often less is more, and that’s what we have here. Three women want to be champion, and all of them want to make an impact at their first WrestleMania. Perfect.

It goes on and on. Dean Ambrose is getting more and more over as the hours tick by and his mini-rivalry with Triple H may actually help Roman Reigns out — plus, it’s still possible that the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match could turn out to be a Fatal Fourway with Ambrose (as champion), Reigns, Triple H and Brock Lesnar. It’s not out of the realm of possibility.

WWE has kept their act together fairly well thus far in 2016. The Reigns experiment is continuing to die a slow and agonizing death, but most everything else is clicking on all cylinders or about to get there. WrestleMania is only a month away and it most definitely feels like it.

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