Tonight’s the night we find out who will headline WrestleMania 30. Now that’s probably a pretty big deal to you if you somehow found yourself reading this article. I know it is to us.

The road to WrestleMania begins tonight with the 27th annual Royal Rumble match which takes place live from the Consol Energy Center in Steel City, PA. 30 men will enter, and one man will leave with a guaranteed title shot at the biggest Sports and Entertainment event of the year inside of the Superdome in the NOLA on April 6th.

If you fancy yourself a pro-wrestling fan, these next couple of months are truly the best of the year. Below, our five resident smarks will enlighten you with their thoughts and predictions on tonight’s pay-per-view. Trust me, it’s always an entertaining read when these guys get together. Enjoy.

• WWE Tag Team Championship: The Brotherhood (Cody Rhodes and Goldust) (C) vs. The New Age Outlaws

Hank Booth: These New Age Outlaws are a couple of timeless individuals. They absolutely still have it. They’ll never get those tag titles back though. The Brotherhood lives on, for now. I still think we’ll see a brother versus brother WM 30 battle for the ages.

Sean Sheehan: It’s been great to see the New Age Outlaws back. Usually when competitors of their vintage return to WWE for one night I want to see them gone immediately. These guys still have a lot to give though and should have been back earlier. Having said that, the Rhodes brothers will win this match and retain the titles.

Alex Reno: Damn, what a nice match to kick off Royal Rumble. I grew up during the Attitude Era and was a huge fan of D Generation X and the New Age Outlaws. This could be the perfect opportunity for the WWE to split up the Rhodes Brothers and begin their feud leading up to Wrestlemania. They could end their title reign right here, and have them feud later on Sunday night during the Royal Rumble match and it would be perfect. Unfortunately I don’t see that happening, and we haven’t seen a major title change on a kick-off match in a while. Cody and Goldust win an exciting one.

Matt Addie: Pick: Cody Rhodes & Goldust. I really want to pick the New Age Outlaws, but then I realized I haven’t been drinking. I actually do see a small scenario where the Outlaws win, maybe for a short run (like, a week), but it’s likely The Brotherhood retains a bit longer. I still think we see Cody vs. Goldy at WM30, but I don’t think this match is the straw that stirs the drink.

Chris Langevin: So this match features 3 guys that were featured prominently in the Attitude Era. This seems odd to me. I popped huge when the New Age Outlaws came out during Old School Raw. I popped huge when I attended Raw 1000 and they came out as part of DX. When I was a kid, I was a huge New Age Outlaws fan, as I think most of us were, always chanting along with the Road Dogg when their song came on. I could recite their intro and have practiced it many times since I was just a Semi-Giant Christoph. Yet, this is 2014. Goldust, I will not complain about as he is wrestling better than he ever did in the Attitude Era, and is in better shape than ever. The New Age Outlaws just seem out-of-place here. Oh well, I think it’s a Rhodes Dynasty win here. They are on a roll, the fans still love them, and I think it’s pretty certain they will enjoy those tag titles at least through this PPV.

• Daniel Bryan vs. Bray Wyatt

Hank Booth: There’s a ton of wacky potential scenarios involving Bryan as we travel down this long and lovely road to New Orleans this April. 1. He gets pummeled in this match, enters the Rumble as a surprise all taped up and wins it and headlines WM against Cena. Cena passes the proverbial torch and everyone is happy. 2. He wins this match, gets a big pop and that’s it for him tonight. 3. The Undertaker is revealed as ‘The Devil’ behind the Wyatt family and we build up to ‘The Streak’ match between Bryan and Taker at WM. 4. Taker actually comes out to rescue Bryan and we build up to a Wyatt vs. Undertaker WM match. 5. I could go on and on. I think way too much about these things. The one thing I do love is that at this point last year we pretty much knew what was going to happen at Mania. It was Punk vs. Taker (which if it didn’t happen would’ve been a tragedy) and Cena vs. Rock II. That was it. At this point we can only speculate. We can be pissed off, or we can be happy when it does unfold – but it’s really not set in stone like last year. I have no idea what’s in store for Bryan here but I’ll go ahead and guess that he wins this match and that’s and we see Taker get involved either tonight or in the coming weeks in this storyline with him and The Wyatt Family. It’s too good to pass up.

Sean Sheehan: The fact Daniel Bryan isn’t in the Rumble makes me nervous. Hopefully he will be in a big WM match (Undertaker!?!?!?) but my fear is it will be Bray Wyatt again. Although this is a good battle, I want more for Bryan and need that at Wrestlemania. Ok, rant over. I’d watch Daniel Bryan wrestle a mannequin and enjoy it. Wyatt is a brilliant character and is an adequate wrestler so I’m looking forward to this. Their is only one winner, Daniel Bryan.

Alex Reno: FINALLY, an actual match between Bryan and Wyatt without any interference from Harper or Rowan. We saw a glimpse of this when Bryan finally broke out of his spell of being a Wyatt. Bryan is constantly being struck down by the authority and it’s killing him. Not this time though. Bryan gets his revenge and the crowd goes nuts.

Matt Addie: Pick: Bryan. This one could go either way, and I’m actually really torn. Part of me thinks Bray will win as a precursor to a larger feud leading into Mania. The other part thinks WWE wants to build of that incredible ending to RAW two weeks ago and blow the Royal Rumble roof off with some massive YES! chants. I basically flipped a coin, because I’d be fine with either outcome.

Chris Langevin: I’m not saying anything here that hasn’t been said before but is there ANYONE more over than Daniel Bryan right now? What do we see that Vince doesn’t? Vince loves putting out the bigger guys that seem larger than life, but we aren’t all little kids that want superheroes anymore. That’s what sold in the 80s and 90s. We looked at Hulk Hogan like this otherworldly figure. Now, we want people we can relate to. This is why Stone Cold Steve Austin was so popular. We could relate to him. He was a beer drinking, swearing, rebel, that got to beat up his boss on a nightly basis. Man, what we all wouldn’t give to punch a boss every now and then, right? Well now look at the WWE. Who is there to relate to? John Cena? He is a nice guy, but he has a million dollar mansion, the nicest cars ever, and is clearly an otherworldly figure. Daniel Bryan is that guy we can all relate to. He is a scruffy, small, country dude that happens to be a great wrestler. He created a simple and effective catchphrase that we all want to chant along with. He is about to take the big step, but I will discuss that later. For here, I would have to say Bray Wyatt will win. Somehow, someway, Rowan and Harper will get involved and Bray will find some dastardly act to get ahead and take out Bryan in a cheap manner. All to swerve us from something bigger…

• The Big Show vs. Brock Lesnar

Hank Booth: Way to waste the talents of a man you only have at your disposal for a handful of months a year WWE! Brrrrrock Lesnar deserves better. Sorry Show, it’s the truth. You could make this match incredible if you end it with Show hitting Lesnar with that KO punch and Brock shaking his finger at him like Dikembe Mutombo then finishing him with the F5. You can go ahead and steal that idea if you want to change your sub par script WWE. I won’t get mad. Show will have his moments but Lesnar emerges victorious and hopefully gets a better story line heading into WM.

Sean Sheehan: You get Brock Lesnar back, one of the most athletic men on earth, and you match him against the Big Show. He may as well be wrestling the Great Khali. I hate this match and wonder is it anything to do with UFC president Dana White saying he has been talking to Lesnar lately. Why make a poster boy for another company, again? I don’t care who wins but it will probably be Lesnar because they need him for ‘Mania.

Alex Reno: Meh. I usually really like these matches with Lesnar being a big part Rumble and Wrestlemania, but I just can’t get invested in this one. Big Show goes from dressing up like a baby not too long ago, to trying to convince us that he’s bigger and badder than Brock Lesnar? Sorry bud, I’m not buying it. Lesnar wins.

Matt Addie: Pick: Lesnar. Is there anything for WWE to gain from having Big Show win this match? Actually, don’t waste your time thinking about that, because there isn’t. I actually expect this to be somewhat of a squash to showcase Lesnar’s brutality leading into his title chase. If Big Show wins, I riot (now, that’s a t-shirt).

Chris Langevin: This is going to be a brutal match. Not only are they the two biggest (literally) superstars in the WWE, but they both wrestle very brutal styles. And to Brock’s credit, since he came back to the WWE, he has been wrestling at 300 miles an hour. His first match v. John Cena last year at Extreme Rules, he took a bump over the top rope that 90% of the guys that are on part-time schedules would never take. He has done it over and over the past few weeks and his past few matches, and it will be no different here. I am really looking forward to this and feel as though how they’ve been booking the build to this match, it will be Brock Lesnar who wins. He will find a way to overcome the Big Show’s brutal strength with some feats of strength himself, and win this match with an awesome F5 to the Big Show.

• WWE World Heavyweight Championship: Randy Orton (C) vs. John Cena

Hank Booth: Cena doesn’t need any titles to be a draw. Orton does. He’s not even really knocking anyone’s socks off as the first ever WWE World Heavyweight Champion either. Still though, heading into this historic of a WM Vince will want his poster boy carrying the belts. He needed Rocky to do it last year, and he wants Cena to do it this year. Cena takes it and headlines WrestleMania against…see below…. and Orton gets a new rival. HHH maybe in a swerve of sorts? We’ll just have to wait and see.

Sean Sheehan: When these two met at the last PPV I was convinced it was only going one way and picked Cena. It turned out to be a masterstroke by the WWE and put Orton over, initially at least. I’m not sure what direction they are taking here but the WWE doesn’t change things up much; and with Wrestlemania looming they will want a dominant champion to have in one of the 3 “main” events. Therefore my pick is Orton but I don’t think it will be as clean this time. And don’t be surprised if good old Triple H tries to steal all the spotlight again to set up a Wrestlemania match against the loser here.

Alex Reno: Another who do you dislike more match between Orton and Cena. Would you rather see Randy Orton continue to hold onto the unified belt and endure another 2 months of dullness, or would you rather see

forever? I guess I’d rather see Cena win, because Randy Orton has been unbearable lately. His gimmick of attacking everyone’s family is lame, and he’s terrible on the microphone. That being said, I don’t think Orton will lose his belt until Wrestlemania. Orton wins, lol.

Matt Addie: Pick: Orton. This pick boils down to who you expect to win the Royal Rumble, or at the very least, who you expect to be in the title scene at Wrestlemania. Batista, Brock Lesnar, Daniel Bryan and CM Punk are all possibilities for WM30, but each only makes logical sense for Cena or Orton; not both. I’m of the belief that Batista was brought back to take on Orton, so that’s what I’m going with. By the way, I got through that entire thing without mentioning the skinny jeans. That last time doesn’t count.

Chris Langevin: I have to say that I am actually torn about this match. Let me first say, I don’t care about this match. I’m not a John Cena or Randy Orton hater like most of the internet wrestling community, but I honestly am just sick of seeing them fight each other. The WWE is trying to build it up like it is some great feud like Hogan v. Andre or Savage v. Hogan, but really it just falls flat every time. Their matches are never that special to me. What I’m torn about is I don’t know who will end up winning. I know they are planting seeds for a Randy Orton v. Batista match at Wrestlemania from their encounter this past Monday, but in the same right, I think this is all a swerve for something different (as you see in my Rumble prediction). I am just going to go out on a limb and say John Cena will win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Just because.

• 2014 Royal Rumble Match

Hank Booth: Batista is the heavy favorite here. We’ve been made to believe he’ll win due to his big return earlier in the week, and rightfully so. Bryan has gone on record saying he in no way, shape or form will be involved in this match. Which means he very well could be. Reigns is the darkhorse. I truly believe that if you had him win this match he’d live up to everything the WWE wanted him to be and so much more in the role of WM 30 headliner. Punk is Punk. We know he’s coming in as the #1 entrant and we know he has that iron man mentality that will see him lasting for a very, very long time in this match. So who’ll be the last man standing? How about we talk about my favorite part of the Rumble instead. The surprise entrants!

Last year was fun in terms of surprises at the Rumble. We had Jericho’s return early on and we also had Goldust coming back and getting into it with Cody. We also had The Godfather’s short lived return for some always welcome comic relief. This year is a special one though. Depending on who you listen to for your information there are either 5 or 10 open spots as we head into the Royal Rumble match. Let’s fill some of them up.

Sheamus is a lock. He’s gonna get a huge pop when he enters very early and he’s gonna go deep into the match. One can only hope that he returns as a heel tomorrow on RAW because lord knows we need a good heel right now and Sheamus can play both sides just as good as anyone. I think Jericho is a lock as well. I know the same thing happened last year but I could see him coming in at the #2 spot because of his history with Punk. Either way, that #2 spot has to be reserved for either him or Sheamus. The Ultimate Warrior will also come back tonight. I know it’s a long shot, but it would set all of Pittsburgh, and every TV set tuned in on fire. Jake the Snake looked great at Old School Raw and also deserves a spot in the Rumble. You could do some fun stuff with him and Ambrose to carry on that bit. Papa Shango and Jimmy Wang Yang have also teased, and been teased on social media as possible entrants. Ricardo Rodriguez would be another fun one considering Del Rio is in the match. Also, don’t rule out your COO and DOO: HHH and Kane. I wouldn’t put it past Hunter to steal the limelight and the Rumble to headline WM himself. That’s just not “Best for business” though. Now onto the winner.

If Batista wins, it’ll be a waste. But it wouldn’t surprise me, or any of you guys, right? It’s just no fun, unless you’re a big fan of ‘The Animal’ and if that’s the case – awesome. Good for you. If Bryan wins – that’s the ultimate crowd pleaser. He’s done more than enough to earn the opportunity to headline the biggest event of the year. Daniel Bryan deserves this. There is no one hotter in the world of wrestling than him right now and if the WWE is smart than they would give him the keys and let him drive this thing for as long as the fans want. Punk being the first entrant though, that tells me that he’s going to win this thing. He’s the ultimate iron man right now and after his 434 day run as champion he also deserves to headline WrestleMania at least once or twice before he retires. His time is now. We know Punk and Cena can put on some great matches, their match at RAW before last years Mania was one of the greatest matches of all-time, and we know he has the silver tongue in terms of promotion. These two just work so well together. Whether they do it as babyfaces, or Punk turns heel again, this would be a great match to represent the company on the grandest stage of them all. CM Punk will finally headline WrestleMania. Well, that’s just my prediction.

Sean Sheehan: The Royal Rumble is by far my favourite match of the year and one I’ve loved since I was a kid throwing my friends over the back of a couch after school. My pick normally here would be CM Punk but seeing him come in a number one makes it doubtful. I do think, though, that Punk will be there at the end to be eliminated by Rumble winner . . . Batista. (Sidenote: I hope the Undertaker makes an appearance to set up his WM match)

Alex Reno: Last year, Dolph Ziggler entered the Royal Rumble match as the #1 participant and made it all the way to the end with Ryback, Sheamus and Cena. This year Punk is the #1 entrant courtesy of Kane’s corporate rage, and he will do the same. Batista and Punk will be two of the final four guaranteed. I’m going to guess that one of the others will be a member of the Shield, most likely Roman Reigns because of his likely push proceeding Rumble, and the fact that he was the only one to beat the Best in the World in CM Punk. Sometime during the match, Reigns will eliminate both Rollins and Ambrose and we will finally see the breakup that I’ve wrongly predicted countless times.

We’ll also see either Cody Rhodes eliminate is brother Goldust, or vice versa, and Jimmy eliminate Jey Uso because why the hell not? Families will be ruined, and Shields will be broken. This event has betrayal written all over it, much like last years Money in the Bank. As a result, Punk gets eliminated by Batista. Reigns gets all the way to the final 2 or 3 and gets eliminated, but it gives him a big push leading to Wreslemania. Batista wins and gets a title shot because it’s the most predictable thing to do. And we get to see a couple of exciting surprise appearances, highlighted by the return of STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN. WHAT?!

Matt Addie: Pick: Batista. Who else has a legitimate shot? CM Punk, maybe. I honestly can’t think of anyone else, unless WWE throws a curve and throws Lesnar into the mix. I think Roman Reigns will make some noise; I tweeted the other day that I could see a Reigns/Batista final two, and I haven’t moved from that opinion. Of course the other questions revolve around who will the surprise entrants will be. RVD, Jericho, Sheamus, and Christian all could possibly return, but WWE probably has a bigger surprise tucked away. Sting, anyone?

Chris Langevin: Okay, so easy money says Batista right? I mean, they just had his big return before the Royal Rumble. He had the face-off with Randy Orton. He is pretty much a LOCK to win this. So I am going to go in a completely different direction because that isn’t fun. I think this is where Daniel Bryan should win. You have Bray Wyatt beat him earlier in the night to make us not think that Daniel could win this. Bray beat him, then he surely won’t win the Rumble match, but I think it would be a swerve to get him to win. He would put that loss behind him for a bigger accomplishment. He could come out and eliminate Rowan and Harper, as payback for whatever role they played in his match earlier in the night. The match would then come down to Batista v. Daniel Bryan at the end. The two favorites that would expect to win. The crowd would be all behind Bryan, but ultimately, as I said before, would know Batista would be the winner because he is a LOCK to win this, right? Then bam! Daniel Bryan in some miraculous way eliminates Batista to head to Wrestlemania to face the Champion in the Main Event. It would be the ultimate underdog achievement. Think about this… the Royal Rumble PPV closes with Daniel Bryan standing on the top rope, staring at the Wrestlemania XXX logo, points to it, the pyro goes off, and the entire crowd is in unison doing the Yes! chant. THAT is how you make a new superstar. THAT is how this PPV should end. And THAT is how I think it will end. Daniel Bryan is heading to Wrestlemania to regain his Championship, for REAL this time.