Re-Doing WrestleMania 27

[Rosie]

Note: Was Done on a Wim

Haven't seen too much action here, so decided to do something here, I am rebooking one past WWE show, which was an often seen as one of the worst Wrestlemanias ever, Wrestlemania 27. This show was plagued by countless issues, including the fact it was made to hype up the show for the next year, the main event fell flat, the commentator's scuffle and the only note-worthy match was the Undertaker vs Triple H match. The thing is, I look at some of the people on the card, they have some potentially solid matches. So, I think here are the matches they could have gone with.

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My personal rules: I can rebook from Rumble to 'Mania, so I don't need to accept certain people as Champion, and I can change the Rumble winner. As well, while the Nexus being one would be ideal, I'll keep the whole Corre and New Nexus angle. I also need to book it so that they can still do the build up to Cena vs Rock the next year. As well, I need to match the number of matches on the show.

Pre-Show: (I'll do two matches since technically, the pre-show had two matches)

WWE Tag Team Championships

Kane and Big Show vs The Corre (Slater and Gabriel) (c) w/ Ezekiel Jackson

Not worthy of the main card, but Kane and Big Show's reuniting as tag partners is still something for Mania worthy. You can play off the big man vs small man dynamic and they were already intertwined with the Corre Storyline anyways, so give them this match. Have The Corre retain via Ezekiel's interference and that can give the younger guys a win while keeping the monsters somewhat strong.

Winners: The Corre

Diva's Championship

One of the members of Lay-Cool vs Eve Torres (c)

I think Eve won the belt at the Royal Rumble...so I guess we can have this match. I know Lay-Cool had a break up afterward, so have Eve retain and work into their angle for Extreme Rules. *shrugs* I just want to at least have the Women's wrestlers (Diva's) on the show somewhere, and I don't want Snooki anywhere near the event...

Winner: Eve Torres

Main Show:

United States Championship Match

Dolph Ziggler w/ Vickie Guerrero vs Daniel Bryan (c)

This may seem like an odd choice, but if I want there to be a match which can get the crowd going, I believe this is how you do it. Back at the, admittedly, lackluster Bragging Rights PPV the previous year, these two people had, arguably, one of the best matches of the year when it was Champion vs Champion. Daniel Bryan at this time wasn't at the heights he was three years later, but he was still popular with the fans. Dolph is a great worker, and I feel as though this can get the crowd going. In the build-up to Mania, on Smackdown Ziggler feuded with Edge for the World Championship and was fired on Smackdown, with him showing up on Raw in the weeks after. In real life, Sheamus won the belt from Daniel Bryan, but I feel as though Sheamus can have a different spot at Mania. So instead, I will have Ziggler show up on Raw and challenge for the belt.

Winner: Daniel Bryan

Intercontinental Championship Lumberjack Match

Kofi Kingston vs Wade Barrett (c)

Before Wrestlemania, Wade Barrett won the IC title against Kofi, his first in WWE. I'm keeping that. But the original match was the Corre vs Santino, Kofi, Big Show, and Kane where the group was Squashed. I say we scratch that all together. The Lumberjack Stipulation can work well with this as it fits the story better than what they had for Daniel Bryan and Sheamus. To try to even the odds against The Corre. The Corre, Slater, Gabriel, and Jackson can be part of the Lumberjacks. Do not turn this into a Battle Royal like the Pre-Show match in real life... but after a decent back and forth match, you can have the Lumberjacks pour in if you wish, have a Corre member hit Kofi with a big move, Wasteland from Barrett, Wade retains.

Winner: Wade Barrett

Singles Match

Cody Rhodes vs Rey Mysterio

First thing from the show I am keeping. It was a respectable match, respectable storyline, may not be the greatest, but both men deserve a spot on the show, so give it to them.

Winner: Cody Rhodes

Singles Match

Randy Orton vs CM Punk

The second thing I am keeping. Honestly, this was a good feud that made sense, Randy going mental on the Nexus was great, even then, they were dead for a long time anyways so it was whatever. Keep the match...

Winner: Randy Orton

No Disqualification Match

Sheamus vs Triple H

I'm changing both their matches because I have a better match with the Undertaker, and I feel as though this match writes itself. When Triple H was put on the shelf, Sheamus was the one who did it to him. Sheamus as King of the ring was booked to shit, I'm changing that.I say keep Sheamus strong during this time, he can call himself "The greatest King of the Ring winner ever" have him brag about all who he has beat, and Triple H comes out and Pedigrees him. Then that leads to this match. As for who wins, I feel as though since this is a Wrestlemania rematch from the previous year, let Sheamus get one over and have it be a brutal, hard-hitting match and Sheamus narrowly pull out with the win.

Winner: Sheamus

Triple Threat for the World Heavyweight Championship

Albertooooo DELL RRRRRRRRIIIIOOOOOOO vs Christian vs Edge (c)

First of all, the fact the World title opened WM 27..... NO! Second, at this point, even with me being a massive Edgehead, I felt Edge was slowing down a bit during this time, without knowledge of his injury. So this is to put less strain on him. The storyline of a young up and comer trying to injure Edge was good, adding Christian was a nice wrinkle, but I have some better ideas. First, don't have Del Rio win the Rumble, instead, keep him undefeated. Then, in the Elimination Chamber match, have Del Rio in it, be a constant thorn in Edge's side in the build-up, and be the last man eliminated. Use that to get him a number one contender's match and he wins, and that leads to the original idea. But, when Christian comes back, he wants Del Rio at 'Mania, but he also wants the World title because he never competed for it. So, they have a match, Christian vs Del Rio on Smackdown, Christian wins via interference from Edge, and Christian gets added. I will have Edge retain with the idea of him vs Christian being a feud after Wrestlemania, but as we know, Edge had to retire after it. So if that would happen, then have what happened in real life happen, except Christian keeps the belt until Summerslam as a heel, and he loses it to Randy.

Winner: Edge

WWE Championship Match

John Morrison vs The Miz (c) w/ Alex Riley

Honestly, why didn't they go with this as a proper feud while Miz was WWE Champion? The storyline writes itself with the former tag partners. Have John Morrison win the Royal Rumble and go on to Wrestlemania to face The Miz. That way, The Miz is a focus in his WM storyline, it is a good worker who will put on a great match. As well, if you want the commentators to feud...just have them be in the background of this feud, and during the match, have Michael Cole, who had a massive boner for The Miz at this time, try to interfere but Jerry Lawler stops him. That way, they are a layer of this, but not the main focus. As well it makes sense as Cole cost Lawler the WWE Championship. Honestly, both Morrison and Miz since this time have shown their worth both in and out of WWE. The Miz is very underrated, and so is Morrison. This can be something to get them both at Main Event level and stick there. Who would win? Well, given the winner they had at the first Bragging Rights and their Falls Count Anywhere match on the first Raw of that year (Which was a good match)...to give him that big spot... John Morrison. Fuck having Snookie on the card. Also hopefully The Miz will remember this match...Because he can't remember, and a lot of us want to forget his WM match...

Winner: John Morrison

Main Event:

Streak Threatening Match: Special Guest Referee

Special guest Referee: The Rock

John Cena vs Undertaker

This year, Undertaker faced Triple H and it was a great match, but we saw it before. This was honestly a great year to have the match and this would have drawn A LOT of people to Wrestlemania. Instead of making The Rock the host, just have him be inserted into this match as the official. That way he doesn't need to get physical and they can build to the next year. As for how John Cena faces the Undertaker. How about this, Undertaker makes his regular return before the Elimination Chamber and he doesn't need to say much, at most, just allude to the fact he wants to face someone at Wrestlemania...At Elimination Chamber, have The Miz defend the WWE Championship in the Chamber (include Jerry Lawler if you must) and have John Cena in it and have Undertaker's Gong go off, Miz eliminates Cena, and then John Cena can call out both The Rock (who still returned and talked crap to Cena) and Undertaker in his Rap-Style if he wants, just like real life. When Undertaker finally confronts Cena, he can explain why he chose Cena...maybe to allude to it being a dream match, maybe it is the one person he hasn't faced at Wrestlemania, whatever. The Rock can come in and say "I never faced Undertaker at Wrestlemania, but I can't compete, so damn right I want to get involved because I'm a celebrity" and he becomes the Guest Ref. You can have all three men lay each other out at one point in the build up and have this. Have The Rock call it down the middle but get in the face of each of them, and Undertaker wins after, hopefully, a great match with a Tombstone, Taker leaves, Rock lays out Cena, leads to WM 28.

Winner: Undertaker

Do you think I did well? Do you think that, on paper, this would have been better than the show we got? I honestly did this on a whim, but I thought about doing something like this for a while.​

 

[Mustafar Reginald]

In a bubble this is without a doubt a better card than the WrestleMania XXVII we got, I particularly like having Dolph vs. Bryan open the show and having Miz vs. Morrison at WrestleMania for the WWE Championship. But I can not get behind the idea of removing HHH/Taker at Mania, the story told from WM XXV to WM XVIII isn't something I'd want to miss. All those matches were great and I enjoyed the build for all of them a lot too. I wouldn't really be a fan of changing that in lieu of a rematch with Sheamus or Cena/Taker with the added drama of Rock as the ref (even if he calls it straight down the middle, the commentary are going to also focus on The Rock, he's too big of a deal not to and I'm not a fan of using a Taker match to help build to a Rock match), and you can't have the End of the Era told as strongly without the story of the finish of Mania XXVII. I really wanted Cena/Taker too though, so it's not like I don't get the appeal but yeah. Also wouldn't be huge on the Women's being pre-show exclusive, even if there matches are filler/bathroom break, I wouldn't like to bump them off the show. Still had fun reading this and there are some great ideas, another one is the lumberjack match between Kofi/Wade (I don't particularly like Lumberjack matches but it makes perfect sense in context) so don't want to sound like I'm just shitting on your card or anything..

 

[Rosie]

In a bubble this is without a doubt a better card than the WrestleMania XXVII we got, I particularly like having Dolph vs. Bryan open the show and having Miz vs. Morrison at WrestleMania for the WWE Championship. But I can not get behind the idea of removing HHH/Taker at Mania, the story told from WM XXV to WM XVIII isn't something I'd want to miss. All those matches were great and I enjoyed the build for all of them a lot too. I wouldn't really be a fan of changing that in lieu of a rematch with Sheamus or Cena/Taker with the added drama of Rock as the ref (even if he calls it straight down the middle, the commentary are going to also focus on The Rock, he's too big of a deal not to and I'm not a fan of using a Taker match to help build to a Rock match), and you can't have the End of the Era told as strongly without the story of the finish of Mania XXVII. I really wanted Cena/Taker too though, so it's not like I don't get the appeal but yeah. Also wouldn't be huge on the Women's being pre-show exclusive, even if there matches are filler/bathroom break, I wouldn't like to bump them off the show. Still had fun reading this and there are some great ideas, another one is the lumberjack match between Kofi/Wade (I don't particularly like Lumberjack matches but it makes perfect sense in context) so don't want to sound like I'm just shitting on your card or anything..

It's cool. I made it on a whim one day. I was not too keen on removing the match between Triple H and Undertaker, but once I decided on a better WWE Championship match, I needed a match for Cena and with the restrictions I placed, this was the best option while still allowing the Wrestlemania Main event the next year. Triple H vs Sheamus, it was more me realizing "Wait....Sheamus practically ended the full-time ring career of Triple H and there was never any attempt for payback?" So for this, I went with the story.

 

[Snowman1]

Reading "Cody Rhodes" around this time made me really miss that run of his. Enjoyed that feud with Rey a lot and the whole "grotesque" character. His promo at the Rumble when he was left out thanks to Rey butchering his face? Delightful!!

The other part is that... I'm kinda in a hurry, but reading a lot of the matches on this card without the writeups, I can simply see how it makes sense. The writeups I did see did put some nice detail in it so I'm not trying to critique your work too much here, just saying how easily something like this could have been booked. Frustrated that they never pulled the trigger on Morrison. They could have even done the rematch in the same way as Cena's rematch (the Raw one, where Miz had the hidden belt-shot to reclaim the title before Riley held up his hand to show the referee)...

Gosh. I don't have fond memories of early 2011, but this is kinda making me appreciate it a little more lol. Miz and R-Truth around this time >>>>>

 

[Brother Loathe]

It's a much better card and you actually incorporated common sense into the matches and made more believable matches but one of the things and it's more the general concept than your inclusion but I've never understood the point of the "pre-show" because not only does it give the message to the workers and the fans that these guys aren't good enough to be on the actual show and they're so shit we'll give you the match for free be secondly, if it's on the show, in the arena, in front of fans, being broadcast one way or another it's on the show not at all before the show that's just silly.

Also, Morrison vs Miz while your point behind the match was great I don't think either of them were ready for a main event world title at mania and hated Cena vs Miz, your idea would be good for the IC belt or the US belt, but the world title? I don't think so. But overall good card.

 

[Rosie]

It's a much better card and you actually incorporated common sense into the matches and made more believable matches but one of the things and it's more the general concept than your inclusion but I've never understood the point of the "pre-show" because not only does it give the message to the workers and the fans that these guys aren't good enough to be on the actual show and they're so shit we'll give you the match for free be secondly, if it's on the show, in the arena, in front of fans, being broadcast one way or another it's on the show not at all before the show that's just silly.

Also, Morrison vs Miz while your point behind the match was great I don't think either of them were ready for a main event world title at mania and hated Cena vs Miz, your idea would be good for the IC belt or the US belt, but the world title? I don't think so. But overall good card.

For the pre-show, I went off of what they did, which was a Dark match or two, and it was technically two matches for their's (US title match turned into a Battle Royale) and tbh I guess I didn't want to leave certain people without a match, plus only the world titles being defended on the real show was kind of lame.

For Miz and Morrison, Miz was WWE Champ at the time, and really, they had a great match on Raw earlier that year under FCA, and I think that they could have had this as a chance to showcase themselves. Now, Morrison/Mundo has proved his worth, and The Miz has done amazing work recently.

 

[Brother Loathe]

For the pre-show, I went off of what they did, which was a Dark match or two, and it was technically two matches for their's (US title match turned into a Battle Royale) and tbh I guess I didn't want to leave certain people without a match, plus only the world titles being defended on the real show was kind of lame.

For Miz and Morrison, Miz was WWE Champ at the time, and really, they had a great match on Raw earlier that year under FCA, and I think that they could have had this as a chance to showcase themselves. Now, Morrison/Mundo has proved his worth, and The Miz has done amazing work recently.

I guess I kind of understand Morrison but he does have the HBK kind of look and was great in-ring even if he did get a bit crazy for no reason sometimes and always sold well, good as both face and heel, but tbh Miz always was just a bit underwhelming, little underwhelming in-ring, bit silly and lame on the mic, failed as a face and good as a heel because he really does come off as a whiny bitch and always just looked like a big kid.

I do keep forgetting you just re-booked the format but I agree with only the world titles being defended is crap because they just make the titles useless and wonder why no one cares about them.