5 Ways to Book the Road to WWE WrestleMania 33

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1. WWE World Heavyweight Championship

Now we all know that AJ Styles is the WWE World Champion right now, but he has a huge match with Dean Ambrose in his very near future at TLC.

Styles has done a fantastic job of carrying the top title on SmackDown since the brand split. His match with Ambrose and John Cena at No Mercy is one of the best matches in WWE this year. One thing that will top it will be this TLC match with the title on the line. Styles comes out victorious after a brutal match. The ending coming after a Styles Clash onto steel chairs, after Styles had thrown Ambrose off the top of a ladder to the floor.

Styles heads back to SmackDown and still proclaims himself as the “Face that runs the Place”. That brings about the return of John Cena, the man who has been the franchise of WWE, and is desperate to equal or beat the record of World title reigns held by Ric Flair (16). Cena currently sits on 15 World title victories, but he will head to a match with Styles at the Royal Rumble.

Cena is the antithesis of what Styles stands for, but Styles cannot help but want to put Cena in his place again. At the Royal Rumble, Styles attacks Cena before the match, leaving the 15 time champ down at ringside. Styles gets the win via countout, but SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan comes out and tells the crowd that the match isn’t going to end that way. He helps Cena back into the ring, and tells Styles that there will be a proper ending to the match, not a screwy finish.

Cena does everything he can to get the win, but the pre match beating from Styles has taken it all out of him. Styles gets the win, but after the match tells Cena that he can have a spot in the Elimination Chamber to try and prize the title away from Styles. The next few weeks see Cena attacking Styles whenever he gets the opportunity. After a while it becomes clear that Cena will do everything he can to get his hands not that title again.

The Elimination Chamber match comprises World Champion Styles, Cena, Bray Wyatt, Randy Orton, Dena Ambrose and the comedic jobber James Ellsworth. The final two men in the match just happen to be Styles and Cena, with Cena going on to get the win after hitting an Attitude Adjustment on Styles from the top of one of the pods inside the Elimination Chamber. In the course of hitting that, Cena manages to injure Styles’ back (in storyline terms at the very least).

As the final man in the match, and as the former champion, Styles tells Daniel Bryan that he will sue the company for his injury sustained in the Elimination Chamber if he doesn’t get his re-match at WrestleMania. Bryan has to accept the request, despite the fact that he thinks Styles can’t pass the medical tests needed to make it in time.

“Super” Cena makes all the running in the build up to the match, whilst we see Styles struggling in training, but insisting he can make the match at ‘Mania. Cena is desperate to keep hold of his belt, Styles is desperate to win it back. Who walks out of the biggest show of the year as the WWE World Champion? Well there’s only one way that Cena can win that record breaking title, and it starts with him losing the title at WrestleMania.