Monday Night Raw LD (March 12, 2018) ... GONG!

[Dave]

This is it, folks! The Road to RomanMania... Er, WrestleMania, is well and truly upon us now. Fastlane was a really decent PPV where the WWE did the basic things really well but all of that is a thing of the past.

Raw rolls into Detroit tonight as the red WWE brand starts to get it's ducks into a row. We know that Lesnar is going to be on Raw tonight... Or at least, he should be. Reigns has said that he better be ready for a fight, so that's probably what's going to happen.

Meanwhile, we move closer to the Final Deletion, Alexa Bliss versus Nia Jax and absolutely nothing for the Monster Amongst Men to do at WrestleMania. Asuka has challenged Charlotte for the Smackdown Women's Championship, so don't expect her to be showing up any time soon.

But the main new story is that John Cena doesn't have a Road to WrestleMania! Can you believe that?! All of those years of slogging away only to be left off of the New Orleans card? Well, that's a shame. At least he tried. There's always next year...

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[smarkmouth]

If it's the Undertaker, I'm honestly going to laugh at the reported logistics of John Cena's WrestleMania plans.

"Let's do Cena vs Undertaker this year."
"Eh, Undertaker's hurt. We need someone else"
"Okay, what about Rey Mysterio?"
"Eh, Rey's hurt. We need someone else."
"Okay, what about Undertaker?"
"PERFECT!"

[Spidey]

Strowman would have been a fun opponent.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

^ I agree.

[Fallout]

And so the Road to Wrestlemania begins...

[Skairipa]

No Brock still, they really know this might be the only way to get Roman cheered.

[Spidey]

They're really running this no-show = boo him harder thing to the point of making Angle look incompetent as GM. Aight.

[Fire Marshall Bill]

Still not sold on Cena/Taker being the plan. If it doesnâ??t happen tonight, I highly doubt it will.

[klunderbunker]

So let's recap:

WWE wants to make the fans boo Lesnar for never showing up and then show him looking awesome in destroying people like Kane and Miz at house shows. Someone want to try to make sense of that?

[Fallout]

If they can't make Reigns an intentional face through Brock's inactivity, they need to run with the unintentional heel angle. Roman could be a great pivot in building new stars.