Best Finishes for WWE WrestleMania 42's Top Matches on the Card
One wrong finish can derail an entire wrestling match, dragging down its overall quality and disappointing an audience that may have otherwise enjoyed it.
That is amplified at WWE's WrestleMania, the grandest stage in professional wrestling, and one where a single misfire can plague the contest and its participants' legacies forever.
At this year's Showcase of the Immortals, with fans more critical of the WWE product than they have been in recent memory, it is that much more important for the top matches on the two-night card to stick their landings.
Find out now what the best matches are for this year's marquee bouts.
AJ Lee vs. Becky Lynch
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Lynch has lost definitively to Lee on three separate occasions, tapping out to the Black Widow each time and at Elimination Chamber in Chicago, losing the Women's Intercontinental Championship.
Assuming the intent on the part of WWE Creative is not to give fans more of the same, Lynch should be expected to win and take back the title she is quickly becoming synonymous with.
Repeatedly cut off from cheating by referee Jessika Carr or thwarted by Lee's teammates, this is the opportunity for Lynch to win and to do so emphatically.
The best finish for the IC title match is for Big Time Becks to ruin Lee's comeback to the WrestleMania stage, defeating her cleanly with a Disarmer and regaining the gold.
Is it ideal for fans of Lee? Not necessarily, but unless she is back on more of a full-time basis and able to defend her title more frequently, this should be Lynch's to win.
Seth Rollins vs. Gunther
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If one thing is for certain, it is that Gunther could use the WrestleMania win more than Rollins at this point.
The Ring General has not won on the grand stage since defeating Sheamus and Drew McIntyre in a brilliant Triple Threat Match in 2023 and after being left off the card entirely, needs the win to build back some of that momentum he had to kick off the year, fresh off of retiring John Cena and AJ Styles.
Unlike those two, though, he should not get the win by putting Rollins to sleep.
The producers should protect Rollins because he is a major star wrestling in his first match since last October. Cena and Styles were older and had lost a step. Rollins is in his athletic prime and a top contender for world titles.
Gunther should uncork his powerbomb, driving Rollins into the mat repeatedly before covering him for the win. It is an emphatic win but allows The Architect to save face, putting up a resilient fight while refusing to go down like everyone else.
Oba Femi vs. Brock Lesnar
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This is the easiest match to forecast the best finish for on the entire card.
Lesnar has done an extraordinary job of putting Femi over as a monster babyface and the next generation of world champion. He has been selfless and, in the process, has built one of the most anticipated matches on the WrestleMania card.
Now, it is time to see it through to its end.
Femi going over clean, with the very powerbomb we left Lesnar lying with to kick off the program, is the best, most effective way to put an exclamation point on this feud and crown The Ruler as next in line in the WWE main event scene.
Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton
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The best thing that could possibly happen for this rivalry is for Pat McAfee to miss his plane to Las Vegas and give fans the chance to see Rhodes and Orton, one-on-one, in the match it should have been all along.
With the possibility of that happening extremely low, the best finish is to present Rhodes in the role of the defiant babyface, who fights through every possible obstacle thrown his way before eventually succumbing to the numbers disadvantage and an opponent who was always going to be a step ahead of him.
Fending off McAfee, Orton, and anyone else who interferes against him, until he cannot fend them off anymore amid a corporate takeover of the Undisputed WWE Championship, concluding with an RKO by The Viper for the win and the title, makes as much sense as anything.
Especially if the idea is for Rhodes to remain the top-tier babyface and fight his way back to the title.
CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns
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The best finish for the World Heavyweight Championship Match at WrestleMania is dependent on a few elements.
If Punk is retaining, a clean win over Reigns that establishes him as the undisputed top dog on the Raw brand is the right call.
If Reigns is winning, though, it is likely as part of an overarching storyline that we have seen play out of late involving McAfee and Randy Orton. Both have vowed to take wrestling back "to when it was great," and Reigns has echoed that motivation.
If that is not merely a coincidence and is, in fact, the next big storyline to drive WWE forward, it rears its head here, with Reigns defeating Punk with an assist from McAfee, Orton, or both, and resumes his run as the Head of the Table.
