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TheWWEUniverse has had a quite a little to say about the body-build toWrestleMania 41 . The build - up to the Pinnacle of Sports Entertainment has been a interracial bag to say the least . The hoopla for some match has been outright obliterated by some critics , while other matcheswaited too long to get interestingwith bare weeks to go .
It ’s not all bad , though , as the build toward some match only intensified matches that the WWE Universe was already eagerly anticipating . fan have been quick topredict the winners of eachManiamatch , but not enough conversation has been directed towards which plot line and contention wonWrestleManiaseason . In aManiaseason that has been as controversial as that seen in 2025 , it ’s worth ranking which plot line stand up out as the best and which ones stood out as the worst head into the Show of Shows .
13Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez vs. Bayley and Lyra Valkyrie - E
WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship Match
Even though this is a match that technicallydoesn’t set out its flesh until just over a week beforeWrestleMania , that ’s not why the flesh has been the worst . It ’s the worst because of how disappointing it is to see Liv Morgan not have a marquise equal going into Mania . This is a WWE Superstar who had a breakout year in 2024 . Mere weeks after last year ’s WrestleMania and up until this year ’s Netflix premiere of Raw , Liv Morgan led the women ’s sectionalisation as its World Champion . Even after , she persist consistent , having stellar matches and promos , yet she ’s put in a fuddle - together tear with piddling fanfare . Liv Morgan deserve better .
Liv and Raquel ’s adversary , Bayley and Lyra , has sort of just been thrown together to check that they will have something to do at WrestleMania . This lucifer does n’t advance the already shinny Women Tag segmentation in any fashion , and it wo n’t do much for any of the superstars involved .
12LA Knight vs. Jacob Fatu - D
WWE United States Championship Match
likewise to Liv Morgan , it ’s disappointing to see Jacob Fatu wrestle for the United States Championshipafter his teased feud with Solo Sikoa , which had been building for months , was abruptly dropped . make out him or hate him , Solo Sikoa was given the ball to become the blue stigma ’s top heel set about the SmackDown afterWrestleMania 40 , and ( to varied results ) carried that ball for the remainder of 2024 .
Now , Solo is go out off the lineup entirely , despite teasing a competition with Fatu . On the plus side , the miniskirt - feud that Fatu had with Braun Strowman go to a number one contendership after a Last Man Standing match was at least fun .
11The War Raiders vs. The New Day - D
WWE World Tag Team Championships Match
Some will say thatThe New Day ’s streamlet as heel has been underwhelmingever since their late 2024 bout , and candidly , it ’s hard to argue against the notion . When ousting Big due east from the radical earned Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston colossal amount of heat for weeks on end , it seemed like they were being determine up for something bigger than another shred title run .
Their storylines since have remained for the most part uneventful and forgettable , and this is no dissimilar as , unsurprisingly , they head toward another tatter rubric discharge . One bright side at least is that it seems likely that The New Day will finally get their firstWrestleManiawin from this .
10Iyo Sky vs. Bianca Belair vs. Rhea Ripley - D
Triple Threat Match for the WWE Women’s World Championship
This storyline has been , by far , the most controversial forward ofWrestleMania 41 . While the Genius of the Sky commit off an upset title profits over Ripley made for one of pro rassling ’s most shocking moments of 2025 , most fans have not responded well to seeing Ripley continually endeavor to enclose herself into the rubric match through contrived means . Many would have been slaked with see Belair vs. Sky in 1 competition . Truthfully , the feeling of a Triple Threat could have been salvageable if WWE had go about substitute mean of apologise Ripley ’s inclusion .
But again , Ripley constantly hale herself into the deed picture and finally getting what she need has been met with mostly negatively charged responses simply because of the convoluted measures the story has brought audiences there . There are worsened figure to Mania , but this has been the most heavily criticise .
9AJ Styles vs. Logan Paul - D
Singles Match
The build for AJ Styles vs. Logan Paul has n’t needs been bad , but rather uneventful and forgettable . Frankly , the most interesting view of the feud has been Karrion Kross . Besides being a devil on AJ ’s articulatio humeri , nudging him toward the dark side , the latest promo between them add layers to Paul vs. Styles that were n’t previously there . Kross ' personal credit line , " If you lose , we all suffer , " instantly raises the stakes of this match , wrench this from a canonic grappling match to a match with the sanctity of professional wrestling ’s history on AJ ’s back .
Chances are that even this newspaper headline get a response from WWE fans . He ’s Logan Paul , and this is what he does .
He represents hard - working grappler , and if such a wrestler loses someone perceive as nothing more than a fame YouTuber , it makes wrestling search bad in Kross ’s mind . It ’s a small nugget of entropy , but it ’s just enough to make Styles vs. Paul feel more authoritative than it actually is .
8Bron Breakker vs. Finn Bálor vs. Penta vs. Dominik Mysterio - C
Fatal Four-Way Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship
The bulk of this storyline has mostly rivet around Finn Bálor , Dominik Mysterio , andwhether the Judgment Day can be salvageddespite their tiff . Bron Breakker and Penta have been consequences , or rather distractions , from their plot line . Penta isRaw’shottest new headliner , so he needed a marquee friction match , and Breakker has circulated around the IC Title since the good part of the summertime .
Both parties are deserving of match on the carte du jour , but in joining this plot line , they feel like pawns in a bigger plot line brewing for the Judgment Day rather than the title . Still , though , there are few things more fun than to see Bron tear antagonist in half , and he ’s done so for all three of his competitor thus far . Plus , to see how the rubric could create wrinkles between Dom and Finn will be interesting .
7Tiffany Stratton vs. Charlotte Flair - C
WWE Women’s Championship Match
Charlotte Flair vs. Tiffany Stratton was once considered a dreaming feud made forWrestleMania , but the build has been underwhelming to the distributor point that few lover find out themselves aroused about the match anymore . The feud is mostly hurt by Stratton being largely miscast in a babyface role , while Charlotte virtually being miscast as a babyface herself after pull ahead the Royal Rumble start out the human body on a big bank bill . Even after maintaining her dog presence , Flair has produceda Hulk Hogan levelof go - away heat for many fans .
Go - away heat , in wrestling terminology , is when a wrestler is booed and hat not because the gang wants to encounter along by reacting to a heel fiber , but because they truly hate the grappler and/or case to the spot they do n’t even desire to see them wrestle .
One Attitude Era shoot segmenthelped save face for Tiffany Stratton , who was looking bad for wearable in this feud , and even produced some new intrigue as to what the factual mates may look like . Still , though , as with other matches on the menu , it might be too picayune too belated to save this one .
6Gunther vs. Jey Uso - C
WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match
WrestleMania , typically airing in the latter part of March or former April , is go bad live much after than usual this year . The consequence has been that some plot line have been squeeze to stretch out their Angle further than what they really have in the armoured combat vehicle and , in some cases , save what ’s in the storage tank to not do too much too soon . Jey Uso vs. Gunther falls in the latter category , with nearly three months ' Charles Frederick Worth of build - up before Mania .
The legal age of this feud was view by sports fan to be disappointing and not deserving of a spot atWrestleMania . The narrative took a drastic chemise in the retiring couplet of weeks thanks to a blinking flak on Jimmy Uso and a passionate promo from Jey that shifted the tide . WWE saved this feudjust in time for Mania . Some will say it ’s too short too late , but better late than never .
5Damian Priest vs. Drew McIntyre - B
Damian Priest vs. Drew McIntyre is a match thattechnically has been an entire twelvemonth in the making , from the second that the former cashed in his Money in the Bank contract on the latter atWrestleMania 40 . The sorry blood between them would only escalate as Priest would decimate McIntyre from the Royal Rumble couple and then immobilize McIntyre inside the Elimination Chamber . Along with The Scotsman air out his frustrations on the mic , he ’s exact all the reference for all the success Priest has had as a master eventer .
Seeing the two trade verbal jabs back and forth has made for good TV already , but it ’s been even better to see both men beat the tar out of each other in the balance of the physique every hebdomad . If these two giants lumber into each other nearly as aggressively atManiaas they have in the build , then fans should be excited for a hoss competitiveness .
4Rey Mysterio vs. El Grande Americano - B
WWE has caught lightning in a bottle with this storyline . This so - called mystery of El Grande Americano and whether or not Chad Gable has been under the mask is one of WWE ’s strangest , yet utterly entertaining story under its standard decently now . Everyone involve has fully committed to the ludicrous folly of the slant , while chemical reaction from societal media has beenmore worthful to Chad Gable ’s careerthan any backing he could win in the nigh future tense .
Now , he ’s have himself a marquise undercard bout at WrestleMania against a WWE Hall of Famer ( assuming that Gable is allegedly under the mask , of course , as has been heavily rumored and mull ) . Considereda sleeper pickfor good match of Mania weekend , WWE have done jurist to get people invested in this one .
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