We’re only a few weeks away from wrestling’s largest night time, and the WrestleMania 39 card is getting fairly near set. We now have eight confirmed matches and a handful extra with storylines actively growing. Between what’s confirmed and what’s rumored, many of the main WWE names have one thing to do, however there are nonetheless a number of superstars who’ve gotten common TV time over the past a number of months that, proper now, appear to be they could be overlooked. In response to a brand new rumor, nevertheless, WWE could have a plan to resolve that.
This morning over on the Twitter, WrestleVotes dropped a juicy little tidbit. The outlet stated WWE is making ready so as to add two further matches to the cardboard: one males’s 4 means tag group match and one girls’s 4 means tag group match. The boys’s would reportedly characteristic Alpha Academy vs The Avenue Earnings vs The Viking Raiders vs Braun Strowman and Ricochet, the final of which nonetheless wants a cool identify. No potential members within the girls’s match had been talked about.
Now, this clearly, with all due respect to WrestleVotes, must be handled as a rumor proper now. WWE has not confirmed this on tv and even actually hinted at it, and the opposite common wrestling sources haven’t stated something. So, proper now it is a huge perhaps.
That being stated, this makes a ton of sense. There are some who really feel a smaller WrestleMania card is best, however I wish to see the performers I watch each week get a second in the course of the largest nights of the 12 months. And, additionally, even if you happen to assume WrestleMania spots shouldn’t be handed out. It’s arduous to think about a world wherein The Avenue Earnings and Braun Strowman particularly wouldn’t be on a ‘Mania card. They’ve very over with the gang, and somebody like Chad Gable has been placing in great work nearly each week elevating high expertise on Uncooked.
It’s additionally arduous to think about a world wherein WWE leaves Ronda Rousey, Liv Morgan and Alexa Bliss, amongst many different deserving girls off the cardboard, both. I really like seeing Lita and Trish again. They’re each among the many finest girls ever, and I’ve loved their feud with Harm CTRL. I’m stoked to see them carry out at ‘Mania, however proper now they’re on the middle of certainly one of solely three girls’s matches on all the card. We now have to get a fourth.
As I stated, there weren’t any rumored girls’s names that got here together with the tweet, but when I wanted to choose eight girls to placed on the cardboard, primarily based on latest storylines and likewise star energy, I’d put Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler, Carmella and Chelsea Inexperienced, Natalya and Tegan Nox and Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez. That also leaves off Alexa Bliss, however she can be utilized within the Bray Wyatt and Bobby Lashley match, if that occurs given no matter is occurring with Bray.
There’s no excellent option to plot out a WrestleMania card. Every thing all the time comes with tradeoffs. You possibly can have much less matches and provides the members extra time, which may probably result in higher particular person moments, however then followers don’t get an opportunity to see some widespread characters who’re legitimately over. Conversely, you’ll be able to add a bunch of further matches however it’ll come on the expense of the time given to the extra featured sights. Placing one deadly 4 means on Saturday and one deadly 4 means on Sunday, in my view, is a good compromise. It provides sixteen performers to the cardboard, however it does it in a means that may possible solely take in twenty minutes every night time, particularly if you happen to streamline the intros a bit.
We’ll maintain you up to date as WWE formally confirms the remaining matches on the cardboard. I feel there’s a very good likelihood we’ll see this or one thing like this, at the very least on the preshow, however we’ll simply have to attend and see if this occurs. And in addition in the event that they add LA Knight, which looks like a should given how over he is getting. YEAH.
