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Full WrestleMania 42 Predictions Including My Take On The Cody Rhodes And Pat McAfee Mess

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: WWE Let’s just be honest. The Road To WrestleMania 42 hasn’t been as well-paved as planned this year.

Injuries have piled up. There’s been a few questionable booking decisions, and fans are really in their feelings about the Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton and Pat McAfee situation . With the exception of Oba Femi and Brock Lesnar, you could make a case that not a single storyline has had a home run build, and yet, despite all that, there’s a chance WrestleMania 42 could still be a banger.

The dirty little secret about WrestleManias is that pre-show hype doesn’t necessarily translate to a well-reviewed show. Yes, you need hot characters paying off hot builds to get to that all-time great WrestleMania 17 level. I don’t think there’s anything WrestleMania 42 could be to get on that level at this point, but to please fans and be fondly remembered, you just need most of your matches to be fun to watch.

Three or four bangers, a half dozen or so really good matches and most of the rest being pretty fun puts you in the top half pretty easily. The good news for WWE is that there’s enough talent on this card to do that. In fact, if everyone performs even close to the level they’re capable of, this ‘Mania should be good.

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