Mania Up 3, Down 3

**Emperor Smeat** · 03-13-2017, 05:25 PM

3 Up:
* Neville vs Aries - Potential to be the best match at Mania if the WWE lets them go all out.

* Owens vs Jericho - JeriKO and Festival of Friendship were some of the best things about RAW over the past year. Match should also be pretty great given how good both guys are.

* Orton vs Bray - Potential to really cement Bray's status as a big star and the Orton-Wyatt storyline has been pretty interesting.

3 Down:
* Undertaker vs Roman - Feels like Reigns isn't ready to get the rub of being the one to finish off Taker at Mania. Also for something teased as Taker's potential retirement, feud doesn't feel special at all and just like almost every other Taker Mania feud in recent years.

* Triple H vs Rollins -Assuming this does happen, feels really dumb to rush Rollins back and risk him suffering an even worse injury because Triple H needed a Mania match. Also something that really didn't need to be delayed till Mania for the sake of it.

* Miz/Maryse vs Cena/Nikki - Understand Nikki wants something big as her retirement but don't care at all about the match itself.

**The CyNick** · 03-14-2017, 05:06 PM

I think this has been the best built Mania from top to bottom.

What I mean by that is almost every key match has a strong storyline going into it and lots of star power throughout.

There have been past Manias with individual matches with stronger builds, but nothing like this one from first match to last match.

I would say the weakest storylines have been the SD women's title match and the RAW tag titles match. And I only say that because in both cases, they seemed to try to stretch to get multi person matches, instead of just sticking to one program. But like with the RAW tag titles, each of the teams has a well defined issue heading into the match, so it's not just thrown together.

HHH v Rollins is probably the best because it's a story that started when Rollins dumped The Shield. Cool that they managed to keep it going for so long. Also shockingly enjoying Cena's deal.

03-13-2017, 05:25 PM	#1
Emperor Smeat Former TPWW Royalty Posts: 66,665	3 Up: * Neville vs Aries - Potential to be the best match at Mania if the WWE lets them go all out. * Owens vs Jericho - JeriKO and Festival of Friendship were some of the best things about RAW over the past year. Match should also be pretty great given how good both guys are. * Orton vs Bray - Potential to really cement Bray's status as a big star and the Orton-Wyatt storyline has been pretty interesting. 3 Down: * Undertaker vs Roman - Feels like Reigns isn't ready to get the rub of being the one to finish off Taker at Mania. Also for something teased as Taker's potential retirement, feud doesn't feel special at all and just like almost every other Taker Mania feud in recent years. * Triple H vs Rollins -Assuming this does happen, feels really dumb to rush Rollins back and risk him suffering an even worse injury because Triple H needed a Mania match. Also something that really didn't need to be delayed till Mania for the sake of it. * Miz/Maryse vs Cena/Nikki - Understand Nikki wants something big as her retirement but don't care at all about the match itself.

03-14-2017, 05:06 PM	#2
The CyNick Make the IWC Great Again Posts: 8,922	I think this has been the best built Mania from top to bottom. What I mean by that is almost every key match has a strong storyline going into it and lots of star power throughout. There have been past Manias with individual matches with stronger builds, but nothing like this one from first match to last match. I would say the weakest storylines have been the SD women's title match and the RAW tag titles match. And I only say that because in both cases, they seemed to try to stretch to get multi person matches, instead of just sticking to one program. But like with the RAW tag titles, each of the teams has a well defined issue heading into the match, so it's not just thrown together. HHH v Rollins is probably the best because it's a story that started when Rollins dumped The Shield. Cool that they managed to keep it going for so long. Also shockingly enjoying Cena's deal.