WrestleMania XXX

**WrestleMania XXX** was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event  made by WWE. It was held on April 6, 2014 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the thirtieth WrestleMania event held by the WWE and the first to also stream on the WWE Network.

The main event saw Daniel Bryan defeat both Randy Orton and Batista in a triple threat match to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Bryan won the show's opening match against Triple H to get a spot in the main event. WrestleMania XXX also saw Brock Lesnar defeat The Undertaker and break his 23-year undefeated streak at WrestleMania.

## Background

At the _Royal Rumble_ on January 26, 2014, Batista won the 30-man Royal Rumble match and secured his spot to headline WrestleMania XXX against whomever was the WWE World Heavyweight Champion after _Elimination Chamber_. Randy Orton kept his title in the match.  At the same time, Daniel Bryan, who had a feud against Triple H since SummerSlam, was screwed from winning the championship multiple times by Triple H and his stable, the Authority. Bryan then wanted a match against Triple H at WrestleMania, and "occupied" WWE's flagship TV show _Raw_, leading to Triple H accepting the match. He then announced that the winner of that match would be added to the main event championship match, therefore making it a Triple Threat match.__

On February 21, it was announced by the WWE that Hulk Hogan was returning to the company and was going to host WrestleMania XXX.

On February 24, Brock Lesnar returned along with Paul Heyman and appeared on _Raw_. They complained about not being in the title match at WrestleMania. To appease them, Triple H handed them a contract which gave Lesnar a match with anybody at WrestleMania as long as it wasn't Orton or Batista. Lesnar and Heyman didn't like this open challenge and tried to leave because they thought that nobody would be would not be a big enough challenge. Before they could leave, The Undertaker returned and stared Lesnar down. Undertaker looked at the WrestleMania sign and Lesnar signed the contract. Lesnar poked the pen against Undertaker's chest for him to sign and Undertaker stabbed the pen through Lesnar's hand as well as chokeslamming Lesnar through the table afterwards.

## Matches

<small><sup>1</sup>The other competitors in the match were: Aksana, Alicia Fox, Brie Bella, Cameron, Emma, Eva Marie, Layla, Naomi, Natalya, Nikki Bella, Rosa Mendes, Summer Rae and Tamina.</small>

### WWE Tag Team Championship Fatal 4-Way

|Eliminated|Team|Wrestler|Eliminated by|Method|Time||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Los Matadores|Diego|Jack Swagger|Submission|5:40||
|2|RybAxel|Curtis Axel|Cesaro|rowspan="2"|Pinfall|11:43|
|3|The Real Americans|Cesaro|The Usos|rowspan="2"|16:13||
|**Winners**|**The Usos (c)**|colspan=3|||||

### André the Giant Memorial Battle royal

|style="background:#efefef;"|Order|style="background:#efefef;"|Wrestler|style="background:#efefef;"|Eliminated by|style="background:#efefef;"|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Yoshi Tatsu|Khali|00:17|||||
|2|Brad Maddox|Rhodes & Khali|00:53|||||
|3|Brodus Clay|Khali|01:26|||||
|4|The Great Khali|Slater, McIntyre & Mahal|01:36|||||
|5|Zack Ryder|McIntyre & Mahal|02:03|||||
|6|Darren Young|Slater, McIntyre & Mahal|02:33|||||
|7|Drew McIntyre|Henry|02:56|||||
|8|Jinder Mahal|Henry|02:57|||||
|9|Heath Slater|Henry|03:08|||||
|10|Mark Henry|Big Show|03:14|||||
|11|Titus O'Neil|Big Show|03:43|||||
|12|The Miz|Marella|04:31|||||
|13|Santino Marella|Del Rio|04:41|||||
|14|Xavier Woods|Sandow|04:48|||||
|15|Damien Sandow|Rhodes & Goldust|05:05|||||
|16|Justin Gabriel|Big E|05:23|||||
|17|David Otunga|Big E|05:35|||||
|18|Big E|Fandango|05:55|||||
|19|Fandango|Sheamus|06:43|||||
|20|R-Truth|Big Show|07:01|||||
|21|Sin Cara|Del Rio|07:19|||||
|22|Tyson Kidd|Del Rio|07:35|||||
|23|Goldust|Del Rio|08:05|||||
|24|Cody Rhodes|Del Rio|08:23|||||
|25|Rey Mysterio|Cesaro|09:05|||||
|26|Kofi Kingston|Sheamus|11:12|||||
|27|Dolph Ziggler|Del Rio|11:31|||||
|28|Alberto Del Rio|Sheamus|12:17|||||
|29|Sheamus|Del Rio|12:18|||||
|30|Big Show|Cesaro|13:25|||||
|**Winner**|**Cesaro**|**N/A**||||||

## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: WrestleMania XXX
- **promotion**: WWE
- **date**: April 6, 2014
- **venue**: Mercedes-Benz Superdome
- **city**: New Orleans, Louisiana
- **lastevent**: Elimination Chamber (2014)
- **nextevent**: Extreme Rules (2014)
- **event**: WrestleMania
- **lastevent2**: WrestleMania XXIX
- **nextevent2**: WrestleMania 31
- **theme**: "Celebrate" by Kid Rock
"Legacy" by Eminem
"In Time" by Mark Collie