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WrestleMania 42

WWE fans were not impressed by what was on offer throughout the first night of WrestleMania. From short matches to long, drawn-out gaps filled with advertisements and filler, many came away from the event feeling deflated.

In fact, a sizeable portion of the Internet Wrestling Community (IWC) took to social media to share their frustrations over what many dubbed as the worst WrestleMania in over a decade.

“WWE has gone from bad, to really bad, to really damn bad, to just mid, to okay, to bad again, to… something strange outside of that realm of good and bad or boring,” @tammerodd wrote on X. “I liked Randy v Cody, but it’s like a fever dream.”

Another user pointed out that not only were the WrestleMania matches too short, but they failed to pay off from their weekly builds on SmackDown and Raw.

“Can we also talk about how most of these people have barely wrestled the last two months and how Raw and SmackDown’s matches have been mostly undercard matches, and then they go and give them all 10 minutes each,” @Wrestling_AL2 wrote.

Interestingly, some users opted to time the show, searching for how much wrestling vs. advertisement time was actually on offer. The numbers certainly don’t paint the WWE in a great light.

“Here’s a stat that’s about to blow your mind,” @RhodesKotaEra posted on X. “In Ring Wrestling Time: 1 hour, 26 minutes total across 7 matches. Ad time: APPROXIMATELY 1 hour and 14 minutes. 12 LESS MINUTES OF ADS THAN WRESTLING. TKO are genuinely ruining EVERYTHING.”

WWE Fans Slam Lack Of Time For Women’s Matches

Another major issue for some wrestling fans was the limited amount of time afforded to some of the bigger women’s matches on the card.

“The women’s division was shafted just so that mess of a main event can get more time,” @bigtimeEST wrote on X. “All three women’s matches were title matches. Becky vs AJ got 8 minutes. The tag title match got 8 minutes. Liv vs Stephanie (a world title match) didn’t even get 7 minutes.”

“The lack of respect! No comment on the time distribution,” @xoxojonn commented. “As always, it’s the women who end up getting the short end of the stick.”

“How are the women supposed to show they’re at the same level as the men when they get 7 minutes on the biggest show of the year?” @WrestleFeatures wrote.

Even More WWE Fans Shared Their Frustration

“So, we’re all hoping AEW runs a major stadium show the same weekend as WrestleMania next year, right?” @MikeStrawMedia joked.

“No backstage segments, no pre-match video packages, no elaborate stage setup, sub-10-minute matches. Commercials on commercials,” @safx41 posted. “Ads all over the canvas… This isn’t the WrestleMania I grew up loving.”

“We are getting 4 min commercials. Only to get more advertisements when we finish that, and then into the next match,” @JDfromNY206 wrote. “Have we given up on setting the tone and the stage for what’s to come? No video packages? You wonder why #WrestleMania doesn’t feel the same; they’ve neglected to do the bare basics.”

With so much frustration and disappointment coming from night one, WWE has to knock Sunday’s WrestleMania night two out of the park. Otherwise, this weekend could go down as one of the worst WrestleMania’s in history.

What’s worse, is that’s before we even touch on the ticket prices.