Oba Femi .vs. Brock Lesnar - The Most Anticipated WrestleMania 42 Match

Oba Femi versus Brock Lesnar is the WrestleMania 42 match which has garnered the most interest from people on the X social media platform leading into this weekend's pro wrestling extravaganza.

That is the findings from the people at BetOnline, who have carried out research to rank all of the matches on the Mania 42 card using over 142,000 posts published on X since the start of this month.

Femi versus Lesnar was the most talked about contest with 31% of the results. Surprisingly, Seth Rollins .vs. Gunther and the ladder match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship are second and third - with respective percentages of 16% and 11% - before the list reaches what will be the overall main event - Sunday's clash between World Heavyweight Champion, CM Punk, and his challenger - Roman Reigns.

The Punk versus Reigns contest had 9.6% of the breakdown. It is ahead of the Women's World Championship match (7.5%) and the now controversial Undisputed WWE Championship clash between Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton (7%).

I was not surprised to see Oba Femi versus Brock Lesnar at the top of this graph. In my opinion, it has been the best built match on the Road to WrestleMania. 

With that said, I am somewhat stunned to see Gunther .vs. Seth Rollins, and even the ladder match, ahead of Punk versus Reigns and Rhodes .vs. Orton.

The only reasoning I can think of is to point to the date the research began. April 1st was a couple of days after Gunther attacked Seth Rollins on the Raw from Madison Square Garden to set up their WrestleMania involvement. I surmise that enough people would have been talking about that stunning turn of events, considering Rollins - on paper - looked locked into a battle with a healthy member of The Vision before the attack from The Ring General.

I don't know if my theory holds much water when another big angle from early April is factored into the equation.

I'm stunned that Pat McAfee's introduction to the Rhodes/Orton feud, as well as his back-and-forth barbs with CM Punk (therefore making people talk about Punk/Reigns), has seemingly not impacted this graph.

McAfeee has been the talk of the industry, both positive but more negatively, since his heel turn. I would have expected that alone to have beefed up the percentages for the two main events.

BetOnline has been accepting wagers on this year's WrestleMania since the first week of February. I have tracked the price changes throughout that time.

Below are tables for each market, in the order as they appear on the BetOnline Website.

Rusev's odds have lowered from +3,300 into +1,200. That's likely following the Bulgarian Brute being booked the strongest in an angle on last night's Raw which saw him beat down his fellow match participants.

I noted that Zayn has flipped into favourite in this afternoon's post. Williams' price as underdog has since moved from +135 into +110.