Wrestlemania XXX predictions

[Who Am I?]

So, we're a little under a month away from the Royal Rumble and things are beginning to take shape for Wrestlemania. I'd like to hear people's dream cards for this year and also who they think is going to win next month's Rumble.

Here I go:


Main event: Randy Orton (c) vs Daniel Bryan (Rumble Winner) for the WWEWHC.

Shawn Michaels vs CM Punk
Cena vs Hulk Hogan (who is a surprise #30 entrant in the Rumble)
Undertaker vs Brock Lesnar
Cody Rhodes vs Goldust
Dean Ambrose (c) vs Roman Reigns vs Seth Rollins for the United States Championship
Big Show and Rey Mysterio (c) vs. Wyatt Family for the Tag Team Championships
Big E Langston vs Mark Henry for the Intercontinental Championship
Tag Team Turmoil: Ryback/Axel vs. Usos vs. Prime Time Players vs Real Americans vs. Matadores vs. Xavier Woods/R-Truth vs. 3MB for the #1 contendership to the Tag Team Titles.
Alberto Del Rio, The Miz, Brodus Clay, Damien Sandow and Wade Barrett vs. Dolph Ziggler, Great Khali, Kofi Kingston, Tensai and Sheamus (10 man "Get everyone a Wrestlemania Check" match)
AJ Lee vs Someone Bella for the Divas Championship


Pretty sure that gets everyone of note on the show and gives us a couple fun angles to work going forward. I could see Langston facing someone other than Mark Henry for the IC Title, but I really think it's going to be another Mark Henry heel turn before Mania to build Langston for a big win over a credible heel. Hogan may be a stretch, but it's not impossible for him and Michaels to make WM30 the "one more match" thing and face a couple of "generational" opponents. Besides, HBK vs Punk is a fucking dream match that this past Raw got me thinking would actually be better than HBK/Bryan like I had initially wanted. Give Bryan the rub in the main event... the guy is as over as anyone has ever been.


Your turn! Go!

[Lord Hastings]

I think HBK is unlikely to come back, more likely to see Punk/HHH, or HHH/Bryan with Orton facing Punk.

I also think Hogan is more likely to just make an appearance rather than actually have a match, Cena/Hogan would be quite a spectacle but I can't imagine anybody getting a decent actual match out of Hogan at this point. I'd be much more interested in seeing Sting actually compete at Wrestlemania, either against Cena or Taker.

[T-Robosaurus Rex]

I think I agree with Steve, tho' I think it'll be HHH/Punk and the ME will be Bryan/Orton/Cena, that's the sense I get reading the results of recent shows.

I'm muchly behind the Bryan to win RR shout, I think that's the purpose behind screwing him out of the World Title in the first place, nice long build to a win at RR followed by capturing the WWE World Title at WM XXX.

I too think Hogan is too shot physically to compete, and wouldn't want to see it. I guess I wouldn't mind Sting vs Taker, but that'll only really make me sad we didn't see it before the two of them became broken pieces of bone and muscle sewn up in bags of flesh.

But it won't be the WM XXX of my dreams if there is no Bret Hart vs Goldberg 'Kick to the Temple' match.

[Lord Hastings]

I'd actually at this point like to see Batista/Lesnar.

It drives me nuts that WWE uses their part-time wrestlers to give us stuff we've already seen. When Brock faced HHH the first time at Summerslam, that was a first-time match. The second and third matches? Didn't need them. Lesnar/Punk was new. Lesnar/Cena had technically happened before, but that was very early Cena so the Backlash match still felt new. Now WWE is setting up Lesnar/Big Show. We've seen them one on one on PPV multiple times before during Lesnar's original run. WM rumors for awhile had Lesnar/Taker. They feuded twice during Lesnar's original run. If you're going to bring Lesnar in for three matches a year, make them matches I've never seen before. I don't need Rock/Brock 2.

Put Lesnar against Batista, Orton, or Sheamus? Jericho if he comes back for another run? Those are matches that would be new, and I think that Mania should bring me things I haven't seen before. If Daniel Bryan were to face Orton again, that would be the fourth singles match on PPV between them in less than a year. They faced each other plenty on TV too. Would be worth it if Bryan is finally going to get his big win that sticks.

Orton/Punk
Cena/Taker
Batista/Lesnar
HHH/Bryan

[T-Robosaurus Rex]

Can someone explain to me why anyone gives a fuck about Batista? Was he really that big a deal? I can't pretend to have watched a lot of WWE TV back then but all I ever saw as a jacked up, uncharismatic, pretty average worker.

Now I'm not anti Lenar/Batistya, unless somehow Ledsar gets the title belt before WM, but the speculation that Batista could be in the ME of WM is making my head hurt. Does anyone really want that? Is he a draw? I never saw it, and still can't, and if he got to ME WM over the likes of Bryan or Punk, or numerous other full time guys it would just be a huge joke and a snub to people who give a fuck about the industry.

Now I know they gave The Rock two WM ME's and the title, but Batista isn't even in the same universe as the Rock draw wise, and WM 29 wasn't exactly a resounding success (apparently buy rates were down 200,000).

I really don't understand it. Is ANYONE actually excited about him returning?

Honestly, I'd rather Jake 'The Snake' Roberts won the RR and headlined WM. Actually I think I'd rather that than 99% of the options available!

[Lord Hastings]

Batista/HHH back in 05 was a white hot angle, he had a good series of matches with Taker a couple years later too. I'm not much of a Batista fan at all, but having him face Lesnar I think would be interesting.

[Eden Morgan]

Batista/Lesnar as a ME?




I'd love to see Batista and Lesnar... in the unemployment line.

[>V<]

Batista is garbage.

Brock Lesnar is still a motherfucking BEAST.

Shut up, Brit...

[Lord Hastings]

one of the big rumors that keep popping up that everybody seems to be buying into is that Cena will face Bray Wyatt at Mania. I would be stunned if this happened. Look for a moment at Cena's matches in his career at Mania.

20: Cena defeats Big Show to win the US Title
21: Cena defeats JBL to win the WWE Title
22: Cena defeats Triple H to defend the WWE Title
23: Cena defeats HBK to retain the WWE Title
24: Orton defeats Cena and HHH to retain the WWE Title
25: Cena defeats Edge and Big Show to win the World Title
26: Cena defeats Batista to win the WWE Title
27: Miz defeats Cena to retain the WWE Title
28: Rock defeats Cena
29: Cena defeats Rock to win the WWE Title

And then at 30 Cena is going to face Bray Wyatt? A match which would be at best the fourth highest match on the card, and likely lower? I laugh at the idea that WWE has even considered it. If this match actually happens, I'll have Donovan eat his hat in a RP.

Don't get me wrong, Cena putting over a rising star at Wrestlemania 30 would be a great thing. This rumor, which keeps popping up over and over like a bad penny, is just stupid. Sorry to rant about it.