5 alternative WrestleMania 34 main events to Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns

Rumour has it that WWE is planning another feud between Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns, culminating in a Universal Title match between the two in the main event of WrestleMania 34.

While another blockbuster battle involving “The Beast” and “The Big Dog” would certainly be appealing to the average fan, does it really need to end WWE’s biggest show of the year for the second time?

In fantasy land, we would bring back CM Punk and finally give him his dream WrestleMania main event, or we’d clear Daniel Bryan with the medics and have him wrestle a 60-minute ironman match. However, WWE is unlikely to do that, so neither will we.

In this list, we take a look at five realistic match-ups that could main-event instead of Lesnar and Reigns.

#1 Brock Lesnar vs. Kevin Owens

Brock Lesnar and Kevin Owens have never had a match on TV

Imagine if Brock Lesnar faces Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 34, who would win? It’s got to be Reigns, right? It would be another pass-the-torch moment to show the WWE Universe that Roman is “The Big Dog”, he’s surpassed Lesnar, and this is his yard now.

Since WrestleMania 32, Reigns has defeated Triple H clean, The Undertaker clean and, most recently, John Cena clean. He’s been passed so many torches that his Superman-punching hands are about to set alight.

Instead of adding Brock to that list of names, why not let someone like Kevin Owens take on “The Beast”? Not only that, but he could also do something Reigns, Samoa Joe, Braun Strowman, and possibly Finn Balor, failed to accomplish: take the Universal Title from Lesnar.

It would solidify Owens as a major star if he defeated the man he paid to watch defeat The Undertaker in the same arena four years earlier.

He even named his parents’ dog ‘Brock’, so if that isn’t enough of a backstory for a feud, I don’t know what is.

#2 Charlotte Flair vs. Ronda Rousey

The Four Horsewomen factions collided at the Mae Young Classic

If WWE is ever going to have two women main-event a WrestleMania, 2018 is the year to do it.

The Divas Revolution-turned-Women’s Evolution has seen female superstars compete in steel cage matches, falls count anywhere matches, ironman matches, tables matches, Hell in a Cell match, and 2017 even had the crowning of the first Miss Money In The Bank.

The next step, as Charlotte Flair ambitiously stated in 2015, is for women to headline WrestleMania, and who better to do that than “The Queen” and MMA megastar Ronda Rousey?

If the Mae Young Classic promos are anything to go by, we could well see this match in New Orleans. But if WWE really wants to make a statement, bringing in some positive publicity along the way, then having the former UFC champ close the show with Charlotte would be the way to go.

#3 AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

Traditionally, the Royal Rumble winner faces the World Champion two months later in the main event of WrestleMania. That has only happened in two of the last four years, but perhaps we’ll see a return to tradition in 2018 and have the Rumble winner go on to headline WrestleMania 34.

If that does happen, the main contender to win the Rumble has to be AJ Styles, and a long-awaited WWE feud with Shinsuke Nakamura would be the best direction for a WrestleMania title match.

Styles and Nakamura are the two best wrestlers in WWE, so why not have them headline the biggest show of the year? It’s a match that has happened before but never in WWE, and it’s one that everyone wants to see.

Just watch the Money In The Bank staredown these guys had if you don’t believe me.

#4 Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose

Sierra, Hotel, India, Echo, Lima, Delta!

Out of these alternative main events, this is the only match to have already happened on a PPV.

The problem then, at Battleground 2016, was that their triple-threat match was hastily put together following Seth Rollins’s return from injury and only had a short amount of build-up.

If this match takes place at WrestleMania 34, it would have eight months of build-up, beginning with a mini-Shield reunion, then a full Shield reunion, and a culmination of the storyline at “The Showcase of the Immortals” to determine which Hound of Justice truly is the best man inside the squared circle.

It’s safe to say Reigns doesn’t need a major win at this point for fans to realise he’s the future of the company, but a WrestleMania main-event victory for Rollins or Dean Ambrose would go a long way to reviving their careers as singles stars.

#5 John Cena vs. The Undertaker

The Undertaker’s ‘retirement’ after his defeat to Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 33 was perfect. The coat. The hat. The gloves. The hug with his wife. The raised arm. The lowering down to… Death Valley? Wherever it was, his farewell was perfect.

But ever since WrestleMania, seemingly every month there is a new report that he is set to make a sensational comeback. He’s been advertised by WWE for appearances at Wizard World and Comic Con in December, adding further speculation that “The Deadman” is not done with the company and has one last battle left in him.

If he does return for one more match, the only realistic opponent is John Cena. The two have not faced each other on PPV since Vengeance 2003 and ‘Taker reportedly asked Vince McMahon if he could take on Cena at WrestleMania 33.

One final match, bringing a definitive end to a 28-year in-ring career with WWE, would simply have to go on last at WrestleMania 34.

Failing that, there’s always the 2018 Hall of Fame.

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