Same as it ever was.
I kept naively wishing and hoping that WWE would call an audible and swerve everyone, but no... we're firmly on the road to the totally pre-planned WrestleMania 29. As a fan, my biggest question is this: why, exactly, am I supposed to be excited about this (proposed) line-up?
If reports are to be believed, our top three matches are Rock/Cena, Lesnar/HHH, and Punk/Taker. Not only are these matches that have happened before, the most recent one occured six months ago. I understand that these are big money matches, but it doesn't change the fact that we've seen them and they all have completely set outcomes. HHH is getting his win back. Taker is Taker. WM29 will end with Cena hoisting the WWE title over his head. Really, there better be one hell of an undercard, since I don't even have faith in more than one of those proposed main events will even approach anything like a 4 or 5 star match.
It also leads to the bigger problem that WWE still doesn't want to address. No new stars. What happens in May when HALF (if not more, if Brock doesn't re-sign) of the WM main event participants leave? This Mania seems to be the epitome of the worst in WWE's booking instincts. Not to belabor a point that Punk himself has made, but the top three matches at Mania have a total of two full-time guys in them. That's... that's not saying much about the future.
Anyway, ranting. Knowing something is going to happen and then *seeing* it actually happen are two different things. Honestly, I'm just sort of dealing with the fact that WWE has managed to make WM boring. One time a year, we can generally count on them. This year? Again, there better be one hell of an undercard.
... oh, and a horrible thought? There's been talk of changing the house show circuit to not designate them as Raw or Smackdown. That's lead to speculation that it could finally lead to ending the brand split. Rock has the WWE title. Cena is, technically, feuding with Ziggler. Ziggler has the blue briefcase and we still have two months until Mania. Tell me that a title unification match featuring The Rock and John Cena at WrestleMania doesn't get Vince's grapefruits tingling.