Does The Wrestlemania Build Even Matter If The Show Is Good? Reacting to Pro Wrestling 🔥HOT TAKES🔥

Going In Raw: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, friend O, Steve here.
0:08.2	And welcome back to going in raw, the only pro wrestling podcast you need to be listening to on today's episode.
0:16.9	We're going to be taking a look at your pro wrestling hot takes because it's Wednesday. That's what we do on Wednesdays. Uh-huh. Among other things. We're playing basketball later on today as well. So, like this is the only thing we do. We're shooting this Tuesday. What is today? We're shooting Tuesday, basketball Tuesday. Hot takes Wednesday. Gosh, darn it. I'm breaking K-Fave.
0:41.0	All right, let's go ahead and dive into this with this first one.
0:48.2	Myth Trainer AC says the WrestleMania build doesn't matter if the show is good.
0:49.3	Good.
0:52.5	I mean, okay, I'll start with this one.
0:54.6	How many, for the sake of this argument?
0:55.1	Yeah.
0:58.9	How many takeovers did we just completely glaze over?
1:01.2	You know, oh, wow, this is a great takeover.
1:02.4	There's only five-star matches.
1:06.1	And, like, the builds were like, man, it was not that great.
1:06.9	Yeah.
1:08.6	I don't know.
1:17.3	Like, I understand that argument, but NXT back then was a much different thing than main roster, WWE, as me, Triple Eight said as much.
1:19.7	NXT, the indie band you like.
1:25.0	Main roster, top 40, pop music, you know? and so the expectation walking into any
1:29.5	WrestleMania, whether it's booked well or not, is not necessarily
1:32.1	a card just full of five-star matches.
1:35.3	It's usually the twists and turns of the stories
1:39.3	kind of to a certain degree culminating at WrestleMania and how that's
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