WWE WrestleMania 39 predictions for Night 2: Rhodes over Reigns

Night 2 of WrestleMania 39 will be about spectacles and legacy. We will see the just the fourth-ever Hell in a Cell match at WrestleMania, with potentially two all-time entrances from Edge and Finn Balor, and Brock Lesnar will attempt to F5 the 400-pound Omos.

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Night 2 of WrestleMania 39 will be about spectacles and legacy.

We will see the just the fourth-ever Hell in a Cell match at WrestleMania, with potentially two all-time entrances from Edge and Finn Balor, and Brock Lesnar will attempt to F5 the 400-pound Omos.

Around the spectacles, a few legacies could be bolstered.

Will Bianca Belair’s Raw women’s championship reign exceed one year?

Will Gunther continue a dominant run as Intercontinental champ and get a WrestleMania win to push him to new heights?

While all of those are important, they pale in comparison to what’s at stake in the main event.

A win for Roman Reigns means his title run will hit 1,000 days, likely move him past Pedro Morales for the fifth longest at 1,027 and send Cody Rhodes reeling a bit.

Should Rhodes pin Reigns’ shoulders to the mat for the first time since December 2019 and stop his run at 944 days, it will finish this story and put a member of the Rhodes family on top of WWE for the first time and anoint a new face of the company.

Either way, we are in for a historic night after a very strong first night of WrestleMania.

The Post’s pro wrestling columnist, Joseph Staszewski, tries his hand at predicting how it will all play out.

Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler WWE

Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler over Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez, Natalya and Shotzi, Chelsea Green and Sonya Deville


This feels like a two-team race between Morgan and Rodriguez and Rousey and Baszler for the win.

With Lita and Becky Lynch holding women’s tag team gold, it makes more sense to have a high-profile heel team like Rousey and Baszler go over and get in position to be next in line for a title shot.

It will also test out having Rousey and Lynch meaningfully interact for the first time since WrestleMania 35.

They can take the belts from Lita and Lynch so the latter can focus on a potential feud with Trish Stratus.

Brock Lesnar over Omos

From the start, this match was booked to be a spectacle of whether Lesnar can handle the giant Omos and actually deliver the F5 to him.

Lesnar is too much of a babyface for it to end with him not doing so and being victorious.

But I hope WWE finds a way to have Omos still leave this in a good place because he has not been pinned or submitted in his last 12 television matches.

Lesnar is actually 1-3 in his past four single matches and could use a win and the moment.

Finn Balor over Edge (Hell in a Cell)

Balor has said for a long time that The Demon character needs to be used in the right moments.

This is one of them.

It is just the eighth time on the main roster, the second time at a WrestleMania, and for the first time since Extreme Rules 2021 we will see the Demon.

It’s been rumored Edge could take part in a Brood reunion for his entrance.

The Demon’s match with Roman Reigns was the only time he has lost on the main roster, so you don’t break him out for a Hell in a Cell match only to lose to a veteran like Edge.

Hell in a Cell and the Demon have a chance to go hand in hand, so WWE will establish that here after Edge got the feel-good moment at Elimination Chamber.

Edge and Finn Balor will compete inside Hell in a Cell. WWE

Gunther (c.) over Drew McIntyre, Sheamus to retain the Intercontinental championship 

Drew McIntyre and Sheamus have both had a fantastic stretch and would be believable in defeating Gunther for the Intercontinental championship.

But this match is about the gradual building of the champion for bigger things and getting him a win over opponents of this caliber at WrestleMania is a big notch in his belt.

McIntyre’s and Sheamus’ own issues get in the way and cost them the match.

Asuka over Bianca Belair (c.) to win the Raw women’s championship

We will see if WWE has the guts to do this, but they should.

Bianca Belair could use a little fresh adversity around her after defeating Becky Lynch for the title at last year’s WrestleMania and holding it the full year.

Asuka has never won on the grandest stage of them all and her green mist — which WWE keeps foreshadowing — will allow her to finally do so.

WWE brought her back in her more twisted Kana persona for a reason and it’s to give them a believable opponent to finally beat Belair and still protect her in some way with the mist.

With a number of WWE’s top talent tied up, having Belair chase Asuka and the championship for a bit makes a ton of sense.

Cody Rhodes will dethrone Roman Reigns. WWE

Cody Rhodes over Roman Reigns (c.) to win the Undisputed WWE Universal championship

Rhodes needs to finish the story and have his WrestleMania anointing as the new face of the company.

Prolonging it could dilute it and WWE has come too far with Rhodes to not make it happen here even with Reigns’ run as champ at less than 1,000 days.

We probably get Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens evening the odds against The Bloodline to ensure Rhodes’ wins and bring Reigns down to complete the trio’s Bloodline mission.

Actually doing so will make this a historic main event as the Rhodes family will finally be on top in WWE and one of the company’s all-time runs will come to a close.   

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