WrestleMania 39 Refresher Course: ICYMI Wrap-up of WWE’s Storylines & More
WrestleMania season is the time of year where lots of casuals leap back into WWE, however are entirely lost about what is going on. While some start rewatching around Royal Rumble and participate in the whole Road to WrestleMania, others require more of a refresher course to stuff at the last minute.
Fortunate for you, I’m here to offer you a tl; dw (too long, didn’t enjoy) wrap-up of what you require to understand.
This post will be a brief breakdown of all the vital info to describe why these matches are occurring and how we got to this point. That method, you can be call captured up well ahead of time for WrestleMania 39.
Let’s enter it!
ICYMI: Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns vs. Cody Rhodes
After years of being “stuffed down the throats” of the fans as the leading babyface, Roman Reigns lastly turned heel a couple of years back, won the Universal Championship and began his Tribal Chief character. Along the method of his record-setting run, he ended up being lined up with Paul Heyman as his sensible male, The Usos and Solo Sikoa, forming The Bloodline.
Reigns beat Brock Lesnar to combine the WWE Championship in 2015 at WrestleMania 38 to end up being the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion.
Cody Rhodes had actually left WWE a number of years back, formed All Elite Wrestling, and returned to WWE at WrestleMania 38. Not too long after that, however, he suffered a torn pectoral and still battled inside Hell in a Cell, however was required to take numerous months off.
He went back to win the 2023 Royal Rumble match and make the right to challenge Reigns for the belt in story that revolves greatly around how Cody’s daddy, Dusty Rhodes, never ever won the champion, nor did his bro, Dustin Rhodes (aka Goldust).
Reigns is an item of Dusty’s time running NXT, so there is a “boy he never ever had” aspect to this, also, and we’re visiting 2 household dynasties clash.
ICYMI: SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs. Rhea Ripley
Put simply, Rhea Ripley was NXT females’s champ heading into WrestleMania in 2020. When Charlotte Flair won the Royal Rumble, Ripley egged her on, hoping The Queen would choose to challenge her for her title chance.
She did, and she beat Ripley to a humbling degree, totally eliminating her momentum. We were informed that this would all make good sense in due time. A couple of weeks later on, at NXT’s In Your House occasion, Io Shirai (Iyo Sky) pinned Ripley in a Triple Threat match to win the title from Flair, who without delay returned to the primary lineup. Ripley invested months flailing around without any instructions.
When she came near Raw, she ultimately beat Asuka for the Raw Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 37, just to fight with Flair once again and continue to show she can not beat her. WWE particularly went through hoops to have The Nightmare stop working to finest The Queen, who eventually beat her for the belt once again.
Quick forward 2 years later on and now that Ripley won the 2023 Royal Rumble, she challenged Flair with the intent to show she’s discovered her lessons and is going to get her vengeance.
ICYMI: Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair vs. Asuka
I’m not overemphasizing when I state that to be captured up on this match, all you require is one sentence: Asuka won the Elimination Chamber match to make this title shot.
That is it. There is no story. These 2 have actually teamed together along with Alexa Bliss to eliminate Damage CTRL for months, however that isn’t being pointed out all that much, or in any information that matters.
All they’ve done is take a look at each other on Raw weekly ever since, with Asuka drooling her mist and laughing. One post-match mini-scuffle is one of the most effort WWE has actually taken into attempting to provide this heat, which is the outright bare minimum.
They just aren’t attempting with this. It is painfully clear they believe it simply offers itself since Belair and Asuka are terrific, and “will not this be an excellent match, people?”
ICYMI: Brock Lesnar vs. Omos
After having spats with Bobby Lashley for over a year, Lesnar merely carried on to Omos.
TL; DW = Omos is huge. Can Lesnar select him up for a German suplex and/or an F-5? Perhaps. Maybe not.
Completion. That’s the entire fight and story. You get more depth for this if you take a look at a poster of the 2 standing beside each other than if you view any of the sectors, like when Omos stopped working to get Lesnar over the leading rope initially.
ICYMI: Bobby Lashley vs. Bray Wyatt……
. possibly? This match has yet to be verified, and might even be off the card. Why? We do not understand. That’s been par for the course with this entire circumstance.
Bray Wyatt arbitrarily stated he would challenge whoever won at Elimination Chamber in between Lashley and Lesnar. They’ve done basically absolutely nothing else. Numerous episodes have actually passed with absolutely nothing occurring, and even when something did occur, it was rather actually Lashley stating he ‘d battle anybody, consisting of Wyatt, who turned up on the screen with the muscle male dance.
Oh. As soon as, and Uncle Howdy got damaged by Lashley. …… there
‘s that
. Yeesh. ICYMI: United States Champion Austin Theory vs. John Cena
For several years, Austin Theory has actually been called “the next John Cena” and there have actually been various teases they ‘d have a match. Those reports warmed up a lot more with Cena’s current returns and Theory flat out calling attention to all this.
On March 6th, things capped and Cena cut a discount about how Theory isn’t all set for him, however he’ll combat him at WrestleMania anyhow. Theory keeps Cena’s age remains in the past and it is his time now.
Thinking about Cena’s history with the United States Championship, which will be on the line, this must be a challenging job for the prospective future franchise gamer.
ICYMI: Six-Woman Tag Team Match – – Damage CTRL vs. Becky Lynch, Lita and Trish Stratus
Becky Lynch has actually been feuding with Damage CTRL considering that the group’s development at SummerSlam 2022. After months of encounters, Becky and Bayley were set to have a steel cage match.
Timing for that episode ran long, so WWE chose to simply have Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky attack Lynch and call the match off. A couple of weeks later on, they followed through with having the steel cage match, in which Lita came out to assist Becky eradicate Damage CTRL’s outdoors disturbance.
A couple of weeks after that, Trish Stratus evened the chances to assist Becky and Lita beat Kai and Sky for the Women’s Tag Team Championship, establishing this three-on-three fight.
ICYMI: Logan Paul vs. Seth Rollins
This competition started with the Royal Rumble. Basically, it is your requirement “one man got rid of the other which has actually triggered friction” story. Basic, however reliable.
Ever since, Rollins was searching for a procedure of vengeance and looked for the solo match. Paul has actually definitively been the heel in this situation after having his brief stint as a babyface versus Roman Reigns in Saudi Arabia.
The Miz– who is hosting WrestleMania this year– has actually been tossed in between Rollins and Paul as a previous ally of the latter. Paul does not have any obligations to The Miz, so The A-Lister is extremely much simply the punching bag for both of them.
ICYMI: Hell in a Cell Match – – Edge vs. Finn Balor
At last year’s WrestleMania 38, Edge had actually formed The Judgment Day to fight with AJ Styles. For months, The Phenomenal One and numerous others feuded with The Judgment Day, with Finn Balor ending up being a turncoat at the same time as they booted Edge out of his own group.
A whole year has actually been invested with The Judgment Day on and off feuding with Edge. The majority of the time, Rey Mysterio has actually been included, and he is still teetering on wrestling his child Dominik Mysterio (who signed up with The Judgment Day a number of months back), however that hasn’t been made authorities.
After all this time of battling for a couple of weeks up until Edge takes a couple of more weeks off, then duplicating the cycle, with allies like Beth Phoenix and The O.C. getting included, this ought to be the one real ending to top it off. Edge desires Hell in a Cell and we are most likely to see him use his Brood side while Balor lets the Demon King out.
ICYMI: Intercontinental Champion Gunther vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Sheamus
Imperium’s Gunther has actually been a dominant global champ and place on a wonderful brawl versus Sheamus at Clash at the Castle. The Celtic Warrior has actually done generally whatever possible in WWE up until now (Royal Rumble winner, Money in the Bank, tag group, United States and world champ) however hasn’t won the Intercontinental Championship. Without that, he can not end up being a Grand Slam Champion.
Drew McIntyre is not surprisingly up for getting a title shot of his own, even though this has actually triggered substantial stress with his pal. Sheamus believes this is a betraying relocation which as his pal, McIntyre needs to simply be supporting Sheamus in his quote for the title, instead of being self-centered and pursuing it himself.
After 2 certifying matches that ended in draws, it was settled that this would simply be a Triple Threat match. Now, Gunther has both The Celtic Warrior and The Scottish Warrior to compete with, and the 2 good friends will be putting their collaboration aside to fight it out in what makes certain to be a ruthless battle.
ICYMI: Tag Team Champions The Usos vs. Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn
Sami Zayn weaseled his method into The Bloodline as a random ally that was ultimately described as an Honorary Uce. Regardless of all the nervousness, he gradually however definitely won over every member of the faction, beginning with Jimmy Uso, carrying on to Roman Reigns and ultimately, even Jey Uso, who was his most significant opposition.
When The Bloodline’s fight with Kevin Owens– Zayn’s previous finest buddy and regular opponent at various times in their professions as well– ended up being too severe, Zayn made the choice to turn his back on The Bloodline.
Seeing the light, Zayn is now on an objective to take them down, and although it took some convincing for a couple of weeks, he’s handled to get Owens to trust him and battle together with him.
In a story that has 2 twin siblings with the record long tag group title reign in WWE history versus 2 pals that are as close as bros, there is a lot more on the line than simply champions.
ICYMI: WrestleMania Showcase Fatal 4-Way Tag Team Match (x2)
Seemingly simply to get individuals on the card, it was revealed at random that there will be 2 “WrestleMania Showcase” Fatal 4-Way tag group matches.
The 4 guys’s groups were simply spat out on Raw as Braun Strowman and Ricochet, Alpha Academy, The Viking Raiders and The Street Profits. The ladies’s groups, nevertheless, all need to certify, for some factor.
Initially, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez beat Emma and Tegan Nox. The other 3 groups are up in the air, however we can presume Chelsea Green and Carmella or Piper Niven can be one, Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler can be another, and the 4th is reported to be Natalya and Shotzi.
Since yet, absolutely nothing is on the line. These aren’t formally No. 1 competitor’s matches or anything.
That is your fast TL; DW wrap-up of what you require to understand entering into WrestleMania 39. Which match sounds the most amazing? Drop your ideas in the remarks listed below!
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