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| Sting will wrestle at 'Mania. Unfortunately. |
Triple H is intent on calling out Sting at Fast Lane,
which will presumably lead to a match on March 29. Rollins seems destined to
have a grudge match with Orton. The first ever Cena v Rusev meet has been moved
forward to Fast Lane but in all likelihood they’ll end up wrestling again at WrestleMania,
because it’s such a WrestleMania
match. And ‘The People’s’ Elixir’1 Daniel Bryan has been talking to
Dolph Ziggler on Twitter, for all the world to see, about having a match
together on ‘The Grandest Stage of Them All’.
But what if all of these threads are red herrings? I
mean, they’re probably not because it’s shaping up to be the sort of card WWE
likes to produce for ‘Mania. But none of it is definite yet. Not even Reigns v
Lesnar, until Reigns gets past Bryan.
There’s still time for WWE to swing onto a very different
path.
We’ve seen Paul Heyman offer Lesnar to The Authority as a
problem solver. What if ‘The King of Kings’ has no intention of wrestling Sting
himself and instead plans to challenge him to step in the ring with Lesnar?
That could mean two matches for the usually light scheduled ‘Beast’. But he
could also lose the title in an as yet unbooked defence at Fast Lane or in an
altercation on RAW to a Money in the Bank wielding Seth Rollins.
That would see Rollins going into WrestleMania as the
champion. Reigns would be the obvious candidate to face him. But maybe all the
promos and the heavy-handed pushing and Triple H’s talk on Austin’s podcast
were all intended to lead us in the wrong direction. Maybe Daniel Bryan will
wrest the title shot away from Reigns, giving us D-Bry versus Rollins for the
WWE championship in the WrestleMania main event. The return of the mighty Orton
could wait until ‘Mania itself, or the night after.
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| Bryan versus Rollins at WM31? It'd be good but it's not likely. |
This would leave Rumble winner and perceived golden boy
Reigns out in the cold. What if his increasingly heelish mannerisms have
actually been the lead-up to a full blown turn? He could attack Dolph Ziggler,
the guy currently rumoured to be Bryan’s WM31 opponent, in frustration.
This chain of events would give us Reigns v Ziggler,
Lesnar v Sting, and Rollins v Bryan for the championship. This is all massively
unlikely. In places it’s unappealing. But it’s not impossible. WWE could
surprise us with some or all of this. While I don’t necessarily want them to it
is nice that there are alternate paths that they could take. It’s nice to have
some unpredictable wrestling television from them.
But I'd draw the line at changes occurring that prevent us
getting Miz versus Mizdow on the pre-show. That's the one
match that really has to happen.
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1 That's not just a Frasier reference, it's an
apt Frasier reference. I think 'The People's Elixir' is an amusing a relevant
nickname for Bryan. I'll be using it from now on.
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