Cena vs Michaels
By Scott Keith on 14 July 2013
I know WM23 was supposed to be Cena v HHH 2 and fell through. What I don't get is why they went face v face in that instace. I know its been done, but this seems different, without the torch passing of 6 or the inevitability of 17.
I think it was because
a) The direction was roughly moving towards a Cena v. DX storyline.
2) They needed someone who people who would buy in the main event of a Wrestlemania.
c) They wanted a great match.
Shawn meets all of those criteria. It remains the highest WM buyrate in history so obviously it worked fine.