Kurt Angle made the announcement on RAW this week that he will be facing Baron Corbin at Wrestlemania 35. This announcement was seen as a big letdown among fans on social media. This also included Angle’s wife, who Tweeted her displeasure.
I think that WWE might be trolling us here and a swerve could be coming. I wanted to pass along my theory on what I think could happen.
Something that caught my attention on RAW was Michael Cole mentioning the crowd being unhappy about Angle picking Corbin. I don’t think that WWE would acknowledge this unless there was something else planned.
Plus, Corbin lost his match on RAW this week to Apollo Crews. You would think that WWE would be building up Corbin with wins if he was getting a big match at Wrestlemania. At the very least, he wouldn’t be losing a few weeks prior to the event.
I think that we are still going to get John Cena vs Kurt Angle at Wrestlemania 35. My idea is that WWE is just trolling us in the short-term with announcing Angle vs Corbin. I think that this could go one of two ways.
— The first is that Angle squashes Corbin at Wrestlemania in about two minutes. After the match, he puts out a challenge to anyone in the back for a real retirement match, which is answered by Cena. In his WWE debut, Cena answered the open challenge of Angle and this could be a fun call-back to that moment.
— The other scenario would be that John Cena returns on an episode of RAW prior to Wrestlemania. He ends up challenging Corbin to a match in the main event of the episode. The winner gets to face Angle at Wrestlemania.
I am leaning towards option #1 as I think that the call-back moment would be a nice touch.
On a related note, here is my speculation on what will happen during Elias’ segment at Wrestlemania 35.