So since Wrestlemania time is upon us i've been in the mood to watch previous WM matches, oh it was all going so well until today when I decided I would rewatch what WWE would like to call the "greatest match in WM history", last years HHH/Taker match.
Why is this match held in such high regard again? going from watching Taker/HBK at WM25 to this was almost painful, it's the finisher fest to end all finisher fests, after about 5 minutes it turns into a big move, lengthy recovery time, big move, lengthy recovery and so on in that fashion for the matches duration. Now I remember why I was so opposed to this years rematch, another huge chunk of WM is going to be devoted to watching 2 men lie on the canvas to oversell the damage of their repeated signature moves for like 40 minutes.
The final segment (which equates to like 15 minutes on the whole, 10 of which consist of Taker's nap time) is basically burying time as HHH fires off multiple finishers including finisher theft like he's got a full stock of stored finishers in the older SD games, repeatedly hits Taker with a chair and laughs in the face of Undertaker's chokeslam attempt by shaking his head in disgust at taker's feeble grip, yet he still looks like crap because Taker is kicking out of everything anyway, and after all of that Trips stumbles into hells gate and gets choked out.....only to be better off that Taker a minute or two later. Not even the addition of J.R can add much to this match cause there's only so much he can talk about when nothing is really happening.
I'm almost hoping this years match starts off with HBK superkicking HHH and Taker immediately pins with a fast counting HBK. But hey maybe they can pull off something more like WM 17 instead so here's hoping, just think that back then the whole corner ten punch into last ride was actually a new and unique idea.
Also WWE replaced Taker's Johnny Cash entrance theme with the usual Taker dirge of increasing boredom, curses!
