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March Wrasslin' |OT| The March to Wrestlemania XXXIII!
- Thread starter Bluekaveli
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/4jcjo7/every_wrestlemania_main_event_ranked_by_meltzer/
By the Meltzer scale, it's right in the middle.
But one man's opinion isnt that of everyone.
Orton vs Triple H is the worst WM main event ever. It was dull and heatless, nothing got a reaction.
Dragon Gate golden rules:
Everything matters
Multi year long stories
Vast conspiracy board esque relationship trees
CIMA wins LOL
Yoshino wins LOL
Shingo = HHH except a better worker but the same negatives of being the most important person in the promotion even if he isn't on screen etc etc etc
Dope commentators
Dumbest most gullible and easily abused ref in the world
Long ass meandering Dream Gate matches
Everything matters
Multi year long stories
Vast conspiracy board esque relationship trees
CIMA wins LOL
Yoshino wins LOL
Shingo = HHH except a better worker but the same negatives of being the most important person in the promotion even if he isn't on screen etc etc etc
Dope commentators
Dumbest most gullible and easily abused ref in the world
Long ass meandering Dream Gate matches
slightconfuse
Banned
Time to bury some marks
Time to bury some marks
Also read there will be a Kurt Angle interview on this show.
Of course not, but it's a good gauge.
Also, heat is only one component of greatness. Andre and Hogan had much heat, but was it a technically a good wrestling match?
3 1/4 is too high for that match
Yup. Overshadowed by an absolutely shit show and the fact the build to that women's match was hot garbage. It was a great wrestling match in the technical sense, but the booking leading into it really hurt it for me personally.
Ha just as I mentioned what a disgrace the last show was
Way too high.
As much as I respect Meltz and enjoy his input on wrestling as a whole, I just don't agree with his ratings sometimes and that's totally ok.
Stipulation for that match match no sense at all. It should have been no holds barred.
Also, I didn't recall it being 25 minutes long.
I feel like it doesn't get mentioned much because it falls victim to the same issue most of the other matches at WM32 - The wrong person won the match.
In slight defense of that match, it had the impossible task of happening after Taker vs HBK. But yeah, the booking for that match made no sense.
Stipulation for that match match no sense at all. It should have been no holds barred.
Also, I didn't recall it being 25 minutes long.
Now I'm scared for Orton and Wyatt to stare at each other for 3 and a half minutes before gingerly locking up
plz no
I'm worried too. You'd think they'd really gimmick up the match and make if more fun, but we all thought they would do that for Shane vs Undertaker last year and look what happened.
A clean straight forward Bray vs Orton match seems like it would be pretty boring. But yeah we'll see I guess.
OriginofHysteria
Banned
How so?
That entire moment was built around a face beating the cheating Charlotte and becoming the new WWE Women's Champion, complete with Sasha Banks even coming out in full Eddie Guerrero tribute mode, instead Charlotte wins and technically retains her championship. As much as I like Charlotte, she shouldn't have won that match. At some point years ago Vince forgot that WrestleMania is supposed to be the big storyline payoff spot.
Now a year later we get the storyline payoff to Charlotte cheating her way to a PPV streak at Wrestlemania......oh, wait.
Did they really make this title match about how Bayley can't win a belt legitimately and not about Charlotte getting her ultimate comeuppance for cheating her way through PPV after PPV?
Main roster WWE has managed to screw up Bayley, Sasha, and to a lesser extent Charlotte all within a year and a half collectively. Becky hasn't done that much better either. I don't buy into the conspiracy theory that Dunn is trying to sabotage HHH call ups, but I see how these wrestlers were handled and I can't help but wonder.
sf2fanatic
Member
Fuck HHH
That Kurt Angle interview is their way of trying to get people interested in the show again after the response to the first episode.
Bayley....it's like nothing she went through in NXT matters and it's all happening again
Sasha....same but she's been made a fraction of what she was before with little character direction aside from being the Luger to Bayley's Sting.
Charlotte : They were actually doing right by her with the PPV streak, but they let it go in the build to a larger match at Wrestlemania which should have been the payoff.
slightconfuse
Banned
Why didn't they book Bayley vs Charlotte at mania.?
Bayley wining the title would have been great. Plus the next Ppv is on her home town.
Instead the hot potato the title on a random raw
Bayley wining the title would have been great. Plus the next Ppv is on her home town.
Instead the hot potato the title on a random raw
Vince hates being predictable (unless it involves Cena) even though sometimes that's what the consumer wants.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Except Vince somehow decided that Cena (the hottest star in the company, a guy who finally earned a ton of smark respect for his matches, and a guy who is rapidly branching out of WWE towards mainstream fame) shouldn't main event WrestleMania against AJ Styles, the hottest star in the company among the regular fans, despite the fact he's probably running out of chances to run Cena out there as a WM main eventer and AJ is the same age as Cena.
That would have been a killer, killer main event (and everyone knew it since both of their previous matches were 4+ star matches) at WrestleMania and Vince blew it for no actual fucking reason. I legit think failing to book that match as the title match at Mania is one of the biggest mistakes they've made since WM30. Like, I think the failure to do that match at WM is worse than Roman's booking the last 2 years because Cena main eventing WM and going over lines up with Vince's priorities and would make everyone involved in the event happy.
Bluekaveli
Member
Swaggy 😔
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
In a world where that match main events WrestleMania, Cena would have won the Rumble and the RR match between the two wouldn't have happened (and instead would have been the WM main event).
For like two weeks.
The Elite
BOSS
Yeah. I would have been perfectly fine with this.
Wrestlemania ending with LOL Cena wins? I'd rather see Roman vs HHH II
1. Awesome, fresh matches
2. Awesome, stale matches
3. Shit, stale matches
we haven't had 1 in years
Cena/Styles would qualify for 2, ain't getting that
most of the card will be 3
WrestleMania 32 ended with NuCenaWinsLOL, though. And with a much shittier match.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
...why? Wrestling is fucking fake, dude. Losing the main event of WM is like the opposite of being buried. Cena winning has a story built in and his matches with Styles have been great. Styles being in the ME would have been incredible.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Zero hype for WrestleMania and it feels like they've actively gone out of their way to self sabotage themselves. I miss WM being the culmination of months if not an entire year of story lines.
Pretty much, throw in some brothers, some "ya know Mean Genes", a "whatcha gonna do" and a few more Hoganisms (not the ones included with the Hogasm) and there we go, Braun Hogman.
Pretty much, throw in some brothers, some "ya know Mean Genes", a "whatcha gonna do" and a few more Hoganisms (not the ones included with the Hogasm) and there we go, Braun Hogman.
Um.
Kevin Owens vs Chris Jericho....never happened before unless it happened randomly on some Raw before the friendship angle started.
Roman Reigns vs Undertaker.....never happened before.
Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt.....never happened before.
That's several of your top billed matches that have never happened before and stand a chance of being decent to amazing.
Built on the back of beating Rusev at Mania, which was shit.
how sad is it that those matches already feel stale even though they've never happened before
alright owens/jericho might be ok.
Into the Light
Banned
Projected Card:
WWE Universal Championship
Goldberg (c) vs. Brock Lesnar
WWE Championship
Bray Wyatt (c) vs. Randy Orton
RAW Women's Championship
Charlotte (c) vs. Bayley vs. Sasha Banks vs. Nia Jax
Smackdown Women's Championship
Alexa Bliss (c) vs. The Entire Smackdown Roster
Intercontinental Championship
Dean Ambrose (c) vs. Baron Corbin
United States Championship
Chris Jericho (c) vs. Kevin Owens
Roman Reigns vs. The Undertaker
Seth Rollins vs. Triple H
AJ Styles vs. Shane McMahon
John Cena & Nikki Bella vs. The Miz & Maryse
Which ones are stale? I see one, maybe two.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I don't even think its really a CenaWinsLOL moment. He only actually had feuds against 2 people last year and lost clean to both of them.
Those ratings seem odd. Lesnar vs Angle from what I remember was a way better match than Lesnar vs Reigns.
The Mania XX triple threat is still my favorite main event from a match quality though. With Undertaker/HBK right behind it.
Maybe standards for match quality just downgraded compared to a decade ago though.
The Mania XX triple threat is still my favorite main event from a match quality though. With Undertaker/HBK right behind it.
Maybe standards for match quality just downgraded compared to a decade ago though.