THE WRESTLING THREAD: HHH KEEPS DOING HHH THINGS.....
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Word, Allah blesses WB. That's how I catch all these events live (and in crystal clear quality, guaranteed not to go down) all the time.
What is WB?
I was watching it on some Russian feed.
What was up with Jeff that night anyway? Was he high as shit or something?
This.
It wasn't a bad WM, despite my rant. It was just ok. One of the middling ones, when it all comes down to it.
Just to put things into perspective, one of the worst Wrestlemanias was during my favorite era (Wrestmania 15 - Attitude era). That was LITERALLY a one match show, EVERYTHING else was skippable or downright awful (Hell in the Cell isn't even mentioned in the anthology, for example).
@ myself for ordering that live back in the day during high school.This year's was no where near that level. And some matches actually got decent time to build and progress (Punk/Orton, Rey/Rhodes, Edge/Del Rio, HHH/Undertaker). Those matches were all pretty good or great.
The main event was a bit underwhelming overall, but not bad. The ending was memorable, but predictable. I will say, had the match had some tighter booking it would've gave a better lasting impression of this event as a whole. But still, objectively speaking, this was a decent/middling Wrestlemania.
But just think how much better it would've been had Cole/Lawler been trimmed down substantially, Sheamus/Danielson been left on the card, and, perhaps, the Snooki fiasco not have been so high up the card. They could've used The Corre match for that spot.
C/S
While Miz must carry some blame, Cena was the biggest culprit. I don't know why creative did not give them a gimmick match to hide the blatant flaws in both wrestlers.
worst wm ever
worst wm ever
It's just fresh in your mind right now. Looking back objectively, and comparing the full cards, you'll see that it was better than WM2,WM9,WM11,and WM15 easily. Better than WM1 as well, but maybe that gets a pass for being the first.
It was aight from my perspective. For instance, I watched it for free, decent quality and in Spanish, which was actually kinda funny (those spanish commentators are hilarious) and it was better than hearing Michael Cole trying to be Vince McMahon, so it was just aight.
If I would've went, which I could've, it would've been cool because of the experience.
But if I had paid the 65 dollars to watch it on TV, I would be pissed right now.
The best moment to me was the ridiculousness of Cena's entrance.
If I would've went, which I could've, it would've been cool because of the experience.
But if I had paid the 65 dollars to watch it on TV, I would be pissed right now.
The best moment to me was the ridiculousness of Cena's entrance.
I enjoyed it. I'll buy the DVD...just for the Taker/HHH match alone. Ending of show was predictable, but entertaining. Overall I'd give the PPV a B.
This WM reminds me alot of X8, that ppv had questionable booking and the main event was a letdown but looking back it was a decent WM. Wrestlemania is alot like the superbowl in the sense of watching it on tv and seeing a blowout in the making can piss you off, but the experience of being there live makes you forget all the garbage.
I think it's a setup for his match next year when he retires. Like they're going to use all that footage of him barely getting up and rolling around and shit in next year's montage to make it look like he's ready to retire. Then use him having to be carried off in a stretcher as the reason he won't be around for the next few months, or even the rest of the year.
If I recall, Undertaker is supposed to go into surgery after this Wrestlemania. Basically they'll be selling this match as if HHH put him out but Taker will just be healing from his already scheduled surgery he had set.
Correction: still healing from injury/surgery on rotator cuff and will be very limited after this WM.
Correction: still healing from injury/surgery on rotator cuff and will be very limited after this WM.
That's to explain him not being around for at least a good 4 or 5 months.As well as him nearing the end of his career.
So they got rid of Money in the Bank and pushed Sheamus-Daniel Bryan into a dark match so they could give all that time to Cole-Lawler which may be the worst Wrestlemania match ever. I was hoping for a Skip Sheffield run in during the Punk-Orton match and an Awesome Kong run in during the 6 person match.
ROH was so much better than Wrestlemania this weekend it's ridiculous.
ROH was so much better than Wrestlemania this weekend it's ridiculous.
Actually, I'd say WM27, overall, is better than WM18. And before anyone goes "
" the ONLY match anyone rewatches from that show is Rock/Hogan and MAYBE (and this is a big MAYBE) HHH/Jericho because of the Hell in the Cell gimmick.This show at least had 4 good/great matches that are good enough to be rewatched. Granted, none will be remembered as well as Rock/Hogan, but as a whole show...
WM27 >> WM18
I haven't even seen the new ROH event and already assume as much.
Plus, as crazy as this may sound, I still think it was a good idea to nix the Money in the Bank match so we can actually keep every match on the card to having a story and buildup. In theory, that should always be better than, "Hey we can't think anything to do with these guys. How about we just throw them all in a match together, plan some "cool" spots, and call it a day?"
Now, in saying that, the WWE is still stupid to have Cole/Lawler go on as long as they did, and not have Sheamus/Danielson eat up 10 or some minutes of that time instead.
No title changes @ Mania
maybe there will be on Raw and friday on Smackdown
They're having the WWE Draft on April 18th.
And the Rock will be on Raw tonight according to WWE.com
And Sin Cara will make his debut Raw tonight.
And the Rock will be on Raw tonight according to WWE.com
And Sin Cara will make his debut Raw tonight.
WWE has nixed the use of the word "wrestling", just read it on a wrestling site!!! WTF!!?? Guess next year its just gonna be "Mania"
Vince is coming off like howard hughes near the end of his life, i wouldn't put it past him to get rid of wrestling all together and have the wrestlers perform stand up
Im rewatching Mania on dailymotion and honestly it's better the second time around, i Cena is still god awful but overall it was still pretty entertaining. The set was very impressive imo and ranks up there with the X7 and 24 sets also i normally don't like keri hilson but she did a very nice job much better than fantasia and that train wreck last year. Snookie hitting that handspring was cool i'll give her that, but im still pissed that we got so much of Cole/Lawler and no Sheamus/Danielson.
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after some sleep.......it's still the worst wm ever
Fair enough. Just for fun, apart from Rock vs Austin (which of course is better than anything on the WM27 card) are there ANY matches on there better than Rey/Rhodes, HHH/Undertaker, Punk/Orton, or Edge/Del Rio? The simple answer is no, so therefore it's not the worst Wrestlemania by a longshot.
It's fun, every year, to say "this is the worst Wrestlemania ever," but that is rarely the case.
Just keeping it honest.
I've watched wrestling for over over 27 yrs and that by far was one of the worst mania's i've seen...EVER....the only good match was the taker match and they damn near killed him rushing him back to wrestle it...the fact they had to get the rock...austin...back should sound the alarms.
Vince has did a poor job developing storylines and paid for it this year..he ran the nexus into the ground and yes there must be a draft ASAP to fix this wacky roster.
Vince has did a poor job developing storylines and paid for it this year..he ran the nexus into the ground and yes there must be a draft ASAP to fix this wacky roster.
You do know that's an "angle" right?
Anyway, you'll certainly be in the minority not to think the other 3 matches I listed were good. And again, you REALLY think (apart from Rock/Austin) any match off of Wrestlemania 15 was better than the those 4 matches I listed. Seriously?
Different strokes I guess, but the matches in this year's Wrestlemania certainly had MUCH better stories and were better worked than the "lemme just press random select this year" booking approach of Wrestlemania 15 (on the whole), and the fact that most matches there were well under 10 minutes or were just downright AWFUL (Hell in the Cell from Wrestlemania 15...defend that, I dare you).
Yea man there were some good matches on Wrestlemania. I don't understand the hate. But like you said, its just always fun for dudes to say "this is the worst......".
But yo.....did Snookie really hit that shit she did or did they get a stunt double? That shocked the shit out of me. I thought it was funny how everyone boo'd her then shit hits that flip and everyone collectively said "OH SHIT".
They brought the Rock and Stone Cold back because those were the "celebrity's" of this Wrestlemania as was Snookie. I've seen a lot of bad Wrestlemania's. I just don't see how anyone can point this one out as being the worst. There was some good matches and from some new talent like Del Rio, Cody Rhode's, etc. Yea some of it was corny but that's always been apart of wrestling.
It was definitely not the worst...and not even one of the worst in my opinion. Taker & HHH put everything into their match. Edge/Del Rio was great...Orton/Punk was better than I expected...I-C, US and tag belts should have been defended, but I guess I'm too "wrestling" minded for Vince's current product.
Wow I just realized none of those belts were defended. Unbelievable. The Tag Team division needs to be rebooted and ASAP.
Yeah anybody who says this is the worst has never seen 2,4,9,13 (minus Austin/Bret),15,20(minus HHH/Benoit/HBK), and 25(minus Taker/HBK). It's wasn't the greatest but i'll get it when it comes out on dvd, Miz had a great hype video and Cena im sorry but imo he's done and i don' think a heel turn will work.
