Mayhem Mania 2017: Round 1

This. is. Mayhem Mania!

Not quite a game. Not really a contest. More like a competitive thought experiment. The object is to create the best WrestleMania card possible – NOT necessarily to predict what WWE will do.

This is not fantasy booking (even though it kind of is). Any match created must be possible in real life. That means all wrestlers come in their current physical, emotional and contractual state. Anyone selected for a match must have a reasonable chance of being hired by WWE to appear on the real-life WrestleMania card. Simply put, you’re Vince McMahon with infinite cash and no self-control.

Last week, we created 8 matches for our card. Tuesday night on Wrestling Mayhem Show 555, we got to see people start tinkering with it.

They had the usual three options.

1. SWAP a wrestler/tag team for one already on the card, or bring for a name not currently on the card.
2. ADD an unused wrestler/tag team to an existing match.
3. KILL a match AND CREATE an entirely new match with wrestlers not curretly on the card.

Here’s how it went down…

Mayhem Mania 2017: Round 1

Move 1 (@BobbyFJtown)
SWAP Finn Balor for Shinsuke Nakamura

Move 2 (@Sorgatron)
SWAP Randy Orton for Goldust

Move 3 (@MadMike4883)
SWAP Dean Ambrose & Renee Young for John Cena & Nikki Bella

Move 4 (@TheeRizz)
ADD Trent Seven & Tyler Bate to American Alpha vs. The Kings Of Wrestling

Move 5 (@DanielHooven)
SWAP Samoa Joe for Ryback

With the first round of changes in the books, let’s take a look the current card for Mayhem Mania. First, here are the two matches that survived Round 1 unscathed.

JACK GALLAGHER VS. SIMON GOTCH
(CREATED BY @WIFEOFTHESHOW)

BROCK LESNAR VS. KEVIN OWENS
(CREATED BY INTERNATIONAL WRESTLING CARTEL ROOKIE OF THE YEAR @JAXONARGOS)

And here are the 6 newly created matches.

American Alpha vs. The Kings Of Wrestling vs. Mustache Mountain
(Created by @TheeRizz)

Ryback vs. Kurt Angle
(Created by @DanielHooven and Presented by IWC Proving Ground 6)

A.J. Styles vs. Finn Balor
(Created by @BobbyFJtown)

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Hideo Itami
(Created by @BobbyFJtown)

Bray Wyatt vs. Goldust
(Created by @Sorgatron)

John Cena & Nikki Bella vs. The Miz & Maryse vs. Rusev & Lana
(Created by @MadMike4883)

Next week, 5 more players will make even more changes to our card. What do you think they should do? Whose absence from our card is an unforgiveable sin? Which match has got to go? Leave your comments below and thanks for support Mayhem Mania.

As a special treat for reading until the end of this article, here’s the debut episode of our new show, “Talking Mayhem Mania”!