WWE WrestleMania 33: Predicting The WrestleMania 33 Match Order

Match #8: A.J. Styles vs. Shane McMahon

Sadly, this is a thing that’s happening.

Styles deserves so much better than this. He has carried SmackDown for months, and his reward for doing so is a gimmick match with the boss’s son (because it’s Shane McMahon, so a great match isn’t likely to take place unless it’s some kind of ‘special’ match).

Whether it’s a Street Fight, a Cage Match, or some other kind of gimmick, this will be a match in which Shane will showcase how much tougher he is when compared to a fully-trained wrestler. It’s not likely to be a great match, but it is liable to be full of great spots and crazy weapons-based violence, which seems to be Shane’s forte.

Hopefully, WWE learned from their mistakes from last year & keeps this match around the 15-20 minute mark. Any singles match involving Shane McMahon should never go longer than that, no matter how gimmicked.

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Match #9: WWE Championship Match: Bray Wyatt [c] vs. Randy Orton

I’m not sure why Wyatt is smiling in this photo. After all, Orton burned Sister Abigail’s ‘soul’ a few weeks ago.

Now we’re getting into the big main event matches.

Wyatt and Orton have done a great job of selling this match, and now the anticipation is growing with every passing week. Moreover, this is one of the few matches on the WrestleMania card with the result that’s much harder to predict. This one could go either way, as a victory for either Bray or Randy would make sense.

It wouldn’t be the first time a Rumble winner has lost at ‘Mania, and Bray’s title run so far has been excellent. He’s clearly destined to be a top guy on SmackDown in the future, so it would make sense for him to be booked strongly leaving WrestleMania, especially since he has looked bad in the past three.

At the same time, Vince is still very high on Randy because he has been a good worker and didn’t complain when Brock Lesnar smashed his head open the hard way at SummerSlam 2016. Because of that, Vince might decide to give Randy the win, even though his time at the top has clearly come and gone.

All in all, this is one match that could easily go either way, making it one of the most anticipated matches on the card.