So WrestleMania is two days away, the card is booked, we know everything on those lines. My question is taking the card we have, how would you book each of the matches? Here's what I would do. Looking forward to some discussion on this one.
Andre the Giant Memorial – There’s two steps I would take to booking this match. The first is I would have Vince, or Shane and Stephanie together, announce that the winner of this match gets a shot at one of the titles at Backlash. Give the Battle Royal a tangible reason for happening and the winners something to strive for, other than a large phony gold statue that they don’t even keep. Next step, complete this Dolph Ziggler story by having him win the battle royal and square off against Nakamura at Backlash.
Women’s Battle Royal – This match needs to accomplish a couple of things: Further, the Bayley/Sasha story and second provide a swerve to the finish to help boost more momentum. I’d have Bayley get one over on Sasha by eliminating her as the match winds down, but then have Carmella eliminate Bayley to win the match right after. Carmella needs the boost and needs to look good if whenever she cashes in the briefcase isn’t going to seem like a total joke.
Cedric Alexander vs Mustafa Ali – I’ll confess to not know much about this pairing and the story leading into this match since it’s only been on 205 Live. However, when looking at this match I think it should go on right before the show starts. Let these two have a fast-paced and exciting match and I think I’d prefer Ali wins, he’s fresher and less exposed to his weaknesses than Cedric Alexander.
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Alexa Bliss vs Nia Jax – Nia Jax shouldn’t just win this match, she should whip Alexa Bliss all over the place. Let Alexa try a few of her under-handed tactics, but don’t let any of them work for long. Jax should get this match over with quickly.
The Bar vs Braun Strowman & ??? – They have a chance to do something unique with this match, if they just take a risk. Strowman doesn’t want a partner, but they are making him pick one. He should pick the least capable partner possible. Make his partner Curt Hawkins. From there go one of two ways – the safer way is have Strowman win without tagging Hawkins in, the better way would be to have him beat the crap out of Hawkins before it even begins so he can win them by himself. From there drag Hawkins out for tag matches where he either doesn’t get used or gets beat up by Strowman before Hawkins turns on Strowman only to get the biggest beatdown.
Orton vs Roode vs Mahal vs Rusev – Rusev is by far the most over guy in this match, he should walk out champion and take advantage of this Rusev Day momentum for a while. Have him pin Mahal and move on to other feuds.
Miz vs Rollins vs Balor - I'd have Balor appear as the Demon King and go on to win the IC title. Pretty straight forward match up.
Bludgeon Brothers vs Usos vs New Day - Bludgeon Brothers should win, that's easy. I'd have them somehow traumatize one of the New Day members and lead to the breakup of that stable, which has often been great, but I think they've done all they can do at this point.
Flair vs Asuka – There are not many ways this match can realistically go. These two just need to put on the best match imaginable, put everything on the table, reversals, counters, kickouts, rope breaks on submissions, go to town in this match.
Bryan & Shane vs Owens & Zayn – There’s no way that Owens and Zayn are staying fired, which probably means that Owens & Zayn are winning, but that’s not how I’d book it. Shane’s worked as much as a heel as Owens or Zayn in this story and I’d take advantage of that. Unbeknownst to the crowd I’d have Shane strike a deal with Sami, if he costs his team the match Zayn gets re-hired and Owens loses his job. The match goes down, Zayn takes the fall. Afterwards in a backstage segment, Bryan walks in on Zayn and Shane celebrating the move. Bryan objects to Zayn turning on his friend like that, Bryan feuds with Zayn and leads to a match at Backlash where if Bryan wins Owens gets re-hired as well. This can lead to a Zayn vs Owens feud as well where Zayn plays the heel and Owens the face for the first time.
Angle & Rousey vs Steph & HHH – Don’t care much for this match, I doubt any of these four can put on a very good technical pro wrestling match at this stage. The ending is obvious, Steph taps out to an arm bar. Steph can feed Rousey to Jax as punishment in the coming weeks.
Cena vs Undertaker – This match hasn’t been announced, no match should happen at Mania without being announced, but something has to happen between these two. I’d have Cena in the crowd throughout the show, play up the thought that he doesn’t have a match at Mania, then before the main event, Undertaker comes up behind Cena in the crowd and attacks him. The two brawl for a bit and Taker eventually puts Cena down, throw in some Taker theatrics with lights and what not for good measure and then Taker gets to finally retire on top.
Style vs Nakamura – I really hope they give these two creative control over this match. Let them do something interesting and rare, splitting from WWE style. I hope we see more escapes from finishers than we do kick outs of finishers. Let them have a great showing, because this match needs it badly.
Reigns vs Lesnar – I really don’t care too much what happens. This story has been lost from the beginning. Bottom line Reigns wins and hopefully Lesnar returns to UFC.