WrestleMania XXX
WrestleMania XXX was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event made by WWE. It was held on April 6, 2014 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] It was the thirtieth WrestleMania event held by the WWE and the first to also stream on the WWE Network.
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| Theme song(s) | "Celebrate" by Kid Rock "Legacy" by Eminem "In Time" by Mark Collie | |||
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| Promotion | WWE | |||
| Date | April 6, 2014 | |||
| Venue | Mercedes-Benz Superdome | |||
| City | New Orleans, Louisiana | |||
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The main event saw Daniel Bryan defeat both Randy Orton and Batista in a triple threat match to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Bryan won the show's opening match against Triple H to get a spot in the main event. WrestleMania XXX also saw Brock Lesnar defeat The Undertaker and break his 23-year undefeated streak at WrestleMania.
Background
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At the Royal Rumble on January 26, 2014, Batista won the 30-man Royal Rumble match and secured his spot to headline WrestleMania XXX against whomever was the WWE World Heavyweight Champion after Elimination Chamber. Randy Orton kept his title in the match.[2] At the same time, Daniel Bryan, who had a feud against Triple H since SummerSlam, was screwed from winning the championship multiple times by Triple H and his stable, the Authority. Bryan then wanted a match against Triple H at WrestleMania, and "occupied" WWE's flagship TV show Raw, leading to Triple H accepting the match. He then announced that the winner of that match would be added to the main event championship match, therefore making it a Triple Threat match.[3]
On February 21, it was announced by the WWE that Hulk Hogan was returning to the company and was going to host WrestleMania XXX.[4]
On February 24, Brock Lesnar returned along with Paul Heyman and appeared on Raw. They complained about not being in the title match at WrestleMania. To appease them, Triple H handed them a contract which gave Lesnar a match with anybody at WrestleMania as long as it wasn't Orton or Batista. Lesnar and Heyman didn't like this open challenge and tried to leave because they thought that nobody would be would not be a big enough challenge. Before they could leave, The Undertaker returned and stared Lesnar down. Undertaker looked at the WrestleMania sign and Lesnar signed the contract. Lesnar poked the pen against against Undertaker's chest for him to sign and Undertaker stabbed the pen through Lesnar's hand as well as chokeslamming Lesnar through the table afterwards.[5]
Matches
change| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1P | The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso) (c) defeated Los Matadores (Diego and Fernando) (with El Torito), The Real Americans (Cesaro and Jack Swagger) (with Zeb Colter) and RybAxel (Curtis Axel and Ryback) by pinfall | Fatal four-way tag team elimination match for the WWE Tag Team Championship[7] | 16:13[6] |
| 2 | Daniel Bryan defeated Triple H (with Stephanie McMahon) by pinfall | Singles match The winner would be added to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match later that night.[8] |
25:58[9] |
| 3 | The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns, and Seth Rollins) defeated Kane and The New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn and Road Dogg) by pinfall | Six-man tag team match[10] | 2:56[11] |
| 4 | Cesaro won by last eliminating Big Show | 31-man André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal for the Memorial Trophy[12] | 13:25[11] |
| 5 | John Cena defeated Bray Wyatt (with Erick Rowan and Luke Harper) by pinfall | Singles match[13] | 22:25[11] |
| 6 | Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) defeated The Undertaker by pinfall | Singles match[14] | 25:12[15] |
| 7 | AJ Lee (c) AJ Lee (c) won the Vickie Guerrero Divas Championship Invitational1 | 14-Diva single-fall match for the WWE Divas Championship[16] | 6:48[17] |
| 8 | Daniel Bryan defeated Batista and Randy Orton (c) by submission | Triple Threat match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship[18] | 23:20[17] |
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1The other competitors in the match were: Aksana, Alicia Fox, Brie Bella, Cameron, Emma, Eva Marie, Layla, Naomi, Natalya, Nikki Bella, Rosa Mendes, Summer Rae and Tamina.
WWE Tag Team Championship Fatal 4-Way
change| Eliminated | Team | Wrestler | Eliminated by | Method | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Matadores | Diego | Jack Swagger | Submission | 5:40 |
| 2 | RybAxel | Curtis Axel | Cesaro | Pinfall | 11:43 |
| 3 | The Real Americans | Cesaro | The Usos | 16:13 | |
| Winners | colspan=3 data-sort-value="" style="background: #ececec; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | — |
André the Giant Memorial Battle royal
change| Order | Wrestler | Eliminated by | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yoshi Tatsu | Khali | 00:17 |
| 2 | Brad Maddox | Rhodes & Khali | 00:53 |
| 3 | Brodus Clay | Khali | 01:26 |
| 4 | The Great Khali | Slater, McIntyre & Mahal | 01:36 |
| 5 | Zack Ryder | McIntyre & Mahal | 02:03 |
| 6 | Darren Young | Slater, McIntyre & Mahal | 02:33 |
| 7 | Drew McIntyre | Henry | 02:56 |
| 8 | Jinder Mahal | Henry | 02:57 |
| 9 | Heath Slater | Henry | 03:08 |
| 10 | Mark Henry | Big Show | 03:14 |
| 11 | Titus O'Neil | Big Show | 03:43 |
| 12 | The Miz | Marella | 04:31 |
| 13 | Santino Marella | Del Rio | 04:41 |
| 14 | Xavier Woods | Sandow | 04:48 |
| 15 | Damien Sandow | Rhodes & Goldust | 05:05 |
| 16 | Justin Gabriel | Big E | 05:23 |
| 17 | David Otunga | Big E | 05:35 |
| 18 | Big E | Fandango | 05:55 |
| 19 | Fandango | Sheamus | 06:43 |
| 20 | R-Truth | Big Show | 07:01 |
| 21 | Sin Cara | Del Rio | 07:19 |
| 22 | Tyson Kidd | Del Rio | 07:35 |
| 23 | Goldust | Del Rio | 08:05 |
| 24 | Cody Rhodes | Del Rio | 08:23 |
| 25 | Rey Mysterio | Cesaro | 09:05 |
| 26 | Kofi Kingston | Sheamus | 11:12 |
| 27 | Dolph Ziggler | Del Rio | 11:31 |
| 28 | Alberto Del Rio | Sheamus | 12:17 |
| 29 | Sheamus | Del Rio | 12:18 |
| 30 | Big Show | Cesaro | 13:25 |
| Winner | Cesaro | N/A |
References
change- ↑ "New Orleans to host WrestleMania XXX". Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
- ↑ "Batista won the 30-Man Royal Rumble Match". WWE. Retrieved 2014-01-27.
- ↑ Tylwalk, Nick (March 18, 2014). "Raw: Authority reasserted in San Antonio". Slam! Wrestling. Archived from the original on March 11, 2016. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
- ↑ "Hulk Hogan returns to WWE!". WWE. Archived from the original on 2014-03-02. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
- ↑ "The Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar". WWE. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
- ↑ Caldwell, James (April 6, 2014). "WrestleMania 30 PPV results (Pre-Show): Complete "virtual-time" coverage of Tag Title match, big face turn, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Archived from the original on April 10, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
- ↑ Grate, Jake (March 25, 2014). "WWE Tag Team Champions The Usos def. Los Matadores, The Real Americans and Ryback & Curtis Axel". WWE. Archived from the original on April 4, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
- ↑ Wortman, James (March 10, 2014). "Daniel Bryan def. Triple H". WWE. Archived from the original on April 4, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
- ↑ Caldwell, James (April 6, 2014). "WrestleMania 30 PPV results (Hour 1): Complete "virtual-time" coverage of Bryan vs. Hunter, Hogan & Austin & Rock open PPV". Pro Wrestling Torch. Archived from the original on April 9, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
- ↑ Linder, Zach (March 10, 2014). "The Shield def. Kane & The New Age Outlaws". WWE. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Caldwell, James (April 6, 2014). "WrestleMania 30 PPV results (Hour 2): Complete "virtual-time" coverage of Cena vs. Bray, big moment for Cesaro in the Andre Battle Royal, Shield vs. Outlaws". Pro Wrestling Torch. Archived from the original on April 10, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
- ↑ Powers, Kevin (March 10, 2014). "Cesaro won The Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal". WWE. Archived from the original on April 5, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
- ↑ Burdick, Michael (March 3, 2014). "John Cena def. Bray Wyatt". WWE. Archived from the original on April 10, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
- ↑ Clapp, John (February 24, 2014). "Brock Lesnar def. The Undertaker". WWE. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
- ↑ Caldwell, James (April 6, 2014). "WrestleMania 30 PPV results (Hour 3): Complete "virtual-time" coverage of Undertaker vs. Lesnar Streak match". Pro Wrestling Torch. Archived from the original on April 10, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
- ↑ Melok, Bobby (March 17, 2014). "AJ Lee won Vickie Guerrero Divas Championship Invitational". WWE. Archived from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Caldwell, James. "WrestleMania 30 PPV results: (Hour 4): Complete "virtual-time" coverage of WWE Title main event, Divas Title". Pro Wrestling Torch. Archived from the original on April 10, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ↑ Clapp, John (January 27, 2014). "Daniel Bryan def. Randy Orton and Batista to become the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion". WWE. Archived from the original on April 4, 2014. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
