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Roman Reigns will face The Undertaker atWrestleMania 33 this Lord's day, but a question many fans have is why John Cena isn't taking on the Deadman instead.

For the by couple of years, WWE fans take speculated and desired a John Cena vs The Undertaker match atWrestleMania, and for the same time period, WWE have wanted to book the match as well.

Plans were in identify for the two to wrestle at final year's Showcase of the Immortals, according toThe Observer, but those had to exist scrapped considering of Cena'due south shoulder injury that prevented him from competing at the event at all.

The Undertaker, of course, ended upwards facing Shane McMahon in a Hell in a Cell match.

The match also could take happened at this year's show, but circumstances had those plans not come to fruition, being diverted to a showdown with Roman Reigns, which was officially confirmed prior toRaw three weeks ago, a few days after The Undertaker delivered a chokeslam to Reigns.

Later on Cena'southward absenteeism fromWrestleMania 32, the cards were nevertheless on the table for a Cena vs Taker match atWrestleMania 33, but the brand carve up created a slightly confusing scenario.

While The Undertaker had not been drafted to either brand (largely due to the fact that he is only effectually duringWrestleMania season), he did show upward one time on aSmackDown Alive episode in the run-in toSurvivor Series, to threaten Team SmackDown into winning their elimination tag team friction match at the event (which they did).

After this, The Undertaker did not show up until the build-up to theRoyal Rumble, during which he turned upward on an episode ofRaw to denote his entry into the match instead.

Meanwhile, John Cena was defenseless upward in the WWE Championship scene with AJ Styles and Dean Ambrose, then taking a go out from WWE to film American Grit season 2 in October.

When Cena returned at the end of the year, he was immediately inserted dorsum into the WWE Championship state of affairs, which he would, of form, become on to win at thePurple Rumble, and comport intoElimination Chamber.

Past this time, the groundwork for The Undertaker vs Roman Reigns match had already been set with Reigns having eliminated the Phenom from the Royal Rumble match.

The mix upwards hither was that The Undertaker appeared to be a free agent between theRaw andSmackDown brands, but around the time for the Majestic Rumble, he leant towardsRaw.

At the same time, Dave Meltzer reported that Vince McMahon changed his mind about the match with John Cena and that WWE were looking to take The Undertaker face a wrestler from theRaw brand itself.

At the time, theRaw roster was pretty packed. the Triple H and Seth Rollins' match was already in the books, Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho could not confront everyone but each other, Brock Lesnar and Goldberg would certainly go on toWrestleMania, and then WWE's options were limited to Finn Balor and Roman Reigns.

Balor'southward fitness, at the time, was nonetheless in question (although he has performed live shows recently, he isn't on theWrestleMania card because his return came as well close to the issue), and so Reigns was the one option, the set for which was established at thePurple Rumble.

However, that was not the only reason, and in that location is no way that information technology could take been, given that this is The Undertaker and WWE wouldn't requite him a throwaway match.

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Reports from Dave Meltzer ofThe Wrestling Observer betoken that Vince McMahon however intends to have Reigns exist the next top babyface of the visitor (succeeding John Cena, Rock Common cold Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan and the similar), and wanted to book a match with The Undertaker to have it be a sort of 'passing the torch' exercise.

This report does hint that Reigns is the potent favourite this Sunday, but have it with a grain of table salt. The report also expresses that other WWE authorities fear that Reigns will be 'booed viciously' – a fear that they had when deciding whether to volume the match in the first place – but McMahon's give-and-take rules over all, naturally.

As aforementioned, the electric current odds are that Reigns is the favourite to win atWrestleMania 33, possibly to end an era in which The Undertaker 'owns the thousand' and truly brainstorm i in which Roman Reigns does. At least, that would be what the WWE is trying.

With rumours that this may exist The Undertaker's last match, that may well be the case.

However, given that this would be the Deadman's 100th pay-per-view victory if he does win, then the tables might turn towards The Undertaker'south 24thursdayWrestleMania win if WWE wishes to see him reach that achievement this Sunday.

Given how everything has happened, there is no reason to ponder on what could have been in The Undertaker vs John Cena match (if there is no possibility that it could still happen in the future, that is).

What nosotros have is what nosotros accept, and hopefully, the match we do receive on Sun doesn't but live up to, merely exceeds expectations, because the fact that names like Randy Orton take stated that this is the most importantWrestleMania match this year and that it may indeed shut out the show.

If Reigns wins, he will almost certainly be booed off the face of the Earth, so WWE should play it condom and have The Undertaker achieve something he so sincerely deserves.

Reigns however has a long career ahead of him, and even if he loses this Dominicus, it should have minimal effect on his career and notwithstanding allow him to be the WWE's next big babyface, as Vince McMahon reportedly intends for him to exist.