It's a bigger draw for the show for sure but I think they want to try to put over the title more lately - even though Orton lost to Kofi clean not long ago lol.
.... and did a whole fistful of televised jobs on the way into the Elimination Chamber. Although that was a ruse so they could pretend Orton wasn't going to win, when it was obvious he was.
It's all well and good trying to have your title be the be-all and end-all, but sometimes they have to admit that on the night there is a match that is a much bigger deal than the title match they are planning to promote, and the last thing you want is a main event that suffers because the crowd burned themselves out on the match they really cared about as they did with Rock vs Hogan (WMXVIII) and Undertaker vs Michaels (WMXXV). They made the right call in acknowledging that the WWE title
wasn't the biggest match of the night at WrestleMania XXVI and XXVIII - the title match wasn't as strong as the match the fans would perceive as THE BIG ONE and neither of those title matches were pre-determined to be shit on the way the currently scheduled Orton vs Batista is. Don't worry, Hogan will save the day tomorrow night and inject Danny Bry into the main event. Perhaps if he beats Hunter earlier on the show. That would be nice.
Hey - just looking at those four Manias with weaker title matches.... three out of four of them had Jericho in the title match. Sorry Chris, I love you really. But you weren't a star of "go on last at WrestleMania" level.
I don't think Taker will wrestle last because most people believe (and by now probably know) his streak isn't in jeopardy. Vince won't end the show with a match like that
"Most people" is a stretch. Every year the live crowds go bonkers at certain points because they think they're about to see him lose. Maybe not so much last year with Punk (though a little after he whacked him with the urn) as much as at points in his four previous outings with Shawn and Hunter, but they pop because they let the match fool them into thinking the old man's finally going down.
Unless you mean
specific to the fact he's wrestling Lesnar. Well, nobody he's ever fought has Lesnar's believability in terms of "he could really fuck you up" so I think plenty of the marks might believe he can beat the Undertaker. He's beaten the Undertaker several times before anyway. OK, you and I know there isn't much sense in him losing his streak against Lesnar, but the match will get them making a lot of noise. The good kind of noise. Not the kind of noise they would make for the scheduled Orton-Batista title match. Is
that the kind of atmosphere you want for the show-closer?
