WWE Halftime Heat For Super Bowl LIX? | Question Of The Day

Welcome to another eWrestlingNews Question of the Day!

WWE Halftime Heat happened three times in 1999, 2000 and 2019, but what if that were to come back today during Super Bowl LIX?

Let’s say you’re watching the Philadelphia Eagles hopefully beating the Kansas City Chiefs (boo me, I’m from NJ haha) and during halftime, you can switch off from those commercials and festivities and tune in to Netflix or Peacock and check out a special WWE broadcast in 2025.

My question for you today is “What would you book for this 2025 Halftime Heat special in this fantasy scenario?”

Remember to answer with your response in the comments below.

As far as my answer…

You want to bring in some casuals and appeal to a wide audience. There also needs to be a time limit, so you can’t really include more than one match, realistically, because entrances alone would take up forever if you did 2 matches. Hell, that means you can’t include someone like Roman Reigns at all if you want his entrance factored in, since that would eat up the whole time. So what can you do that has potential mainstream appeal but isn’t already ruining something ahead of WrestleMania?

In an ideal scenario, I think you’re booking John Cena in a match against Logan Paul. That’s going to be the biggest possible thing you can pull off that would get the most attention. But that might not be worth it, since you might want to save that for a premium live event. It depends on the cost/risk/reward ratio and of course, I’m not the guy to be crunching those numbers, but I’d assume we’d get a report from the Nick Khans and other executives to say yea/nay one way or another.

I’d honestly consider going with Tiffany Stratton against Nia Jax for the WWE Women’s Championship as an option, but my big detractor there is that it means so much more if a title changes hands, and I don’t think Jax winning would be the right call. If you’re going to put a title on the line, people will want to see it shift, not stay where it was, so while there’s an appeal of getting someone like Stratton on screen and the David vs Goliath aspect, I think that lack of a title change eliminates it from the list.

Unfortunately, the same goes for every other title right now, as none of them could change hands other than maybe Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez beating Bianca Belair and Naomi for the women’s tag titles. That is still a heel winning, though, and I think they’d lean more toward a babyface victory, unless the angle is the curiosity over how the heels cheat to win or something. I’d give a strong consideration to that. Four attractive women aren’t going to be a bad selling point, either, and doing the first-ever women’s version of Halftime Heat sends a good message, too.

CM Punk and Seth Rollins wouldn’t work for me because casuals wouldn’t be aware of the story. Cody Rhodes retaining the WWE Championship wouldn’t work right now as he has nobody to beat that a casual would be interested in, since they just did the ladder match at the Royal Rumble. If that had been pushed off to this show instead of Royal Rumble, then that could definitely have been the Halftime Heat, though, as a ladder match would be exciting to watch for even someone brand new.

In any case, enjoy the Super Bowl today no matter who you cheer for, get some pizza and wings and whatever else you might munch on, and by the way, if you feel like checking out my audio commentary track while rewatching the original Halftime Heat Empty Arena Match between The Rock and Mankind, join the Darkcast tier of my YouTube channel and check out this podcast: