In the early days of the 80's we would see some of the most long and intense wrestling feuds calmenate at the biggest show of the year. From Hogan and Savage, to Austin and Hart, Hogan and Andre, and Roddy Piper and Mr.T. However, now a days Wrestlemania has focused to much on the matches and not on what is behind them.
Take the match between Undertaker and Shawn Michaels coming up. Sure these guys are two icons and big stars but there is absolutely no story behind it. What WWE needed to do is extend Michaels feud with JBL to Mania in some form of hardcore match. In the case of Taker, the whole situation could have been solved in the match between HBK and Koslov on Raw. MY solution would be JBL costing Michaels the match, keeping Koslov's streak and allowing Koslov to face Taker. This would make more sense because of the match between Taker and Koslov on Smackdown that Koslov won. Taker's Mania matches used to have a story, examples are matches with Sid, Kane, Ric Flair, but now they are just matches.
Wrestlemania needs to go back to the ways of the earlier days where these shows we're live changing and had significant value on the viewers. Even though Mania is going nowhere from being a disaster, this simple change can compel Wrestlemania to truly be the grandaddy of them all.
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The problem is that wrestling has evolved past the MTV generation, and expanding into several markets, fighting the cable rating fight, and the such. Back in those days, WWF was more concerned with selling out shows across the country, and waving small carrots every week on their more generic television programming. This is back in the day of studio wrestling. While WWE is big on pushing you to buy the PPV, they also have to entertain and satisfy the watchers every week that far outweigh the ppv stream, most likely.
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