With WrestleMania 40 in the history books, WWE will inevitably turn some of its attention on next year's Showcase of the Immortals and the matches that will entice fans to come back for the biggest show of the year.

We had our first hint of a potential main event on the Raw After Mania, while other options have been teased on more than one occasion.

Looking forward at WrestleMania 41, these are three potential blockbuster main events for the 2025 extravaganza.

Cody Rhodes vs. The Rock

Monday night on Raw, new undisputed WWE champion Cody Rhodes had his inaugural address interrupted by The Rock, who awkwardly made his intentions clear: he wants the title that Roman Reigns lost at WrestleMania 40.

There were F-bombs and "trailer park trash" insults but at his core, Rock was intensely serious about coming for Rhodes when he returns from his latest Hollywood gig.

And The American Nightmare had no problem telling him he would be waiting when The Final Boss made his way back to the WWE Universe.

Rhodes vs. Rock is a blockbuster main event and one that can pack an enormous stadium come WrestleMania 41. It also has an established story that started prior to Philadelphia and intensified there with The Great One's victory over The American Nightmare on night one.

The key will be to keep Rhodes as hot as possible between now and then, and it looks like Triple H is in the process of heating up potential prime time players for that purpose.

Barring any injuries or shifts in Rock's schedule, this is the most obvious WrestleMania main event and one that makes total sense based on everything that has already come before it.

CM Punk vs. Seth "Freakin" Rollins

Seth "Freakin" Rollins and CM Punk would have headlined night one in Philadelphia had it not been for the latter's torn triceps, suffered during the Royal Rumble match.

With a year of build to work with, assuming WWE gets Rollins under contract, there is no reason to believe they cannot still main event the biggest show of the year in 2025.

There is a real animosity that exists between them and exploiting that, in a professional manner that does not allow for backstage hostility, is key. Perhaps Rollins, frustrated by all that he sacrificed this year to make sure The Bloodline did not gain a further grasp on the company, turns heel to accentuate the feud, but it is not necessary.

Two guys with real beef, heading to the ring and expressing it with each other en route to a WrestleMania clash, for a championship or not?

Sounds like the perfect scenario for a show of that magnitude.

Bianca Belair vs. Rhea Ripley

Fresh off of WrestleMania 39, Bianca Belair and Rhea Ripley stood in the ring and teased a battle. Over a year later, it still has not happened.

That must change in time for next year's Showcase of the Immortals.

Assuming Ripley does not lose her Women's World Championship before then, she will enter the extravaganza nearing two years with the title. Belair, conversely, will enter with an unblemished record on the grand stage into the showdown.

A streak vs. title match carries with it a prestige that we have seen before. The Undertaker challenged Edge and Batista on the grand stage, with his unbeaten streak at stake. Those matches were infinitely better and more important because of the meaningfulness of what was on the line.

The EST's run may not be two decades in the making but given the whimsical booking styles that preceded Triple H and his current creative team, it is somewhat of a miracle that Belair has managed to remain unbeaten through her first four trips onto the grand stage.

Booking two stars who carried the mantle for women's wrestling in the shadows of the Four Horsewomen, and have risen to stardom on the level of Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, Bayley, and Sasha Banks, against each other gives the biggest show of the year a match that could realistically headline one of the two nights of action.

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