Fantasy Booking WrestleMania 41: What I’d Do This Weekend

Peter Klein

What would I do if I was booking WrestleMania 41? From Cody vs Cena with The Rock & Austin, to Gunther vs Jey Uso and a heel New Day, I break down a full card of fantasy booking ideas for WWE’s biggest weekend.  C of Dead: https://www.cofdead403.ca/ Swift Energy: https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm Promo Code: PKPrimetime for 25% off Apple Pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/couch-potato-diary/id1564122189 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM Twitter: x.com/primetimeklein IG: instagram.com/primetimeklein Facebook: www.facebook.com/Couchpotatodiary Twitch: twitch.tv/primetimepk Email: couchpotatodiary@yahoo.com We Had No Idea: every Wednesday morning, instagram.com/wehadnoideapodcast  #WrestleMania41 #FantasyBooking #WWE2025 #ProWrestlingPodcast #CouchPotatoDiary

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00:00Wrestlemania weekend provides so many different options possibilities great memories even just

00:11going back one year ago to Wrestlemania 40 and how can you not be romantic about professional

00:16wrestling so this year um while we have a gigantic main event at the end a lot to break down with

00:22this one and so breaking it up into a couple of parts we have a little bit later on we're going

00:27to have what I think they'll do but right now we're going to focus on what I would do this is my

00:33fantasy booking if uh all of a sudden Triple H called me up and was like hey man what are we

00:39doing um that this is what this is all what I would say with him so a little bit of fantasy booking

00:44here first of all the Randy Orton aspect of it I'm recording this before Smackdown I would have him

00:48face Nick Aldis I think that Aldis is someone whose resume deserves to have Wrestlemania on it I think

00:54that it is the closest to having a ready-made anything with it and I think that it is a very

00:58very exciting prospect here also I this is me overthinking things I don't think it's nothing

01:04that um NWA is putting out some stuff with Natty Neidhart and what she did at um at GCW last night

01:12so I I feel like there's a little because that's where a lot of the you know like you would have

01:17the tape library from from TNA that you could use but if we're nuzzled up there with the NWA

01:22then all of a sudden we got a lot of Nick Aldis footage that we can use with him carrying around

01:27the 10 pounds of gold and and all of that so I would do that one now we're into the night one

01:32uh official ones here Gunther against Jey Uso for the world heavyweight championship I have no problem

01:39with Jey winning um and I think he has been great he's been really really good I don't think it would

01:44be the worst thing to have Gunther win and keep his reign going I don't love that it would be back-to-back

01:49big losses for him at Wrestlemania um that is a story that you could tell next year but for a guy

01:56like Gunther who's supposed to be this dominant guy eventually the big win needs to happen on that

02:01big stage so I I would keep Gunther as the the champion if it were me right now and this is not

02:06I know there's a lot of people who are anti Jey Uso right now that's not what this is I I just feel

02:12like this is still Gunther's time as the world champion world tag team titles on the line the war

02:17Raiders defending against the New Day the New Day heel turn has lost some steam a little bit I think

02:22a title win here would jumpstart it a little bit so I I would give this to them um since this segment

02:28is a little bit more on the fantasy booking side though I do think having Big E come out with the

02:32War Raiders even though it doesn't like totally fit I do think like Big E can have the intensity to be

02:36like the huh with them a little bit um that would be awesome if he can and that would probably change

02:41my pick a little bit so um I think that it would be I think it would be a fantastic match either way

02:48I I am going New Day in this spot also in my scenario of Jey losing I do think that coming out

02:54of Mania having babyface Usos against heel New Day and a different dynamic to that rivalry that

03:00defined the tag division for a really long time um I think that would be a lot of fun to to kind of

03:06fantasy book that one out so that's that's the way that I would go with that um next Rey Mysterio

03:12Jr. against El Grande Americano I think Rey wins and unmasks um El Grande and hopefully uh that this

03:19leads to the this being a bit more serious and I hope that we find out a little bit more behind this

03:26um and that Gable actually found like a monster or something in in Mexico because I thought the the

03:32vignette that they did with him going out there it was great until that the jokey like more money

03:38more money more money um and so I thought there was some legs to that and again it's me projecting

03:43a little bit because like the comedy aspect of it um your mileage may vary on it but I do think that

03:49I would prefer to to have um this have a little bit more heat to it than be a bit of a jokey one and

03:56so I would hope that Rey Rey winning does kind of spark something in it a little bit Jade Cargill

04:02uh defend or not defending just facing Naomi I think Jade is an absolute superstar and so I think

04:08you have to put her over here Naomi has been doing some brilliant character work but this is Jade's time

04:14right now the U.S. Championship on the line LA Knight against Jacob Fatu I love both of these guys

04:19I I think that this is a very good setup for Fatu to go on a bit of a singles run and LA Knight being

04:26ready to move up into the world title picture so so for me it is Fatu getting it here

04:32in what probably amounts to a bit of a brawl Tiffany Stratton against Charlotte Flair for the

04:37WWE Women's Championship the build for this one has been ugly at times I think you kill a lot of

04:43Tiffany's momentum if you have her lose to Charlotte here I think this is a really important match

04:48for both of them I think that if you can get the most out of these two in ring the match will be

04:54incredible and I think that will kind of help turn people back into the favor of both of these

04:59performers quite frankly so I do think that this would really really help um having these two just

05:05have an amazing match and Tiffany ending up coming out on the other side of it while we're doing the

05:10what I would do uh looking at the what I would have done category of it and I'm this isn't um hindsight

05:16this was I was saying this go back to the elimination chamber uh lead up I think it was a mistake to have

05:21Trish just be a one month thing I think if you want Tiffany Stratton to be in basically her first

05:25babyface run why not have Trish stick around obviously quite the babyface herself um and I

05:33think kind of is uniquely positioned to understand some of the challenges that Tiffany Stratton may be

05:39having um in this going from being the attractive person who it is very easy to not like to trying

05:46to be the attractive wrestler who is better at wrestling than everyone and uh be the one that

05:51gets all the the admiration everything like that I think Trish is uniquely qualified to do that

05:55and so I think that they probably should have kept her around as a bit of a manager figuratively and

06:02literally with Tiffany Stratton so just you know my two cents there uh and then the main event Roman

06:07Reigns CM Punk Seth Rollins I've been going back and forth on this one for a bit it feels too obvious to

06:13have Heyman turn on Punk but it also feels weird to have him involved in this way and then for him to not

06:19do anything and so for me I do think that while a lot of people are kind of pointing this way

06:25I think eventually Heyman turns on both Reigns and Punk and forms a faction with Seth Rollins um

06:33if we're doing the fantasy booking thing apparently Jeff Cobb's available uh and could be making his

06:40wish to WWE so I do think like I have been stating before I'm not the biggest Seth Rollins guy when it

06:48comes to his promo ability and stuff like that I think having a Paul Heyman would really take that

06:52character to the next level you bring in a muscle like Jeff Cobb immediately to like really put a

06:57like that throws him into the main event picture right away if he's going out there and just dusting

07:02off Punk and Reigns and it gets a kind of a new Paul Heyman guy faction going into the new wrestling

07:09year let's go into night two Io Sky uh Bianca Belair Rhea Ripley for the women's world championship

07:17I can't be reasonable here Io is uh one of my favorites right now I have her winning this match

07:22I haven't loved the build so far um I do believe that this match will be an absolute banger I do think

07:27that one way you could go with this if Io isn't gonna win is you have Asuka and Kairi Sane come back

07:34and cost Io the championship so now you have an Io feud against Asuka and Kairi Sane that can take

07:40you to SummerSlam probably and then you get the one-on-one championship feud with Rhea and Bianca

07:47in the first part of the new wrestling year so you could get a couple of really good feuds out of

07:51it but again um Io should forever and always have the championship belt uh Liv Morgan and Raquel

07:57Rodriguez against Bayley and Lyra Valkyria for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championships I do think

08:03Liv is above these titles but I also think that it is weird that Lyra is trying to establish the IC

08:07title right now and then you would give her another championship belt um the ultimately the women's

08:13title picture doesn't include Liv and so this is a good way for her to elevate these belts and really

08:19push her up um push them up a little bit keep her in a semi-prominent position but also just letting

08:25the title thing kind of work itself out uh AJ Styles against Logan Paul Logan Paul is never going to get

08:30a win in the what would I do portion of this so um AJ Styles wins in a pardon the pun phenomenal match

08:39Braun Breaker against Penta against Finn Balor against Dominic Mysterio for the Intercontinental

08:46Championship I I go Penta here um and then make sure Braun isn't the one taking the pin in the uh I'm

08:53booking this scenario I would um I I just again Gunther retains the title for me Braun I think would

09:02be a really good baby face to move into that and then maybe but then it's maybe a little bit too

09:06early for Braun to be winning the title maybe he's ultimately the one to take it off of Gunther and he

09:12gets a couple of feuds to build up to that but either way you can kind of build to that there so

09:15Braun elevates up Penta gets to have the Intercontinental title and continue his rise a little bit

09:21and then Dominic Mysterio and Finn Balor can go off and do their own thing Sin City Street Fight with

09:27Damian Priest against Drew McIntyre I like Priest a lot uh but McIntyre is a world title caliber

09:34performer and I just think he is on another level right now I would go Drew in this spot and move

09:40him back towards a title picture um again if we're fantasy booking here I know they're not everyone's

09:46cup of tea but I do think that like part of the character for Drew McIntyre for a couple of years

09:51now has kind of him being a hypocrite like he everything he says is true and you can see where

09:57he can believe it but it is also very hypocritical and so I think with him having a lot of trouble

10:02with factions having his own faction would be kind of fun and so I think the Gallus boys with Drew

10:07McIntyre as kind of their leader I think adds an interesting wrinkle to what Drew McIntyre could be doing

10:13and then in our main event it is Cody Rhodes against John Cena for the WWE Undisputed Championship

10:20so for this one I do think the best thing is Cena winning the belt here I think that Cody

10:26is getting very close to being overexposed as a babyface champion um and we're getting into LOL

10:32Cena territory here a little bit and also I feel like the Cena heel run needs a win here to start

10:39it off otherwise it does kind of feel like it's maybe just a one month story but since we're

10:45fantasy booking here let's lay out what you could in my mind what you could do here with this whole

10:52thing so night one at some point uh you reveal that The Rock is there he is in Las Vegas and he

10:58is in John Cena's corner I would say you could have him implement a no DQ thing but a I'm sure even

11:05without that being said it's it's implied and also then we're getting too much into to last year

11:09territory with um everything like that but I still say you have the odds against Cody Rhodes night two

11:16um Cody comes out has his entrance um and then like hey before we get going um you have someone in your

11:24corner I have someone in mine glass breaks out comes Stone Cold Steve Austin and you do a bit of a thing

11:30Cody gets the win at some point Rock and Austin have a bit of a stare down and an interaction um

11:36then you have Cena and Rock go on a bit of a rampage for a little while leading to a tag team match at

11:45SummerSlam with Cody and Austin against Rock and Cena uh Rock Cena lose that match Rock blames John

11:52Cena for it turns on him then we get the Cena good guy run that we were all kind of hoping for

11:58culminating with Cena winning his 17th championship and retiring as champion he vacates the title

12:03going into the Royal Rumble which now becomes for the vacant WWE championship the Rock uses his board

12:10powers like I said that I kind of thought he might do this year uses his board powers or whatever gets

12:15him into the number 31 spot in the Royal Rumble and wins it some way shape or form Cody becomes the

12:22number one contender and then he faces the Rock at Wrestlemania 42 so there we just booked out the

12:27whole year for you guys with the uh the world title picture so that's the what I would do portion

12:32of uh the the WWE's biggest show of the year Wrestlemania

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