No Stips/Gimmicks in Major Mania Singles Matches?

By Scott Keith on 15 March 2015

Hi, Scott. Are you surprised that none of the four (five, if you assume Rollins-Orton gets added) major singles matches at Wrestlemania currently have either a gimmick (e.g. no DQ for Cena-Rusev) or a stipulation (e.g. Rollins' briefcase is on the line)? All of them have a plausible argument for some sort of no DQ/extreme rules match, whether for story (Cena-Rusev and Orton-Rollins) or to provide some smoke and mirrors for a potentially poor match (the other three).

I know most recent Mania singles matches have just been wrestling matches, but could adding something to one or two of the matches give at least a little juice to the card, or is it simply too late with only two weeks to go?

I wish I could give you a less cynical answer to this question, but there's really only two factors behind it, I'm pretty sure:

1) They don't give a shit about actually booking the show in a way people care about.

2) They want to save all of the rematches for whatever show is after Wrestlemania (Extreme Rules again?) and thus do 8 million stip matches there.

It is what it is.