What could happen on the greatest stage of them all?

What could happen on the greatest stage of them all?

I’m not the biggest fan of ‘dream booking’ articles. I don’t really like spending time booking imaginary articles a few months ahead of Wrestlemania, when I doubt the WWE are planning that far ahead. However, since I’m going this year, I’m pretty excited and it’s an article type that I have never done before, so I thought I’d give it a go. 

I’m going to book the top five matches on the card; bar the Cena vs. Rock match that is already happening, according to what I think will happen mixed in with what I want to happen. It will probably be more optimistic than what will realistically happen, but I’ll try not to go to crazy. I will only book wrestlers that have existing WWE contracts, so there will be no Lesnar on this list. 

Match One: Randy Orton vs. Kane

This one might seem a bit of a stretch, since the two superstars being on different rosters. However, that doesn’t mean much. I honestly don’t see Orton in the title picture again at this year’s Wrestlemania. They could do Orton vs. Bryan, but for some reason I don’t see it happening. Kane will have just finished his feud with Cena and will still be in a high spot on the card. Like they did last year with Punk, I can see the WWE shoving Kane in a feud with Orton to create quite a high profile match. 

Is it ideal? No, but would I hate it? Not at all. Orton can get good matches out of a lot of people and Kane is one of my favourite big men. 

Match Two: Mark Henry vs. Shaquille O’ Neil w/ Big show in his corner

I know Shaq vs. Show has been the celebrity match that everyone is clamouring for, but with Show not looking like he’s turning heel anytime soon I can see the E going a different route. That root would be the World’s Strongest Man: Mark Henry. 

Do I think this is a good idea? Hellz Yeah. The Shaq match isn’t going to be good whoever he fights, but it should be entertaining. Who’s one of the most entertaining superstars out of the ring at the moment? Mark Henry. I would have Shaq come out, Show follows him out and they shake hands. Then ‘somebody gonna get da ass kicked’ and good ol’ Mark Henry walks out looking for a fight. 

World Heavyweight Championship Match: Daniel Bryan vs. Sheamus

With The Rock vs. Cena match, Jericho coming back and the Undertakers 20^th match, I can seriously see the World Heavyweight Championship match being pushed aside a bit. Dependant if his heel Gimmick works, I think that D-Bry will hold the title until the big event. His challenger? No other than the Ginger Ninja, Sheamus. Sheamus has been dominant without a feud for a while. It’s only a matter of time until they throw him into the title hunt. 

I think it’s a good choice because it feels fresh. Especially if the feud is worked around D Bry’s hate for Bodybuilder types and Sheamus’ rush to the top. 

WWE Title Match: Cm Punk vs. Jericho

Unless the WWE quickly lose faith in Punk. I can see this one being a lock. It looks like Jericho has come back as a heel. Don’t let last Monday fool you. His actions were the ones of a heel. A new breed of heel but a heel nonetheless. With no other heel in Jericho’s stratosphere, the logical thing to do would be for him to feud with the baby face champ. 

Am I excited? Yes, yes and more yes. There’s no doubt that these two in a match together could bring something special. The only thing that would be more exciting than these to wrestling each other is thinking about the promos they will cut beforehand. 

Undertaker Vs The Miz

Ok, this is the biggest stretch, but just here me out. I know The Undertaker vs. HHH is being widely reported, however, I don’t want it to happen so I’m going to try and look past that. So that means The Undertaker needs a new opponent. Without the WWE bringing back another big name, I seriously can see it being The Miz. I don’t see the Miz in the title picture so he needs a high profile match. 

Do I see it working? Sure. Especially with The Miz knocking off Cena at last year’s Mania, he could brag about being the a Wrestlemania legend, then the light hits and BONG The Dead Man enters. I love it.

So they’re my picks. Looking back it has turned into a bit of a wish list, but I’d like to think that there’s an ounce of logic to it. Hopefully. 

What do you think? Feel free to let me know.

Until next time, enjoy the show.

Daniel Morris.

Raw Reaction

Raw Reaction

Hello to all. Last night Raw hit the famous city of Liverpool for the very first time. The super show was pegged as a big deal. Me and my brother were lucky enough to go. Our tickets weren’t great. But they were decent enough. I was going to do a review of the whole show, but instead I’m going to do a reaction of the show as a whole, there were some bits I liked, some I wasn’t too keen on. So the big question now is, are you ready for The Raw Reaction?

As always the atmosphere was tremendous, probably not the best wrestling crowd I’ve seen in England, but still pretty great. I love being an English sports fan, as we can be a loud and rowdy bunch. This transcends well into Wrestling and last night was no different as we were pretty electric throughout. My favourite chant of the night was the ‘who are ya’ chant to R- Truth during the main event. Fun stuff. 

All this being said, it was interesting to note that this was a smark heavy crowd tonight. Maybe, it’s because we were in Liverpool. Normally in Manchester, it’s quite a Mark heavy crowd with the Babyfaces getting all the pops. This was not the case last night as it seemed like people were adverse to booing people like Ziggler and Del Rio. The only superstars, people seemed happy to boo, were Nash and Cena, but we’ll get to that later. 

Unsurprisingly, Punk got the hottest reaction of the night. It was evident that this was going to be the case even before we walked into the arena, as there was a sea of Punk shirts throughout. When I bought my Punk T shirt they had already sold out of the Punk Ice Cream bar T shirt. I asked the lady selling merch what was selling the most and she told me that the Punk shirts and the Zack Ryder ‘Broski’ T shirts were outselling everything else. 

Which leads me on to how over Ryder was tonight. He got the second biggest pop of the night, only behind Punk. I think it helps that the WWE had him in the main event, but he was definitely well received hear in Liverpool. The most surprising thing about that was, he was over with the kids as well. The WWE should really capitalize on this and it looks like they might be doing, if tonight’s main event was anything to go by. 

The show itself was good, but not great. I thought the ZIggler/ Morrison match was pretty fun, if not just a tad too slow. I don’t know whether they’ve decided to give Morrison his momentum back, but beating Ziggler just struck me as odd. ZIggler needs to look strong if they want to move him up the card. 

Apart from the opening match and the main event, all the other matches were squashes or soething similar, with not much going on in them. In all honesty, I hope people in the back listened to Nash’s reaction, because it was bad. The sad thing was he wasn’t getting heel heat. He was getting ‘we’re sick of this guy’ heat. 

I liked the main event, but again I thought the match was a tad too slow, with the babyface beatdowns taking up too much time in the match. However, the finish was booked well, with The Miz going over relatively clean. The funniest thing about that, was watching the kids in front of us nearly burst into tears when Cena took the pin. Yes, I’m a bad man.

Post show, Dolph and Punk came out and a Fracas ensued, with everyone hitting their finishers on Mr Ziggles. I’m not sure why Dolph came down, but it seems to me that the WWE are starting to trust him fourfold. And I have to admit, when Punk set up Dolph for the GTS, all I could think about was a feud between the two. 

All in all, it was an average show, made ten times better by actually being there. 

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Until next time, enjoy the show

Daniel Morris.