The aftermath of a shocking and historic WrestleMania is still resonating among the WWE Universe, but the company wasted little time in preparing for the next big event as it revealed two huge title matches for Extreme Rules 2015.
According to Wrestlingheadlines.com, the WWE announced on this week's SmackDown tapings that were taped Tuesday and are set to air Thursday that Seth Rollins will defend the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Randy Orton and John Cena will put his newly won United States Championship on the line against Rusev.
This will mark Rollins' first major title defense since shocking the world and cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase on Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 31.
"The Architect" crashed the main event and made it a Triple Threat Match, eventually walking out of Levi's Stadium with some hardware.
Lesnar isn't expected to be at Extreme Rules due to the suspension angle the WWE is running with him while it remains to be seen what's next for Reigns after he failed to capture the richest prize in the game during the main event of WrestleMania.
Orton has claims to a title shot because he defeated Rollins earlier in the night at WrestleMania and was never pinned to lose the gold at WrestleMania XXX when Daniel Bryan pinned Batista. He was also never granted a rematch.
Cena and Rusev have been feuding for three months now and this will serve as the rubber match between the two.
Rusev defeated Cena with a low blow and the Accolade at Fastlane in February while the "Cenation" leader thwarted off the mighty Russian at WrestleMania to capture the United States Championship for the first time in 11 years.
It'll be interesting to see if Lana will be a part of the match as the WWE has teased dissention between the Ravishing Russian and the Bulgarian Brute and she is off filming a movie.
WWE Extreme Rules emanates live from the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill. on April 26.
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