Observer Notes - Mania Matches, the attempted Celebrity tie-in (Spolier warning)

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From the Observer:






The top five Mania matches planned are:

Cena Vs. HHH
Angle Vs. Orton
Vince Vs. Shawn
Edge Vs. Mick Foley
Undertaker Vs. Mark Henry

The big celebrity that WWE was trying to bring in that Meltzer was talking about was A.J. Pierzynski, as they wanted to do an angle to build Mania up for the Chicago market, and it'd be a "slap to TNA". It appears, however, to have fallen through.

In other Mania related notes - WWE tried with every big name possible for them to come in to Mania, but Bret doesn't want to do an angle based off Montreal, Austin and WWE aren't on great terms presently due to what happened in late October/early November last year, Rock doesn't appear to have interest in the show right now in any form, and Hulk Hogan wasn't happy with the opponents proposed to him. Meltzer thoerizes that things could change there however, as Hogan will need some publicity to help give his show momentum, as it goes into the second series.

Also, it doesn't appear that there are any set in stone plans for what Mysterio will be doing at Mania.