Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2018 10:41:20 GMT -5
There has been a lot of talk this past week regarding Flair and the main event at Mania. So this is how it is right now.
The story that Flair has been promised the main event is untrue. The original plan was not even for Rousey to be the main event, but Reigns with whatever direction they were going with him. It probably would have been Ambrose but that’s not a sure thing, just that I figured Ambrose was turning since that had been the plan before he tore his triceps and they delayed it. He was always turning, but it probably was going to be on Reigns and not Rollins.
Rousey vs. Natalya was to be the women’s main event, but the two things that took that out of the picture were that Lynch and Flair got hurt, and that Jim Neidhart died, and once Neidhart died, Vince didn’t want to turn Natalya heel on Rousey any time soon.
Believe me, there were people pushing in the other direction and that it would be fine, and Rousey vs. Flair was for a long time expected to be the match and even the main event but things changed. Then Lynch got hot and pretty much everyone was on the same page for Rousey vs. Lynch at Mania and Rousey vs. Flair at Rumble, once Rousey beat Jax. As of this week, Rousey vs. Lynch is the Mania match. The decision on if it will be the main event and go on last has not been made, and probably won’t be made until very close to show time, but it will be one of the most pushed matches, and perhaps the most pushed.
It absolutely could end up as a three-way with Flair. That’s just logic for a lot of different reasons, in the sense that Flair’s work in big matches when it comes to that drama aspect was super in the recent PPV bouts, especially in her ability to peak the long match.
She was better than Asuka at TLC and the three-way, with Rousey’s athletic ability and intensity, Flair’s strengths including her already proven ability to have a great match with Rousey and Lynch having to be in that match, I mean she has to be, makes a three-way idea very viable. The singles match on first thought is the clear match, but in thinking more, Flair doesn’t hurt the build at all, and for the match itself, if the idea is to have the ultimate great women’s match at Mania, the odds are the best with her in it.
It’s also best long-term for the company to put it on last, advertise it as the main event for the last month with the idea of the first time women are headlining rather than at TLC where they just did (and it wasn’t the first time on a PPV so that isn’t that big of a deal, but the first time at a Mania is). But Flair and Lynch are lifers, both have that on their resume, and in the long run it creates legends out of both of them.
Everyone knows Rousey is not a lifer. Her life story is do to things for a cycle and then move on. Wrestling is her current cycle. Her long-term goal and next cycle, which would not be a short cycle like MMA and wrestling were always going to be, is to start a family and that’s not a secret. I would guess she’ll always have some sort of involvement if she leaves on good terms, and God knows WWE will do everything to make that happen, but like in MMA, she’s the catalyst of everything that happened, but others are the ones who have to carry it long term.
The story that Flair has been promised the main event is untrue. The original plan was not even for Rousey to be the main event, but Reigns with whatever direction they were going with him. It probably would have been Ambrose but that’s not a sure thing, just that I figured Ambrose was turning since that had been the plan before he tore his triceps and they delayed it. He was always turning, but it probably was going to be on Reigns and not Rollins.
Rousey vs. Natalya was to be the women’s main event, but the two things that took that out of the picture were that Lynch and Flair got hurt, and that Jim Neidhart died, and once Neidhart died, Vince didn’t want to turn Natalya heel on Rousey any time soon.
Believe me, there were people pushing in the other direction and that it would be fine, and Rousey vs. Flair was for a long time expected to be the match and even the main event but things changed. Then Lynch got hot and pretty much everyone was on the same page for Rousey vs. Lynch at Mania and Rousey vs. Flair at Rumble, once Rousey beat Jax. As of this week, Rousey vs. Lynch is the Mania match. The decision on if it will be the main event and go on last has not been made, and probably won’t be made until very close to show time, but it will be one of the most pushed matches, and perhaps the most pushed.
It absolutely could end up as a three-way with Flair. That’s just logic for a lot of different reasons, in the sense that Flair’s work in big matches when it comes to that drama aspect was super in the recent PPV bouts, especially in her ability to peak the long match.
She was better than Asuka at TLC and the three-way, with Rousey’s athletic ability and intensity, Flair’s strengths including her already proven ability to have a great match with Rousey and Lynch having to be in that match, I mean she has to be, makes a three-way idea very viable. The singles match on first thought is the clear match, but in thinking more, Flair doesn’t hurt the build at all, and for the match itself, if the idea is to have the ultimate great women’s match at Mania, the odds are the best with her in it.
It’s also best long-term for the company to put it on last, advertise it as the main event for the last month with the idea of the first time women are headlining rather than at TLC where they just did (and it wasn’t the first time on a PPV so that isn’t that big of a deal, but the first time at a Mania is). But Flair and Lynch are lifers, both have that on their resume, and in the long run it creates legends out of both of them.
Everyone knows Rousey is not a lifer. Her life story is do to things for a cycle and then move on. Wrestling is her current cycle. Her long-term goal and next cycle, which would not be a short cycle like MMA and wrestling were always going to be, is to start a family and that’s not a secret. I would guess she’ll always have some sort of involvement if she leaves on good terms, and God knows WWE will do everything to make that happen, but like in MMA, she’s the catalyst of everything that happened, but others are the ones who have to carry it long term.
