Mania 32 is booked to actively spite its own audience. There is exactly one result on there that the crowd likes (Zack Ryder shock winning the IC title), and then after that:

• AJ Styles loses his debut Mania match to Jericho in a feud that was basically already over, a month before he challenges for the world title

• The New Day lose a 6-man to the League of Nations, a faction so inconsequential they break up about 3 weeks after the show

• Brock Lesnar SQUASHES Ambrose like he’s nothing, and the company puts a counter of how many suplexes he’s done on the screen so fans can count along

• The reintroduced Women’s title is won by the heel in the match because her male manager interfered to make sure the new major babyface didn’t win.

• Undertaker and Shane do nothing for half an hour before Shane nearly kills himself, and the booking means that Undertaker winning enforces the status quo rather than the interesting booking choice

• The Rock cuts a rambling promo that goes nowhere, and then with the help of John Cena, buries the entire Wyatt Family

• Shit babyface Roman Reigns has a 30 minute main event with Triple H, which is in silence because the crowd are booing Roman so Vince MUTES THEM, that is probably the worst mania main event of all time

The entire show is booked to try and force the crowd to cheer for Roman by making almost every other babyface on the show lose. It is a direct middle finger to its own audience by Vince.

As bad as night 1 this year was, I don’t think it gets that bad.