Mayhem Mania 2017: Round 2

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.

We started by creating 8 matches for our card. Last week, the first changes were made. This past Tuesday night on Wrestling Mayhem Show 556 we got to see how much more damage – I mean, improvement – our players could bring to the card.

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.

Let’s see how they did…

MAYHEM MANIA 2017: ROUND 2

MOVE 1 (@WifeOfTheShow)
SWAP SHINSUKE NAKAMURA FOR BOBBY ROODE

MOVE 2 (@BobbyfJTown)
SWAP TYLER BATE & TRENT SEVEN FOR THE REVIVAL

MOVE 3 (@MutilatorLarry)
KILL RYBACK VS. KURT ANGLE AND CREATE BRAUN STROWMAN VS. JAMES ELLSWORTH

MOVE 4 (@RobBrownPA78)
SWAP SIMON GOTCH FOR PETE DUNNE

MOVE 5 (@RealOSBL)
SWAP GOLDUST FOR BO DALLAS

With these new changes now on the card, let’s see how Mayhem Mania 2017 looks. First, here are the three matches that survived Round 2 without being altered.

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

A.J. STYLES VS. FINN BALOR
(CREATED BY @BOBBYFJTOWN)

JOHN CENA & NIKKI BELLA VS. THE MIZ & MARYSE VS. RUSEV & LANA
(CREATED BY @MADMIKE4883)

And here are the five newly created matches.

Bobby Roode vs. Hideo Itami
(Created by @WifeOfTheShow)

American Alpha vs. The Kings Of Wrestling vs. The Revival
(Created by @BobbyfJTown)

Braun Strowman vs. James Ellsworth
(Created by @MutilatorLarry)

Jack Gallagher vs. Pete Dunne
(Created by @RobBrownPA78)

Bray Wyatt vs. Bo Dallas
(Created by @RealOSBL)

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 another episode of the hottest new show on the internet, “Talking Mayhem Mania”!