5 disappointments to expect from WrestleMania 35

We're quickly winding up the road to WrestleMania, and it's crazy to think that we're just weeks away from the grandest event of the year. This year, we have an extremely stacked card filled with loads of potential, a historic main event and new chapters being written.

It's easily one of the most stacked cards in years, and that's saying something given that WrestleMania 34 too, had quite an impressive match card. While it didn't fully live up to its potential, it would be wrong to say that it wasn't a great WrestleMania.

However, things are a lot more interesting this year, especially with the visibly reduced presence of part-timers on the card. Either way, each WrestleMania will have its issues in some form or the other.

While we fully believe and expect WrestleMania this year to be a banger of an event, there will undoubtedly be some disappointment among fans. Here are a few disappointments you should be mentally prepared for at WrestleMania.

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#5 It's going to be the longest WrestleMania ever

So here's the thing about WrestleMania since 2015-2016. With the increasing presence of the WWE Network and WWE's lack of liability towards PPVs, they now feel that they can run overtime and go as long as they want to because they don't have to worry about being cut off from their own feed.

As a result of this, each year, the WrestleMania card just continues to get longer and longer in duration. WrestleMania 34's main card had a duration of over 5 hours, which is staggering even by WrestleMania standards.

This year will be no different. In fact, there's a much higher chance of WrestleMania being much longer than last year. There are going to be quite a few matches on the card and a few segments in between.

#4 Triple H vs Batista probably won't be very great

In a grudge rivalry that's around 14 years in the making, Batista will be taking on Triple H in a No Holds Barred match. This is Batista's first match in nearly 5 years, and it's going to be interesting to see how it all goes down.

Batista has subtly said that this will be his last match, but nobody has picked that up. Even out of character, Batista has openly said that the only program that interested him to return to WWE is one against Triple H.

However, with the two legends far past their prime and the segment getting off on the wrong foot, the match could actually end up being a bit more underwhelming than expected. The No Holds Barred stipulation will definitely help it quite a bit, but it may not be enough to save the match. It also depends on where it's placed on the card.

#3 The two battle Royals

Here's a little unfortunate harsh reality for fans just to remind them - The Andre The Giant Battle Royal nor the WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal has any real significance whatsoever.

We always watch it with the hope that a young superstar will win the match, get a big moment at WrestleMania and then go on to get a big push. However, it doesn't work that way at all. In fact, the winner gets a trophy and that's about it. No winner in the past has really received a big singles push as expected, and the same is likely going to follow for the women's battle royal.

After all, it's simply two matches that help WWE get all the other men and women on the card. It's not necessarily a bad way of doing it, because every superstar wants to walk down the ramp, and while the opportunity isn't for everyone, it's still a great moment for them.

#2 No Undertaker or John Cena

With regards to The Undertaker, there are really two ways of looking at it. Most fans will actually be quite relieved about the fact that The Phenom won't be competing at WrestleMania this year.

The reason for this is that he's far past his prime and should have retired years ago. Moreover, his supposed WrestleMania 33 retirement just turned out to be false and he wrestled again on more than one occasion after that.

On two of those three occasions, he further proved why he really shouldn't be performing in the ring anymore. However, the inner fan will be sad that for the first time in 19 years, there will be no Undertaker at WrestleMania.

As for John Cena, it's possible that he has a match as well, but from the look of things, he's really nowhere to be seen at the moment. His busy schedule may make him miss WrestleMania again.

#1 Not all babyface title challengers will win

This one is honestly a bitter pill to swallow for WWE fans and we can completely understand why. Kofi Kingston, Becky Lynch, and Seth Rollins are set to be the three big babyface challengers for their respective top championships.

While each of their stories most definitely calls for them to have the big win and a great payoff, the reality is that WWE will definitely make one (if not two) of these babyfaces lose just so that they don't come across as predictable.

It's a real shame that it has to happen that way, and fans are undoubtedly going to be outraged when one of them loses. If we were to take a guess, it's easy to assume that Seth Rollins will be losing his Universal Championship match against Brock Lesnar.

The reason for this is mainly Roman Reigns' return, and the fact that they can now have Lesnar lose the title back to The Big Dog.