Wrestlemania XXX Predictions

[thesamuelcooke]

I know it is early but fantasy booking is in right now right?

If there's already a thread like this, close this down or move it or whatever.

I'm still pretty new so please be nice...

Nice little WM XXX prediction

John Cena vs The Undertaker
Brock Lesnar vs The Rock
WWE Championship 240 Minute Iron Man Match: CM Punk vs Daniel Bryan
HHH vs Vince's Handpicked Guy - Winner Runs WWE: Triple H vs Randy Orton
World Heavyweight Championship: Damien Sandow vs Dolph Ziggler
United States Title: Dean Ambrose vs Cody Rhodes
Intercontinental Championship: Chris Jericho vs Christian vs Rob Van Dam
Diva's Title: AJ Lee vs Paige
Big E Langston vs The Big Show
Tag Titles: The Usos vs The Shield vs The Real Americans
Wade Barrett vs Sheamus

Del Rio, Kane, and Wyatt etc. to be involved in some way too.

Already thinking it is too stacked?

[InsertItHere]

WWE Championship 240 Minute Iron Man Match: CM Punk vs Daniel Bryan

Not that I hate the idea of a 240 minute match involving those two, but may not leave much time for the other matches...

[thesamuelcooke]

It was just a attempt to satirise the IWC haha. They should get a good 25-30 minutes though.

[Andy]

Cena/Taker
Punk/Bryan (WWE title)
Lesnar/Rock
Trips/Big E
Ziggler/Cody/Sandow/Orton (WHC)
15 minute 8 man IC invitational (same rules as hardcore match from WM16) Jericho/RVD/Fandango/Barrett/Henry/Sheamus/Axel/Christian (could also be a MITB I guess)
Shield/Wyatts

[Atty]

WWE Championship
CM Punk vs. John Cena

Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker

World Heavyweight Championship
Dolph Ziggler vs. Daniel Bryan

Chris Jericho vs. Randy Orton

Alberto Del Rio vs. Triple H

Six-Man Tag
The Shield vs. The Wyatts

[chatty]

I think we will get:

CM Punk V John Cena (c) - WWE Championship

Brock Lesnar w/ Paul Heyman v The Undertaker

Daniel Bryan (RR Winner) v Randy Orton (c) - WHC

HHH, Chris Jericho and RVD v The Shield w/Vince McMahon - Winner gets control of WWE

Dolph Ziggler v Bray Wyatt

Eric Rowan and Luke Harper (c) v Real American's v Uso's v PTP - Tag Team Championship

Christian v Damien Sandow (c) - IC Title

Cody Rhodes v ADR w/ Ricardo

Rey Mysterio v Sin Cara v Kofi Kingston v Evan Bourne v Tyson Kidd v Justin Gabriel v Adrien Neville v Corey Graves - Cruiserweight title Ladder match

Big E w/AJ v Mark Henry v Kane v Big Show v Bronson v Mason Ryan- bodyslam match

Obviously the bottom half wont happen and its hard to call matches past guessing the top 3-4 matches but I would dig that card.

[BullyRayStoleMyLunch]

Ok, let's give this a shot.

Streak AND Future of WWE at stake:
Undertaker (representing HHH) v Lesnar (For Vince)

WWE TITLE:
Punk v Cena v Bryan

WORLD TITLE
Ziggler v Dean Ambrose (Rumble Winner)

I think those 3 are my solids. Pretty much anything could happen on the undercard.

Obviously, the pre show "Ok, I suppose we better give the rest of you something in the way of pay" Battle Royal.

Being XXX, one legend will return for a match, most likely along the same lines as the Jericho one a few years back, not respecting legends, etc.

And I WANT Cody v Goldust.

[Jason_HBK]

Based on SummerSlam my big 3 matches:

WWE Title Ladder Match - (c)Cena vs Punk

Taker vs Brock vs Rock

HHH vs Daniel Bryan

[Psycho666Soldier]

I've actually been flirting around with some booking fantasies today, a bit of pipe-dream while trying to be somewhat realistic, and I ended up coming up with my own WMXXX card. I kind of want to go over it more to make sure all necessary stars are accounted for, but this is what I came up with.

WWE Championship
SummerSlam Rematch
Daniel Bryan(c) vs. John Cena
-Bryan gets screwed by Vince and Ryback, and ultimately Orton at SS. Orton cashes in on Cena. keeps the belt until Hell in a Cell when Bryan takes it from him, runs with it until he handpicks Cena upon return from injury to be his WrestleMania opponent, both paying him back and still wanting to prove he can beat him. Bryan wins, keeps the belt a couple more months before dropping it to someone else

World Heavyweight Championship
Damien Sandow(c) vs. Cody Rhodes
-Opponent could be replaceable if needed. Christian gets WHC at NoC. Cody stays relevant after beating Sandow at SummerSlam. Sandow cashes in on Christian at Survivor Series, loses, but earns a shot at TLC a beats Christian in a ladder match. Faces Royal Rumble winner, who I had set up as Cody, but I'm considering other ideas. Sandow loses here regardless, Cody/Other keeps the belt until SummerSlam, where they drop it to a face Ziggler.

HHH's Man vs. Vince's Man
Winner's Supporter Gets Control of the Company
CM Punk(w/ HHH) vs. The Rock(w/ Vince McMahon)
-The Rock can be replaced with Randy Orton to keep him relevant or if The Rock isn't available. Either way, Punk beats Lesnar, but Heyman puts together a hit squad to get revenge on Punk, which ties Punk up through the rest of 2013. Culminates in a Survivor Series Team Match(Heyman Guys vs. Punk and his choosing), where Punk can finally begin to move on. Perhaps one more match at TLC. When HHH has to pick a guy, he comes to Punk because he sees him as the only man who can do it, the only man who has conquered every obstacle in front of him. Punk ultimately accepts, maybe because Vince screws him at some point, and Vince brings in one of his hottest commodities, a Heel-turned The Rock. Epic third match between the two, Punk finally gets his win over him and HHH becomes Chairman. Still works if Orton, just not as epic or validating, but fits with events of SummerSlam.

Bray Wyatt vs. Kane
- Wyatt beats Kane at SummerSlam. Essentially goes on a tirade of challenging former "monsters" and someone else important to pass the time(i picked Rey Mysterio). In the Rumble, the Family's owning the opponents, Kane makes his return back, and eliminates all of The Family while saying fuck the Rumble and fighting Bray into the back. Bray puts Kane in a Handicap match against Harper and Rowan at EC, saying if he wins he gets a 1-on-1 shot, no interference, with Wyatt. Kane wins, then goes on to get his revenge on Bray. Bray takes his first major loss, becomes vulnerable, and can properly fit into the roster from that point on, probably going on to focus The Family on the Tag Titles.

Intercontinental Championship
Extreme Rules Match(or something cool like that)
Fandango(c) vs. Rob Van Dam
-Axel battles RVD at NoC. Gives him rematch at Battleground, where RVD wins the belt. Rubber Match at HIAC. RVD is part of Punk's Survivor Series team and Axel part of Heyman's. Has some big multi-man TLC or Ladder match at TLC. Loses the belt to Fandango at EC and has a rematch. Basically gives the belt a boost and puts Fandango over.

Streak Match
The Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar
-Writes itself, really. No need for a deep storyline or anything.

Diva Championship
AJ(c) vs. Natalya
OR
Natalya(c) vs. Paige
OR
AJ(c) vs. Paige
-Haven't worked this one out much, but the main idea is AJ drops the belt to Natalya at some point, then she eventually drops to Paige. I'd like to see Natalya have a long chase, but stretching to 'Mania might be asking for much, so perhaps having her win late 2013 is best. If there are no plans for Natalya in that vein, then just let AJ run with it until Paige is ready to come up. Seriously.

US Championship
???(c) vs. Dean Ambrose
-The idea here is Ambrose runs strong with the belt until right before 'Mania(Royal Rumble time). He loses to either a returning Evan Bourne, a returning Tyson Kidd, or an NXT Guy getting called up. In this situation, Zayn or Neville would be perfect here. Use the "less important" belt to test the new guys and low-carders, while giving Ambrose and one of the upstarts(or a hungry Evan Bourne) an opportunity to show what they can do in the ring and amaze everyone. Ambrose loses here, and we begin to see The Shield dissolve while Ambrose becomes more unhinged and moves on to bigger things.

WWE Tag Team Championship
The Shield(Reigns & Rollins)(c) vs. Antonio Cesaro & Jack Swagger/Kassius Ohno
-My dream here is that The Shield keep the Tag Titles until 'Mania, destroying the Tag scene while making each team look better than they ever have(mostly because the WWE will actually push the division). The team has to get majorly over for taking the belts off, and that can't be wasted on a bad team or a team that doesn't have long term ability. The safest, and very possible and fun way, is The Real Americans turn face and Cesaro and Swagger become the heroes to stop The Shield. The ideal way is Swagger and Coulter turn on Cesaro, who realizes he hasn't been able to quite cut it in the WWE. Perhaps a run-in with Shield leads to this, so The Shield continue to taunt him. With Ohno being in the doghouse, this is even more unlikely, but if they were going to bring him up in current circumstances, this would be the way to do it. Let the Kings of Wrestling(they can use a different name) reunite and take the Tag Division by storm. Both guys will have the inspiration, and they will look better than they ever have in the WWE since joining. They run wild for the better part of 2013 before dropping the belts to The Wyatts, allowing for the belts to start more of a scramble after having so many consecutive lengthy reigns.

The biggest flaw in the ideal form of my card is not making room for Ziggler or Randy Orton. Everything else is pretty accounted for except maybe a small lack of star power.

[Psycho666Soldier]

I guess this was more a predictions thread, but that's basically my fantasy booking.

[Beer-Belly]

I don't see them reigniting the Cody/Sandow feud for a World Heavyweight match at WrestleMania. Their current feud isn't exactly setting the world on fire anyway.

I'd be surprised if Ziggler isn't involved with the World title match. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if they completely fuck over his character in an effort to get Big E over as fast as possible.

[Psycho666Soldier]

That's a big reason why I find Cody replaceable. The MITB moment was perfect, and it could still be a successful feud. A lot of that hinges on how well the match goes, though. If the match is note-worthy and does it's damnedest to steal the show(which will be quite the task), then I see hope. Regardless, I think a brief run as WHC for Sandow is in our future, and I'd like to see a Rumble Winner go up against him.

Actually, Ziggler winning the Rumble isn't a bad idea...

[Beer-Belly]

I'll be upset if Bryan doesn't win the Rumble.

[Andy]

I hate to say it, but based on the last few weeks I don't see Bryan, Cody or Ziggler being in title matches at Mania.

My guess at the card as things stand.

Cena vs Punk (WWE title, Punk wins the Rumble)
Taker vs Brock
Team HHH vs Team Vince (a chance to get a lot of guys on the card)
The Shield vs The Wyatts (Wyatts are mega faces, all titles on the line)

I can really see all of them happening for sure. You can pick and choose between guys for the WHC match and Vince/HHH stuff. I would expect Orton, Bryan, Ziggler, Cody, Sandow, Christian, Henry, Show, Kofi, ADR and probably others I'm forgetting to be involved in one or the other.

I also think there's a good chance Big E has a match and Paige and/or Emma are on the roster and have a match with AJ. Too early to predict the other stuff really.

[JP]

Bryan/Punk
Taker/Sting
Cena/Warrior - I'm not even joking
Brock/Rock

Beyond that, not sure. But I honestly think these have a good chance of happening.

Only added is the possibility of Austin/Punk. If that happens look for Bryan/HHH.

[StoneColdChris]

WWE Title: Bryan(c) vs CM Punk(RR Winner)
Cena vs Undertaker
Brock/Rock
World Title: Sandow(c) vs Ziggler

[Atty]

WWE Championship
CM Punk vs. John Cena

Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker

World Heavyweight Championship
Dolph Ziggler vs. Daniel Bryan

Chris Jericho vs. Randy Orton

Alberto Del Rio vs. Triple H

Six-Man Tag
The Shield vs. The Wyatts

Sticking to my basic outline here, but there's one major match that I'd add now, which I hope/think we will be getting: Daniel Bryan vs. Triple H. It gives both guys something to do and allows HHH to slide into a more heelish role as boss.

For this, I'd have Bryan win Sunday and get a run with the belt until Survivor Series. The entire run, the odds seem stacked against him but anytime Vince is shown he denies that it's his doing. Finally, at Survivor Series, Orton cashes in after Bryan sucessfully defends his belt. He nails an RKO, but Bryan kicks out. Orton starts to lose it and nails another RKO when Bryan gets up. He kicks out again. Orton goes all good old heel crazy for him, nails a third RKO and a punt. He pins Bryan and takes the belt to run off and play heel. The next night the puppet GM announces that because Bryan is still undergoing treatment for the concussion he suffered in the punt, he will not get his customary rematch at the following PPV. Bryan insists he's fine when he returns, but the GM keeps saying it's for his own safety. Bryan confronts Vince about it, but Vince denies it's his doing, while HHH acts sympathetic to Bryan.


This leads to the Rumble, where Bryan takes control and looks like he won. Crowd's cheering as he celebrates when HHH's music hits. He congratulates Bryan before kicking him in the nuts and pedigreeing him. He tosses him over the top. HHH says something to the announcer who then announces that for the first time ever we had a very special 31-man Rumble. Bryan comes back and eats a sledgehammer shot. HHH goes full heel, establishes himself as the evil boss holding talent down, destroys the Mania title shot for the Rumble winner that year (setting up the main event I have listed below) and puts Bryan over at Mania.

That leaves my card as:

Undisputed Championship Match
WWE Championship vs. World Championship
John Cena (c) vs. CM Punk (c)

The Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar

Daniel Bryan vs. Triple H

The Real Americans vs. Sgt. Slaughter and Hulk Hogan

Dolph Ziggler vs. Randy Orton

Submission Match
Alberto del Rio vs. Chris Jericho

Six-Man Tag
The Shield vs. The Wyatts

[Bluegunn]

Ok this card probably will not happen but let's see what happens
Triple Threat match Vince's guy VS HHH's guy VS Steph's guy
Sandow vs Bryan vs Rollins
Undertaker VS Brock
Cena VS Orton (WWE title)
Punk (With Ricardo) VS Del Rio (World title)
RVD and Yoshi Tatsu VS Reigns and Ambrose
Big Show VS Ryback
Wyatts VS Kofi, R-Truth, and Henry
Warrior run in during 3MB promo
Swagger and Cesaro VS Slaughter and Hacksaw

[mth]

I can tell you with absolute certainty that Yoshi Tatsu will be nowhere near the WrestleMania card.

[Alex E]

I'll be there, so it better be good. Hoping for DB in an exciting title match, something with Lesnar, and maybe a ladder match since I haven't seen one live. Not a bad resume though for a guy who lives in Winnipeg - WM18, WM30, Bragging Rights 2011, some house shows, and the Raw were Eugene was GM.

[Atty]

Swagger and Cesaro VS Slaughter and Hacksaw

Just a note here, I like this idea a lot but think it could be AMAZING if TNA is well and done then. Have "The Real Americans" keep running their mouths until Slaughter tries to teach them a thing or two. They smack him around and issue a challenge to him and a partner of his choosing at Mania, mocking like it will be a joke of a match. Have Slaughter look high and low for a partner. He goes to Hacksaw, but he's clearly crazy so he keeps looking. He seeks out THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR, who proceeds to cut a promo about how the Gods haven't forgiven Slaughter for taking the title from THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR and snarles at Sarge. He goes to THE IRON SHIEK, who's clearly crazier and tells him to fuck off. The night of the show it's still uncertain. Real Americans come out first, mock Sarge again who comes out. They start to bully him when this hits over the big screen (this full version with the long intro to let us soak it in—and this video):



Mania Moment times 20. Former bitter rivals, the main event of WM 7, come together at WM 30 to send the young punk heels packing.

[Jarrod1983]

Undertaker Vs. Brock
CM Punk Vs. John Cena WWE Title
HHH & Daniel Bryan Vs. Vince McMahon & Randy Orton (Special Ref is Stephanie McMahon) for control of WWE

A 30 man Battle Royal seems like a lock to me for the pre show or the ppv. It could have a mix of past & present WWF/E Superstars.

[Gangers]

Ok this card probably will not happen but let's see what happens
Triple Threat match Vince's guy VS HHH's guy VS Steph's guy
Sandow vs Bryan vs Rollins
Undertaker VS Brock
Cena VS Orton (WWE title)
Punk (With Ricardo) VS Del Rio (World title)
RVD and Yoshi Tatsu VS Reigns and Ambrose
Big Show VS Ryback
Wyatts VS Kofi, R-Truth, and Henry
Warrior run in during 3MB promo
Swagger and Cesaro VS Slaughter and Hacksaw

That is probably the worst fantasy card I have ever seen. Yoshi Tatsu? What are you talking about? Why would CM Punk have Ricardo with him, or be wrestling for the WHC? Ambrose has clearly been selected as the lead singles guy in the Shield, but Rollins is in a triple threat?

Did you just put names into a random generator?

[turdpower]

I'd also argue that Steph's guy is HHH, so would he want to win or not?

[Bluegunn]

That is probably the worst fantasy card I have ever seen. Yoshi Tatsu? What are you talking about? Why would CM Punk have Ricardo with him, or be wrestling for the WHC? Ambrose has clearly been selected as the lead singles guy in the Shield, but Rollins is in a triple threat?

Did you just put names into a random generator?

Ricardo would be his announcer, not his manager and what is wrong with him going for the World title? I also have been saying that RVD and Yoshi would make a great team, No it was not random.

[Bluegunn]

I can tell you with absolute certainty that Yoshi Tatsu will be nowhere near the WrestleMania card.

And last year we said the same thing about Johnny Curtis. Besides the top of my card said this card will probably not happen

Side note, I would not mind seeing
The real Americans (Swagger and Cesaro) VS The American Dream Team (Cody and Golddust)

[mr sabu]

bryan vs a paper bag in a 30 min ultimate submission ladder bella twin on a pole falls count anywhere extreme rules dumpster match

[Bennedy]

WWE Championship
John Cena vs Yoshi Tatsu

WHC
CM Punk vs Darren Young

Your main events right there.

[Rip]

Ok this card probably will not happen but let's see what happens
Triple Threat match Vince's guy VS HHH's guy VS Steph's guy
Sandow vs Bryan vs Rollins
Undertaker VS Brock
Cena VS Orton (WWE title)
Punk (With Ricardo) VS Del Rio (World title)
RVD and Yoshi Tatsu VS Reigns and Ambrose
Big Show VS Ryback
Wyatts VS Kofi, R-Truth, and Henry
Warrior run in during 3MB promo
Swagger and Cesaro VS Slaughter and Hacksaw

Motion to activate looneyhead clause?

[Gangers]

Ricardo would be his announcer, not his manager and what is wrong with him going for the World title? I also have been saying that RVD and Yoshi would make a great team, No it was not random.

1. For what reason? The point of Ricardo was to generate heat (or sympathy, depending) for ADR. CM Punk doesn't need that - he only needed Heyman because people still wanted to cheer him and Heyman is a heat magnet. The pairing of Punk and Ricardo appears to be completely random and makes zero sense.

2. The WHC title is for secondary talent or future main eventers - unless they do a substantial amount of work to overhaul the way the title itself is regarded, it will always be a massive step down for someone like CM Punk to hold it.

3. Yoshi Tatsu is less than a jobber. He barely even makes it onto Superstars.

It's just a horrible card all round, with the exception of Brock vs Undertaker which has been heavily rumoured for months. Finally, if you don't expect it to happen, in what sense is it a prediction?