WWE WrestleMania: What every main event should have been

WrestleMania NY/NJ

Actual main event: John Cena vs. The Rock

What the main event should have been: John Cena vs. CM Punk

So we’re now 434 days in to CM Punk’s WWE Championship reign, the longest run since Hulk Hogan’s first run with the title from 1984-1988, and he’s got a one-on-one match with The Rock at the Royal Rumble. He finally has a chance to headline WrestleMania and we all know what happened next. The Rock won the match and went on to once again face John Cena at WrestleMania 29, which was actually never called that but it’s better than that title you see above.

Okay, at least they involved the title for Cena (who won the 2013 Royal Rumble) and Rock at WrestleMania but I still don’t like the matchup. Punk held the title for more than a year and still wasn’t able to get to the main event? Come on, Vince. I know The Rock means dollars and all and you’re running a business but I still don’t like it. What I would have liked to see is a revisit of the CM Punk vs. John Cena rivalry from the summer of 2011, a rivalry that put on better matches than either of the Cena-Rock bouts we got in consecutive WrestleMania main events.

The story just writes itself. Punk could have still been complaining about not being in the main event the year before, and he had to go through The Rock. He beat the guy that John Cena couldn’t and now he was going to beat the biggest star in the company on the biggest stage. If they wanted to put the belt back on Cena, that’s fine. But at least give Punk that spot for once. Save Cena and The Rock for SummerSlam and go that route. Punk did end up having the best match at WrestleMania 29 in his battle with The Undertaker. Stealing the show probably felt good but it wasn’t the main event and he never made it to the next WrestleMania … at least in reality.