6 WrestleMania Title Matches That Should Have Been Triple Threats

As hard as WWE are trying to convince us otherwise, barring any last-minute hiccups, the main event of WrestleMania 35 will be a triple-threat match between Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch for the RAW Women’s Championship.

Putting her old rival, suspension and a knee injury in Lynch’s path to MetLife Stadium will only make ‘The Man’s’ inevitable coronation that much more satisfying but, however successful the payoff might be, this is not the story that fans were wanting WWE to tell.

On the back of Lynch’s Royal Rumble victory, there was a massive demand for WWE to revisit the singles match with Rousey initially booked for Survivor Series, one that we were denied by a wild swing of Nia Jax’s fist. ‘The Irish Lasskicker’ had done an outstanding job of keeping that fire stoked in the preceding months with her Grade A social media bantz, and there was certainly enough intrigue and narrative to keep this feud one-on-one.

But WWE were not prepared to let this milestone in women’s wrestling pass by without having Charlotte share that spotlight; a one for you, one for us, type of deal.

If Charlotte is the unwanted third wheel in this scenario, there have also been instances in WrestleMania past when WWE have missed opportunities to transform the fortunes of underwhelming singles title matches by making them a triple threat.

One of the worst WWE Championship matches in WrestleMania history actually had a really good build-up, to a point. Randy Orton had destroyed the Wyatt Family from within and left newly-crowned champion Bray Wyatt to fend for himself at ‘The Show of Shows’.

It was a rare modern-day case of long-term WWE storytelling, that lasted over six months from start to finish and a narrative that WWE were so committed to that even a record-equalling 16th world title reign for John Cena was not going to change their 'Mania plans.

However, it was WWE’s refusal to budge from this narrative that was part of their undoing, as it was actually Luke Harper who came out of the Wyatt Family split as the hot babyface. Harper had always been a performer appreciated by the more engaged fans, and was starting to turn believers out of the casuals with his character and in-ring work over the course of his turn. Without him, the Wyatt-Orton match descended into farce.

Even when Harper accidentally won a battle royal to earn a WrestleMania title match, WWE wrote him out of the angle when they should have rolled with the punches. They felt that the promise they had made to Orton - the Royal Rumble victory and title triumph indebted to him after his SummerSlam pummelling at the hands, and elbows, of Brock Lesnar - was worth more than developing Harper, who they have only ever pictured as a support act.