WWE WrestleMania 41: The biggest winners and losers

WrestleMania 41 is here. Both nights were loaded with winners and losers, similar to the nature of professional wrestling, but now it’s time to beat the unexplicit winners and losers.

If you want results, there are results pages for both nights. If you want something we love and dislike, we have it too. Instead, this is about who looks good, looks good, turns victory into defeat, defeat into victory, etc. There were many choices on this aspect of the two night action. Some are simple, like Joe Hendry’s WrestleMania moment, but others are more complicated, like the effects of a massive acquisition on the WWE’s wrestling landscape. Sometimes it’ll come down to me who doesn’t like guys like Logan Paul.

Without any more ADO, the winners and losers of WrestleMania 41.

Many have laughed at Joe Hendry’s repeated attempts to insert himself into conversations about John Cena’s opponents on Cena’s farewell tour, but self-promotion is the lifeblood of professional wrestling. Hendry proved on Sunday that he took on one of Cena’s major rivals at Randy Orton at WrestleMania 41.

It is very difficult to wrestle Hendry’s ski dreams when he wrestled the legitimate modern man of China in a short period of time. Kevin Owens is not medically articulated to compete. WWE needs a surprise opponent from Randy Orton. Randy Orton focuses on the fact that it’s not Rusev or Debuting Jeff Cobb. So they dialed the trustworthy human Rick Roll, Joe Hendry. That’s a really great story.

Hendry didn’t win, and he also had his second RKO after the match, but there’s no denying that the permanence of the TNA world champions paid off. You can be the most athletic, the most charismatic and the most skilled, but if you don’t put yourself there, it’s all to waste.

As of Saturday, there is one major promotion for professional wrestling in the world. AAA is currently WWE. As a Fairweather AAA fan like me, how to get Triple Mania Fever World Cup Fever every four years, this doesn’t make much sense, but for real fans of Lucha Libre, this is an earthquake change in the wrestling landscape.

AAA, working with WWE Money, will lead to many future Lucadors taking away AAA’s money more than CMLL’s fame. It also means that as fans know and love AAA products they probably will likely change irreparably as they become WWE’s feeder system. The idea wouldn’t have that pathological tone unless it was due to the awful, sniffy storyline that former AAA star Ray Phoenix was absorbed.

Initially, Chad Gable’s battle with the American character of El Grande and Rey Mysterio is a battle over the insulting way Americano deals with Lucha Libre’s history. When Mysterio was injured, Ray Phoenix replaced him, lost, and even pulled AAA star Elle Hyo del Viking into the mix. There’s still time for the AAA stars to collide with the June stars, but it would be correct to feel Lucha Libre’s fans have been smacked by the arrival of Wrestlemania 41 weekend.

Iyo Sky is proof that real workers can still find fame and fortune in WWE. Bianca Belair is a Capital-C character who always seems to have enough momentum to dive into the main event. Rhea Ripley is probably one of the biggest female stars in WWE history at this point. But Iyo Sky struggles better than either.

There have been many ways WWE can get stuck in the past, but Sky has become the first Asian superstar to win a match at WrestleMania. Her victory comes at the expense of two of WWE’s biggest female stars, if not the biggest stars in general, makes the victory very sweet. Sky has always been like a sidekick of faction like Ctrl’s damage, so when she sees her ascended to center stage with such a thrilling victory, she easily pushed her into the stratosphere of the women’s division.

Also winning one of the best matches of the weekend is a lovely feather in her cap. The weekend was truly mixed bag quality, but all three women brought enormous amounts of energy and drama to the cards.

Look, I know WWE will continue to move forward after the biggest show of the year and need to plan, but this weekend we will need tables, ladders and chair games. There will be a TLC game on Friday, but that’s Friday. They are obviously the most entertaining provisions of WWE, and could be a reminder of Madness DIY, Motor City Machine Guns, and Street benefits. After all, they needed time to salute “Stone Cold” Steve Austin’s reckless driving.

The fact that the Midling World Tag Team Championship match between New Day and the War Raiders won WrestleMania time was merely salt in the wounds. They generally didn’t snab the tag department, they were just those with the most exciting team. It just feels like a complete mistake. “Smackdown” fans will be grateful that it should be a great match, but they will be grateful that there are still no fulfilling holes drilled over the weekend.

Dominik Mysterio is WWE Intercontinental Champion. Young Mysterio has come a long way from being his father’s smiley sidekick, but now heads for the rest of 2025, when his father won the title he proudly held. But that’s not all.

I have already said that AAA’s WWE acquisition is generally bad for Lucha Libre fans, but this provides the opportunity for Mysterio to appear in promotions that seem impossible for WWE stars. WWE is not the only legacy of Mysterio. It also has it in AAA. Adding many Mysterio tributes to Eddie Guerrero feels that they are tailored to what the WWE/AAA partnership looks like. A real WWE star with a real link to AAA. It is not impossible for him to become the bridge of this new era.

Still, victory alone is enough to solidify Mysterio as more than Nepotism is hired. His rise due to WWE rankings has been stable and does not seem to stop anytime soon.

Cody Rhodes is now in his second year of beef, and the rocks are being handed over to someone else. The first Roman ruler, and now John Cena. There is even an opportunity to steal a rock, like in Night 1 of Wrestlemania 40, but it appears that Cody can’t put his hands on the rock when he needs him most.

The rock is the catalyst in the removal chamber on John Sheena’s heel turn, and Lock is absent from the brilliance of WrestleMania 41. Even if he showed up on “Raw” and said this was all by plan, he still seems to have left Travis Scott and John Cena carrying the bags, narratively speaking. It’s not yet 100% clear how Cena, Scott, and Rock all fit. So Cena heads for the 17th World Title Runless, while Cody just looks like a nerd. It can be said that everyone involved is a loser, but Cena is the world champion and Travis Scott is forever the star of “Agro dr1ft,” leaving Cody Rhodes as a man who has gained nothing but the story that ends.

This time the story is very stupid.