Who will depart with all of the belts?

As a service to followers who’ve a common curiosity in WWE however may not have watched a match because the Royal Rumble, or Survivor Sequence and even SummerSlam, we’re pleased to supply this FAQ as a information to WrestleMania 38, two nights (April 2 and three, eight p.m. on Peacock) on the Home that Jerry Jones Constructed.

So what’s essentially the most extremely anticipated factor at WrestleM —

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Bah Gawd, is that “Stone Chilly” Steve Austin’s music?

Is he lastly returning to the ring and wrestling one other match at WrestleMania 38?

So … um … nicely, he’s returning to the ring. That, we are able to verify.

Kevin Owens had been operating down the state of Texas for weeks, and he additionally did not have a match scheduled for ‘Mania. So he determined to concern a problem to Austin to seem on essentially the most “stupendous” version of his discuss present, “The KO Present.”

Fast apart right here, this WrestleMania’s tagline is certainly “stupendous.” Let that sink in.

Within the course of, he proposed that Austin was probably a shell of his former self in retirement. That was sufficient to compel Austin to concern a response — in camouflage, standing subsequent to his truck — saying, “If you wish to name this a ‘KO Present,’ a match, a struggle, a brawl, no matter” he was going to “open one final can of whoop-ass” on Owens.

So if this finally ends up a match or a struggle or a “no matter,” Owens has earned his comeuppance. On a latest RAW, Owens popped the gang by coming to the ring with Austin’s music and dressed like “Stone Chilly,” after which fooled them a second time by taking part in Austin’s glass-crashing theme throughout what felt just like the time for a run-in. Simply basic heel stuff. You like to see it.

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So Owens is 100% consuming a Stunner, proper?

Oh hell yeah.

Talking of basic heel stuff, what’s The Miz as much as?

That is the place you are taking it with “basic heel stuff”? Okay then…

Everybody’s favourite “Dancing With The Stars” loser had warmth with Rey and Dominik Mysterio, when the son helped the daddy win a match in opposition to The Miz at WWE Elimination Chamber. Needing a tag-team companion to take them on at WrestleMania, The Miz turned to an apparent selection … Logan Paul, the YouTuber-turned-boxer who appeared at WrestleMania 37 and received combined up with Owens and Sami Zayn.

Miz used to have warmth with Paul, too, however they’re each from Cleveland, so … pals? Anyway, if you happen to thought tagging with Logan Paul made The Miz loathsome, please think about he additionally lately stole Rey’s masks and misquoted Shakespeare.

Are there different non-wrestlers on the cardboard?

Whereas he can clearly take a bump, Johnny Knoxville is most actually a non-wrestler competing at WrestleMania in opposition to Sami Zayn.

Jackass Johnny Knoxville?

The one and the identical.

This rivalry stretches again to the Royal Rumble, which Knoxville participated in regardless of Zayn’s protests that he did not belong there. Zayn ended up eliminating Knoxville and rubbed salt in his wound by crashing the “Jackass Without end” premiere. Knoxville returned the favor by serving to Ricochet win Zayn’s Intercontinental title.

Zayn needed a WrestleMania match, and Knoxville obliged. What adopted subsequent was a prank struggle, that included Knoxville flying a airplane over Los Angeles with Zayn’s telephone quantity on a banner behind it, which is fairly hilarious. And Zayn has been answering phone calls in very strange places. Zayn made their bout an “Something Goes Match,” significantly growing the probabilities of Wee Man having a WrestleMania second.

Okay, anybody else?

After all there’s. SmackDown announcer and sports activities discuss phenomenon Pat McAfee returns to the ring — please recall his memorable matches in NXT — to compete at WrestleMania, having been invited by Vince McMahon himself on “The Pat McAfee Present.” There have been rumors that McAfee would face Mr. McMahon himself in a match, however as an alternative, it is McMahon’s selfie-taking protégé Austin Theory getting the decision right here. We’re crossing our fingers for an Aaron Rodgers run-in, the place he hits Concept with a briefcase of contract extension cash.

Every other singles matches of be aware?

Edge acknowledged he would not want the followers and has began slicing promos underneath intense blue lightning, making him appear like a scuzzy model of Physician Manhattan. He determined he needed to face AJ Styles — extremely, the 2 have by no means met within the ring earlier than — and thanked him for accepting a match with a few “Con-Chair-Tos.” Which was impolite.

Additionally, Drew McIntyre wrestles Happy Corbin for just like the 100th time. Madcap Moss might be there. Hashtag #FreeDrew.

Wait wait wait … Completely happy Corbin?

Yeah. Baron Corbin grew to become King Corbin who went on a comical weekly downward spiral and in the end ended up in Vegas the place he misplaced all of his cash to the purpose he may not afford his fancy steak dinners. Then luck turned his method, and he grew to become Completely happy Corbin.

Is smart. So, any title matches on this present?

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It would not be “The Showcase of Immortals” if there weren’t!

The Uncooked Tag Workforce titles are on the road as RK-Bro — Randy Orton and Riddle, who proceed to be the very best factor on Uncooked each week as a result of Orton’s having the time of his life — defend their belts in opposition to The Alpha Academy (Chad Gable and Otis) and The Street Profits (Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins). The chemistry is there for these groups, and it must be enjoyable.

By the best way, in case you are actually a lapsed fan, Otis is now a straight-laced wrestler who, like many others, misplaced his final identify. Shoutout to Tucky.

The Usos personal the Smackdown Tag Workforce titles, and so they defend in opposition to Shinsuke Nakamura and Rick Boogs, whose theme music completely shreds in that “big portray of a dragon on the facet of a van” method.

The ladies’s tag workforce champions Queen Zelina and Carmella will defend their titles in a Deadly 4-Means match, a.ok.a. “let’s discover a solution to get a bunch of individuals on the cardboard.” Sasha Banks and Naomi, Natalya and Shayna Baszler, and Rhea Ripley and Liv Morgan are the groups making an attempt to take it from them.

Is there a backstory to how any of these groups got here collectively and this match is sensible?

Not likely.

What concerning the girls’s singles titles?

Buckle up, as a result of these could possibly be two of the weekend’s finest matches. Ronda Rousey made her not-all-that-unexpected return to win the Royal Rumble, and used the automated title shot to problem SmackDown Girls’s Champion Charlotte Flair at ‘Mania. Their feud has steadily escalated, from making an attempt to make one another faucet out to submission holds to Aptitude hitting Rousey with a kendo stick and placing her by way of the announcers’ desk. They’re making an attempt their finest to attract some warmth right here, however evaluating this feud to that of Becky Lynch and Bianca Belair is like evaluating an ice sculpture to the floor of Venus.

The Uncooked girls’s championship bout is a straight up grudge match. Please recall that Lynch returned from maternity depart and defeated Belair in 26 seconds at SummerSlam to recapture her title. The warmth continued to construct over the previous seven months and the celebrities aligned for this match as Lynch finally traded titles with Aptitude after the 2 swapped manufacturers.

Throughout a six-person tag match in February, Lynch grabbed Belair’s prolonged hair braid to interrupt up a pin. Belair responded by violently whipping Lynch along with her braid, leaving welts on her abdomen. (Which was superior, to be sincere.) Lynch assaulted Belair a couple of weeks later, injuring her throat and vowing she was going after her hair subsequent! Nevertheless it was truly Belair who lower off a few of Lynch’s hair this previous Monday evening. Seth Rollins was not thrilled.

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Whereas we’re nonetheless unsure if the “Large Time Becks” heel flip factor works for us, Lynch has constructed a heck of feud up in opposition to Belair, and this match ought to inform an enthralling story. Perhaps even a greater one than Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar will inform.

Wait… Roman vs. Brock… once more?

OK, in order that they met in WrestleMania in 2015 and at SummerSlam in 2017 and at WrestleMania in 2018 and at SummerSlam in 2018 and at Biggest Royal Rumble in 2018 and at Crown Jewel in 2021 and would have confronted one another once more at Day 1 2022 if Reigns hadn’t examined optimistic for COVID. However this time it is completely different! This time it is title vs. title in a “Winner Take All Championship Unification” match!

Lesnar dropped the WWE Championship to Bobby Lashley at the Royal Rumble when Paul Heyman turned on him to align with Reigns. However then he received the Rumble match and determined to problem Reigns for the Common title at WrestleMania. Within the interim, Lesnar won the WWE title in the Elimination Chamber match after Lashley left the match with an harm, establishing the champion-vs.-champion match.

Of all of the matches on the WrestleMania card, this one has our favourite completely absurd second of hype constructing: Lesnar, dressed as a ranch hand, tried to kill Reigns and the Usos with a forklift. That is a mighty excessive bar to clear for his or her ‘Mania match. However hey, it isn’t each WrestleMania there is a title unification match. It must be fairly a end.

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However you are lacking a couple of folks. What about Rollins? Asuka? Ricochet? Finn Balor? The New Day? The Undertaker? Veer!

Rollins has tried his finest to get on the cardboard, and on Monday Evening, Uncooked Vince McMahon advised him he would have a match with an opponent of McMahon’s selecting. Whereas nothing is definite, he could face the rumored-to-be-returning Cody Rhodes.

Cody? The AEW man?

Yeah, after constructing that group he is apparently on his method again to WWE — however nothing has been formally introduced.

Is it doable the polar reverse of “go away warmth” is “welcome again” chants? As a result of Cody may expertise each within the span of two months.

That is a sure.

As to your different superstars of absence, no person is outwardly prepared for Asuka — or actually is aware of what she is as much as. Ricochet and Balor maintain WWE gold, however are matchless. The New Day is coping with all kinds of accidents (Get well soon Big E). Xavier Woods and Kofi will face Sheamus and Ridge Rolland, and The Undertaker will probably have the longest entrance of the evening as he is inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Former champion Bobby Lashley additionally locked up a match with Omos for apparently no different purpose than he could not knock him over.

Oh, and Veer remains to be coming to Monday Evening Uncooked.

I do not get it. Did not they announce him like months in the past?

Sure, and the sluggish roll has been wonderful. However we’ll consider it after we see it. Frankly, it is an important gimmick: The wrestler who solely will get teased that he’ll seem. Are you able to think about the pop when his music hits for the primary time at WrestleMania 45?