Mike

Because if this is a new normal, I'm not sure if I like wrestling as much.

And Ariel Helwani, with perhaps his sharpest criticism of TKO's WWE era, really came down on them and it was surprising.

But I do think that TKO owes a big debt of gratitude to the two performers that headlined night two.

Oh, they were great.

In terms of in-ring storytelling, and you've got to be impressed with the age that CM Punk is doing this at.

It's a 47-year-old man putting on arguably the best match of an illustrious career.

That spun the entire event into a win.

A win with opinions.

A win certainly with some conversation around it.

But the last thing people left with, which is that match, was, wow, that's what wrestling is supposed to be.

That's what WrestleMania is all about.

For me, the most interesting thing was them pulling out a win from a narrative that surrounded the event that was not at all good.

But it's the way the event started.

They found a way to surprise people with a genuine retirement of Brock Lesnar, one of the great spectacles in that industry.

For real.

In fact, there was a cool moment there where Brock Lesnar throws up the X. Yeah, you know what the X means, Dan?

The X is something that the officials do when there's a real-life situation, like a real-life injury.

Referees signal X in the back.

That means not scripted.

Yeah, so he threw up the X to Paul Heyman.