WrestleMania XXX 2014-04-06

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WrestleMania XXX

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Sun 6th April 2014 (UTC)

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2014

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WrestleMania XXX (also written as WrestleMania 30) was the thirtieth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on April 6, 2014, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the first WWE event simultaneously broadcast live on pay-per-view television and WWE's new streaming media service, the WWE Network. Seven professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's card and one pre-show match was streamed on the WWE Network.

Daniel Bryan's eight-month road to WrestleMania began at SummerSlam in August 2013, when he started feuding with Triple H and Randy Orton. Since June, Bryan had been praised as one of the top performers in WWE by critics and veterans of the professional wrestling industry, as his rise in status led him to a title shot at SummerSlam. At the event, Bryan defeated John Cena to win his first WWE Championship with Triple H as the special guest referee. After the match, Triple H turned heel by attacking Bryan, which directly led to Orton using his Money in the Bank title opportunity for an immediate title shot. Orton pinned a downed Bryan to capture the WWE Championship. After SummerSlam, Triple H claimed that it was a "business decision" to sabotage Bryan because Bryan did not fit the type of wrestler that the company was looking for as its champion; therefore, Triple H and Stephanie McMahon (later known as the Authority) instead endorsed Orton as the "face of the WWE". Over the next few months, Bryan was constantly sabotaged in his attempts to gain and hold on to the WWE Championship. Bryan defeated Orton to regain the WWE Championship at Night of Champions, but due to referee Scott Armstrong making a fast count, Triple H stripped Bryan of the title the next night on Raw. At WWE Battleground, a match between Bryan and Orton for the vacant title ended in a no contest when Big Show (who had been manipulated by the Authority in the weeks prior) attacked both men. Bryan once again challenged Orton for the vacant championship at Hell in a Cell; Triple H interfered in the match and was attacked by Bryan, resulting in special guest referee Shawn Michaels attacking Bryan, which led to Orton capturing the WWE Championship again.

At TLC, WWE Champion Randy Orton defeated World Heavyweight Champion John Cena to unify the two titles into the new WWE World Heavyweight Championship. In January 2014, Batista returned to WWE after having left in May 2010, and promptly won the 2014 Royal Rumble match for a slot in the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XXX. Batista's win and Daniel Bryan's lack of participation in the Royal Rumble match was heavily booed by the live crowd at the event. At Elimination Chamber, Randy Orton successfully defended his championship in the Elimination Chamber match to set up Orton versus Batista (who still received a negative fan reaction at Elimination Chamber when he defeated Alberto Del Rio) for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania XXX. Daniel Bryan also participated in the Elimination Chamber match, but was the last wrestler eliminated due to interference by Director of Operations Kane, who was affiliated with the Authority.

Frustrated over being constantly cost the WWE World Heavyweight Championship by the Authority, Bryan challenged Triple H to a match at WrestleMania XXX. When Triple H refused Bryan's challenge, Bryan brought a large group of fans on the March 10 episode of Raw to "occupy" the ring and refused to leave. An irate Triple H agreed to Bryan's demand for a WrestleMania match with the stipulation that if Bryan won, he would be inserted into the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at the event. On the March 17 episode of Raw, Triple H voiced his frustrations over Orton and Batista, then changed the stipulation of his own match, guaranteeing that the winner between him and Bryan would be added to the WWE World Heavyweight championship match, thus assuring a triple threat match for the title.

On the February 24 episode of Raw, Brock Lesnar and his manager Paul Heyman voiced their complaints about Lesnar not being in the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WrestleMania. Instead, the Authority offered Lesnar a contract to face anyone else at WrestleMania. They were interrupted by a returning Undertaker, who confronted Lesnar. While Lesnar signed the contract for a match at WrestleMania with The Undertaker as his opponent, The Undertaker accepted Lesnar's challenge by stabbing Lesnar with a pen and chokeslamming him through a table. This set up a match where Lesnar would attempt to break the Undertaker's 21–0 undefeated streak at WrestleMania.

At the Royal Rumble event, The Wyatt Family, led by Bray Wyatt, cost John Cena his match against Randy Orton for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. At the Elimination Chamber event, the Wyatt Family attacked Cena during his Elimination Chamber match for the same championship, which directly led to Cena's elimination from the match. Wyatt was motivated by a desire to end "this era of lies", beginning with Cena, because he wanted to expose to the world that Cena being an upholder of all that is moral and good and right was merely a hollow illusion. Proving that Cena was a fraud would ruin his legacy, but Wyatt wanted to take it one step further by turning Cena into a monster. On the March 10 episode of Raw, Cena issued Wyatt a challenge for a match at WrestleMania, which Wyatt accepted.

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Result List

Result Description
WWE World Heavyweight Title #1 Contendership Match
Daniel Bryan defeats Triple H (w/Stephanie McMahon) (25:59)

Six Man Tag Team Match
The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns & Seth Rollins) defeat Kane & The New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn & Road Dogg) (2:55)

31 Man Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Cesaro defeats Alberto Del Rio and Big E and Brad Maddox and Brodus Clay and Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow and Darren Young and David Otunga and Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre and Fandango and Goldust and Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal and Justin Gabriel and Kofi Kingston and Mark Henry and R-Truth and Rey Mysterio and Santino Marella and Sheamus and Sin Cara and The Big Show and The Great Khali and The Miz and Titus O'Neil and Tyson Kidd and Xavier Woods and Yoshi Tatsu and Zack Ryder (13:26)
- Yoshi Tatsu was eliminated
- Brad Maddox was eliminated
- Brodus Clay was eliminated
- The Great Khali was eliminated
- Zack Ryder was eliminated
- Darren Young was eliminated
- Drew McIntyre was eliminated
- Jinder Mahal was eliminated
- Heath Slater was eliminated
- Mark Henry was eliminated
- Titus O'Neil was eliminated
- The Miz was eliminated
- Santino Marella was eliminated
- Xavier Woods was eliminated
- Damien Sandow was eliminated
- Justin Gabriel was eliminated
- David Otunga was eliminated
- Big E was eliminated
- Fandango was eliminated
- R-Truth was eliminated
- Sin Cara was eliminated
- Tyson Kidd was eliminated
- Goldust was eliminated
- Cody Rhdoes was eliminated
- Rey Mysterio was eliminated
- Kofi Kingston was eliminated
- Dolph Ziggler was eliminated
- Alberto Del Rio was eliminated
- Sheamus was eliminated
- The Big Show was eliminated

Singles Match
John Cena defeats Bray Wyatt (w/Erick Rowan & Luke Harper) (22:27)

Singles Match
Brock Lesnar (w/Paul Heyman) defeats The Undertaker (25:12)

WWE Divas Title Vickie Guerrero Invitational Match
AJ Lee (c) defeats Aksana and Alicia Fox and Brie Bella and Cameron and Emma and Eva Marie and Layla and Naomi and Natalya and Nikki Bella and Rosa Mendes and Summer Rae and Tamina (6:47)

WWE World Heavyweight Title Triple Threat Match
Daniel Bryan defeats Batista and Randy Orton (c) (23:21) - TITLE CHANGE !!!

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