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PPV DISCUSSION: WWE WrestleMania 32 (April 3, 2016)
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Preshow: [b]Ryback vs. Kalisto[/b] I guess Ryback meant this will start off [i]the whole[/i] show when he spoke last night. Just looking at the card, we'll probably be a little short of heels winning matches, and there seem to be an influx of faces around and returning in the next few weeks, so it makes sense to put the title on [b]Ryback[/b]. The accidental value they got out of Kalisto will be good going forward - a sneak preview of their long-term latino star - and we can buy our time until Rey Mysterio returns and he can fully pass the torch along. [b]Total Divas vs. Team BAD and Blonde[/b] I don't really buy the idea that WWE absolutely believed Eva Marie was coming back to a huge face ovation. The reaction by the other Divas in the ring was mild at best and they aren't doing that on their own. Either way, I see this ending with Eva as a heel, whether turning on the Total Divas or costing them the match and getting beat up by them. This is a tough answer because I don't think she can pull off the acting needed in a heel turn and I don't think she can sell well enough to make 4 divas beating her up look good. Hmm...okay...I'll just go with her turning on the TD and helping [b]TBAB[/b] win. [b]The Usos vs. The Dudleys[/b] Seems like a very safe place to call an [b]Usos[/b] win. Last match on the preshow, need to get revenge on the Dudleys, and if they're going to be involved at all with a Roman Reigns heel turn (maybe), they have to over strong here. Main Card: [b]The New Day vs. League of Nations[/b] The League of Nations should be better than they are. These are four heels people generally like as such and all could theoretically be far higher on the card than they are. Something's been missing but over the past month or so, it seems like they've been building a character in a similar way to The New Day, but in a far less obvious way. Even as such, and even that they're probably up for a win in this feud, I'm not sure a win does much to change their fortunes going forward. Perhaps a brutal feud with something like a debuting Bullet Club would give these guys a correct (and serious) feud to build on. Either way, this seems all about [b]The New Day[/b], between their entrance, and possibility of The Rock making one of his appearances here, and continuing their face turn without neutering their dominance at this point. [b]Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal[/b] The list of contenders seems to be short, pretty much made up of surprises. John Cena could make a return after hinting as such all week. Cesaro is close and him winning it for the second time would pump some energy into the match (please return with new music please?). Wyatts haven't been mentioned in their yet and obviously a Bray loss in this thing makes no sense, so that could be here. I think a Samoa Joe win makes a ton of sense here (especially if he too might join up with a possible Roman Reigns turn as I alluded to in the rumors thread). I think it's between Cena (who has jokingly entered himself into this twice before and would instantly make the match actually matter again) and Joe. I'm going with [b]Samoa Joe[/b] getting off to a big start with the main roster. But keep an eye on a bit of a dark horse. As we know, this is probably Mark Henry's last WM. WWE has a penchant for giving older vets random wins and he could get it here as a goodbye. [b]AJ Styles vs. Chris Jericho[/b] Everything says Jericho puts Styles over here. This is what Y2J returns to do and he's looked quite strong this time around with the heel turn, so he could deflect it the best way he's ever had to after this. But Jericho is going to be around till April, and every Mania seemingly has one really weird result. Literally no one ever thought Sting would lose last year...and guess what? AJ Styles is not a WWE guy. There is literally no way Styles should be losing today. I'll go with [b]Chris Jericho[/b] winning in a mindfuck. [b]Charlotte vs. Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks[/b] This is one of the better built feuds for Mania and probably one of a handfull of most important matches in WWE women's wrestling history, so I'm expecting them to get a ton of time. They've built this up in a way that we really don't know who is going to win. Charlotte could easily be the dominant champ. Sasha is undefeated since coming up. Becky has had a burgeoning of fan support since the Rumble. Any of them coming out of here would make sense and be great. I'll eliminate Charlotte from the win - it made sense for her to win if WWE was bringing up someone dominant tomorrow that would look like a stronger opponent than their other two best combined. That doesn't smell like Bayley, who walking in and being a title contender doesn't line up at all with her character, and no shortcuts can be had with her character if she is going to work. Asuka would have made sense to come out and just destroy Charlotte, but she's now champion. So that leaves Becky and Sasha, who would both get great reactions from the crowd. I think Becky is a little more over with the non-hardcore fans and in an arena like that, is a threat to get a similar reaction to Sasha, but I they've been building to this crowning moment for [b]Sasha Banks[/b] and I don't see much of a reason to shy away from it now. [b]Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Zack Ryder vs. Stardust vs. The Miz vs. Sin Cara[/b] As like many, I was hoping Owens-Zayn would be the singles midcard match on this card, but I've outlined how it makes sense to branch it off in the coming months when it can get far more attention. I wouldn't mind seeing an out-of-nowhere win for someone (Zack Ryder obviously would make me pop like hell, but even a Stardust/Cody Rhodes deserves better than his position), but I think it's between Owens and Zayn for this one. Owens could easily survive because he is seen and is one or two steps higher than everyone else here and there will be plenty of foils going forward. But Sami Zayn desperately needs something to push himself out of the pool of midcarders if he's going to be taken seriously instead of falling into the Tyler Breeze abyss. [b]Zayn[/b] Daniel Bryan's the hell out of this one and becomes champion. [b]Brock Lesnar vs. Dean Ambrose[/b] Brock is still seen as WWE's cash cow, and they'll do anything to make sure he continues looking strong. But this is what he is here for and sometimes you just need to go with a guy. I've been saying for months this is the year of [b]Dean Ambrose[/b]'s ascent to the top and nothing is different here. Whether the Wyatts are the cause of a Brock loss or not, is to be seen, but this should be Wrestlemania moment for Ambrose, and I'm hoping he gets a win by the gimmick and not by some other means. [b]Shane McMahon vs. Undertaker[/b] It's really hard to predict what will happen in the final two matches since we have no idea what order they're going to go in. If the title match is first, that eliminates any cross-breeding between these two matches, since Shane won't be in charge yet. If this goes on first, HHH is suddenly in a position where he has to win to keep his job. Either way, I think they wind up being sterile of each other. Shane McMahon has to win somehow and the three prevailing ideas of how seem to be: 1. Lights go out and Sting costs Taker the match (pretty much goes away with last night's very real announcement). 2. John Cena returns to rid the WWE of Vince McMahon...and sets up the Taker-Cena dream match for next year. 3. Undertaker beats Shane so badly that Vince has regrets, gets eliminated for good by the Undertaker and Shane rolls him up to get the shocking win. I was leaning towards option 3 until this week and all the talk from Cena that we've all discussed. Setting up a Taker-Cena match a year in advance would be a nice start to the Shane campaign on Raw, so I can see that being the way this goes. And no, this isn't a heel turn*. *copy and paste indefinitely forever [b]Roman Reigns vs. HHH[/b] Wow. We're here. There's been a lot of words spewed and a trail of internet fan tears on the road to this match and we're finally going to find out what WWE decides to do. I outlined a pretty reasonable way to turn Reigns tonight off of a Goon idea in the rumors thread that I won't copy here due to this post's length, so it can be read there. Even with it making a lot of sense, I can already sense the overbooking of it overwhelming some, even if the result is favorable. So I'm instead going to look at it a different way. Let's get this out in front to start. [b]Roman Reigns[/b] is becoming champion tonight. There's no other scenario around that. But the result of such is up for interpretation. I'm not fully seeing the full turn happening tonight, but you need that big moment to really tell the story of his heel turn. He's been generally but unevenly booed by fans over the last few months and while it's been somewhat obvious, it's not enough to base everything off of. You need that turning point, and at what is supposed to be his crowning moment, at the biggest Wrestlemania of all time, getting universally booed is a moment that can really be used to set him off. Letting him walk off "waiving" off the fans at the end of it while walking out could be a foreshadowing to tomorrow, where the boos will sound worse. When he finally gets frustrated with them on Raw, have anyone from Rock to Shane to Ambrose come out to calm him down and your big post-WM Raw hook being Reigns Spearing a face there and making the full turn. No clue if that's going to happen. They could continue with the Reigns experiment. I believe the boos will be far less strong once we get outside of the Rumble-WM bubble, as what happened last year, but just looking ahead at the multitude of faces you'll be able to throw at Reigns - from Ambrose to Cena to Cesaro to Orton to eventually the mega-match with a returning face Seth Rollins - it makes all the sense in the world to have him as a heel going forward. So we'll see how it goes. As I've been saying from the start, whatever our feelings are on this main event, the Mania card itself looks fairly full of potential. As showed last year, even with the lack of storyline behind everything, it could wind up pulling off an exciting card without it. Hell, nothing is Nakamura-Zayn here from a non-storylined affair winding up amazing (though we knew it would), but we do have freaking Steen and Generico in a ladder match [at holy shit how are they] at Wrestlemania[?!?], so who knows what kinds of things could happen. Like a Zack Ryder WM title win. Come on WWE...you know you want it.
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