So for a while it looked like the SD Mania main event was going to be the hottest star in the company for the entire year against someone from a list of worthy candidates that he had built differing levels of interesting histories with over the same year.
Then Randy Orton won the Royal Rumble and John Cena won the title. It looked like we were headed to the two most storied longest running rivals at Mania clashing. Then a couple weeks later Bray Wyatt beat Cena and it looked like we were going to have a Wyatt family showdown, not my personal choice, but a better than decent story at least.
That is for a few days, before Randy Orton said he was refusing to face his leader because he's a faithful servant to his cult/family. A week later it looked like Luke Harper was going to create that Wyatt Family story by winning the right to face Bray, it would have been simple enough at that point to pull Orton into the main event saying he wasn't going to leave Bray alone with Harper in the match. From there some suspicion of whether Orton would stay loyal or not would have been feasible to create and the tension and drama would have helped the match.
Hold on, they aren't done throwing monkey wrenches into the system. Harper didn't win and pull Orton into the match, Styles won. And Orton didn't get pulled back into the main event in some Wyatt Family push/pull, he just decided 7 days was all he needed to totally change his mind for reasons unbeknownst to the rest of the world.
I'm not usually one to go looking to poke holes in WWE storytelling and attack their creative direction for fun, but come on this just totally lacks any logical consistency at all. It's like the creative team had five different ideas that they couldn't stop fighting over so they just threw them all together into a mish mash of non-sense that leaves us with a Mania title main event that's lacking anyone that the "WWE Universe" will both want to and should cheer for. The WWE will no doubt try to get the audience to cheer for Orton, but Orton sucks as a face and nobody has given a crap about him in that role in at least 5 years. That will leave the audience cheering for Styles, a guy that has crafted a brilliant heel character and personality that has no logical way to transition to being a good guy carrying the company in a satisfying fashion.
Don't get me wrong, Styles is great and can be entertaining doing anything and will put on fantastic matches as a face. It's just that for a person to watch what Styles has done for the past year and then see what they'd have to do with his character to make him likable in that sense would be extremely bi-polar even by WWE standards.
IF the other title main event is in fact Goldberg vs Lesnar, I'm not exactly sure what the selling point of Mania will be this year. It's looking really sad at this point.