WrestleMania 28 Matches: Why John Cena vs. The Rock Must Be Main Event

WrestleMania 28 may feature a handful of main event-caliber matches, but the only logical match to close the show is John Cena vs. The Rock.

This feud has been a dream come true for many fans.

It is a feud that, despite what many may say, features two of the best performers to ever grace the WWE. They are two of the most charismatic, larger-than-life and skilled WWE superstars in history.

For a match that's billed to be a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, the Miami crowd will be beyond electric. This match has the potential to blow the roof off of any crowd reaction we’ve ever seen throughout a match, which is the main reason it needs to close the show.

History proves it.

Despite my belief that a World championship match should always close out a pay-per-view event (except for Royal Rumble, of course), history has shown us that it is imperative for a match of this magnitude to main event WrestleMania.

WWE actually made the right call 10 years ago at WrestleMania 18, when it had then Royal Rumble winner Triple H defeat Chris Jericho for the WWE Undisputed Championship in the main event.

However, the biggest match of the card was a similar Generation vs. Generation dream match between The Rock and Hulk Hogan, which saw arguably the most iconic crowd reaction in WWE history, when the Toronto fans created a double turn and turned The Rock heel and Hogan face.

When it came time for the epic encounter between Triple H and Jericho, the crowd was dead.

They had exerted so much energy during Rocky vs. Hogan that they couldn’t give it their all for the championship match. Despite putting on a great performance and completing his comeback, Triple H wasn’t given a fair shake—neither was Jericho—and the match was seen as a letdown.

The fact of the matter is that Cena vs. The Rock is bigger than the championship. It is the match we’re paying to see above the rest and the match for which we want to give our all. It is the match that has the ability to transcend all others and go down as one of the most important and greatest matches in professional wrestling history.

It doesn’t matter what anybody says. It doesn’t matter how many times we want to second-guess ourselves. Cena vs. The Rock is the main event and must finish the show.

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