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March Wrasslin' |OT| Forecast for Wrestlemania...cloudy with a heavy chance of Reigns
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It's fucking Hulk Hogan!
I guess this is the GOTY Edition of WWE 2K15.
Don't hold your breath.
smh......just plain smh...
ShadowsFell
Member
I wish there was more Natalya in this thread.
ShadowsFell
Member
Yes!SFW?
It's like a Natalya highlights package AND because it's grainy, it's like it's censored and therefore SFW
I'll try my best to eliminate creepshots in april, friend heel
ShadowsFell
Member
It's starting to feel like Christmas in here you guys.
Ah, golden hair. One of my true loves.
Ah, golden hair. One of my true loves.
Well if it's Instagram photos or wwe photoshoots I thinks it's ok.
But the whole shoving a camera up a girl's rear at house shows. Settle down man.
UrbanDandy
Member
SFW?
they would've made one heck of a tag team
if the WWE would just initiate a Divas tag team. but lolVince
CHRISTMAS?!
That is like the most heel Christmas getup of all time.
What if the camera is up my rear at the house show? A colonoscopy, if you weeellll.
ShadowsFell
Member
That picture confuses me in some ways, but overall is still pleasing.CHRISTMAS?!
That is like the most heel Christmas getup of all time.
What if the camera is up my rear at the house show? A colonoscopy, if you weeellll.
I'm gonna have to get one of those done in two years. :|
JPeeples83
Member
They're not that bad. Night before/morning of isn't exactly fun, but the procedure itself is pain-free.
You can't kill the AssBiz Era, friend.
Nocturnowl
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Safe to say that the tug or war (if it can even be called that) from the end of Raw was enough to deflate the last dredges of air from a main event feud gasping for life, which once again leads me to look at past WM events to see when things can go great and when they can go straight up awful, from one end of the spectrum to another.
Wrestlemania X-7
The granddaddy of the granddaddy of them all (which is no longer the granddaddy because it makes WM sound old dammit!).
What's impressive to me about this card is just how consistent it feels throughout even when the odds seem against it.
Like you've got Kane and Big Show tussling in a hardcore match with Raven slotted firmly in the no chance in hell third man role, it feels so throwaway yet they make the match work through sheer backstage silliness and spectacle, plus Kane looks like a boss with that finish.
APA and Tazz vs Right to Censor? brief, fast and to the point. Test vs Eddie Guerrero reminds me that I actually liked Test quite a lot back then. Even the Women's title squash seems appropriate after the injury build from the Rumble that made Ivory getting crushed kinda cathartic.
Rewatching Regal/Jericho just made me think Regal was owning that match. Benoit/Angle suffers from me recalling their 2003 Rumble encounter which I'd much rather watch instead.
Vince and Shane leverage cheesy drama to its advantage, while the match itself is nothing special outside the staple Shane O Mac spots it's hard not the be drawn in by the HIGH DRAMA of the McMahon family taking over the match leading to a mammoth pop for Linda McMahon simply standing up, as an aside man she played that sedated role well in a completely unflinching kinda way.
The match that didn't hold up quite so well for me was the original HHH/Taker encounter that WWE seems to try and sweep under the rug containing the most hilariously long ref bumps going. I suppose with many other matches on the card pulling the No DQ angle something had to give somewhere, still I'm not sure the Ref would be out long enough for a drawn out trip through the crowd and scaffold tower, that chokeslam spot looks great until Taker jumps down and you see just how cushy the landing is.
I'll always love the Sledgehammer counter to the Last Ride and the origins of the now overused corner punches into last ride spot. But in any case as much as I tend to dump on the modern HHH/Taker matches for being overwrought dead time filled forced spectacle they might actually come off a touch better than this match feeling like an odd jumble of events resembling a match.
TLC2 is TLC2, reliable fun but not surprising, its a strong feather in X7's cap regardless and boy does Paul Heyman love his Rhyno.
No amount of My Way (from WWE's favourite band in the world by the way) can disguise that really they dropped a bollock with the Rock/Austin 2 build, towards the end of the video reel they're literally repeating the same bits of finisher footage to the point of "yeah, I get it".
The aura of the match up alone does the job and the actual finish cements its legacy enough that you can just handwave that whole Debra management side story quite handily. I will never grow tired of JR calling the finale and post match segment, dude is losing it "they might as well urinate on the Rock!"
Ah Classic, this led me to check out the following Smackdown and the Austin interview with JR cracks me up, Super Heel Austin was a lot of fun.
Wrestlemania 29
Despite this only being two years old I'm amazed at just how much of this card I'd forgotten.
Initially I just put in on to watch the opening Shield match where I watched Roman Reigns booked in a way that seems almost alien to me now and probably spoiled myself on a bunch of Rollins and Orton moments that'll be repackaged this sunday (and yes, diving into an RKO is among them). Sheamus seemingly still stinging from his booking over the past year, the guy is fun to watch but he's getting more sneaky boos than the Big Show who humorously pouts his way to the finish after not getting tagged in.
Ah buy anyway thus begins me constantly cycling through the thoughts of "wait, this was a mania match?". Ryback takes a loss to Mark Henry and then hits him with the Shellshock afterwards anyway so they might as well have just given him the win.
Fandango makes his debut beating Jericho on the grandest stage of them all which amounts to jackshit in the long run or even the short run, I appreciate trying to build new talent but this match is like an example of how to bungle that quite handily, Y2J ain't worth any EXP these days and of course its a "fluke" finish.
Super over Daniel Bryan is saddled with tag duty and that's actually okay with me because I'm a Kaneanite and Team Hell No was the last good run Good Guy Glenn had. Though I'll always thing Ziggler could've rustled up a better partner than Big E who is serviceable yet has like no star power whatsoever at this stage making the match feel more throwaway than it actually is.
Remember Swagger vs Del Rio for the WHC? remember Swagger effectively getting jobber entranced for his big title match because we needed a concert before this match? three years straight of Wrestlemania dumping on the WHC concludes in suitably forgettable style, I sometimes think they should've done the Ziggler cash in here but then the superior event of Raw After Mania wouldn't have been quite so fun.
Punk vs Taker saves this show, up until this point it's like Sunday Night Raw with spectacle out the arse and not much else, fortunately Punk's last WM outing is a good one. It's sad to think this rivalry was basically saved by Bearer's passing, it gives an edge to the match and after years of Super Taker finisher fests its nice to just have a more standard face/heel Taker tussle, great stuff.
Trips/Lesnar as part two of the trilogy no one asked for, amazing how Trips bounced back from this tepid encounter to Bryan the following year. I think this is the last loss Lesnar took before he became Fuhrer God King Fighting Game Boss Lesnar of the modern day.
And then there's Twice in a Lifetime where Cena overcomes the odds of the worst year of his career or something, the one thing we all remember but don't want to, I'm convinced now that the ending visual of Rock and Cena caused my mind to wipe out the rest of the PPV.
Still I suppose it's not the worst WM of the modern era but to make sure I had to take another brief look at...
Wrestlemania 27: The arse end of the spectrum
Curse you morbid curiosity, well I can at least say I was just skipping through this one.
WM 27 is so tragic it takes one of its few intriguing matches in Sheamus/Bryan and slyly relegated it to the pre show on the night of the event while also turning it into a Battle Royal won by Khali, it's like it was trying to warn us of the dreck to come.
The rumble grants its winner the prestigious opportunity to curtain jerk and then lose, no wonder Del Rio never quite took off, at least in retrospect Edge winning was a nice send off for his sudden retirement.
Rhodes vs Mysterio might be the best match on the card, it's actually entertaining gets time to tell its story, plus who doesn't love Disfigured Cody Rhodes? and now it's all downhill from here.
Actually before getting into the true depths of despair there's that Orton/Punk match which I assume turned out passable with an inevitable flying nothing into RKO OUTTANOWHERE , to think this feud starts up based upon a punt from two years prior, be it that or a monstrous handshake Orton can't escape his past come Mania season.
And then the drizzling shits commence, throw away 2 minute multi man tag match? oh yeah, Slater never even gets to tag out in this one. Cole vs Lawler needs no introduction or explanation, how it got so much time is a true mystery. Also note since this is the time of Heel Cole his commentary is insufferable throughout the event, oh what fun.
Throwaway tag part 2 Snooki edition, I actually forgot Ziggler and Morrison were a part of this.
WWE cheap out on Metallica and Johnny Cash for the Taker/Trips entrances, that alone ensured I'd just stand by my memories for this one. Overcooked match that comes off a lot better for being on such a dreadful card, I'd rather watch the so stupid its better Hell in a Cell rematch.
Miz/Cena is a fascinating look at Cena not even trying to help Miz out there, lord knows he needs it, now more than ever but I guess Cena's too busy thinking about having to eat a rock bottom later on to care. Double count out fake out finish is like the perfect rancid cherry on the turd sundae, this match is less of a main event victory for Miz and more of an elaborate setup for next years main event evidenced further by Cena easily nabbing the title a few weeks later anyway and Miz sailing back off into midcard purgatory.
Take solace in the fact that WM31 can't possibly suck as much as this one did.
/musings
Wrestlemania X-7
The granddaddy of the granddaddy of them all (which is no longer the granddaddy because it makes WM sound old dammit!).
What's impressive to me about this card is just how consistent it feels throughout even when the odds seem against it.
Like you've got Kane and Big Show tussling in a hardcore match with Raven slotted firmly in the no chance in hell third man role, it feels so throwaway yet they make the match work through sheer backstage silliness and spectacle, plus Kane looks like a boss with that finish.
APA and Tazz vs Right to Censor? brief, fast and to the point. Test vs Eddie Guerrero reminds me that I actually liked Test quite a lot back then. Even the Women's title squash seems appropriate after the injury build from the Rumble that made Ivory getting crushed kinda cathartic.
Rewatching Regal/Jericho just made me think Regal was owning that match. Benoit/Angle suffers from me recalling their 2003 Rumble encounter which I'd much rather watch instead.
Vince and Shane leverage cheesy drama to its advantage, while the match itself is nothing special outside the staple Shane O Mac spots it's hard not the be drawn in by the HIGH DRAMA of the McMahon family taking over the match leading to a mammoth pop for Linda McMahon simply standing up, as an aside man she played that sedated role well in a completely unflinching kinda way.
The match that didn't hold up quite so well for me was the original HHH/Taker encounter that WWE seems to try and sweep under the rug containing the most hilariously long ref bumps going. I suppose with many other matches on the card pulling the No DQ angle something had to give somewhere, still I'm not sure the Ref would be out long enough for a drawn out trip through the crowd and scaffold tower, that chokeslam spot looks great until Taker jumps down and you see just how cushy the landing is.
I'll always love the Sledgehammer counter to the Last Ride and the origins of the now overused corner punches into last ride spot. But in any case as much as I tend to dump on the modern HHH/Taker matches for being overwrought dead time filled forced spectacle they might actually come off a touch better than this match feeling like an odd jumble of events resembling a match.
TLC2 is TLC2, reliable fun but not surprising, its a strong feather in X7's cap regardless and boy does Paul Heyman love his Rhyno.
No amount of My Way (from WWE's favourite band in the world by the way) can disguise that really they dropped a bollock with the Rock/Austin 2 build, towards the end of the video reel they're literally repeating the same bits of finisher footage to the point of "yeah, I get it".
The aura of the match up alone does the job and the actual finish cements its legacy enough that you can just handwave that whole Debra management side story quite handily. I will never grow tired of JR calling the finale and post match segment, dude is losing it "they might as well urinate on the Rock!"
Ah Classic, this led me to check out the following Smackdown and the Austin interview with JR cracks me up, Super Heel Austin was a lot of fun.
Wrestlemania 29
Despite this only being two years old I'm amazed at just how much of this card I'd forgotten.
Initially I just put in on to watch the opening Shield match where I watched Roman Reigns booked in a way that seems almost alien to me now and probably spoiled myself on a bunch of Rollins and Orton moments that'll be repackaged this sunday (and yes, diving into an RKO is among them). Sheamus seemingly still stinging from his booking over the past year, the guy is fun to watch but he's getting more sneaky boos than the Big Show who humorously pouts his way to the finish after not getting tagged in.
Ah buy anyway thus begins me constantly cycling through the thoughts of "wait, this was a mania match?". Ryback takes a loss to Mark Henry and then hits him with the Shellshock afterwards anyway so they might as well have just given him the win.
Fandango makes his debut beating Jericho on the grandest stage of them all which amounts to jackshit in the long run or even the short run, I appreciate trying to build new talent but this match is like an example of how to bungle that quite handily, Y2J ain't worth any EXP these days and of course its a "fluke" finish.
Super over Daniel Bryan is saddled with tag duty and that's actually okay with me because I'm a Kaneanite and Team Hell No was the last good run Good Guy Glenn had. Though I'll always thing Ziggler could've rustled up a better partner than Big E who is serviceable yet has like no star power whatsoever at this stage making the match feel more throwaway than it actually is.
Remember Swagger vs Del Rio for the WHC? remember Swagger effectively getting jobber entranced for his big title match because we needed a concert before this match? three years straight of Wrestlemania dumping on the WHC concludes in suitably forgettable style, I sometimes think they should've done the Ziggler cash in here but then the superior event of Raw After Mania wouldn't have been quite so fun.
Punk vs Taker saves this show, up until this point it's like Sunday Night Raw with spectacle out the arse and not much else, fortunately Punk's last WM outing is a good one. It's sad to think this rivalry was basically saved by Bearer's passing, it gives an edge to the match and after years of Super Taker finisher fests its nice to just have a more standard face/heel Taker tussle, great stuff.
Trips/Lesnar as part two of the trilogy no one asked for, amazing how Trips bounced back from this tepid encounter to Bryan the following year. I think this is the last loss Lesnar took before he became Fuhrer God King Fighting Game Boss Lesnar of the modern day.
And then there's Twice in a Lifetime where Cena overcomes the odds of the worst year of his career or something, the one thing we all remember but don't want to, I'm convinced now that the ending visual of Rock and Cena caused my mind to wipe out the rest of the PPV.
Still I suppose it's not the worst WM of the modern era but to make sure I had to take another brief look at...
Wrestlemania 27: The arse end of the spectrum
Curse you morbid curiosity, well I can at least say I was just skipping through this one.
WM 27 is so tragic it takes one of its few intriguing matches in Sheamus/Bryan and slyly relegated it to the pre show on the night of the event while also turning it into a Battle Royal won by Khali, it's like it was trying to warn us of the dreck to come.
The rumble grants its winner the prestigious opportunity to curtain jerk and then lose, no wonder Del Rio never quite took off, at least in retrospect Edge winning was a nice send off for his sudden retirement.
Rhodes vs Mysterio might be the best match on the card, it's actually entertaining gets time to tell its story, plus who doesn't love Disfigured Cody Rhodes? and now it's all downhill from here.
Actually before getting into the true depths of despair there's that Orton/Punk match which I assume turned out passable with an inevitable flying nothing into RKO OUTTANOWHERE , to think this feud starts up based upon a punt from two years prior, be it that or a monstrous handshake Orton can't escape his past come Mania season.
And then the drizzling shits commence, throw away 2 minute multi man tag match? oh yeah, Slater never even gets to tag out in this one. Cole vs Lawler needs no introduction or explanation, how it got so much time is a true mystery. Also note since this is the time of Heel Cole his commentary is insufferable throughout the event, oh what fun.
Throwaway tag part 2 Snooki edition, I actually forgot Ziggler and Morrison were a part of this.
WWE cheap out on Metallica and Johnny Cash for the Taker/Trips entrances, that alone ensured I'd just stand by my memories for this one. Overcooked match that comes off a lot better for being on such a dreadful card, I'd rather watch the so stupid its better Hell in a Cell rematch.
Miz/Cena is a fascinating look at Cena not even trying to help Miz out there, lord knows he needs it, now more than ever but I guess Cena's too busy thinking about having to eat a rock bottom later on to care. Double count out fake out finish is like the perfect rancid cherry on the turd sundae, this match is less of a main event victory for Miz and more of an elaborate setup for next years main event evidenced further by Cena easily nabbing the title a few weeks later anyway and Miz sailing back off into midcard purgatory.
Take solace in the fact that WM31 can't possibly suck as much as this one did.
/musings
Yeah the prep/cleanse before is by far the worst part.
ShadowsFell
Member
I am an equal fan of Ms. Phoenix.Stop browsing neogaf at work instead of working anyways, you millenials.
lovely ladies
Member
You thought we could be decent men, in an indecent time. But you were wrong.
They were glorious, like most of Christians career.
Its so fucking amazing.
They could have stopped the show right there and it still would have been the best mania ever.
I know, it should have been Steph.
Cheetos is Pretty Awesome
Member
So is Lanny accepting the award/speaking on behalf of Savage? I always enjoy hearing his super-deep voice on interviews.
If someone can make this a transparent avatar for me I would love you forever. This is the perfect WM themed avatar.
notworksafe
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One of the commercials during Raw yesterday proclaimed #WM31 to be the official hashtag of Wreslemania. Does that mean Vince got over his numbers obsession?
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lovely ladies
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This is seriously what Vince McMahon must picture Roman Reigns to be in his mind.
Bull Dempsey's timeline sure got dark.
Sweeney Tom
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