Scared for Wrestlemania

I've watched Wrestlemania live for the past 15 years. I missed 17 but I also saw 14-16 as well. Never before in the history of the build towards the shows have I felt this nervous about Wrestlemania. I've gotten through the trek that was Wrestlemania 27 but I was never nervous about it being bad. It just ended up being that way because The Rock stole so much time from everything. But this card, it just has me scratching my head. Maybe I'm just being paranoid but I just got a bad feeling this year.

The rumored Wrestlemania card is as followed and it's basically the one I talked about in the post Rumble post.

WWE Universal Championship
Goldberg (c) vs. Brock Lesnar (confirmed, whether it's for the title will be determined at Fast Lane)

WWE Championship
Bray Wyatt (c) vs. Randy Orton (CLOSE to confirmed as Wyatt is WWE Champion and Orton is Rumble winner but he relinquished his title shot apparently)

RAW Women's Championship
Charlotte (c) vs. Bayley vs. Sasha Banks vs. Nia Jax (Bayley won the title on the 2/13 Raw but we all know Charlotte is heading into the show as champion)

Roman Reigns vs. The Undertaker

Seth Rollins vs. Triple H (in serious jeopardy due to Rollins' injury suffered by Samoa Joe)

United States Championship
Kevin Owens vs. Chris Jericho

AJ Styles vs. Shane McMahon - No Holds Barred

John Cena &Nikki Bella vs. The Miz & Maryse

The Big Show vs. Shaquille O'Neal

Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal

OK, so I'm good with the Raw Women's Title match, Reigns/Taker, Rollins/HHH, Owens/Jericho and yes, even Big Show/Shaq. The ATG BR is a stable of Mania and needs to take place. EVERYTHING else though, is a head scratcher.

Let's start with the current WWE Champion John Cena. How does he go from winning the title in the Alammodome to a filler Total Divas tag team match? Against The Miz and Maryse of all people? It would have made more sense for it to be Nattie and Tyson but I know, Tyson is basically retired. This is NOT the way to use John Cena at Wrestlemania. Last year, he couldn't even compete. Cena has had MAJOR matches at every Mania he's been apart of. Who the hell came up with this idea? Cena needs to be facing a fresh face, like Baron Corbin or Samoa Joe or hell, even Braun Strowman. Yes, he's on Raw but it's Wrestlemania for goodness sakes! Make something up for them! Cena in a freaking mixed tag match at the biggest show of the year is a waste of time. Scrap it freaking immediately. Miz deserves to be in the IC Title Ladder match, which is something else that needs to be added to the card but it looks like Ambrose will be facing Baron Corbin following the events of Elimination Chamber. Not a bad decision./

Next up, AJ Styles VS Shane McMahon. No, no, no. Just no. Does anyone remember the last time Shane got into the ring? Reigns almost killed him. Come on guys, it's not smart! Not only that, Styles just had one of the best rookie years ever. Why the hell would they put him in this match? This would be another fall from grace for another former WWE Champion. I'm not the biggest fan of Orton/Wyatt. I love the idea of Wyatt being WWE Champion (I really went crazy when he won) but their match at No Mercy didn't really do anything for me. They should really just do a Fatal Four Way between Styles/Cena/Orton/Wyatt. Unless they plan to give Styles and Cena their rematches on upcoming Smackdowns. (which they did) I just think that would be a better Mania match for everyone. The wrestlers and the fans. And if they gave Wyatt the nod to go over, it would make him a bigger force to be reckoned with, beating the three top stars on Smackdown.

The main event is the biggest problem of them all. Goldberg VS Brock Lesnar III. One, it's a god darn rematch. Two, the other two times they wrestled, not impressive. AT ALL. Three, you have two part timers battling over Raw's World Title. Fourth, whoever wins, will DISAPPEAR. And if they do a title change to Lesnar, which they should since Lesnar has lost all his damn luster since losing to Goldberg, that means the A Show will be WITHOUT a World Title. Does anyone see all the bad in this match or am I just crazy? Seriously. I understand, they have to sell the arena with a big match but Vince has to stop relying on part timers like this. The third match can happen, hell it can main event, but for the love of God, not for the Universal Title. Please. It's just not a good move. Let Owens and Jericho battle over it. Or Balor. Or Joe. Or literally anyone not named Goldberg and Lesnar.

Am I overreacting? Most likely, yes, but come on, there are better ideas out there. Rollins' untimely injury also hurts the card. His long awaited match with Triple H may be off. He re-injured the same leg that made him miss Wrestlemania 32. Reports indicate that Rollins will be out for 8 weeks. Wrestlemania is in 6. (Old sentence) Crap! If Rollins can't compete, it will take away the match I'm probably looking forward to most. If he's not able to compete, Triple H's back ups include Samoa Joe and Shane McMahon. While I'm against Shane/AJ, Shane/HHH is OK by me. Mainly because it's one of those McMahon family drama type matches that I like. That would free Styles up to do something worthy of his fantastic year.

Just please...give John Cena and AJ Styles other things to do. Hell, put them in the IC Title Ladder match!  Just DON'T put the two top names on SD in horrible matches. If any authority figure should face Styles, it's Daniel Bryan and we all know what a pipe dream that is! Here's the card I would do!

Goldberg VS Brock Lesnar
Bray Wyatt VS Randy Orton VS Luke Harper - WWE Title
Kevin Owens VS Chris Jericho - Universal Title
Seth Rollins VS Triple H
The Undertaker VS Roman Reigns
Charlotte VS Sasha VS Bayley VS Nia
John Cena VS Braun Strowman - Inter-promotional Match
AJ Styles VS Samoa Joe or Finn Balor - Inter-promotional Match
Dean Ambrose VS Baron Corbin - IC Title
Big Show VS Shaq
Andre the Giant Battle Royale


Pre-Show
Raw and Smackdown Tag Title matches
Smackdown Women's Championship Match
Cruiserweight Championship Open

14 matches, 2 more then last year. Really 3 because that Rock/Rowan match doesn't count. They really should start a 6PM, have the pre show start at 4PM. 4PM-11PMish is a lot of wrestling but to do all 14 matches and give them enough time, you need to do it. We'll see.

I'm going to go into the show with an open mind. Regardless of position, Owens/Jericho should be very good as well as Rollins/HHH. The women's fatal four way will steal the show if done right.

Still a long ways to go to Mania so anything could happen....