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John Cena ensured his legacy will live another day by defeating Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania 30, but The Eater of Worlds did not grant the Cenation leader a further reprieve the night after The Show of Shows. Finding himself in need of two partners for a six-man showdown, Cena came strapped with Big E and Sheamus at his side, and at first the heavy artillery appeared to pay dividends against “The Man of 1,000 Truths” and his dead-eyed brood when all three charged The Wyatts right off the bat. Watch:  Wyatt sings Big E to sleep The relative inexperience of The Wyatts left them at a slight disadvantage when faced with a team of two veterans and a champion, though Bray’s aggressiveness and Rowan’s raw power kept them in the game. Big E brought the crowd to its feet with three backbreakers to Rowan, but Harper was right there to reclaim the advantage with a timely tag. The bout see-sawed wildly for 20 epic minutes (The crowd, it should be mentioned, seemed to be under ...

NEW ORLEANS – Batista has to deal with it. The voices in Randy Orton’s head are speechless. And Triple H’s corporate throne will have to do without its crown jewel, because Daniel Bryan – the Goat Face, the Weak Link, the B-plus player, he of the high school gyms and double-digit paydays on the independent scene – is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion. Perhaps, however, to say he simply won a title (or two) is an understatement. Bolstered, as ever, by the legions of the “Yes!” Movement that have carried him to glory, Bryan didn’t just capture the championship he’s chased for almost a year now: He rectified every malicious misfortune that befell him throughout his rise. He beat The King of Kings via pinfall in the opening match of the evening to earn his way into the title bout. He reclaimed the WWE Title that was stolen from him at SummerSlam (and again after Hell in a Cell) via submission. Given the two-title nature of the WWE World Heavyweight Title, he even got his hands back on th...

NEW ORLEANS — Records are made to be broken.  Heroes fall. Legends fade. History is rewritten. We’ve learned to accept these truths about many things in this world, but not The Undertaker’s Streak. It was WWE’s one constant — a decades- long unbeaten WrestleMania run that had never been done before, and will never be done again. Every year, The Deadman would face down a worthy adversary — be it Triple H, Shawn Michaels, his brother Kane — and every year he would add another number to his win column until it stood at a towering 21-0. The Undertaker’s match against Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania was meant to make it 22-0. The Phenom would conquer The Beast — although he’d suffer a tremendous beating in the process— and he’d return at WrestleMania 31 to do it all over again. However, stories don’t always end the way we want them to. And numbers never lie. On April 6, 2014, Brock Lesnar did the very thing his T-shirt promised he would do: He beat The Streak. It took countless punishing ...

NEW ORLEANS – In front of a sold-out crowd of 75,167 strong and millions watching around the world, 14-time World Champion John Cena overcame the fear, overcame the numbers disadvantage, overcame the mind games — all to conquer Bray Wyatt on The Grandest Stage of Them All. In the months leading into WrestleMania, the creepy shroud of darkness created by The Wyatt Family focused its full attention on destroying the so-called “myth” of the “Hustle, Loyalty and Respect” — ready to replace it with the dawning of a whole new world. Once it became clear that The Eater of Worlds would go head-to-head with the Cenation leader at The Show of Shows, it looked as though even Cena was unsure if his WrestleMania legacy was secure. However, whenever his back is against the wall, that’s when the incomparable Cena will go to work. While his WrestleMania record is seven-and-three, the experienced 11-time WWE Champion seemed stunned at the opening of the contest, when Bray suddenly dropped to his knees...

NEW ORLEANS —Ten years after sitting in the rafters of Madison Square Garden, watching WrestleMania 20 with her father, AJ Lee finally has her WrestleMania moment. Facing seemingly insurmountable odds in the Vickie Guerrero Divas Championship Invitational at WrestleMania 30, AJ showed why she has held the title for 294 days. In a frantic scramble that featured 14 dangerous Divas battling to score the first pinfall or submission, AJ used her smarts to retain her title, tricking the referee into thinking Naomi had tapped out to the Black Widow. AJ’s road to retaining her title wasn’t easy. She had 13 other Divas targeting her from the get-go, including Natalya, Naomi, Cameron, Eva Marie, Summer Rae and The Bella Twins—stars of the hit E! reality show Total Divas—along with Aksana, Layla, Emma, Alicia Fox, Rosa Mendes. And if that wasn’t enough, there was Lee’s own bodyguard, Tamina Snuka. With Vickie Guerrero leering at the bout from a perch at ringside, AJ and Tamina were forced to sta...

Although he was on the losing end of the WWE Tag Team Championship Elimination Match on the WrestleMania 30 Pre-Show, Cesaro more than redeemed himself by entering unannounced – and winning – the first-ever over-the-top-rope Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. Outlasting 29 fellow WWE Superstars, the former United States Champion proved without a doubt that he is the Swiss Superman. WWE’s first Hall of Famer – Andre the Giant – was larger than life in both size and personality. Fondly remembered by friends and foes alike, his WrestleMania III opponent, WrestleMania 30 Host Hulk Hogan, felt the best way to honor The Giant on The Grandest Stage of Them All was with a battle royal. Hogan’s decree of the match was certainly fitting of the Superstar that he bodyslammed in front of over 93,000 WWE fans inside the Pontiac Silverdome in 1987. After all, at WrestleMania 2, Andre the Giant stood victorious following a 20-Man WWE/NFL battle royal. Every Superstar participating in the contest w...

NEW ORLEANS — Everybody needs a hero. And sometimes those heroes come from the unlikeliest of places. For the last year and a half, the entire WWE roster has incurred the wrath of Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns. But a lot can change from one Show of Shows to the next, and inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Sunday night, these Hounds of Justice stood victorious as lauded heroes for this post-Attitude Era. For some, it feels like just yesterday that The New Age Outlaws and Kane — along with X-Pac — represented a cadre of beloved competitors. During the late 1990s, few grapplers were as popular as Road Dogg, Billy Gunn and The Big Red Monster. But with their true degenerative and rebellious spirits long gone, it was The Shield that took to Spearing these three veterans out of their suits and as far from the boardroom as possible. The Shield wasted no time, interrupting the D-O- Double-G’s familiar spiel and descending from amongst the capacity crowd. Once the bell rang,...