With WrestleMania XXX less than a week away, a lot of past and present WWE talents are gearing up for the biggest show of the year. Here is a roundup of the latest news and comments from some WrestleMania attendees with the biggest show of the year looming this Sunday live from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
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WWE Hall of Famer "Rowdy" Roddy Piper confirmed that he will be in attendance, but he expressed some frustration over the fact that the WWE hasn't allowed him to do something with Hulk Hogan, who is hosting the show and teamed with Mr. T at the inaugural WrestleMania against Piper and "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff in the main event at Madison Square Garden in 1985.
"I wrote a quick note to the WWE," Piper said on the Chad Dukes radio program," saying if you don't give the fans, what they deserve, the two guys that started it, just let them walk out, you know as more to thank them. I'm not there to have people cheer for me, I've had my share of that and I'm very grateful. But to have Hogan in the ring and not hit the bagpipes, the fans would never forget it. Not to give them that, to give them that to remember for the rest of their lives as would we, being Hogan and myself, who I've not talked to, I think would be a mistake."
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He added: "This is 30 years, we started with a thing called War to Settle The Score. The promoter put his house and everything up on a tag team match called WrestleMania, no number. I was definitely the dark horse in the race. 30 years later I think that we should say hello, but I don't think the WWE's with me, I don't know what they wanna do. But it'll tell me, if I don't come out it'll probably be the last time."
Piper then took to Twitter to continue his campaign:
Being honest, No ego, if WWE has the Warrior and Hogan, I'll give you a PIPER"S PIT you will remember for your life! I'm the best in history
— Rowdy Roddy Piper (@R_Roddy_Piper) March 31, 2014
Daniel Bryan discussed WrestleMania and the possibility of defeating Triple H on the show and being inserted into the main event against Batista and Randy Orton for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in New Orleans.
"I've never gone up to anybody and said 'hey, look at what I'm doing, I should be a main guy here,' Bryan told BetweenTheRopes.com, "I've always let my work speak for itself and I've always let the fan reaction speak for itself and make it so they don't have a choice but to do what they do with me right? It's not me pushing for me to get this opportunity. It's the fans who have been pushing for it and them saying no, this is what we want. We want this at WrestleMania and WWE has to listen to them. And that to me is pretty cool."
He added: "People have so much more power than they think and not just in wrestling, in the world in general. A lot of these buildings have got like 14,000 people in this building compared to a couple people backstage who run the WWE. And that's pretty much the ratio of people in the world and people in power. You know what I mean? We have a lot more power that we think. So it's pretty cool."
While the card is mostly set for Sunday's show, there is some mystery surrounding the Divas match as the Vickie Guerrero Invitational was reportedly originally a one-fall match involving all of the Divas where A.J. Lee could lose her title without being pinned, but now it may be changed. Guerrero went on Twitter and asked for suggestions with stipulations and then stated on SmackDown that the rules are for her to know and the fans to find out.
I'm still thinking about what kind of match I should have for my invitational at #WrestleMania? Any ideas?? — Vickie Guerrero (@ExcuseMeWWE) March 28, 2014
WrestleMania XXX airs this Sunday, and the WWE Universe is buzzing over the biggest show of the year being on the horizon.
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