The Smackdown brand's champion Kurt Angle defended his Title in a Triple Threat against Randy Orton and 2006 Rumble winner Rey Mysterio, in a match that fell horribly short of expectations due to the time constraints. The match itself was very solid, partly thanks to the fans in the arena, and Hunter repeated his 'Mania 20-ending tapout in the center of the ring to help elevate Cena. His match here against Triple H was possibly the most infamous example of this, as easily half the Chicago crowd were rabidly cheering for Hunter to destroy WWE's new posterboy. John Cena was not getting over in the expected fashion, as about half the crowd started booing him on a regular basis. WWE was fully in "I'll do what I want and you'll like it" mode in 2006, making booking decisions that were absurdly perplexing to many of the fans. It ended up being a much more fun show that I expected, particularly since I was less than thrilled about most of the matches going in. 'Mania 22 reminds me a little of the old-school WrestleManias, where there was a whole host of different kinds of matches and a little something for everyone. There’s also little reason for them to have a match at ‘Mania outside of naked nostalgia (which WWE has a whole network for) and the note about them not having a singles match at that Pay-Per-View.We've fully entered the John Cena Era, as WrestleMania returns to Chicago. Revisiting this feud after more than a decade would be another sign of WWE going all-in on the part-timers (at the expense of the full-time roster). Should they have this match at all, let alone at ‘Mania Following his loss to Roman Reigns at Money in the Bank, Edge seems set to feud with Seth Rollins, who interfered twice in the Edge/Reigns match to prevent Edge from winning the Universal Championship.Ĭena, who returned right after the Edge/Reigns match concluded, will Reigns’ next challenger for the Universal Title, likely at SummerSlam.Īs for ‘Mania, Cena and Edge have faced each other at WWE’s biggest show, but not in a one-on-one capacity they participated in a triple threat match that included The Big Show at WrestleMania 25. You never know, it could happen one day.”Īs of July 22, Edge and Cena are set to take part in major stories that will primarily play out on SmackDown. Which is crazy, right? We worked everything else, but. The only thing was with John and I, we never wrestled a one-on-one at WrestleMania. Then they rebooted again, and they rebooted again, and we’d ended up on SmackDown and be rebooted. Then once they went back to us, I think we ran for like a year and a half after that. “Then they’d circle back to John and I, because I think it worked so good in that three weeks and ratings went up, and all those things, you know, the website hits and everything went through the roof. After WrestleMania 22, I got to work Mick, who is another guy that just did so much for my career.
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Then, we were off and running, because I don’t think that program was supposed to last more than three weeks.
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“When I got to John, and we kind of got on the same page and he realized what I was out to do, which was just that, to make him Superman. Edge talks about possibly facing John Cena again.Īppearing on The Kurt Angle Show, Edge discussed his interest in facing Cena at “The Grandest Stage of them All” while reflecting on his battles with “The Face That Runs The Place” (h/t to Fightful’s Robert DeFelice for the transcription): If you ask Edge, he hasn’t completely shut the door on that possibility. That said, the two haven’t wrestled each other since 2010 - they teamed together during some house shows in 2011 - so would the interest be there for another encounter at WrestleMania?