Smark Out Moment

WrestleMania 28/XXVIII - the Rock versus John Cena. This year they had the advantage of building up towards the main event for over 12 months. WWE then apparently didn't bother thinking about the rest of the card until the last minute and threw things together, unfortunately. Does that mean it'll be a bad WrestleMania? Not necessarily. But what are we in store for?


The Rock vs. John Cena
They've spent over a year building up to this (basically), so is it going to live up to the hype? Well, personally, I'm expecting the match to be halfway decent but the outcome to piss people off. Why? Because everyone seems to think it'll be something epic and I have my doubts that WWE will do anything but exactly what they always do with John Cena. By that I mean this match will start off with the two of them showboating for a good few minutes, then one-upping each other, then it'll be a series of kick outs from finishing moves, and finally Cena will just go into Hulkamania mode and win. Then, they'll shake hands, and WWE will think that they finally convinced people to cheer for Cena, but they'll be mistaken and the next night on Raw he'll get a mixed reaction at best.

PREDICTION: John Cena wins, which results in boos. WWE then edits those boos out of the DVD and puts their fingers in their ears, saying "lalalala I can't hear you lalalalala".


WWE Championship: CM Punk (c) vs. Chris Jericho
They have been doing such an atrocious job with this feud and the return of Chris Jericho that it astounds me. The first ItBegins2012 video was interesting. The second one and everything that has happened since then has just been awful. Will the match be good? In theory, it should be awesome considering the ability that these two have in the ring. However, this feud needs to pick up NOW because it's just terrible so far.

PREDICTION: Chris Jericho wins the title.


Hell in a Cell: Undertaker vs. Triple H
I really don't want to see this again, even with the Hell in a Cell format and even if Shawn Michaels is the special guest ref as potentially rumored. I'm just not interested. I said last year that they should have had HBK be the ref, but they clearly didn't want to do that, and now it's been too long that the storyline is no longer relevant. I want Undertaker to face somebody new - Wade Barrett, Alberto Del Rio, The Miz, Dolph Ziggler, whatever, just not Triple H again. I think Hell in a Cell as a pay-per-view screwed the concept out of it's value and now they're getting rid of Money in the Bank as a ppv (one that I felt was perfect as a ppv) to throw one on the WrestleMania card instead of thinking of something new, and that annoys me. Above and beyond all things, though, is that I don't have any interest in the HHH ass-kissing that we'll be seeing, and if by some chance they have it so HHH beats Undertaker or this is Undertaker's last match or something, I'm going to be SEVERELY pissed off.

PREDICTION: Undertaker better fucking win, I'll tell you that haha.


World Heavyweight Championship: Daniel Bryan (c) vs. Sheamus
THIS is a main event of WrestleMania? Psh. Give me a break. Now that's an April Fool's joke. Daniel Bryan is nowhere near ready for this type of a match and I highly doubt anybody can convince me otherwise. Bryan's someone I felt never deserved the world title in the first place at this point and it annoys me that he's involved in this instead of being in the Money in the Bank match. I'm expecting Sheamus to win here and I'm also expecting this to be relatively short (possibly even a squash match) and also potentially the first match of the night.

PREDICTION: Sheamus wins the title.


Big Show vs. Cody Rhodes
The predicted Shaquille O'Neal vs Big Show match seems to be off and since they aren't building at all towards Cody vs Goldust, it seems like this is their alternative. I'm not exactly thrilled behind the idea of this match as I don't think these two will match up AT ALL, but if it gets Cody a win, then ok, maybe it'll be a bathroom break quick match or something.

PREDICTION: Cody wins. Big Show gains nothing out of it but Cody gets a huge boost.

Money in the Bank
I wish they would think of something else to have a group of guys compete in as I liked it better as a pay-per-view. That being said, there's rumors that they want to make it consist of all former world champions. If that's the case, the lineup of people that are potentials include: The Miz, Randy Orton, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, Christian, Alberto Del Rio, Mark Henry, Kane, and Great Khali. If they don't limit themselves to that, there are other people that currently have nothing to do that can easily be thrown in, including Cody Rhodes, Zack Ryder, Kofi Kingston, R-Truth, Wade Barrett (if he's not too injured), Ted DiBiase, Santino Marella, David Otunga, Justin Gabriel, and Hunico. I expect Cody to have a singles match, I wouldn't be surprised if Santino, Otunga, Gabriel, Hunico, DiBiase, and Khali were left doing something else or off the card entirely, and my pick to win MITB if he's in it is Dolph Ziggler.

PREDICTION: Dolph Ziggler wins Money in the Bank

Divas Championship: Beth Phoenix (c) vs. Kharma
Would anybody be surprised if this happened? I doubt it.

PREDICTION: Kharma wins the title.

The John Laurinaitis vs. Teddy Long Feud
Are they going to have a singles match between these two, are they going to be in the corner of one person (like Otunga against Santino?) or are they going to have some sort of multi-man team up, such as Team Laurinaitis (David Otunga, Mark Henry, Alberto Del Rio, Christian, and Drew McIntyre) versus Team Long (Santino Marella, Ezekiel Jackson, and 3 other people - possibly Ryder being one of them)?

PREDICTION: Can't predict yet until the match is somewhat formed but I would go with Laurinaitis over Long if it means anything and Long over Laurinaitis if it's just filler.