WRESTLEMANIA PREDICTIONS

The 2015 WrestleMania PPV is quite a while away from us right now, but let's start speculating anyway! What are your predictions for WrestleMania XXXI? Spoilers for WrestleMania 31 as well as my predictions for the pay-per-view are here. Many things will change over the next few months, so this post will be updated accordingly to reflect newer opinions. Here are my predictions for the WrestleMania XXXI PPV. Check back for WrestleMania 31 results and review coverage here.

WWE WrestleMania XXXI Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar WrestleMania 31

[WWE World Heavyweight Championship]: Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Roman Reigns

Fans may be pissed about Roman Reigns winning the Royal Rumble, but too bad. I've expressed my thoughts on that overreaction in various ways, so I won't go over all of those opinions here once more. As far as this match itself, I think this has potential, although it definitely won't be the best match of the night. Hopefully, fans don't shit all over it without giving it a chance, because they'll be ruining it for themselves and creating a problem for the next few months that doesn't need to happen. Whether Roman Reigns is ready for this spot is one thing to argue, but if this ends up being nothing but chants for Daniel Bryan, it'll ruin it for anyone who actually does have interest in the match. I still think Lesnar's title reign should have been more dominant and had more people involved instead of just John Cena with a tiny bit of Seth Rollins sprinkled on top. If he had defeated the likes of Randy Orton and others while defending his title more often, it would mean a lot more for Reigns to defeat him here.

PREDICTION: Roman Reigns wins the title.

WWE WrestleMania 2015 Sting vs HHH WrestleMania 31

Triple H vs. Sting

This could be a lot of fun and I'm curious to see what stipulation they specify for it, although I'm assuming it will be a generic Street Fight or no disqualification match with just one of the many names they have for that.

PREDICTION: Sting wins. Duh.

WrestleMania XXXI Andre the Giant Battle Royal winner 2015

2nd Annual Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal 

This is stupid. It made sense to do this at WrestleMania 30, but to do it every year? Why would you have it so close to the Royal Rumble? That's the same idiotic booking that resulted in Bragging Rights being right next to Survivor Series. WWE could have figured out a different way to get a lot of people on the card, but I guess it was just too hard to think about it for 15 minutes. Expect to see a lot of people thrown into the mix here instead of given a proper spot. Confirmed participants so far: The Miz, Curtis Axel, Ryback, Adam Rose, Fandango, Zack Ryder, Jack Swagger, Titus O'Neil, Darren Young, Kane, Big Show, Erick Rowan, Heath Slater, Sin Cara, Goldust, Mark Henry 

PREDICTION: Sheamus wins if he's in it. If he isn't...Damien Sandow.

WWE WrestleMania 2015 Ladder Match IC Title WrestleMania XXXI 31

[WWE Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match]: Bad News Barrett (c) vs. Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. R-Truth vs. Luke Harper vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Stardust

WWE has opted to ignore the Goldust vs Stardust feud as well as the rumored Daniel Bryan vs Sheamus feud and even the alternative Daniel Bryan vs Dolph Ziggler match proposal to instead toss most of these men (and some others) in this match. While that's a bad thing for those interested in see those matches, it's not as though this is a huge downgrade. In fact, this could very well be the match of the night! Ladder matches are fun and this program has been interesting with everyone stealing the championship, so I'm looking forward to this. I'm also looking forward to what comes afterward.

PREDICTION: A new champion is crowned with either Ziggler or Ambrose. 

WWE WrestleMania 31 Paige AJ Lee vs Brie Bella Nikki Bella

The Bella Twins vs. Paige and AJ Lee

If this card wasn't loaded up with so many gimmicks already, I would have suggested a Fatal 4-Way for the title instead. Hopefully, this isn't given much time. For those who want to say that this should because of the #GiveDivasAChance concept, I ask you if a tag team match is really worth it. This has nowhere to go but down, so sacrifice it and let these four women have a kick ass match at Extreme Rules instead to make up for it.

PREDICTION: The Bella Twins win by cheating or they start to break up, which leads to AJ Lee and Paige getting the win.

WWE WrestleMania 2015 ppv Undertaker vs Bray Wyatt

[The Streak...er...wait...nevermind]: Undertaker vs. Bray Wyatt

This is obviously going to happen, but just isn't confirmed yet. I can see this feud being pretty interesting, but I would have no hopes that the match itself would be good. This match just won't have the same flair without The Streak being attached to it. Hopefully, it's kept short to allow for some better matches on the card to take place.

PREDICTION: Undertaker wins.

WWE WrestleMania 2015 United States Championship WrestleMania XXXI

[WWE United States Championship]: Rusev (c) vs. John Cena 

I said before that WWE would be making a mistake by having this match at Fastlane and I stand by that previous assumption. Fastlane did more to hurt this feud than it did to help it. I'll elaborate more on my thoughts on this later on during the build, but I can't imagine that they have any way to build anticipation to this that would interest me. I no longer have the "first match between the two" idea to get into, nor do I give a shit about how Rusev cheated. I expect this to just be another situation where Cena wins by making Rusev tap and that they don't even have the title on the line because they want to avoid having Cena hold the belt.

PREDICTION: lol Cena wins.

WWE WrestleMania 2015 PPV Orton vs Rollins results

Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton

This match is going to be somewhere in the middle of the card and has a lot of potential to be a solid B+ segment. The biggest determining factor in the quality of this match is pacing issues. If WWE gives them a short amount of time, it could be disastrous, but if the match is too long, we could be in for a lot of Randy Orton rest holds, which will just be a waste of time. These two are talented and they could put on a great show, but it isn't as simple as announcing the match and having it be a guarantee. They'll need to plan this out in a way that will be beneficial to both men.

PREDICTION: Randy Orton wins with an RKO out of nowhere after Rollins also looks strong in the match.