WWE WrestleMania 34: 4 Better Opponents than Undertaker for John Cena

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2. Nia Jax

Hey. Hey, John Cena. Do you want a big WrestleMania moment? Do you want something that will add to your legacy and cement you as a progressive and hip to the new, despite being over 40?

How about fighting in WrestleMania’s very first inter-gender singles match?

Not a tag team inter-gender match like we’ve seen with the Mixed Match Challenge. An actual fight where a man and a woman fight each other in a competitive match.

This would be huge. We would be on the upswing of a trend that has been growing across the independent circuit. I assume WWE doesn’t necessarily want to touch these types of matches in the current era other than bringing them back in the context of a joke, but let’s be frank: many inter-gender matches are happening and they’re being executed really well. If WWE is serious about their Women’s Division, they need to stop ignoring the urge for intergender wrestling, place their women on the same footing as their men and make a real statement in attaining equality in wrestling.

What would be a better way to get this into the mainstream than setting it up with a female performer who legitimately looks lime she could take a guy: Nia Jax.

Could you imagine her coming out to interrupt Cena’s post-Fastlane loss promo to challenge him? After all, at the time of writing this, Nia’s WrestleMania plans are still up in the air. She could come out and tell John that she doesn’t have a Road to WrestleMania either. Then when John tries to shut her down, she kicks him in the gut and Samoan drops him.

This would not only have the potential for Cena to be involved in the most groundbreaking and interesting angle he’s been involved in for a while, but both he and Nia would legitimize an entirely new type of match for WWE.