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WrestleMania XXVIII was the 28th annual WWE pay-per-view event held on April 1, 2012, in Miami Gardens, Florida. The main event was The Rock vs. John Cena, a long-awaited match that was advertised a year in advance.
- Pre-Show Triple Threat Tag Team Match. Primo & Epico def. Tyson Kidd & Justin Gabriel and The Usos.
- World Heavyweight Championship Match. Sheamus def. Daniel Bryan to win the title. Kane def. Randy Orton.
- Intercontinental Championship Match. Big Show def. Cody Rhodes to win the title. Maria Menounos & Kelly Kelly def. Beth Phoenix & Eve Torres.
- Hell in a Cell Match. The Undertaker def. Triple H (Shawn Michaels was special guest referee)
- The Rock def. John Cena. The Rock and John Cena surpassed an entire year's worth of expectations from everyone around the world at WrestleMania XXVIII.
- Team Johnny def. Team Teddy. In a high-stakes bout that had the entire WWE locker room picking sides, Team Johnny overcame Team Teddy, giving Executive Vice President of Talent John Laurinaitis control as general manager of both Raw SuperShow and SmackDown.
- Kelly Kelly & Maria Menounos def. Divas Champion Beth Phoenix & Eve. Kelly Kelly and her partner, "Extra!" co-host Maria Menounos, got the better of Eve and WWE Divas Champion Beth Phoenix at WrestleMania XXVIII in Miami.
- The Undertaker def. Triple H (Hell in a Cell Match with special referee Shawn Michaels) With Shawn Michaels as referee, two of WWE's greatest legends, The Undertaker and Triple H, met inside Hell in a Cell in a bout that the WWE Universe will assuredly be talking about for years to come.
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WrestleMania XXVIII was the twenty-eighth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on April 1, 2012 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida. There were eight official matches on the event's card.
The city of Miami Gardens was one of the two major contenders for hosting WrestleMania XXVII along with Atlanta, Georgia. Ultimately in February 2010, Atlanta was awarded the right to host the event. According to the Miami-Dade Sports Commission, WWE management felt that Miami's planning for the event would have been too hectic with many other sporting events held in the area around the same time of the planning, such as Super Bowl XLIV. However, the Miami area was reportedly considered for the next event due to its international ties, facilities, airports and experience of hosting previous major events.
Bidding documents were sent to seventeen cities in consideration for hosting a WrestleMania event between 2012 and 2014, with fourteen replying in interest. Other cities under consideration for WrestleMania XXVIII included Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Toronto, Detroit, Tampa, Vancouver, St. Louis, Jacksonville, Orlando and Houston. The city of Dallas also showed interest but had to pull out of bidding for the next two years due to hosting events such as the NCAA Final Four.
WrestleMania will feature professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds, plots, and storylines that will be played out on WWE's primary television programs. Wrestlers will portray villains or heroes as they follow a series of events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
The main event heading into WrestleMania XXVIII, would feature The Rock going up against John Cena. On the February 14, 2011 episode of Raw, The Rock was revealed as the host of WrestleMania XXVII, and upon his return to the WWE, began a feud with John Cena (and Cena's opponent at that WrestleMania, the WWE Champion, The Miz), which continued for weeks in terms of verbal insults, until the March 28 edition of Raw, where Cena delivered the Attitude Adjustment to The Rock after he fended off attacks from The Miz and Alex Riley. At WrestleMania XXVII, The Rock got involved in the main event WWE Championship match, which initially ended in The Miz's favor via a count-out, and after restarting the match under no disqualifications rules, he delivered The Rock Bottom to Cena, thus enabling The Miz to pin the latter and win the match. On the next night on Raw, Cena challenged The Rock to a one-on-one match at WrestleMania XXVIII. With The Rock subsequently accepting, the match was officially announced on WWE.com. At Survivor Series in November 2011, Cena teamed with The Rock (who made his in-ring return in a match in the WWE after nearly eight years, last competing at WrestleMania XX), and billed as "the most charismatic tag team", they defeated The Miz and R-Truth, collectively known as Awesome Truth. After the match, The Rock gave a Rock Bottom to Cena.
A second main event match scheduled for WrestleMania would pit The Undertaker against Triple H in a Hell in a Cell match. Last year at WrestleMania XXVII, in a No Holds Barred match, The Undertaker defeated Triple H via submission, in their second encounter at a WrestleMania (the first being at WrestleMania X-Seven in 2001, where The Undertaker won as well). However, in the post-match events, due the harsh physicality suffered during the bout, The Undertaker failed to leave the venue (Georgia Dome) on his power, as he was carted away by the medical staff on a stretcher for the first time in his career, while Triple H left on his own accord. After a near ten-month long hiatus, The Undertaker returned on the January 30, 2012 edition of Raw, confronting and challenging Triple H to a rematch at WrestleMania XXVIII, reason being The Undertaker having been dissatisfied of his post-WrestleMania match scenario last year, stating "he did not want that scene to be a lasting memory of him". After Triple H refused to accept the challenge the next week on Raw, his close friend and WWE Hall of Famer, Shawn Michaels appeared on the February 13 edition of Raw to instigate him in accepting The Undertaker's challenge, which was in vain as Triple H stated he was willing to put his ego and personal agendas aside for the future of the WWE, and viewed The Undertaker's 19-0 undefeated WrestleMania streak as a "brand" to cash-in for the company, finally ending the argument saying he would not be the one to end it. Then, on the February 20 episode of Raw, The Undertaker still remained adamant in getting a WrestleMania rematch with Triple H, going so far as to label Triple H as a "coward", and comparing his abilities and career to that of Shawn Michaels. Enraged due to these comments, Triple H finally accepted The Undertaker's challenge at WrestleMania XXVIII, saying that if "he [Undertaker] wanted an end, they would go all the way", and proposed that they would compete in a Hell in a Cell match.
On July 17, 2011, at the Money in the Bank event, Daniel Bryan defeated seven other wrestlers to win the SmackDown Money in the Bank ladder match. On the July 22 edition of SmackDown, Bryan declared his intentions of cashing-in his Money in the Bank contract at WrestleMania XXVIII. However, despite this claim, he attempted to cash-in his contract briefcase on the November 25 episode of SmackDown. He pinned the reigning World Heavyweight Champion Mark Henry to supposedly win the title and began to celebrate, but SmackDown General Manager Theodore Long informed Bryan that Henry was not medically cleared to compete, and declared the match void, thereby returning the briefcase to Bryan and the title back to Henry. The next week on Raw, Bryan acknowledged that he went back on his word, saying that headlining WrestleMania was his dream and that his "plans changed"; that the briefcase "doesn't guarantee [him] anything", since he could be put out of action at any time. WWE, however, continued to maintain the advertisement for WrestleMania, until Bryan successfully cashed-in his Money in the Bank contract briefcase on Big Show at the TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs event on December 18, 2011, to become the new World Heavyweight Champion.
In January 2012, at the twenty-fifth annual Royal Rumble pay-per-view, Sheamus won the thirty-man Royal Rumble match, giving him the right to challenge either the WWE Champion or the World Heavyweight Champion at WrestleMania XXVIII. Sheamus announced on Smackdown that he would decide who he wishes to face at WrestleMania after the Elimination Chamber PPV. At the Elimination Chamber event in February, Sheamus attacked Daniel Bryan, after the latter successfully retained his World Heavyweight Championship in an Elimination Chamber match, thus declaring his wish to challenge Bryan for his title at WrestleMania. The match was officially announced the next day on WWE.com.
Another match booked for WrestleMania is from the Raw brand, which would see CM Punk defending the WWE Championship against Chris Jericho. Calling himself the "best wrestler in the world", Punk went on to successfully defend the WWE Championship numerous times. On the January 2, 2012 episode of Raw, after extensive hype through several viral vignettes proclaiming the "end of the world as we know it" on that day, Chris Jericho returned to the WWE after over a year, and established a heel persona over the next several weeks. On the February 13 edition of Raw, Jericho accused Punk in an in-ring segment of being a copycat of him, and that he (Punk) stole his proclamation of being the "best in the world". While competing in the Raw Elimination Chamber match at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, Jericho was knocked out by a kick to the head by Punk, rendering him unable to compete any further, and Punk went on to win that match. This incident further fueled Jericho's animosity towards Punk. On the February 20 edition of Raw, Jericho last eliminated Big Show to win a ten-man battle royal to determine the number-one contender to face Punk for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania XXVIII. In subsequent promos, both wrestlers expressed their desire to prove who is "the best in the world."
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match. (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.
•Pre show: Epico and Primo (c) defeated The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso) and Justin Gabriel & Tyson Kidd in a Triple Threat Match to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship (5:11)
•Sheamus defeated Daniel Bryan (c) (w/ AJ) to win the World Heavyweight Championship (00:18)
•Kane defeated Randy Orton (10:56)
•Big Show defeated Cody Rhodes (c) to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship (5:18)
•Kelly Kelly & Maria Menounos defeated Beth Phoenix & Eve (6:49)
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WrestleMania XXVIII was the 2012 WWE pay-per-view event in Miami, Florida, featuring The Rock vs. John Cena and The Undertaker vs. Triple H. Learn about the history, production, matches, and results of the show.
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Mar 26, 2012 · The Rock and John Cena delivered a historic main event at WrestleMania XXVIII in 2012, with The Rock emerging victorious after a grueling battle. Relive the highlights, results and reactions of this "Once in a Lifetime" match that redefined both Superstars' legacies.
