6 WrestleMania 34 Matches You Can't Believe You Care About
You can't WAIT to watch two McMahons wrestle this weekend...
WrestleMania 34 is just three sleeps away, and while WWE's propensity to damage promising cards with disastrous on-the-night booking means it's always wise to temper your expectations, this year's lineup looks bulletproof.
Matches like Shinsuke Nakamura vs. AJ Styles and Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka were always going to feel special. WWE have done a good job hyping them up, but it's testament to the quality of their recent storytelling that almost everything is laced with intrigue - from the Kickoff Show, all the way up to the World Title matches.
Even 205 Live, after well over a year as WWE's most disposable brand, feels exciting, with Cedric Alexander and Mustafa Ali set to deliver a fantastic story-driven spectacle. Kudos to creative. They're always first in the firing line when things go wrong, but they've done an excellent job in putting the Show Of Shows together, elevating a number of bouts that looked pedestrian and routine to exciting new levels.
Much of this card looks disposable on paper, but chances are high that WWE have reeled you in on at least a handful of previously meh matches, encouraging levels of investment impossible a month or two ago...
6. The US Title Match
Initially, it looked like we were getting a Triple Threat pitting Randy Orton against Jinder Mahal and Bobby Roode. This isn't a terrible match, and made sense from a storyline standpoint, but it's hard to imagine anyone was particularly fired up by it. At his worst, Orton is one of the least compelling performers in the company, nobody likes 'The Maharaja,' and the not-quite-as-Glorious-as-he-once-was Roode has had his appeal stripped away on the main roster.
Nonetheless, this match has been given the kiss of life. A big, sexy, hair, Bulgarian kiss of life.
Rusev is a tremendous addition. He's one of the most popular acts in the company at the moment, and his chants dominate every show. Including him feels deserved, makes perfect sense, and has all but saved the bout's interest levels, even if it's still likely to be an all-out headlock fest when Jinder, Randy, and Bobby are on the offensive.
Instead of a toilet break, there's now a chance we'll get 'The Bulgarian Brute's' US Title coronation - on Rusev Day, no less - returning him to his former glory, and placing him back where he belongs. Or Orton may just RKO him in 10 seconds again. It could go either way...