WrestleMania 40 Predictions

40 yrs of WrestleMania. I feel WrestleMania will always be the must see event. And, the WrestleMania 40 card looks exciting. 

So here’s my predictions for Night 1 of WrestMania:

The Rock and Roman Reigns vs. Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins 

I have a feeling that Rock & Reigns will use everything they have up their sleeves to win this. Especially if it means them winning means they can choose the stipulation for the Undisputed Universal Championship Match involving Reigns & Rhodes at Night 2.

My prediction is The Rock and Roman Reigns wins. I feel it will make sense at Night 2.

Rhea Ripley (c) vs. Becky Lynch for the Women’s World Championship 

My prediction is Rhea Ripley retains the Women’s World Championship

Gunther (c) vs. Sami Zayn for the Intercontinental Championship 

Imma shoot my shot, my prediction is Sami Zayn winning the Intercontinental Championship and I think Zayn deserves this.

Jey Uso vs. Jimmy Uso

My prediction is Jey Uso wins. Also, will we see them embrace and return as “The Usos”? Because I really feel this could possibly happen at Night 2.

Finn Bálor and Damian Priest (c) vs. Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa vs. The Miz and R-Truth vs. Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods vs. Austin Theory and Grayson Waller vs. Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate in a Six-pack ladder match for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship 

I’m shooting my shot again, my prediction is The Miz and R-Truth aka AWESOME TRUTH winning the Tag Team Titles. I feel this would be amazing and exciting. 

Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill and Naomi vs. Damage CTRL (Dakota Kai, Asuka, and Kairi Sane)

My prediction is Belair, Cargill and Naomi winning

Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee vs. Santos Escobar and Dominik Mysterio.

I am disappointed in the fact it isn’t just Rey vs. Dominik it would’ve been so much better. 

My prediction is Dominik Mysterio and Santos Escobar winning.

Night 2: 

Bobby Lashley & The Street Profits vs. Final Testament (Six-Man Tag Team Philadelphia Street Fight)

My prediction is Bobby Lashley & The Street Profits

Roman Reigns (c) vs. Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed Universal Championship 

Altho, we will see The Bloodline interfere and try to help but will there be a stipulation added? That is my question? A No Disqualification Match would definitely be a great idea and work in favor of not only Reigns but Rhodes as well. Will we see any help for Rhodes? Brock? Stone Cold? John Cena? Or his OWN brother? Dustin comes out and saves his brother. or maybe Rikishi? What will happen? There are so many possibilities.

Again, shooting my shot here.. My prediction is Cody Rhodes wins and becomes Undisputed Universal Champion and finally finishes his story even with all the odds stacked against him he comes on top.

Seth Rollins (c) vs. Drew McIntyre for the World Heavyweight Championship 

Although, I love Rollins. I feel McIntyre deserves this opportunity to come out as the World Heavyweight Champion in front of a crowd. This also would allow Rollins to step away from wrestling for a lil bit. I am shooting my shot on McIntyre winning. Although here is another thing that is possible could Cm Punk interfere? Will Damian Priest finally cash in his MITB briefcase? I mean I really wanna see McIntyre get this opportunity. I mean could u imagine Cm Punk vs. McIntyre for the World Heavyweight Championship? I think that would be fire. Considering there feud lately. I am still bummed we didn’t get a Rollins vs Punk hopefully soon. Heck make it a triple threat id watch it. 

Iyo Sky (c) vs. Bayley for the Women’s Championship 

My prediction is Bayley winning and becoming the Women’s Champion. This is a huge moment for Bayley and I would love to see her get this big win at WrestleMania.

Logan Paul (c) vs. Randy Orton vs. Kevin Owens for the United States Championship 

This one is tough, because I love both Orton and Owens. 

I am going to shoot my shot, my prediction is Kevin Owens wins and becomes United States Champion. Also, along as Paul loses I will be happy he is not a real WWE Superstar and he doesn’t even deserve a champion ahead of those who been there longer and been trying to get this opportunity only for it to go to Paul is still crazy to me. I am rooting for Owens to win, but also rooting for either Owens or Orton to win. But i think in the end it should be Owens tho. 

LA Knight vs. AJ Styles 

Why is there no stipulation? Like it would be awesome if it was a street fight or like HIAC type match. I mean they recently brawled at a media event so these matches would totally make sense. They deserved a stipulation I mean there whole feud has been intense and insane. 

 My prediction is LA Knight winning. 

Another question, if you have seen the Bray Wyatt documentary you would understand why I ask this.

Will we see a return of Uncle Howdy? Could u imagine him returning and costing LA Knight? It’s the last person Wyatt feuded with before he died so I could see this. But I could also see a return on RAW after Mania. In Wrestling anything is possible. 

I am pumped for WrestleMania 40 and the card looks and feels exciting. Can’t wait to see what happens.

RAW

Apollo Crews (c) vs. MVP for the United States Championship 

Apollo Crews won and retains the United States Championship 

Kevin Owens says that there are a lot of interesting things happening tonight, including the return of Shane McMahon. However, that's not what he will be talking about.

Ruby Riott is his guest on RAW tonight. 

KO brings Liv Morgan out to the KO show as well. 

Kevin convinced Liv Morgan to hear Ruby Riott out.

Ruby Riott says that when she came back she saw Liv thriving and that made her jealous, especially when Liv beat her twice. She said that she was not ready to come back to RAW without Sarah Logan and not being needed, she said that she was wrong. She shares their debut date tattoo and how their life changed. 

She asks Liv for a chance for the Riott Squad to be stronger than before. 

The IIconics came out and interrupted.

Kevin Owens tell the IIconics to go away. They challenge Ruby and Liv to a match tonight. 

Peyton slaps Kevin Owens. Billie Kay does it as well. 

Kevin has enough and looks to Ruby and Liv for a 'little help' and they immediately launch into attack. 

Ruby Riott and Liv Morgan vs. The IIconics

The Riott Squad won

In a report from backstage, a large number of boxes fell over. It appears that some Superstars say that the box falling over was causing some problems and that they were deliberate. 

Apollo Crews accepts MVP challenge for the US Title at SummerSlam.

Drew McIntyre came out.

Drew McIntyre is not happy with the way he was attacked by Randy Orton last week. He says he's motivated to keep the title and Randy Orton was motivated to take it. He compares his own position in WWE to Randy Orton's. 

Drew McIntyre says that unlike Randy Orton, he had no one backstage standing up for him. He got fired for his mistakes. He said that he's back now and that Randy Orton should have been fired way more times than Drew was. 

Randy Orton says that he enjoys Drew's fighting spirit.

Randy asks Drew to come up with an original opinion on Randy Orton. McIntyre says that Orton is everything wrong with WWE. 

Drew McIntyre says that Randy has never helped anyone backstage. He had taken all the help, but had given nothing to the rest of the WWE locker room. 

Drew McIntyre promises that when he comes at Orton, Randy is going to see it coming. 

Nia Jax calls Pat Buck a scrawny undeserving runt who could not cut the mustard in his own career. She says she could not see Pat Buck, but she will not apologize to him.

Instead challenges him to a match right now. 

Pat Buck is not happy with the challenge. She throws the mic at him and says say what you have to say. 

Pat Buck says that after her actions against a WWE official, Nia Ja was indefinitely suspended without pay.

Shelton Benjamin (c) vs. R-Truth vs Akira Tozawa for the 24/7 Championship 

Akira Tozawa won

Shane McMahon is seen backstage. There are people apparently really fighting and says that at 10 PM EST, RAW will go Underground. 

Sasha Banks vs. Shayna Baszler 

Asuka attacks Bayley on the outside and takes her out. She also attacks Sasha and she tries to run away. 

Asuka talks about Kairi and says she will be okay, but she wants a rematch against Sasha Banks for the RAW Women's Championship at SummerSlam.

Shayna enters the ring and says that she is cheering for Asuka and she says that she will be cheering for Asuka the entire time. She will take the RAW Women's title off of Asuka once Asuka wins.

Sasha and Bayley come out and says that it's her RAW Women's title and not theirs. She says that she will give Asuka the match if she can beat Bayley next week. 

We see two people fighting backstage. Shane McMahon is seeing that a lot of interesting things are happening on RAW Underground and the announcement is coming next. 

Shane McMahon introduces everyone to RAW Underground. He introduces his next contest. 

A giant fighter of 7 feet tall, Dabba Kato. 
Dabba Kato immediately destroys his opponent, hitting him with fist after fist until the referee breaks it up.
The fight is done. Who is next? Another member comes in from the audience. Kato takes some kicks and hits the guy with an Anaconda Lock slam and pounds him with elbows.  Shane McMahon says he's the winner as the giant drags the fighter out of the ring. 

Angel Garza vs Angelo Dawkins

Angel Garza won because Dawkins got distracted with Montez fainting at ringside.

Montez Ford vs. Andrade

Ford gets in the ring again and promptly faints. A doctor is called, the match is stopped. 

RAW Underground is back and now Erik takes on another fighter. The Viking Raiders Superstar takes him down and then slams him before striking him again and again, kicking him off the stage. 

The guy is thrown back on the ring and Erik hits him knee after knee before taking him out.  

Angelo Dawkins reveals in a backstage interview that Montez Ford was poisoned before the match. Bianca Belair is having none of it and says that she is giving Zelina a chance to say what she did. When she denies it, Bianca attacks her and has to be held back by Dawkins. 

Security camera footage shows the masked superstars throw Molotov cocktails at an electric box outside WWE before the show. That explains the blackouts.

Seth Rollins comes out.

Seth Rollins says that Murphy and Seth Rollins have some housekeeping to tend to. Seth Rollin then addresses Tom Phillips to ask him some questions.
He asks if Phillips considers himself a professional unbiased journalist. 

He continues to ask what Tom Phillips was doing last week when Dominik Mysterio was attacking Seth Rollins last week. He says that Tom was cheering him on last week and that was not done. 

He said that the voice of Phillips matters. So he needs to do better and be a part of the Greater good

Seth says that Tom did a poor job and he had become a liability. He said that the time had come to find a new voice of Monday Night RAW. Murphy advances to take Tom Phillips, but Samoa Joe stands up for him and asks Murphy to go away, or he will beat down Murphy and slap Seth.  

Samoa Joe reminds Seth that he was laughing harder than anyone else at the table. Samoa Joe takes off his headset and it appears that he is ready to take on both men. He rolls up his sleeves and gets in the ring. 

Samoa Joe enters the ring as Rollins and Murphy with steel chairs intimidate him.

Before he can enter, Dominik attacks them both from the back and takes out Rollins and Murphy with Kendo Sticks, he takes out Murphy out of the ring and hits Seth Rollins with a 619 and a dive from the top to take them both out. 

Seth Rollins accepts Dominik’s challenge.

Dolph Ziggler is shown dominating another wrestler in the ring at RAW Underground.

Hurt Business show up there. Lashley gets in the ring. MVP says that RAW Underground is under new business with Hurt Business controlling it. 

Bobby Lashley challenges anyone, and a guy gets in the ring to be knocked out in seconds. 

Shelton Benjamin gets in next and someone insulted Shelton's 'mama'. He took out the Superstar and dominated him. They took out everyone in RAW Underground and stood tall. 

MVP announces they are the Hurt Business and business is booming. RAW Underground will be back next week. 

Rating: 70/70

It was an interesting show tonight and had some decent matches.

RAW

WWE RAW starts with a recap of Murphy coming out to attack Drew McIntyre only to be taken out by the WWE Champion. 

MVP opens the show of RAW this week as he is out with the VIP Lounge.

He invites out the Women's Money in the Bank competitors, and shows a recap of what happened the last time Asuka, Nia Jax, and Shayna Baszler was in the ring together.

Nia claims she is relentless and has destroyed everyone she has faced. Asuka calls her a bully for having attacked and hurt Kairi in the way that she did. 

Shayna Baszler says she will show her ability with her action at Money in the Bank. Asuka and Baszler face off with each other and then together kick out Nia Jax from the ring. 

Gauntlet Match  

AJ Styles won the Last Chance Gauntlet Match and is heading to Money in the Bank.

Styles says that he is not a zombie and unlike the last time, there's no Undertaker to stop him this time. He said that he did not lose the Boneyard Match as there were no rules in a Boneyard match. 

Ricochet and Cedric Alexander vs. Shane Thorne and Brendan Vink

Shane Thorne and Brendan Vink won 

The Street Profits vs. The Viking Raiders 

The Viking Raiders won

Aleister Black did not like to be threatened by AJ Styles.

In a promo, he asks AJ to be humble and explain what it felt like to be buried in the darkness. He says that AJ should pray that he does not get back up if AJ manages to throw him off the building. He says if that happens, AJ will be buried deeper than 6 feet.

Charlotte is out now and she talks about how she will teach a lesson to Io Shirai, when she is interrupted by Liv Morgan.

Charlotte Flair vs. Liv Morgan 

Charlotte Flair won

Drew McIntyre vs.  Buddy Murphy 

Drew McIntyre won

Rollins and McIntyre face off as Seth stands on the apron and McIntyre urges him to get in. Seth only sneers, but does not get in and runs up the ramp.

Drew looks away and Rollins comes in and hits the Superkick out of nowhere, attacking him from behind.

Rollins holds up the WWE Championship. It's clear what he wants. Rollins foes for the stomp, but is caught by McIntyre who hits the Glasgow Kiss. He tries the Claymore, but Seth retreats.

Rating: 70/70

Great show and matches.

RAW

WWE RAW starts with MVP and introduces his guest to the show and a participant in the WWE Money in the Bank match, Rey Mysterio. He also brings out Aleister Back and Apollo Crews.

They are interrupted by Zelina Vega, who comes out with Andrade, Angel Garza, and Austin Theory. She says that those three men were the future of Monday Night RAW. 

She asks the three in the ring to show they can do what's best or Monday Night RAW, and take their place in the Money in the Bank Ladder match. 

Black, Crews, and Mysterio empty the ring.

Aleister Black and Rey Mysterio and Apollo Crews vs. Andrade and Austin Theory and Angel Garza 

Apollo Crews won

Shayna Baszler vs. Asuka vs. Nia Jax

No Contest 

Bobby Lashley vs. a Jobber 

Bobby Lashley won

Liv Morgan vs. Ruby Riott 

Liv Morgan won

Akira Tozawa vs. Jinder Mahal

Jinder Mahal won

Andrade (c) vs. Apollo Crews for the United States Championship 

Andrade retains the United States Championship 

We see an recap of Becky Lynch’s WWE 24

Ricochet and Cedric Alexander vs. Chase Parker and Matt Martel

Ricochet and Cedric Alexander won

Contact Signing for the WWE Championship Match at WWE MITB

Jerry 'The King' Lawler introduces Drew McIntyre and Seth Rollins. 

He also talks about the Corporate Money in the Bank Ladder Match, which is the most unique version of the match in recent memory.

McIntyre advises Jerry The King Lawler to leave the ring.. He signs the contract and urges Seth Rollins to do the same.

Seth Rollins says he never wanted to do this, but he had to do this because he needed to get the WWE Championship to where it needed to be. He says that Drew is not a leader.

Seth points out that he is the leader, and that the WWE Universe needs someone to guide them, and that has to be him. The light in the darkness.

Drew pretends to be inspired by Seth's speech, and says that Seth is actually full of shit. 

He then says that nothing Seth ever did was Seth's fault. He did not care what was going on in Seth's head, but he knew that he would not let Seth win the title, no matter what.

He promises Seth that he will finish him at Money in the Bank.

Seth signs the contract, and begins to say something else, but Drew bounces him off the table and hits him with the Glasgow Kiss.

He goes for the Countdown Claymore, but Murphy attacks out of nowhere.

Murphy picks Seth up, but ends up taking the Claymore for his troubles, as Seth manages to make his escape.

The show ends with McIntyre and Rollins staring at each other.

Rating: 70/70

Great show and matches as we look forward to WWE MITB

RAW

Drew McIntyre opens the show.

Drew McIntyre says that unlike what he has heard, it's not lonely at the top. He talks about how Seth Rollins attacked him. He says he knows that he respects Seth because he knows exactly how good he is. 

‪He said he's ready to face Seth at Money in the Bank to defend his title and issues the challenge. 

He gets interrupted by Garza and Theory, with Zelina Vega. 

While the three talk to him and distract him, Andrade attacks him from behind, but the attack does not last long. He gets caught with a Claymore. 

Zelina tries to force Austin Theory and Garza to help but they seem to be afraid and then McIntyre hits Andrade with another Claymore.

Men’s MITB Qualifying Match 

Aleister Black vs. Austin Theory 

Aleister Black won and qualifies for the Men’s MITB Ladder Match

Shayna Baszler vs. Indi Hartwell

Shayna Baszler won

Baszler came back and attacked her.

Ricochet and Cedric Alexander vs. Shane Thorne and Brendan Vink

Ricochet and Cedric Alexander won

Nia Jax vs. Kairi Sane

Nia Jax won 

Seth Rollins accepts the challenge and now will be facing Drew McIntyre at Money in the Bank.

Men’s MITB Qualifying Match 

MVP vs. Apollo Crews

Apollo Crews won and qualifies for the Men’s MITB Ladder Match

Ruby Riott vs. Liv Morgan 

Liv Morgan won

Men’s MITB Qualifying Match 

Rey Mysterio vs. Buddy Murphy 

Rey Mysterio won and qualifies for the Men’s MITB Ladder Match 

Charlotte Flair vs. Kayden Carter

Charlotte Flair won

Andrade vs. Arika Tozawa 

Andrade won

 Bianca Belair vs. Santana Garett

 Bianca Belair won

Drew McIntyre vs. Angel Garza 

Drew McIntyre won

McIntyre heads back to the ring and then focuses on Garza. He hits Garza with another Claymore.

Theory gets into the ring only to get hit with another Claymore.

Rating: 70/70

Great show and matches