5 Rivalries that can make WrestlaMania more exciting
Last Sunday's Royal Rumble event at the Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona officially kick started the road to WrestleMania 35 in New Jersey with Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch outlasting 29 other competitors respectively to win the men's and women's Royal Rumble match.
Their win at Phoenix has confirmed two blockbuster matches for WrestleMania, with Rollins choosing Universal Champion Brock Lesnar and Lynch jumping the ship to the Red Brand to finally settle her issues with Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey. By this time every year, most of the matches for the Mania card, especially the major ones, are all but confirmed. However, it has been a different story all together this year.
Apart from the two highly anticipated showdowns confirmed for the show, none of the matches have been rumoured to be confirmed for the April Mega show. This means that a number of top Superstars like AJ Styles, Daniel Bryan, Charlotte Flaif and Drew McIntyre don't have a program moving into the Mania season.
What this does is provide WWE the perfect opportunity to bring together superstar for a rivalry that could shoot the excitement for the show to a whole new level. Here are 5 such rivalries that WWE should go forward with in the upcoming weeks.
#5 Samoa Joe vs Randy Orton
WWE rarely does a Heel vs Heel program, especially for a grand show like WrestleMania, but this is something that could actually reap fruits for both these veterans. Samoa Joe has proved that despite being one of the baddest men on the planet, he can be stunning when paired opposite an equally bad guy, and who is more vicious on the Blue Brand than Randy Orton.
On the go home show for Royal Rumble, Orton stunned Joe with a RKO out of nowhere. While the two didn't cross path in the Rumble, WWE can actually use that to start a rivalry between the two with the same. The two of them are legends in their own right and this program can act as one of the the biggest non-title storylines on SmackDown.
Once Joe is done with his rivalry with Mustafa Ali, WWE can again have Orton attack Joe, or vice versa, to entice the violent side of these two animals. Not only will this generate more and more heat for The Viper, it could actually make way for a face run for The Destroyer that could end with him winning the US Title in the subsequent months.