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WWE announced this week on Monday Night RAW that rap sensation Bad Bunny will face off against former WWE Champion The Miz at WWE WrestleMania this year.
The match will mark Bad Bunny's WWE in-ring debut. The rapper has been a fixture of WWE television ever since performing his hit song "Booker T" during the 2021 Royal Rumble pay-per-view.
During the event, Bad Bunny was confronted backstage by The Miz and John Morrison, kickstarting a feud between the rapper and the former WWE Champion.
Bad Bunny and The Miz's feud has continued on WWE television in recent weeks, with both men attacking each other with a guitar on Monday Night RAW.
This week, The Miz challenged Bad Bunny to a match on The Grandest Stage of Them All, which the former WWE 24/7 Champion accepted. Now that the match is official, let's take a closer look at five reasons why Bad Bunny should defeat The Miz at WrestleMania 37.
#5 WWE recieves widespread press on television and social media
WWE's sole reason for having Bad Bunny perform at the Royal Rumble, win the 24/7 Championship, and subsequently become a fixture on Monday Night RAW has been to generate publicity and PR.
Unfortunately, professional wrestling has a certain reputation in mainstream media. Many uneducated people in the world of sports entertainment often turn up their noses to the sport of professional wrestling.
Therefore, companies such as WWE often try to involve mainstream celebrities and athletes in their programming and preeminent events to garner mainstream press and change professional wrestling perception.
Currently, Bad Bunny is one of the most popular rap stars in the world of music. The rapper is a Billboard Music and Grammy Award-winning artist. He was the most streamed artist and had the most-streamed album of 2020 on Spotify.
In recent months, Bad Bunny has also made appearances on major television shows such as Saturday Night Live. He also has a huge following on social media, with 2.8 million Twitter followers and 31.3 million followers on Instagram.
Bad Bunny's continued involvement in WWE provides the company with a fresh pool of fans who may not have seen the promotion in the past. It also allows WWE to garner mainstream headlines and press heading into their biggest show of the year - WrestleMania.
By winning against The Miz at WrestleMania, Bad Bunny will continue to generate headlines and buzz for WWE, which the company desperately craves.
#4 Celebrities always leave victorious in WWE
WWE has a long history of having celebrities, athletes, and movie stars competing at WrestleMania. Famous names such as Floyd "Money" Mayweather, Mr. T, Maria Menounos, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, and Lawrence Taylor have all competed at WrestleMania. They also all won their matches.
Whenever a celebrity competes in a major match at WrestleMania, WWE always books them to win the match. However, many fans within the WWE Universe often criticize this move by the promotion.
It makes the WWE Superstars, who compete all year round for the company, look incredibly weak. How could a novice with zero wrestling experience defeat a seasoned professional wrestler who competes over 300 days a year for WWE? It certainly does lack logic.
But in the world of sports entertainment, anything is possible, and WWE does everything possible to keep the celebrity participant involved in WrestleMania happy. It also generates the best possible press and PR for WWE if the celebrity wins their match and delivers a great performance at WrestleMania.
Because of celebrities' history of winning their matches at WWE WrestleMania, the WWE Universe should expect no difference in this year's match between Bad Bunny and The Miz.
It has been reported that Bad Bunny has been training and taking bumps inside of a WWE ring at the WWE Performance Center since January.
So, it can be expected that the rapper will give a decent performance against The Miz, who will no doubt make Bad Bunny look as great as humanly possible. Nevertheless, it is inevitable that Bad Bunny will leave victorious.
#3 WWE's future plans for Bad Bunny
Many in the WWE Universe have assumed that Bad Bunny's involvement in storylines on WWE television will end after his match against The Miz at WrestleMania 37. However, this may not be the case.
Bad Bunny is a lifelong fan of WWE. The rapper has described it as his "dream" to one day compete inside a WWE ring, a dream that will come true at WrestleMania when he squares off against The Miz.
Because of Bad Bunny's avid fandom for the world of WWE, who's to say that the Grammy Award winner won't stick around?
The ongoing global pandemic has changed everything when it comes to the world of professional wrestling.
While live fans in attendance will return to WWE programming at WrestleMania 37, the concept of touring WWE live events still appears to be some way off. Therefore, the WWE schedule is completely different from what it used to be.
Gone are the days competing in a different city for live events five days a week. Instead, WWE Superstars only compete once or twice a week for television tapings in the WWE ThunderDome, located in Florida for the past eight months.
The new schedule makes it much more manageable for a famous musical artist, such as Bad Bunny, to continue to appear on WWE Monday Night RAW.
It had long been rumored that Bad Bunny would team up with Damian Priest to take on The Miz and John Morrison at WrestleMania 37. Since Bad Bunny vs. The Miz is a singles match, perhaps WWE is saving the tag team bout for later down the line.
If that is the case, it would make sense for Bad Bunny to leave WrestleMania 37 victorious, setting up the tag team match for later this year.
#2 The Miz hits rock bottom on WWE television
Former WWE Champion The Miz has certainly experienced a unique year so far on WWE television. The former WrestleMania main eventer has recently experienced a series of highs and lows on Monday Night RAW.
After an assist from The Hurt Business' Bobby Lashley, The Miz successfully cashed in his Money in the Bank contract on Drew McIntyre at Elimination Chamber in February. In doing so, he captured the WWE Championship for the second time in his career.
However, The Miz's joy as WWE Champion was shortlived. The Miz lost the WWE Championship against Bobby Lashley eight days later on Monday Night RAW, giving him the shortest reign in the last five years.
The Miz's humiliation has continued in recent weeks as he has continued to clash with Bad Bunny on Monday Night RAW, which has subsequently led to their WrestleMania 37 match being made official.
The best WWE Superstars in history are the ones who are constantly evolving and continue to have compelling storylines and interesting character development from week to week.
Should The Miz lose to Bad Bunny at WrestleMania, the most must-see WWE Champion in history will have gone from the highest highs to the lowest lows in a matter of weeks.
WWE would have the opportunity to tell the story of a WWE Superstar who went from winning the WWE Championship in February to losing against a non-wrestling rapper at WrestleMania in just a few months.
This quick fall from grace could lead to some fascinating segments and character development for The Miz on WWE television.
#1 Sets up a future split between John Morrison and The Miz on WWE television
Since returning to WWE television in 2020, John Morrison has been paired with The Miz. The duo have a plethora of history with each other on WWE television and have held the WWE Tag Team Championships on three seperate occasions as a tag team.
However, many members of the WWE Universe have become curious as to when the on-screen partnership between John Morrison and The Miz will come to an end.
Both WWE Superstars have incredibly decorated careers as singles wrestlers in their own right. The Miz is a two-time WWE Grand Slam winner, whereas John Morrison is a former three-time Intercontinental Champion and a former IMPACT World Heavyweight Champion.
Despite the enjoyable television that The Miz and Morrison provide, many fans would like to see John Morrison compete as a singles star in the main event scene. Morrison has never held a world championship in WWE and at 41 years of age, time may be running out for the former ECW Champion to achieve that goal.
Should The Miz lose to Bad Bunny at WrestleMania, it could spark the beginning of the end for The Dirt Sheet duo as a tag team. John Morrison could be embarrassed to be the tag team partner of a superstar that lost to a rapper, turning on his partner in the process.
It was recently announced that John Morrison's wife Taya Valkyrie has signed with WWE. If The Miz loses to Bad Bunny at WrestleMania, perhaps John Morrison may be partnered with his wife on WWE television, ditching his tag team partner in the process.
