After some internal debate of whether a column about wrestling should be in sports or opinion, well, you see where my decision fell.

Because after watching WrestleMania 41 on both Saturday and Sunday, it became a two-day event with WM 36 in 2020, it’s evident the athletic ability built around the story lines and acting is the selling point.

Plus, almost everyone on the WWE roster was an athlete, college or professional, in some sport somewhere.

Any, to the point, WrestleMania 41 was solid.

I won’t call it my favorite (I haven’t seen them all, but I love WM 14 and WM 31) and I won’t call it the worst (WM 11), and I won’t call it legendary like WM 3, WM 6, or WM 18.

But, the annual spectacle, this year in Las Vegas, was extremely entertaining and had some mouth dropping moments, which you wish upon every mania.

I won’t bore non-wrestling fans or make wrestling fans feel like their unintelligent or didn’t watch the show by going over every match, but there are a few I wanted to talk about enough to go into an inner war of whether this is a sports or opinion column.

Jey Uso winning the World Heavyweight Championship was well worth the buildup. The man is selling merchandise at an unpredictable level with his “Yeet” catch phrase and hip-hop culture entrance and guests. He may not be the best wrestler in the ring as many on Facebook have pointed out, but he’s entertaining, and the angles WWE can run with him since his entire family seems to be in the industry and Jey has either been friends or enemies with everyone in the business over the last 15 years.

Plus, Gunther needed to suffer his third pin-fall defeat since he joined the WWE main roster in April 2022.

New Day was going to win the World Tag Team Championship because of their heal turn and the story line they’re working on is the best in the tag team ranks. Plus, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods are two of the most underrated wrestlers in the company. Might as well give them a 12th title run.

I saw Ric Flair claimed the WWE Women’s Championship match where Tiffany Stratton kept the belt after defeating his daughter, Charlotte Flair, stole the shoe. Although I don’t agree with him entirely, you’ll read why in a few, the match was a phenomenal give and take between a veteran in Flair (14-time women’s champion) and Stratton, who is the future of the women’s division but has only been in the WWE since 2021 and on the main roster for just over a year.

Talk about athleticism, Stratton almost made this a sports column by her individual performance because the former gymnast is a magician in the ring.

My favorite match of the two-night WM was the main event on Saturday with the triple threat match between CM Punk (my current favorite wrestler), Roman Reigns, and Seth Rollins.

I knew this would be my favorite because I thought this was the most well-planned, well-scripted story line, and the match you didn’t know who was going to win. I listed the three contestants in the way I ranked their chances of winning, and of course Rollins came out on top.

With the help of Paul Heyman, who turned on CM Punk and Roman Reigns in just a few minutes.

Quite impressive.

The three of them put on a fantastic match where no one really knew who was going to win until the last Heyman low blow followed by giving a steal chair to Rollins to seal the deal.

It was well done, well performed. Matches like this are why I’m a wrestling fan.

Skip over to the main even on Sunday, Cody Rhodes defending his Undisputed WWE Championship against John Cena, and you have the predicable situation.

The WWE was not going to turn Cena heal without the pay day of him winning the title and setting the record with the most heavy weight championship titles as him and Rick Flair have been tied at 16 since 2017 when Cena won his 16th belt.

I don’t think the match lived up to its potential, but it did a good job of storytelling when Rhodes and Cena were having a push and shove with the WWE title in the middle. Cena made the move someone who is desperate and will do anything to win will do, while Rhodes didn’t have the courage to.

It’s a good story line and it will keep us watching.

That’s what WWE does.