10 Big Money Matches WWE Needs To Make

With the cheerful myopia of the wilfully shortsighted, WWE appear to be under the impression that they’ve tucked away ‘Triple H versus The Rock’ for a rainy day: that it’s a big money match in their back pocket in case some upcoming WrestleMania looks like coming up short.

Pretty much everyone else is nonplussed by the idea that Triple H might be a bulletproof draw in 2016 - or a must-see match-up for Rocky, come to that. It’s a showdown we’ve seen on many, many occasions, and when they were much younger men.

While neither one has descended into Hoganesque immobility in the ring, there’s still an argument that ‘the Game and the Great One’ needs more pizazz to sell it… which is why, at WrestleMania 31, The Rock’s guest appearance came with a little added ‘Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey.

The segment was a success: more importantly, it got a ton of mainstream media coverage, as the biggest female sports star in the world and the biggest movie star in the world stood toe to toe with a McMahon and her husband, the WWE main event star.

Rousey’s star has fallen a little since then, but the match is still a good one. WWE’s oddly old fashioned approach to this kind of match kind of takes the ‘intergender’ out of ‘intergender tag match’, but that allows for a different kind of story to be told: Stephanie cheating to give Triple H the advantage while avoiding any kind of action herself, as Rousey clamours to get in and the crowd sits on the edge of their seat for the tag.

Given ten minutes bell to bell, and twice that in entrances, faffing around and generally heating up the crowd, and this could be a surprisingly entertaining match as well, far and away more rewarding than the usual celebrity schmoz.