10 Things That Must Happen At WrestleMania 33
Regrettably, Roman winning is best for business.
WrestleMania 33 is just around the corner, and one of the best ways to approach the Show of Shows is to expect the unexpected. Go into the event with as many preconceived notions as you like, but be aware that WWE often likes to pull off some of its biggest swerves when the most eyes are watching.
The same is bound to happen this year, and although WrestleMania wouldn’t be the same without a healthy dose of shocks and surprises, there are some things that effectively have to take place in order for the show to be truly enjoyable.
This isn’t pipe-dream booking or some fantastical prediction that the Hardy Boyz will appear on a zipwire and fly in from the rafters, it’s an analysis of the chips already set down by WWE; the cards currently dealt for WrestleMania, and how to best play them. WrestleMania 33 is pretty much guaranteed to be an entertaining spectacle to some degree, but if WWE plays this right, it could very well the perfect way to usher in a grand ‘New Era’ of WrestleManias.
10. Sami's Giant Win
The Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal has been a pretty pointless match since its inception at WrestleMania XXX. A great way to mark up-and-coming Superstars for future greatness, the Battle Royal has the potential to be a mini-Rumble, a non-championship prize as prestigious as Money in the Bank or King of the Ring. It isn’t that, and most of the Superstars who have won the match have only started to achieve bigger things once their win has become a distant memory.
But this year could be different. Not merely filled with jobbers and has-beens, WrestleMania 33’s Memorial Battle Royal also contains the likes of Sami Zayn, Braun Strowman and Dolph Ziggler, and with Luke Harper and Samoa Joe without a match on the card, who’s to say they might not be entered as surprise participants?
Although the trophy has traditionally been rewarded to larger Superstars like Cesaro, Big Show and Baron Corbin, this year’s accolade should go to somebody smaller in stature, who could really use it as a stepping stone toward better and brighter things.
Sami Zayn’s championship accomplishments in main roster WWE currently sit at a disappointing zero, and an against all odds Battle Royal win could be the feel-good underdog moment we need to start WrestleMania off right. It’d also give Zayn the chance to topple former rival Strowman, something that was robbed from him at the Royal Rumble itself.