What Should've Happened at WrestleMania XXV

Disappointed is an understatement. To make a big deal out of the 25th anniversary and then put forth what millions fans watched was almost atrocious.

From the match we didn’t see to the WWE title match, I will talk about what should have happened differently.

The Colons vs. Miz and Morrison

The only thing that needed to change was this needed to be aired and could have been right in the middle of the fight card.

The right team won.

Are Miz and Morrison better? Yes—which is exactly why they lost.

Expect Miz and Morrison to part ways soon as Morrison and Shawn Michaels need to have a confrontation in the future. Now that’s a match I’d love to see that at the next Wrestlemania.

Money in the Bank

Time is everything and this—like most of the matches on the card—did not have the time it needed to truly steal the show.

Good spots, but wrong winner.

Anyone else could’ve won the match (except Finlay) and a good storyline could have come of it.

CM Punk is such a limbo character and with the current champions, it could be months before he cashes in. He’s not in the league of John Cena or Triple H, and to beat them clean—or dirty—should not happen.

My favorite outcome would have been to have Christian win the match and cash in if Edge retained, starting a feud between the two men who would put on some of the most amazing matches we’ve ever seen.

MVP, Shelton, or even Kane could’ve been winners as well.

The only positive is that we may just get an MVP vs. Shelton match at Backlash.

Miss Wrestlemania

Instead of 25 “women”, it should’ve been 4-8 women who have earned over the past few years.

Beth Phoenix, Melina, Michelle McCool, Maryse, Mickie James, Gail Kim, Natalya, and Victoria would be battling it out for the Miss Wrestlemania title (though a title like that should never be handed out in a match).

Trish Stratus, Chyna, or Sable should have the title anyway, but that’s a moot point.

Chris Jericho vs. Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka

After seeing Steamboat in the ring, this should have been a one-on-one bout from the jump. Their promo was the most personal and Steamboat can still go. My goodness.

Snuka not so much.

The match was fine, but the Mickey Rourke segment was not. It was poorly sold and Rourke looked like a young Terry Funk. Should have been more of a play on “The Wrestler” than a poor man’s boxing match.

JBL vs. Rey Mysterio

What? Twenty-one seconds?

I may not be a JBL fan, but the man has done good work under the JBL moniker. If he was going to retire or quit, he deserved to do it on better grounds than some spoof match.

Rey winning was the right move.

I liked the ideas that were swirling around with JBL buying the Money in the Bank from the winner and cashing it in, then retiring a Champion. JBL makes his history, and we have a title story starting on Raw—why not?

Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy

Time. Time. Time.

They needed time.

Beautiful spots and the right winner. If Jeff would’ve won, Matt would be left in obscurity. Since Matt won, he has momentum leaving Wrestlemania and Jeff Hardy is still Jeff Hardy—he became an even bigger face after losing the way he did.

P.S. That Twist of Fate was wonderful.

Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker

Yes.

That’s it.

They were amazing and for a moment, I ACTUALLY thought Shawn Michaels would pull off the impossible. That’s the sign of a good match—even when you know the outcome, you’re still praying for the opposite.

As much as I would love for Michaels to have won, 16-1 would’ve made the Undertaker obsolete. Supposedly, there are plans for Ted DiBiase (yeah, they like him THAT much) to end the streak in five years (five years?!), but I hope Undertaker won’t be defending "The Streak" that long.

John Cena vs. Big Show vs. Edge

The 100-Cena march—awesome (in a good humor kind of way, not the "oh my god" way). I’m not a Cena fan either.

The match wasn’t bad—a bit short, ended a bit abruptly—but not bad; another victim of time.

My only regret is that there’s no clear direction on whether or not Edge is finally through with Vickie, but I can still dream.

Triple H vs. Randy Orton

I love clean Championship matches. I do. Just not this one.

RKO and Pedigree in the first two minutes was creative, I suppose.

I thought Orton worked the match very well, but I suppose after losing the last four Wrestlemanias, HHH was due, but why last night.

Sadly, no one interrupted.

No McMahon’s, no Legacy… What a disappointment.

I know storylines don’t normally progress or evolve at PPV’s, but where do they go from here?

What I imagine taking place now is the McMahon heel turn to happen on Monday, after Triple H is officially drafted to Raw.

While I love the "Orton and Legacy against the world, but still somehow a heel angle", if a McMahon does go heel, so be it—as long as it results in Orton becoming the champion. After all, he's the only wrestler not named John Cena who could legitimately beat HHH and it be accepted.

Outside of Undertaker and HBK, this did not feel like Wrestlemania. Had this been No Way Out or Backlash, the card would have been fine and I probably wouldn’t feel as negatively as I do about the fiasco.

But it was Wrestlemania; it was the grandest stage of them all and the WWE sorely disappointed. But the Draft should more than make up for this—or so I hope.