Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Is the WWE dropping the ball with Wrestlemania feuds?

Wrestlemania is around the corner and currently the card looks like this:

Brock Lesnar v Roman Reigns for the WWE World Heavyweight Title

Sting v Triple H

The 'Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal'

The Intercontinental Title Ladder Match

Bray Wyatt v The Undertaker

Rusev v John Cena

AJ & Paige v The Bellas.

On paper that looks like a stellar card but stars like Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler and Dean Ambrose seemed to have been main event players and now it seems they will be competing for the Intercontinental Championship? (Bryan not confirmed).

Bray Wyatt against The Undertaker looks to be an interesting feud although the build to it has yet to see the Phenom actually appear with just a few weeks until the actual event, i'm not sure that is the best plan!

Analysing the 'Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal (or ATGMBR as I shall call it), is difficult mainly due to the fact that it isn't exactly 100% who is going to be competing in the event! It almost seems like WWE threw this and the ladder match together just to fill up the card with as many superstars as possible!

The Divas match between Paige and AJ against the Bella Twins should be interesting as the four have a history, though I personally wouldn't prefered a fatal-four-way four the divas title.

Rusev v Cena was always on the cards and I felt the build was going well until they got 'The Champ' to torture Rusev until he got what he wanted...much like Seth Rollins did to The Authority, although Cena seemed to get over that reasonably quickly. What doesn't make sense is just months ago Cena was fighting HHH and co, but since they've come back he hasn't done that much about it!

Talking of Triple H, his feud with Sting boils on, with an erm...interesting voiceover for a promo video on Raw. While I'm looking forward to Sting v HHH, Sting v Daniel Bryan would have been a better match - although that could still happen - and Sting v Undertaker would have been better in terms of historical significance. People are enjoying and buying into Triple H/Sting but other options could have been as if not more intriguing.

Finally Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns are going at it. So far I've found this build to be very odd indeed. Reigns and Lesnar have rarely been in the ring together and the storyline seems to have been oddly side lined to build up Rollins v Orton; which after Raw seems to be build as a bigger feud and match!

Heyman talks about Reigns, Reigns talks about Lesnar, but when will something actually spark tension between the pair?! It's difficult with Lesnar a part-time player, but they've had minimal physical action!

On top of what we've seen confirmed, it looks likely that Cesaro and Tyson Kidd will defend their titles (possibly on the pre-show and against The Usos - although New Day beat the champs for some reason...)

Also Orton/Rollins looks to be confirmed,

And the return of Sheamus will likely see him feature (hopefully as a heel!).

One more quick thing; Goldust/Stardust...what happened to that feud?!