By Wrestlemania, Commissioner Cesaro notices that there's now a growing crew of babyfaces circling around his crew of evildoers. NXT Champion Samoa Joe, NXT Tag Champs Sandow and Axel and Baron Corbin are starting to eke out victories and showing significant wear and tear. It's at this point where Triple H sees Cesaro's angst and offers a solution. Triple H says that he's seen enough of this, and that he's calling an end to it at Wrestlemania. Five on five again, but this time, one pinfall and winner-take-all, Team NXT versus Team Cesaro. Cesaro agrees, but there's a lot of discord among the NXT crew as to which five wrestlers will get involved in the match. Crooked Commissioner Cesaro offers a solution. He names Balor, Amore, Cassidy and Itami, but leaves open two slots, one of which he says will be decided via a "Wrestlemania Tournament" for the slot. Sami Zayn is named as the first name for that tournament. The Tournament final pits Sami Zayn versus Tyler Breeze, and Zayn wins in a narrow victory. This sets up Cesaro, Joe, Axel, Sandow and Corbin versus Sami Zayn, Finn Balor, Amore and Cassady and one more mystery name (which Cesaro invites to be ANY main roster talent). The stipulation is also added that if the babyfaces win, each babyface is fighting for something that they earn with the victory. Finn Balor wins, he earns the NXT Championship. Amore and Cassady win, they're the tag champs. Sami Zayn is fighting for Regal's job. And the mystery man is fighting to have Baron Corbin be forced to kiss Regal's ass on the NXT episode after Wrestlemania.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
