Official Wrestlemania 32 Card Prediction Thread
 

Rumble Results -
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Triple H wins and is the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion - set up with Roman Reigns

Wyatt Family set up with Lesnar

Ambrose and Jericho possible set up

Owens and Zayn possible or AJ Styles and Owens

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Charlotte over Lynch set up with Banks

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Kalisto over Del Rio

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New Day over The Uso's

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Ambrose over Owens

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Predict the card! Make it work!

This is kind of out there but, maybe something with Taker & Lesnar vs Wyatt and Strowman?

I was thinking that as well. Possibly Taker/Kane/Lesnar vs The Wyatt Family

That is if John Cena doesn't return, I still think Cena/Taker would be a huge advantage to the card as a whole.

Cena-Taker would give the card a viable "big fight feel" main event. As it stands, it doesn't seem like there will be one for what's intended to be the "biggest WrestleMania ever".

Assuming Cena can't go, I was also thinking they might mix in the Wyatt feuds and have Brock and Taker team up against them though. It would be weird and predictable. Taker has owned Wyatt by himself and with a much less credible ally. Putting Lesnar on his side wouldn't exactly make it more of an intriguing matchup. But I can see them doing it.

It would probably serve them best to stretch out the matches with star power though because without Cena or any of the part-timers, the card is probably gonna be a bunch of matches that are interchangeable with any other PPV.

Would love to see Owen/Taker

one of them is dead, the other just portrays a dead guy

HHH vs Reigns for the WWE WHC

Brock Lesner vs Bray Wyatt

Kane vs Taker

Dean Ambrose vs Chris Jericho for the IC title

Kevin Owens vs AJ Styles

Stardust vs Sting

New Day vs Wyatt Family for the Tag Team titles

Kalisto vs Ziggler for the US title

Charlotte vs Sasha Banks ladder match for the Divas title.

Andre the Giant Memorial Battal Royal

As of this post this is my prediction card complete with bold lettering.

WWE World Heavyweight Championship Special Guest Referee Stone Cold Steve Austin
Triple H w/Stephanie & Vince McMahon vs Roman Reigns w/The Rock & Rhonda Rousey

Hell in a Cell
Brock Lesnar vs Bray Wyatt

The Undertaker vs Braun Strowman

8-Man Tag
The League of Nations vs AJ Styles, Neville, Kalisto & Dolph Ziggler

WWE Diva's Championship
Charlotte vs Sasha Banks vs Paige

WWE Intercontinental Championship
Dean Ambrose vs Chris Jericho

WWE Tag Team Championship
The New Day vs The Wyatt Family vs The Uso's vs Big Show & Kane

Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn

Almost the same as mine:

WWE World Heavyweight Championship
Triple H (c) vs. Roman Reigns

Brock Lesnar vs. Bray Wyatt

The Undertaker vs. John Cena

5-Way for the Divas Championship
Charlotte (c) vs. Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch vs. Paige vs. Natalya

Triple Threat Match for the Intercontinental Championship
Dean Ambrose (c) vs. Chris Jericho vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn

Fatal 4-Way for the WWE Tag Team Championship
The New Day (c) vs. The Usos vs. The Dudley Boyz vs. Mark Henry & Jack Swagger

8-Man Tag Team Match
Sheamus, Alberto Del Rio, King Barrett & Rusev vs. AJ Styles, Kalisto, Neville & Dolph Ziggler

Whats the chances of a AJ Styles/Nakumara rematch at WM. I would be all for it and would like it better than throwing him in a multiman match.

The match itself would be great, but I think it's putting two "unknown" qualities too close together. I know the IC Triple Threat won't happen, but I think it tells the best story for Nakamura. He and Ambrose almost have the same sort of loose cannon beat-of-their-own-drum charisma. A face-off between the two would be electric. Ambrose is the current WWE IC Champion, Nakamura is the undefeated and iconic IWGP IC Champion and Chris Jericho is the greatest WWE IC Champion of all-time.

I'm not sure how many multi-man matches Nakamura has worked in his career, but I imagine Ambrose and Jericho are the sort of guys to work them with. I personally enjoy multi-man matches, especially when they are built properly and can segue into meaningful singles matches. The idea here would be to move the title onto Nakamura and giving Ambrose a proper gripe, allowing combinations of the three to face-off at subsequent PPVs over the next few months (with Cesaro probably getting involved too).

I also wonder if AJ Styles vs. Nakamura is too much of an advertisement for New Japan World. I mean, they don't seem to have a problem acknowledging these guys' history, but bringing up such recent history and making Styles vs. Nakamura such a buzz topic and trivia point (having singles matches against each other at the biggest shows of two separate companies within the same year) might be counterproductive to what the WWE intends to do -- even if their relationship with New Japan is still healthy and playful.

Taker vs. Braun sounds horrible. I'd rather watch Kahli vs Taker.

He's Got the Whole Beast in his Hands
Brock vs Bray

WWE Title
HHH vs Roman vs Dean
or
HHH vs Roman

Grudge Match
Jericho vs Dean
or
Jericho vs Styles

The Rock returns to WrestleMania
Rock & The Usos
vs
A New Day

Diva's Title
Sasha vs Charlotte

Andre The Giant Battle Royal
20-30 guys

Undertaker's Last Ride
Undertaker vs Owens
or
Undertaker vs Strowman
or
Undertaker vs Kane

Grudge Match
Cody Rhodes vs Stephen Amell

HOF Inductees Appear

Special appearances by Stone Cold Steve Austin and HBK

I get that, would be great for those 2 guys to have a match on the 2 biggest shows of the year. Just thought it woukd be a cool nod to New Japan and also a damn good match again.

I like the idea of Triple H vs. Reigns vs. Ambrose more than the one-on-one match. Jericho and Styles could very easily tear it up on their own.

Is aj styles match going to be doing the curtain jerking?

I'm calling this for the Fastlane main event - Wyatts cost Lesnar the match setting up that WM match, however it ends up manifestng. Then Jericho does a full blown heel turn costing Ambrose the match, leading to their WM match as Ambrose takes on the most decorated IC champ either.

Also thinking that the HHH/Reigns match may end up being HIAC or HHH's retirement match or something.

There's no way Austin isn't involved in something this Wrestlemania.

I think you're right. On all counts.

I'm not sure where Austin ends up, but I think he could be the guest enforcer for the main event. It wouldn't surprise me if they got Shawn Michaels involved too.

You can take Nakamaura off your WM card, he's doing Takeover

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I'm hoping that they somehow get both Ambrose and Reigns into the main event of WrestleMania. Chris Jericho can turn heel against AJ Styles. Triple H vs. Reigns is going to fall flat without some extra dynamic.

<font color=goldenrod>If there's a ladder match at WrestleMania 32, R-Truth better throw everybody over the top rope and act like he won.</font>

Unpopular opinion perhaps, given the cards, but I really don't think Jericho should be in one of the big matches. Despite what people are thinking about his history and his name value, it is nearly all gone by now. He loses almost every time he wrestles anyone halfway credible.

I have no interest seeing him anywhere near a title match of any kind at this stage (given that he won't be around, its even more of a given he will lose), never mind one of the key matches.

Give Ambrose someone like Styles where at least the outcome is unclear.

Jericho could really use a heel turn, and I think he'll get it. Ambrose vs. Jericho really doesn't impress me on paper as much as it does some others. I'd rather see Jericho get frustrated with AJ Styles and target him quite viciously, and cut promos about how he's meant to be seen as the best wrestler in the world, but Styles is the new critical darling. That sort of shit. Let them tear it up at Mania and put Styles over cleanly.

WWE World Heavyweight Championship - Triple Threat Match
Roman Reigns v. Triple H : : : : : © : : : : : v. Brock Lesnar

Undertaker vs. A.J. Styles

Hall of Fame Class of 2016 on-stage segment

Intercontinental Championship
Chris Jericho v. Dean Ambrose : : : : : © : : : : :

United States Championship
Alberto Del Rio v. Kalisto : : : : : © : : : : :

WWE Tag Team Championship
Primetime Players v. The New Day : : : : : © : : : : :

WWE Divas Championship - Triple Threat Match
Becky Lynch v. Charlotte : : : : : © : : : : : v. Sasha Banks

Are the Prime Time Players even a thing anymore, seems kike they are focusing more on Titus as a singles guy which is a good idea in my opinion.

What is Bray Wyatt's goal in the WWE? He obviously competed in the Royal Rumble to try and become the WWE Champion. He even traded blows with Triple H. It would make sense for Bray Wyatt to want to get his hands on the belt then. What's the most direct way to the title? It's taking a Brock detour. Beating Brock down and tossing him out of the Rumble might have been business as usual. There's a universe in which Bray is now done with Brock.

The easiest way for Bray to get into the title picture is to target Triple H directly. Wyatt crashes some sort of party on RAW and asks why he hasn't been put in the title picture. He says that he's been a good little helper over the years, but now he's coming to put the King of Kings' head on a spike. He'll take over RAW until Triple H grants him his title shot.

Triple H reluctantly agrees and books Big Show, Ryback and someone else against The Wyatt Family at Fastlane, leaving Triple H and Bray Wyatt to fight in the main event. Triple H probably keeps the title there, but you could have The Wyatt Family reached by Triple H's mind games -- offering them power or money or something -- and they turn on Bray.

That leaves Brock and Roman Reigns to cancel each other out in the Triple Threat, leading to them fighting each other again at WrestleMania -- the 31 main event in the feature match slot now. Ambrose gets the shot against Triple H while Bray Wyatt battles Luke Harper.

Couldn't think of any other teams that would work. Certainly not the Dudley Boys, they're jobbing left and right, the Uso's will probably be involved in something with Rock in a 6-man, Sun Cara is injured and meanwhile Kalisto is in his 2nd U.S. title reign, so no Lucha Dragons. I suppose they could surprise the fans by calling up an NXT team who's ready, but I'm so out of the loop with NXT right now, I don't know who would be exciting.

I doubt I'll be watching this year as the line up looks shit.

I think Undertaker will have some sort of main event spot. or team with Kane to face The Wyatt Family

I highly doubt HHH will retain unless he's back to full time wrestling again.

I'm looking for Steph to get back in the ring possibly with Ronda Rousey

The Rock will have some type of camera time during the tag title match. maybe a special ref type role? it's hard to judge.

Ambrose will more than likely face Kevin Owens again but this time in a ladder match for the IC Title.

Also where are people getting the Jericho and Ambrose feud from? If anything it'll be Jericho vs AJ Styles at wrestlemania.

Coz Jericho teamed with Reigns and Ambrose a few months back on PPV against the Shield, and after losing the match he shoulder-barged into Ambrose.

And then recently, they came to blows in the Rumble (?) or something, and now everyone wants to see them face each other.

Ambrose eliminated Jericho from the Rumble and they mentioned some tension between the two but nothing has really come of it yet. Also Jericho is a record 9 time IC champion and Ambrose is the current that alone would be a good starting point for a feud if Jericho turned heel. Wouldnt be opposed to a triple threat with Jericho, Styles, and Ambrose.

I think if they do one it will be for the US title. Get some of those high flying guys in the ring together and let them try to steal the show.

Am I crazy for sort of being into the idea of Braun Stroman vs. Big Show? At least as a preference to Braun vs. Taker.

Main Event will be;

WWE World Heavyweight Champion HHH (with Vince McMahon & Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley) vs. Roman Reigns (with The Rock & Ronda Rousey)

I doubt this will happen, but in the event they don't have Kevin Owens go after Undertaker, I could imagine a universe where Alberto Del Rio makes a good challenger for him.

Follow the influence of a guy like Kevin Sullivan in booking it. Maybe bring back Zeb Colter for the feud, since he has a history with Undertaker (the person though, not the character), that could be played into. But you can mine the mythos behind lucha libra and present Del Rio in some sort of spiritual light. Surround him with Mexican tradition and have him almost step out of it like a iconoclast. Juxtapose Del Rio with the Day of the Dead, or that sort of imagery, and have him wink at it, almost like he's this clash of styles counterpart to Undertaker, if that makes any sense?

The Undertaker and ADR could have a fantastic match, as Del Rio takes to in-ring like a duck to water. I sometimes think a big part of why the dude struggles to get over with live crowds is because he's so fluid he almost hypnotizes people. Working the arm plays into counters for a lot of The Undertaker's shit. Del Rio's not going to be crippled by a loss to The Undertaker either.

Crazy World Scenario

HHH vs Dean Ambrose Title for Title

Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar

Kevin Owens vs The Undertaker

The Rock and Usos vs The New Day vs Wyatt Family (-Strowman) vs League of Nations (sans Barrett)

Divas Championship Charlotte vs Sasha Banks vs Paige vs Brie Bella Elimination Style

US Title Ladder Match Kalisto vs Neville vs AJ Styles vs Jericho

Stardust vs Steven Amell part 2

Andre Battle Royal on a preshow

Not crazy, I really dont see the appeal in him either other than hes big. Dont think hes ready for a match with Taker or Lesner at this moment and Big Show would be a perfect fit for him I think. I might be crazy to though.

<font color=goldenrod>Despite it being a 4 hour show they never seem to do more than 6 or 7 matches on the main card anymore. This isn't the card I WANT to see, but it's my attempt at a realistic prediction of one:

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WWE World Heavyweight Championship: Roman Reigns vs. Triple H (C)

Brock Lesnar vs. Bray Wyatt

The Undertaker vs. Braun Strowman

WWE Intercontinental Championship: Chris Jericho vs. Dean Ambrose (C)

WWE Divas Championship: Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks vs. Charlotte (C)

6-Man Tag Team Match: The Cosmic Wasteland vs. Goldust, R-Truth, and Stephen Amell

WWE United States Championship Ladder Match: Kalisto (C) vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Neville vs. Alberto Del Rio vs. Sheamus vs. Kevin Owens vs. AJ Styles

Pre-Show Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal: Adam Rose, Big E, Big Show, Bo Dallas, Bubba Ray Dudley, Curtis Axel, D-Von Dudley, Damien Sandow, Darren Young, Erick Rowan, Fandango, Heath Slater, Jack Swagger, Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, Kane, King Barrett, Kofi Kingston, Luke Harper, Mark Henry, The Miz, Rusev, Ryback, Titus O'Neil, Tyler Breeze, Xavier Woods, Zack Ryder, and any NXT guys they want to toss in to build up the numbers.

Pre-Show 4-Way Tag Team Match for the WWE Tag Team Championships: The Dudley Boyz vs. Luke Harper & Erick Rowan vs. The Usos vs. The New Day (C)

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It's weird to put The Ascension on the WrestleMania card...is The Cosmic Wasteland even still a thing? Regardless, the Amell rumors are running high right now and I just can't see him working a one on one match for some reason. I guess you could shoehorn 2 other heels with Stardust but it would feel weird.</font>

Sting would be perfect to pair with Amell if he could go. Stings a vigilante, the Arrows a vigialnte then add Neville. Really needed The Hurricane back when they were going with the comic book thing with Neville.

I would be shocked if New Day are on the pre-show.

<font color=goldenrod>Oh they definitely shouldn't be. I'm just not sure what match to cut off from the main card (assuming the Amell rumors are true at least, no chance he wouldn't be on the main show). Recent history supports the Tag Title match being one of the matches assigned to the pre-show.

They could also just have 8 matches on the real show but WWE have been pretty poor in the area of time management the last several WrestleManias. Just last year they bumped the battle royal to the pre-show only a day or two before the event because they realized they hadn't budgeted enough time for The Rock/Rousey segment and the musical performance. And there will almost certainly be another lengthy non-wrestling segment at WM32, likely involving The Rock or Austin (or both).</font>

Pretty realistic card, Vito. I think they put the Tag Titles on the main show, and maybe instead of Goldust & R-Truth, they put Neville with Amell and have Stardust team up with The Miz.

<font color=goldenrod>Very possible, although I'd find it to be a bit of a shame to use Neville in that kind of spot if there does end up being a ladder match on the show.

Maybe Stardust and Miz vs. Amell and Goldust?

Who am I kidding...I just want the Rhodes Boys to get their WrestleMania match against each other before Goldust retires, even if it's shoehorned into a tag team bout.</font> :(

I guess that would work. I feel like Stardust and Goldust's stock is below WrestleMania at the moment though. If they are going to feud, I think they need to make it really mean something.

My Spidey senses tell me New Day will have a bigger role on the show than a throwaway multi team match.

A shot at a realistic card:

WWE World Heavyweight Championship
Triple H (c) (w/ Vince McMahon) vs. Roman Reigns (w/ The Rock)

Brock vs. Bray: The Beast vs. The Eater of Worlds
Brock Lesnar (w/ Paul Heyman) vs. Bray Wyatt

The Dead Man vs. The Reaper
The Undertaker vs. Luke Harper

New Day segment
The New Day try to "take over" WrestleMania somehow, only for Stone Cold Steve Austin to come out and spray them with beer and give them Stunners or something.

Triple Threat Match for the Divas Championship
Charlotte (c) (w/ Ric Flair) vs. Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks

The Best in the World?
Chris Jericho vs. AJ Styles

Intercontinental Championship
Dean Ambrose (c) (w/ Renee Young) vs. Rusev (w/ Lana)

Ladder Match for the United States Championship
Kalisto (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Goldust vs. Kevin Owens vs. Neville vs. R-Truth vs. Sami Zayn vs. Stardust

WWE Tag Team Championship
The New Day (c) vs. The Usos

Kickoff: Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Adam Rose vs. Alex Riley vs. Apollo Crews vs. Austin Aries vs. Big Show vs. Bo Dallas vs. Braun Strowman vs. Bubba Ray Dudley vs. Bull Dempsey vs. Curtis Axel vs. D-Von Dudley vs. David Otunga vs. Damien Sandow vs. Darren Young vs. Diego vs. El Torito vs. Erick Rowan vs. Fandango vs. Fernando vs. Heath Slater vs. Hornswoggle vs. Jack Swagger vs. Kane vs. Konnor vs. Mark Henry vs. The Miz vs. Rhyno vs. Ryback vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Titus O'Neil vs. Tyler Breeze vs. Viktor vs. Zack Ryder

* Stephen Amell, if he's at WrestleMania, makes his presence felt during the Ladder Match, costing Stardust any shot at winning the thing. The Ladder Match itself is a bit thrown together, but they like putting on a match like this. You could just run bully Kevin Owens trying to win the US Title, but having Sami Zayn in there builds off their history (I can see them wrestling at Fastlane). You can put Goldust & R-Truth in there, and that adds some veteran presence, puts a black guy in the match, allows the Rhodes brothers to interact, plays of the current shtick between Goldie and Truth, etc. Ziggler is in there as the workhorse, and Neville is there to do cool stuff too. If Sheamus is healthy, maybe they bump Zayn for him and have Zayn in the Battle Royal? Or they could do a 9-man. I could also see either Kane or Mark Henry being added, just so there are fewer monsters in the Battle Royal and a larger guy in this.

* The Rock and Vince are used to try and bolster the main event. Shawn Michaels makes an appearance here too. The Rock and Ambrose are used to counteract Vince and HBK.

* I know the rumor is Taker vs. Strowman, but that lacks a lot of imagination. And it's going to need a lot of imagination to be watchable. I can see Taker being smart and asking to work with Harper in order to make him look like a beast moving forward. There will be time for Strowman, who I think they give the Battle Royal to.

* Bray Wyatt goes into his match against Brock Lesnar alone -- he's got something to prove. This also allows Brock to defeat Bray without cannibalizing the entire Wyatt Family. This marks the beginning of the Wyatt face turn.

* Jericho vs. Styles seems like the more natural feud out of the possibilities for Jericho. Once Ambrose is out of the immediate title picture, I can see Vince trying to bring the brute back out of Rusev and dangling the IC Title in front of him. It'd be a simple story between Ambrose and Rusev, and Lana and Rusev can be bullies to Renee which puts her into Dean's corner -- which will capture the hearts of people, I'm sure. It seems to me a better story than Jericho vs. Ambrose, which so far lacks any sort of heat or trajectory.

* I can't see The Usos missing out on WrestleMania this year. I think they'll get their eventual Tag Title win, even if the crowd revolts, and I think that sets off The New Day for that segment with Austin later in the show.

Can't foresee Rusev getting anywhere NEAR the IC title or really any kind of title shot by WM due to probably still being in the doghouse over letting news leak to TMZ or wherever about him and Lana becoming engaged.

What a funny business, wrestling is. In any normal working environment being punished for GETTING ENGAGED would be an HR nightmare

When he wasn't in the Dog house he jobbed 4 straight times to Cena, nothing is really different.

Can you imagine how much it must have sucked for a new guy like Rusev to work with John Cena at Mania? He must have the patience of a saint to put up with that booking.

I agree, I also think Brock Lesnar should have lost to Angle at Wrestlemania 19 and 3 straight times after. That's how you make new stars.

Rusev should have won @ Mania.

Rusev could have been something now he's just like 90% of the roster.

No he won and then went on to beat a young John Cena, who was never heard from again. Sad really.

Then he lost to Kurt on consecutive PPVs that summer.

Is RVD still on the roster or did he retire? RVD vs Roman Reigns would be pretty cool.

Noid I think your card is pretty spot on. I love the idea of Harper vs Taker and it works if Strowman take the the Battle Royal. They would have to push Harper really hard though and it doesn't seem like that is really happening.

Also where is The League of Nations? I think Alberto will be on the card as well as Sheamus.

John Cena beating Rusev at Mania was fine. But Rusev should have sold the lost and disappeared for a bit after that. Having him lose to Cena at the next two PPVs was dumb.

When I came up with that card, I wasn't sure about the health status of Del Rio, Sheamus or Barrett. You could easily just add them into the Ladder Match instead of Goldust and R-Truth. It would make sense to have them in a multi-man tag, but there isn't really a team worthy of going against them. It's likely their match would replace the Ladder Match, and that would be where you fit guys like Dolph Ziggler, Neville, Kalisto and Ryback or something like that.

If Sheamus and Del Rio need to be included in WrestleMania 32, then I would probably make the following changes:

* Luke Harper doesn't face The Undertaker. Instead he enters (and likely wins) the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. Sheamus is selected as Taker's opponent. Say what you want about Sheamus -- he's a bigger guy that can work and the crowd will be all over him in Texas. His current place on the pecking order seems about right too.

* Del Rio wins the US Title back at Fastlane. Kalisto wants a rematch, but Del Rio makes him put his mask on the line. There's no way John Cena is missing WrestleMania, and if he shows up, this seems like the logical place for him to appear. Cena backs Kalisto in his outing against Del Rio, where the US Title again changes hands, and Kalisto defends his mask for the first time in WWE.

I don't like the idea of Kalisto ascending by only beating the guy that beat him and that he has already beaten in the past, but I could realistically see it happening.

* Everyone in the Ladder Match enters the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. I'm thinking that maybe it takes place on the main show this year, and that Jericho vs. Styles might be the match they bump to the pre-show, in order to have Styles "pay his Mania dues" and give something with presence a spot there to make it worth watching.

To me, assuming I'm not a mark, I want to work with the top guy as much as possible. Win or lose, you should get over just working with the guy, unless its a pure squash, which none of those matches were.

Fans are marks, so they think working with and losing to the top guy is bad for your career. Its not.

What is bad for your career is your girlfriend being an airhead.

If your character is a big, intimidating beast and you lose constantly, it turns your character into shit and thus, you aren't interesting anymore and you don't get over. If your character is a creepy cult leader who gets in people's heads and cuts scary, ominous promos and you end up losing constantly, your character isn't taken seriously anymore and you don't get over.

(Here comes the same argument about Rollins that you refused to understand after it was explained to you like 5 times...)

Facing Cena (Or Taker. Or Lesnar. Or The Rock...) and losing a competitive match to him is great. It makes it seem like you're at least capable of possibly beating the top guy. You can still stay credible. You should be fine with that. When you have the same match with the same outcome repeatedly afterward, any thought that you could still be the better man is gone. That's bad. THAT'S the problem. Get it now?

Exactly. Not only did he lose to Cena, he lost two more times, consecutively.

It is a foundation of the business that "both guys get over" regardless of the W/L - Rusev did NOT get over with his feud with Cena, and at present is bordering on "comedy act" with the whole TV champion schtick.

I still feel that he and Swagger could have had a really hot feud that could have went somewhere for BOTH guys.

Yeah, really missed an opportunity with Swagger. We the People thing is way over and a big match at Mania would have done both wonders. Instead Rusevs monster push was only to put Cena over more.

It doesn't help that at the time Cena was having competitive matches with EVERYBODY, due to his US open challenge

WEED THE PEOPLE!

I would love to see The Undertaker take on Rusev, that has potential to be a really good matchup. I also really want to see Alberto Del Rio get a spot to shine, and would enjoy him vs Taker. Sheamus, god I can't stand him so I really hope he doesn't rassle Taker but it would be a decent match.

Does anyone feel like they could surprise us and have Dean Ambrose win at Fastlane? Obviously Bray is going to prevent Brock from winning somehow. The pop at The Rumble when Ambrose and Triple H were left as the final two entrants was legit attitude era Austin level. Really what is the difference in sales if Dean Ambrose, a man who will wildly be cheered vs Triple H, or Roman Reigns who bound to probable X-Pac heat from the Wrestlemania crowd.

I'd then have Roman heading towards a heel run. He'd be paired up with AJ Styles for Wrestlemania.

World Heavyweight Title
Triple H vs Dean Ambrose

The Undertaker vs John Cena

Brock Lesnar vs Bray Wyatt

Roman Reigns vs AJ Styles

I don't put faith in that direction actually happening but I would love it.

Hahaha, The Rock isn't going to be in a Wrestling role.

#fan gets it. You don't.

Cena and Rusev could have worked together on house shows. Cena vs. Rusev for the US Title could have headlined them. But you don't need to bust the guy's mystique and drawing power by having him try and fail, try and fail, try and fail.

I've got a feeling that Del Rio will win the US Title at Fastlane and then defend it against Kalisto in a Title vs. Mask match with John Cena in Kalisto's corner. If Cena can't wrestle Taker.

Another hypothetical WrestleMania card (less likely this time):

WWE World Heavyweight Championship
Triple H (c) vs. Dean Ambrose

WrestleMania 31 Main Event Rematch
Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns

Please, Please, Please Do Us a Favor Match
The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels

Triple Threat Match for the Divas Championship
Charlotte (c) vs. Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks

Tournament Finals for the vacant Intercontinental Championship
Chris Jericho vs. AJ Styles

Grudge Match
Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn

Fatal 4-Way Tag Team Match for the WWE Tag Team Championship
The New Day (c) vs. Goldust & Cody Rhodes vs. The Miz & R-Truth vs. The Usos

8-Man Tag Team Match
The League of Nations vs. The Wyatt Family

United States Championship
Kalisto (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler

Kickoff: Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Won by Ryback

Kickoff: Divas Tag Team Match
Paige & Natalya vs. Team BAD

* R-Truth chooses The Miz as a tag team partner over Goldust, and the two beat-down Goldie until Cody Rhodes makes the save out of the Stardust character. Paige joins up with The Miz & R-Truth, with Nattie advising her against it, playing mother hen. Nattie & Paige team up to face The Usos' wife and her partner on the Kickoff.

* The Battle Royal is the Battle Royal. The big stories are Big Show trying to repeat his win, The Social Outcasts working together and Mark Henry wanting to win in his homestate. Kane, The Dudleys and a few surprises can be thrown in there. I'm sure Kevin Nash wouldn't mind a WrestleMania pay day. Ryback wins, because he's the most over hoss-like guy you'd have in there.

* Kalisto vs. Dolph Ziggler would be a fun choice for a WrestleMania opener. Dolph has never had a one-on-one match at Mania, and I think he'd go out of his way to tear it up. This would be a great way to showcase Kalisto, and the two only really need to have between 10 and 15 minutes to heat the crowd up. The story here is that Dolph wants to prove he can out-show Kalisto.

* The League of Nations vs. The Wyatt Family is a Battle of the Brutes. Which faction is the most dominant in WWE? That's how it's sold anyway. Both sides are trying to earn favor with The Authority, with The Wyatt Family being the cooler and more "renegade" group of the two. Bray Wyatt earns the pinfall for his team here.

* As I mentioned earlier: The Miz & R-Truth reform The Awesome Truth on the lead-in to WrestleMania. This leads to Cody Rhodes & Goldust getting back together. The Usos are thrown in because I can't imagine them not getting a Tag Team Title shot. The New Day are currently the champs. I guess you could run this with Stardust & Miz as a heel team against Goldust & Truth too. Whatever.

* Kevin Owens is in the IC Title tournament that takes place heading into WrestleMania, but is cost a semi-finals match to either AJ Styles or Chris Jericho when Sami Zayn returns to the main roster. Zayn and Owens have a personal feud away from the title, and are given ample time to tear it up and establish themselves to crowds that may not have seen them before.

* Dean Ambrose is only allowed to keep his shot at the World Heavyweight Title if he forfeits the IC Title heading into WrestleMania. Chris Jericho and AJ Styles are the four guys who make it to the finals. I would ideally like Jericho to be in full heel mode by this point.

* The Triple Threat Match is between the three girls who came in to kick-start the "Divas Revolution" last year. They do a really special hype video for this one and treat it like a main event.

* The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels is set-up at Fastlane when HBK helps Bray Wyatt pin The Undertaker. Bray has gotten into HBK's head about his forced retirement at the hands of Undertaker -- well, at least convincing HBK that it was forced. Taker and HBK go at it in a third Mania match (hopefully another classic), with Bray watching from his chair at ringside.

* Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns cancel each other out at Fastlane allowing Dean Ambrose to clean up the scraps. Lesnar and Reigns have something to prove against each other, and Brock beats the piss out of Reigns at WrestleMania to try and get him over with the fans.

* Dean Ambrose wins the main event at Fastlane in his homestate and is positioned as the hero the WWE wants heading into WrestleMania against Triple H -- who works his ass off to get Ambrose over as the top face -- at least until Seth Rollins is ready to return around SummerSlam.

To make it slightly more realistic, slip Bray Wyatt into Shawn Michaels' spot, cancel the 8-Man, and have the US Title match turned into a Ladder Match featuring Sheamus, Luke Harper, Dolph Ziggler, Kalisto, Kane, Alberto Del Rio, Neville and Rusev or something.

<font color=goldenrod>Supposedly Michaels was asked to be in the Royal Rumble match but he declined, stating he was happy in retirement. I wonder if he would do the same for a potential WrestleMania match against Taker. It might take Vince personally backing up a dumptruck full of money up to his ranch in San Antonio.

Not trying to doubt Michaels' abilities either but with him having not wrestled at all in 6 years, I'd be relatively shocked if he's able to step right in to 15-20+ minute marquee WrestleMania match. I know he's come back from a long layoff before but this layoff is 2 years longer and Michaels wasn't 50 years old then.

Very interesting idea, though. I'm hoping Cena can work his magic to get cleared because I desperately want to see Taker vs. Cena at WrestleMania before Taker retires.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>In the realm of completely unrealistic ideas for Taker's final match...The Undertaker confirms that WrestleMania 32 will be his last ride, and not one but two legends make returns on Raw to stake their claim for why they should be The Undertaker's final opponent.

The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin. <s>Uhh guys the Attitude Era Ended 15 Fucking Years Ago</s> Texas Triple Threat Match. It's billed as the official end to three Hall of Fame careers.

The Undertaker wins, and the next night on Raw Michaels and Austin both come out to congratulate Taker and then the whole locker room empties in a similar fashion to the treatment Ric Flair received after he retired. The Undertaker is announced immediately as the first member of the HOF class of 2017. None of the three participants in the match are seen on WWE programming again except for the annual HOF show, special Austin podcasts on the Network, etc.</font>

An idea I had: Ambrose and Reigns cancel each other out at Fastlane and Brock Lesnar becomes the #1 Contender. The Undertaker returns and attacks Brock again. Triple H adds Taker to the WrestleMania title match. Triple H vs. Brock vs. Taker for the World Title.

Heyman can accuse Triple H of bringing in Taker to create chaos because he knows he can't take on Lesnar 1-on-1. There's plenty of WrestleMania history between the three parties. Ambrose and Reigns are left to face each other in an Intercontinental Title match.

Can't wait to see two guys who haven't wrestled in 13 and 6 years respectively, come out of retirement just to end their careers. Again.

No.

I've said this quite often in regards to Ziggler. The guy has been with the company for over ten years, and has been one of the top five most over guys on the roster solidly for pretty much the last seven or eight of those years, and yet, he's never really had a Wrestlemania "moment". He always ends up in clusterfuck matches.

Guy deserves a fucking moment.

Ziggler is def overlooked. Seems no matter who he is in the ring with, he is entertaining as hell.

Love me some Ziggler. However, especially in light of DBry's retirement, WWE has got to be more hesitant than ever to make him a major player with his concussion history... don't think he will ever get that vaunted singles push we all want and know he deserves. Would defs be cool to let him have a solid 20+ minute WM though that isn't some tag match/multi-man melee

And every single match I've seen regarding Undertaker just looks woefully unentertaining and fucking awful. Please god let this be his last WM

Taker was my all time favorite for a very long while. The mystique of the streak @ mania kinda takes away from his matches now, especially when he just comes around shortly before Mania and has a match that is just "there for the sake of being there" anymore.

I too, thought I never thought I would say it, hope this is his last year in the ring as well.

I don't really want to see it either, but I'd still rather see that than most of the current proposals. Having Undertaker end his career with Braun fucking Strowman or in a clusterfuck tag with Kane and Big Show is a crap way to end a legendary career.

I'd be relatively surprised if this isn't Taker's last match. It just seems like a fitting place to end. And then he'll be headlining next year's HOF class.

For me, I kinda "missed out" on what made him so great. Like, yeah I watched during Attitude era and got into the Ministry and everything etc, but I was never a huge fan of him. I get that people are, and that's cool.

But the past I dunno 5-10 years have just been totally going through the motions. I mean, it's hard to argue about stuff like this because really any outcome is at the whim of the writers, but it just feels like all these WM matches are hollow. "Suspension of disbelief" and all that shit but there is no way that Brock Lesnar should not have utterly demolished him 3x in a row without so much as breaking a sweat.

I respect that he's still giving it at his age, but that doesn't necessarily make for an entertaining watch. For me, anyway. I get that people still dig the entrance and mystique etc... so I'm not opposed to him being there or w/e, just personally I get very little out of the experience

Not to mention that his promo packages, intros and matches tend to take up a huge portion of the show. That's valuable time when you could be showcasing some hot, new prospect to the world, rather than an old man who will be gone for the rest of the year.

The fact that the match that ended the streak ended up just being the start of a 3 match series and Taker just went on to keep wrestling is still just fucking mind-boggling to me.

I'd be fine with all the time taken for his hype video/intro and stuff if he still had the mystique of the streak going because it was such a huge deal. It had more prestige than the title at times. Now it will just be out of place.

Especially the way they would hype the streak. It really feels like it should have "meant something" to the person who ended it. Modern booking doing what it does best I suppose.

It seemed like it was going to mean something in the long run. Lesnar followed it up by squashing Cena for the title. Between those two matches he was now on another level. Whoever managed to beat the unbeatable beast and take the title from him was gonna get a HUGE rub.

Then he lost the title by not being beaten. Then after losing the title, he was finally beaten... by Taker. Just getting his win back. Could not have been more anticlimactic.

Yet another card:

WWE World Heavyweight Championship
Triple H (c) (w/ Vince McMahon & Stephanie McMahon) vs. Roman Reigns (w/ The Rock & Ronda Rousey)

Triple Threat Match for the Divas Championship
Charlotte (c) (w/ Ric Flair) vs. Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch

"Public Execution"
Brock Lesnar (w/ Paul Heyman) vs. Dean Ambrose

The Phenom vs. The Eater of Worlds
The Undertaker vs. Bray Wyatt

Intercontinental Championship
Sheamus (c) vs. AJ Styles (w/ Daniel Bryan)

Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Adam Rose vs. Big E vs. Big Show vs. Bo Dallas vs. Braun Strowman vs. Bubba Ray Dudley vs. Curtis Axel vs. D-Von Dudley vs. Damien Sandow vs. Darren Young vs. Diego vs. El Torito vs. Erick Rowan vs. Fandango vs. Fernando vs. Heath Slater vs. Hornswoggle vs. Jack Swagger vs. Jey Uso vs. Jimmy Uso vs. Kane vs. King Barrett vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Konnor vs. Luke Harper vs. Mark Henry vs. Ryback vs. Sin Cara vs. Titus O'Neil vs. Tyler Breeze vs. Viktor vs. Xavier Woods vs. Zack Ryder

Tag Team Match
The Miz & Stardust vs. Goldust & R-Truth (w/ Stephen Amell)

Ladder Match for the United States Championship
Kalisto (c) vs. Alberto Del Rio vs. Chris Jericho vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Kevin Owens vs. Neville vs. Rusev

Kickoff Fatal 4-Way Tag Team Match for the WWE Tag Team Championship
The New Day (c) vs. The Usos vs. The Dudley Boyz vs. The Social Outcasts

Kickoff Divas Invitational
Alicia Fox vs. Brie Bella vs. Cameron vs. Emma vs. Eva Marie vs. Lana vs. Layla vs. Michelle McCool vs. Naomi vs. Natalya vs. Paige vs. Summer Rae vs. Tamina

For those feeling that New Day isn't doing enough on that card, my prediction is that Big E actually wins the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal by eliminating Braun Strowman last. All three act like they won it.

Sheamus wins the IC Title from Dean Ambrose in a Battle Royal, echoing how he won the US Title from Dean Ambrose in 2014. AJ Styles qualifies for a title shot and Sheamus plays the bully character, calling AJ Styles "little fella." He also takes to taking credit for Daniel Bryan's head trauma and boasts about beating him in 18 seconds at WrestleMania 28. Bryan backs up Styles for this match to watch Styles beat Sheamus in person.

You don't think the Lesnar taking the streak moment meant something?

Unreal. Just unreal.

I would be shocked if that's all New Day does on the show.

I'm guessing Fast Lane will be an indicator of their plans for Mania.