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WWE WrestleMania 35 Card, Date, Rumors, News, Predictions, and Matches

WrestleMania 35 is on the horizon! WWE’s biggest show has been a staple since the 80s and has given us plenty of fantastic moments. From the days of King Kong Bundy crushing Special Delivery Jones in mere seconds to Braun Strowman pulling a child out of the crowd to help him win the tag titles, WrestleMania has been the wrestling show with the brightest spotlight.

Then again, the Raw and SmackDown after it are way better. The NXT TakeOver show the night before is pretty much superior too. The Hall of Fame ceremony...? Eh.

Get ready for the long haul because not only is it a huge stretch of wrestling shows, but WrestleMania itself is extremely long these days.

WRESTLEMANIA 35 DATE & TIME The show will take place on April 7, 2019 at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

WWE HALL OF FAME CEREMONY As always, a lengthy Hall of Fame ceremony will be available on the WWE Network. The inductees so far are D-Generation X, The Honky Tonk Man, Torrie Wilson, and Harlem Heat.

NXT TAKEOVER: NEW YORK On Saturday April 6, NXT will have a big show of its own. No matches are announced quite yet, but the TakeOver before WrestleMania tends to be an extra special one due to writing off major names so that they can appear on the main roster on the Raw and SmackDown of that week.

WRESTLEMANIA 35 MATCHES BROCK LESNAR (C) VS. SETH ROLLINS BROCK LESNAR (C) VS. SETH ROLLINS Universal Championship Years ago, Seth Rollins shocked the world by cashing in Money in the Bank during a title match between Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns and pinning Roman. He and Brock had a title match shortly after, and Brock most definitely dominated, but Seth was rescued by the Undertaker. In the years that followed, Brock would rise again to the top and would regularly feud with the likes of Roman Reigns, Braun Strowman, Bill Goldberg, and others.

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Seth Rollins regained his mojo and courage over time. He has been one of the top heroes of Raw, especially with Roman being sidelined with leukemia. Rollins won the 2019 men's Royal Rumble by last defeating Braun Strowman. On the next Raw, Paul Heyman talked up how much of a mistake it would be for Rollins to challenge Brock. Rollins stormed out and started attacking Brock, only to eat several F5s in a row. A weak Rollins egged Brock on and ate one more for good measure.

Since then, Rollins has been making it sound like Brock is his white whale. He will take down Brock or destroy his own career trying. He did make a good point, though, about how Brock has had the most problems with the smaller opponents (ie. Finn Balor and Daniel Bryan) and he'd use that to his advantage. Paul Heyman tried to have Rollins taken down by a surprise Shelton Benjamin ambush, but Rollins defeated him and moved on.

BECKY LYNCH VS. RONDA ROUSEY (C) VS. CHARLOTTE FLAIR Triple threat for the WWE Raw Women's Championship Last November, when Survivor Series played up Raw vs. SmackDown and all the champion vs. champion bouts, the one many looked forward to was Raw's Ronda Rousey vs. SmackDown's Becky Lynch. Ronda had been dominant in the Raw women's division, but Becky was the first to really humble her in the lead-up. This included a segment where a bloodied Becky beat Ronda down with a chair and posed in the crowd, looking like a battle-damaged million bucks. Unfortunately, she suffered a legit injury from a nasty Nia Jax punch during that segment and they had to drop the match. Charlotte was chosen to replace Becky and had a bit of an episode late in the match. She snapped and got herself disqualified by beating Ronda with a kendo stick.

The three-way feud continued when Becky defended the SmackDown Women's Championship against Asuka and Charlotte Flair. Ronda walked out and shoved Becky and Charlotte off the ladder, allowing Asuka to win. Becky got another match against Asuka, but ended up tapping out.

Although Becky wasn't listed as a competitors in the women's Royal Rumble, an injured Lana meant that only 29 would compete. Becky insisted on taking her place and it was granted. She ended up defeating Charlotte in the end. On the Raw after, she got in Ronda's face and made it clear that she's going after the Raw Women's Championship.

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Unfortunately, an altercation between Becky and Charlotte led to Becky aggravating her injured knee. She refused to have WWE doctors look at it out of fear that the brass wanted an excuse to keep her out of the match. This led to her attacking Stephanie McMahon and Triple H, which gave her an ultimatum: apologize or miss her match. Becky apologized, but Vince McMahon decided to suspend her for 60 days anyway, causing her to miss WrestleMania. Charlotte was brought out as her replacement.

At Elimination Chamber, Ronda easily defeated Ruby Riott with Charlotte watching at ringside. As the two had a staredown, Becky hobbled to ringside with her crutches. She then beat down both of her rivals with said crutches before being escorted out of the building.

On Raw, Becky got arrested for showing up to attack Ronda one more time, but Ronda desperately pleaded with Stephanie McMahon to reinstate Becky and put her back in the match. Ronda discarded her title and left, feeling that the championship was being disrespected. Stephanie later agreed to bring back Becky and have Becky vs. Charlotte for the vacated title. This angered Ronda, who claimed that she never truly vacated her title. Instead, Stephanie had Becky vs. Charlotte decide whether or not Becky would be involved at WrestleMania.

At Fastlane, Charlotte seemed to have the injured Becky taken care of, but Ronda ran out and attacked Becky for the sake of having Becky win.

TRIPLE H VS. BATISTA No Holds Barred For the 1,000th edition of SmackDown, all four members of Evolution appeared for a reunion. Batista made a reference to how Triple H never beat him, which he played off as being all in fun. Months later, Raw was holding a celebration for Ric Flair's 70th birthday. When Flair was supposed to appear, they instead showed him getting beat up by Batista backstage. This was apparently Batista's way of getting Triple H's attention.

Things got weird, mainly because they were trying to build to a match where Batista was the heel and the dickish authority figure was the face. Triple H did a goofy worked shoot promo that gave people plenty of second-hand embarrassment. Eventually, it was decided that the two would square off at WrestleMania and there would be no rules.

Batista later explained his actions as being sick of Triple H taking credit for his accomplishments while also being a bit pissed about the real-life situation where Triple H didn't think Guardians of the Galaxy was going to be much of a success. Of course, Michael Cole tried to respond with talking up what a wonderful man Triple H actually is, causing everyone to roll their eyes.

SHANE MCMAHON VS. THE MIZ At Crown Jewel, Miz took part in a tournament to crown the Best in the World. During the finals, he endured a leg injury and had to bow out against his will. Shane McMahon decided to replace him, despite it being the finals and Shane being fresh, and was able to defeat Dolph Ziggler. Miz handled it well and considered he and Shane to be "co-besties." He then started bugging him about being his tag team partner. Shane was reluctant and annoyed, but accepted the offer once Miz opened up about how he was trying to win the love and respect of his father.

The two immediately climbed to the top of the tag division and won the titles off The Bar. Soon after, they lost to The Usos and lost again in a rematch. Both times it was Miz who ate the pin. As the two walked off from defeat, Shane attacked Miz from behind, thrashed him a bunch, and assaulted Miz's father. Shane later said that he was sick of being used by others and announced this upcoming match with his former tag partner.

KURT ANGLE VS. BARON CORBIN Since returning as Raw GM a few years ago, Kurt Angle has had a handful of matches in WWE. Recently, he's accepted that his time is coming to an end, so he's decided that WrestleMania will be his farewell match. As he spends the weeks taking on those who look up to him like Apollo Crews and Chad Gable, he's chosen Baron Corbin as his final opponent. As his former assistant, Corbin undermined Angle repeatedly and took over his role for a while. Now Angle wants to humble him before he rides off into the sunset.

AJ STYLES VS. RANDY ORTON The two tentpole members of the SmackDown roster have recently been clashing, including Orton pinning AJ in the Elimination Chamber and AJ knocking out Orton out of nowhere at Fastlane. The two got to air out their grievances in the ring and went back and forth in looking down at each other's histories and accomplishments. Finally, AJ made the challenge for WrestleMania and while Orton slinked away from ringside, he ultimately accepted.

THE ANDRE THE GIANT MEMORIAL BATTLE ROYAL Since WrestleMania XXX, there's been a throwaway battle royal featuring the men on the roster who don't have anything else going on. Former winners include Cesaro, Big Show, Baron Corbin, Mojo Rawley, and Matt Hardy. So far, only Braun Strowman is announced for this match and it will apparently tie in with his head-scratching feud with the two Weekend Update guys from Saturday Night Live. Sure, why not.

WRESTLEMANIA 35 RUMORS AND LIKELY MATCHES Kofi Kingston vs. Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship is practically a done deal, for sure. Kofi's star shot up right before and during Elimination Chamber and a match was signed for Fastlane. WWE seemed to realize what they had on their hands and had Kofi screwed out of it, presumably to give us a match at WrestleMania instead. All he has to do is...win a gauntlet match against a big pile of opponents. Hoo boy.

The Women's Tag Team Championship will probably be defended in a Fatal 4-Way with Sasha Banks and Bayley defending against Nia Jax and Tamina, Beth Phoenix and Natalya, and The IIconics.

Expect the the WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal. Maybe they can figure out a non-problematic woman to name that match after this time around.

read more: The History of WrestleMania Battle Royals

Drew McIntyre vs. Roman Reigns is on the plate after McIntyre beat the returning Roman so badly that he seemingly suffered a concussion. McIntyre then made short work of Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins (with a little help from Brock Lesnar) and laid down the challenge for Roman.

Buddy Murphy will be defending the Cruiserweight Championship. Against who? Well, we have to wait for an eight man tournament first. As of this writing, it's down to Tony Nese and Cedric Alexander.

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