IF YOUR CHILDHOOD was anything like most of us at PWI, chances are you’ve spent some time—perhaps even as a younger reader of this magazine—with a pen and paper booking your own fantasy wrestling cards. And, when you were envisaging these dream bouts, you likely didn’t see them taking place at your local high school gym. Far more likely, you pictured them under the bright lights of a spectacular event stage, very much like WrestleMania.
Well, truth be told, we are still partial to some fantasy booking. So, we got to thinking … what would our dream WrestleMania look like? Sure, we could concoct a card full of quality matches between WWE-contracted talent, but where’s the fantasy fun in that? Instead, we decided to open the ultimate Forbidden Door and imagine what it would be like if, for one event only, any wrestler in the world could take to the “Grandest Stage Of Them All” and go head-to-head with WWE’s best.
Our self-imposed rules for this undertaking were simple: Every match had to feature at least one current WWE wrestler, and the matches could not have happened before (or, at the very least, not in a major promotion). Aside from that, everything else was fair game.
Allowing for a generous 21-bout supercard—mercifully, spread across two nights like other contemporary WrestleManias—here are the unlikely dream matches we’d love to see at The Forbidden Mania.
ROMAN REIGNS vs. KAZUCHIKA OKADA
What better place to start than by taking the two biggest stars from the last 10 years of American and Japanese wrestling and pitting them against one another? A quick
