What the planned Mania Matches where before Rollins got hurt

[andrew8798]

Rollins was scheduled to lose the title to Roman Reigns at Survivor Series. If Reigns was to remain a babyface, he and Rollins would have likely headlined house shows for several months after, before going in separate directions as Mania approached.

The Rollins injury means that HHH’s opponent for WrestleMania has now changed twice in a short period of time. HHH vs. Rollins, always a planned destination when Rollins was given the pedigree as his finisher and linked so strongly with him, had just replaced HHH vs. The Rock as one of the planned Mania main events.

Reigns vs. John Cena for the WWE title was scheduled as another key main event before the Rollins injury. Whether Reigns would have gone heel, or this would be a face vs. face match with Cena doing the ultimate passing of the torch was not clear. The show’s goal was to establish Reigns as the company’s top star going forward, just as was the original goal for the show last year.

It is still unclear who Lesnar and Undertaker will be facing. There have been reports, denied to us, that Cena would face Undertaker instead. By process of elimination, that would lead to Reigns vs. Lesnar, which could happen given the television tease this week of the idea that we don’t know who would have won that main event match at this past WrestleMania. It’ll be clear in January, as if Reigns wins the tournament, his opponent will likely be the winner of the Rumble.

-WON

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Vince - "Let's do Reigns/Cena for WM32 because surely they'll boo Cena and cheer Reigns instead!"
Triple H - "Sure, that's a good plan but what happens if they boo both wrestlers?"
Vince - "No Hablo Inglés."

[andrew8798]

Also was Said that Reign's Merchandise is now #2 behind Cena. So that may kill a heel turn

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Damn, Reigns might not go heel which is a bad moves IMO, this sucks.

I really think we'll get HHH/Ambrose at next year's WM. They called off the HHH/Rock and HHH/Rollins and right now there's no big enough babyface who's going against him. Reigns will go against Cena or Lesnar before HHH and we know HHH will be in a match against someone.

- Reigns/Cena
- Ambrose/HHH
- Lesnar/
- Taker/

Maybe Lesnar goes against Ambrose or something, either way besides Reigns and Cena, Ambrose is the highest babyface on the totem pole. He's either going to get Reigns, Cena or Lesnar if he stays face.

The next WM will be interesting.

[andrew8798]

Also means HHH going over Sting was a big mistake with Rock pulling out

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Yep, exactly. He's gotta lose his next WM match, absolutely has to.

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Nov 11, 2015 18:39:28 GMT -5 andrew8798 said:

Also means HHH going over Sting was a big mistake with Rock pulling out

the Rock never pulls out.

[lionelp]

The Authority needs to be ended here.

new authority guy (Owens/Sheamus/STING?) vs The Undertaker. Authority vs Career

Cesaro (rumble winner) vs Reigns vs Lesnar

Zayn vs Owens

Banks (c) vs Lynch vs Charlotte vs Bayley

Cena vs Del Rio

Balor v Sheamus

New Day vs Wyatts

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I want to see the boo/yay punch exchange with Cena/Reigns.


*Cena punch*

Crowd: BOO!

*Reigns punch, Reigns looks at crowd hopefully*

Crowd: *looks at each other*

Crowd: "Are we really gonna do this?"

Crowd: "I...I can't. I can't do it!" *Crowd bursts into flames*

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

LET'S GO CENA! ROMAN SUCKS!

[PsychoGoatee]

I hope people take this stuff with a grain of salt. For example, we know Michaels mentioned in a podcast that the call to end Taker's streak was made that night. And we know Vince has people rewrite RAWs all the time, I'm sure it applies to PPV booking too.

And that's of course assuming this news that Roman was going to win this month is actually 100% legit in the first place. It's easy to say "this would have happened".

I find Meltz entertaining and whatnot, not slamming him, I just don't really buy this.


Just for comparison, how right or wrong has the observer usually been about predicting future booking (via sources) like this? Offhand, my vague guess/recollection is that they're wrong more often than not.

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That card sounds pretty terrible. Though honestly I'm hardpressed to think of much of anything I especially want to see at Mania this year; with the current layout of the roster and storylines that are going I honestly can't help but kind of write off Mania 32 as a loss.

Granted, on paper Mania 31's pretty shit too, and in practice it's alright. Not a great show but a decent one.

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Nov 11, 2015 20:35:29 GMT -5 PsychoGoatee said:

Just for comparison, how right or wrong has the observer usually been about predicting future booking (via sources) like this? Offhand, my vague guess/recollection is that they're wrong more often than not.

It's actually the other way around, they're more right than wrong. Besides that, most of what they've said in the OP they've been saying for months.

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

All of those make sense to me so I can believe it.

[Sicho100]

But, that one thread last week told me that Meltzer said that the title match at Mania was supposed to be a face HHH against Rollins. Am I supposed to believe that Meltzer didn't actually say that transparently false thing?

[mizerable]

Nov 11, 2015 20:21:40 GMT -5 CATCH_US IS the Conversation said:

LET'S GO CENA! ROMAN SUCKS!

More like Cena/Orton unification match reaction.

[fw91]

so another disappointing Rumble confirmed?

[Widow's Peak]

It feels a bit soon for Reigns/Cena and doing Reigns/Lesnar again with Reigns as a babyface is just asking for trouble.

To me, Cena/Undertaker seems like the best choice for a headline match, but honestly, I don't know what I'd do with everyone else. Losing Rollins has really screwed things up.

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After thinking about it...

Yeah, they're going to have Cena win the Rumble. Just imagine Cena eliminating Ambrose to finish it off to get a chorus of boos and it sets up Cena/Reigns. That's only going to put more people on Roman's side...that is if they don't already dislike Roman enough by that point. That's what they're doing with Reigns. They're having him face people who are either more hated than him (Cena) or people who can put on amazing matches so if Reigns is paired with him he'll do better than normal (Cesaro this Monday).

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Nov 11, 2015 21:07:58 GMT -5 Sicho100 said:

But, that one thread last week told me that Meltzer said that the title match at Mania was supposed to be a face HHH against Rollins. Am I supposed to believe that Meltzer didn't actually say that transparently false thing?

I wish more would but I have been around long enough to know that people will never give the good sites/reporters credit. Shit, it was confirmed and talked about for a few pages in that very thread how he didnt say that but people don't seem to care or read past the first page. Even if they do, it doesn't matter what he actually said because no one ever pays attention to the truth, they'd rather go to sites like Wrestlezone, Rajah, or whatever the newest sites are and act like the shit they report and stick Meltzer or Alvarez or Johnson or Keller's name to it and then blame them for the other site's lies. Never mind people still refusing to believe that stuff is re-written on the fly and not decided until the night of despite everyone to ever work there talking about Vince changing things at the last second after a bad BM made him pissed at someone or thing. 


As for this news, I hope it is Taker/Cena, no desire to see Roman/Cena. PWInsider's report on the Taker/Cena stuff was just that they had heard that in Aug. and Oct. as a potential plan but that doesn't mean it was the only plan. Also that Seth's injury had not changed any of the top matches set for The Metroplex.