Daniel Bryan deserves to have a marquee match at WrestleMania 36 in Tampa Bay after receiving so much audible fan support at Royal Rumble. However, he is currently not penciled in for any match, although some fans would love to see him go one-on-one with The Fiend one more time. That spot will go to Roman Reigns as Vince McMahon looks to perch him atop WWE’s totem pole once again, and the Royal Rumble winner Drew McIntyre will obviously be challenging Brock Lesnar and hopefully defeating him.
Unless WWE fans began clamoring for Daniel Bryan the way they did in 2014-15, Bryan will not be placed into a title match at ‘Mania. The silver lining however is that WWE does have a history of listening to the WWE universe if they incessantly let the company know over a period of months just how much they would like for certain superstars to be pushed. This was evidenced at last year’s WrestleMania when all three major babyfaces walked out as champions in Becky Lynch, Seth Rollins, and Kofi Kingston.
Bottom Line: The Yes! Movement is still as strong as ever in 2020 after starting in 2013.
Alexa Bliss is one of the few viable options other than Sasha Banks to face Bayley at WrestleMania 36 – this time as a babyface of course; she hasn’t played this exact role before at such a big event. This would also make sense in the storyline because these two women feuded last summer over the SmackDown Women’s Championship.
Alexa also brings an experience factor into the equation, being a five-time Women’s Champion in WWE; since McMahon might trust her a little more in a spot as big as this knowing she has been there before. She’d no longer be that extremely green 25-year-old first-time champion like she was at her first WrestleMania back in 2017.
Speaking of the major women’s matches at WrestleMania 2020, at least as of this moment, Becky Lynch is expected to defend her Raw Women’s Championship against Shayna Baszler. This makes total sense since Lynch assaulted Baszler after their triple threat match with Bayley at Survivor Series. There are also no more NXT ties for Shayna after she dropped their main title. The woman she dropped it to, Rhea Ripley, will also reportedly be challenged for her NXT Championship at the biggest show of the year by Charlotte Flair, which will give NXT a much-deserved spotlight to elevate the brand.