>>11685626Dirtsheets at the time said it was a last minute booking change. Vince didn’t want both “heroes” like Cena and Taker to lose, when he decided to go through with the streak being broken, he changed the finish of this match. Originally the roll up on Cena after the chair shot to Rowan was the finish.
Vince did this to Bray numerous times in those first few years. Jericho came back specifically to put Bray over but Vince thought he’d lost his star power so had him win the first match clean, which fucked up the whole feud. Vince moved the 3rd match to RAW and ended the feud early because he thought Orton needed more heat and he should be the one to give Jericho the big injury send off.
Vince personally booked Cena destroying all three members of the Wyatt Family the week after Cena got mauled by Brock. He wanted to show the fans that Cena was still their superhero.
Undertaker was supposed to sell fear for Bray but that got shitcanned.
The whole Matt Hardy feud had to revolved around the two laughing because it popped Vince.
The Red light and the finish of the Fiend/Rollins hell in a cell.
Fiend was supposed to run through Goldberg, who wasn’t even booked for Mania. The one week pop in the ratings Goldberg’s return got, along with how the fans were going to react seeing the Fiend eat his first loss at WrestleMania in another attempt to crown Roman Reigns, made Vince chance the match to Reigns/Goldberg and had Fiend lose in a two minute squash.
Vince fucked Bray’s momentum up so hard throughout his whole career.
