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[Jimmy King]

Triple Threat, Triple H (champ) vs Rock ('Winner' of the Rumble) vs Big Show (Won at No Way Out to win title shot)

They literally did THAT MATCH on the go-home RAW, and then had Linda bring Foley out to make it a Fatal 4 Way/A McMahon in Every Corner.

It was really really weird. You could see they had zero confidence in Show/the main event.

So why wasn't Mania 2000 just Triple H/Rock?

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

So why wasn't Mania 2000 just Triple H/Rock?

Because then there'd only be a McMahon in 2 of 4 corners...

 

[klonere]

Sasha Banks > Becky Lynch > the rest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQZMaG1eO74

still funny

Welp that is fine ass motivation right there

 

[Data West]

Ricochet's back in my fave five after BOLA. Dude just has it in every way. He can do it all and he's got some insane charisma and presence which is rare for an indie guy.

 

[Professor Beef]

So why wasn't Mania 2000 just Triple H/Rock?

Because they wanted DMczaf to get invested in the match by adding Big Show.

 

[Jimmy King]

Because then there'd only be a McMahon in 2 of 4 corners...

So tonight will there be a Carter for every side of their ring?

 

[BronsonLee]

So why wasn't Mania 2000 just Triple H/Rock?

I have no idea why. The fact that they ran with HHH/Rock the next two PPVs makes it even more suspect. And Rock freaking hosted SNL before Mania!

Ricochet's back in my fave five after BOLA. Dude just has it in every way. He can do it all and he's got some insane charisma and presence which is rare for an indie guy.

Ricochet got awesome when he A: cut that damn long hair B: went to Dragon Gate and got those exercise tips and C: decided to be a complete prick every time he did something flashy

SO GOOD

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

So tonight will there be a Carter for every side of their ring?

Nah, but they'll make up for it with 2 illogical face/heel turns, 3 run ins and a botched table spot.

 

[Jimmyfenix]

bring back van hammer

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

bring back van hammer

Only if he's tagging with his son, Wolf Fang.

 

[Man God]

So tonight will there be a Carter for every side of their ring?

I call Serg.

 

[Professor Beef]

I have no idea why. The fact that they ran with HHH/Rock the next two PPVs makes it even more suspect. And Rock freaking hosted SNL before Mania!

Man that SNL episode was a blast!

 

[Man God]

They honestly did it just to give Foley a Wrestlemania pay day and after the two matches he put on with his haitchness earlier in the year he deserved it.

 

[Data West]

Day 2 was better than Day 1 and Day 1 was still pretty good

Day 1 had 4 good matches and 1 great matches
Day 2 had 3 good matches and 4 great matches

Young Bucks are garbage and infect everything in the match they're with. I've sat through two matches of their tired shtick and they ensure I'll skip those matches if I ever rewatch this. It's not 2005, I don't want to see Super Dragon wrestle ever again. I can see why lesser exposed people think the Lucha matches were great, and I thought they were good, but I've seen all those guys enough that I wasn't as into it as some other people were. Kind of like DoFixer vs Blood Generation being '5 stars' but still great matches and great introductory. End vs Gulak was decent but the finish was awful, and I know what they were going for, but they didn't build it up in any way. Galloway was a fantastic base and really surprised me.

Sydal/Fenix and Hero/Thatcher are definitely MOTYCs.

 

[Jimmy King]

Any Max Landis sightings? I assume no since we would have gotten gifs by now, obviously.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

.

Why is this nobody ripping off Roman Reigns?

 

[Arrowgigantic]

Team Bald And De-pushed

 

[Shadow Broker]

new TNA belt idea : everyone has it except one guy, that one guy has to defend his non-title every week

Imagine the promos. This would be great. He would treat everyone with a belt like a highly paid, fatally diseased , physico for trying to give him theor belt and money.

 

[Jimmy King]

I put on that Mania 2000 main event out of morbid curiosity.

I don't always like Rock flopping around but I enjoyed this:

 

[avengers23]

Day 2 was better than Day 1 and Day 1 was still pretty good

Day 1 had 4 good matches and 1 great matches
Day 2 had 3 good matches and 4 great matches

Young Bucks are garbage and infect everything in the match they're with. I've sat through two matches of their tired shtick and they ensure I'll skip those matches if I ever rewatch this. It's not 2005, I don't want to see Super Dragon wrestle ever again. I can see why lesser exposed people think the Lucha matches were great, and I thought they were good, but I've seen all those guys enough that I wasn't as into it as some other people were. Kind of like DoFixer vs Blood Generation being '5 stars' but still great matches and great introductory. End vs Gulak was decent but the finish was awful, and I know what they were going for, but they didn't build it up in any way. Galloway was a fantastic base and really surprised me.

Sydal/Fenix and Hero/Thatcher are definitely MOTYCs.

The hype for Hero/Thatcher from the WWNLive show from WrestleMania weekend, Mercury Rising, is pretty strong as well. I'll probably try to track that down at some point, if only for the comparison.

 

[British Monsoon]

This show's already kicking Triplemania's ass. Myzteziziziz is still awful, though.

 

[Ultratech]

Huh, Heroes Inmortales hasn't been too bad so far.

(It hasn't been the production disaster Triplemania was.)

Although Pentagon's gonna wanna beat the ever-loving shit out of Myzteziz now.

 

[Shadow Broker]

I put on that Mania 2000 main event out of morbid curiosity.

I don't always like Rock flopping around but I enjoyed this:

I finally see what other Gaffer's has said about Mick's double arm DDT.

It really does look like Mick just grabs him and falls down vs it looking like he's trying to drill his head into the ground.

 

[Frecklestein]

Cesaro is sexier than Tamina

 

[NoRéN]

Ricochet's back in my fave five after BOLA. Dude just has it in every way. He can do it all and he's got some insane charisma and presence which is rare for an indie guy.

He fell out of your fave five? You sonofa!!!!

For me, he's right up there with Ibushi as another dude that has it all.

 

[¡HarlequinPanic!]

The women being forced into different colored hair and extensions is stupid.

Seriously. I can't believe they made kana dye her hair that ridiculous, unnatural pink color

 

[Oersted]

Is there any chance whatsoever that Rusev will ever leave the comedyjobber ghetto? Any?

 

[Raw64life]

This show's already kicking Triplemania's ass. Myzteziziziz is still awful, though.

Is there any rhyme or reason to AAA doing some shows with a four-sided ring and others with a shit-sided ring?

 

[somedevil]

Should I find it sad that bean breath is basically having a conversation with himself in that TNA thread?

 

[Jimmy King]

Should I find it sad that bean breath is basically having a conversation with himself in that TNA thread?

Sad that he won't join us for conversation anymore? Yes, it's our loss.

Come back, bean.

 

[Data West]

Too bad he's in jail and would shank Excalibur because Nick Gage vs Super Dragon could have been a fun showdown. The match wouldn't have been anything good tho

 

[imBask]

I'm watching TNA

i'm not proud of it

 

[British Monsoon]

 

[Ultratech]

That Drago/Fenix and Cage/Mesias match was pretty fun.

Wasn't expecting Cage and Mesias to win with the Double Pin though.

Was a little surprised at Mesias unmasking Fenix there after the finish.

 

[Data West]

Was a little surprised at Mesias unmasking Fenix there after the finish.

I mean

it's nothing new

 

[FallingEdge]

Young bucks stole fallingedge's chair. Lollol

that they did, friend

 

[painey]

Al Snow. In 2015

 

[Data West]

Hey did you guys know Antonio Pena died

 

[Man God]

It's not about age limits, it's about no limits.

 

[Jimmy King]

I love that Vince tried to screw The Rock 2 years in a row and neither time did his first attempt (chair shots or whatever) work

 

[Data West]

So I pretty much guarantee the mystery luchadore in Rey's match is Wagner


well there goes Aerostars neck

 

[Data West]

SHIT MANTAUR LOOKS AWESOME

 

[Jimmy King]

JR was constantly screaming about Steph being a "vixen" and "jezebel" and even Lawler is like "uh, OK"

 

[Bronx-Man]

JR was constantly screaming about Steph being a "vixen" and "jezebel" and even Lawler is like "uh, OK"

I'm sure slut-shaming was common in Attitude Era-programming.

 

[Ultratech]

lol yes!

Taurus wins!

 

[tm24]

Ppv of the year

 

[Data West]

 

[tm24]

Wonder how long til we found out who jumped and is under the Taurus mask

 

[Data West]

Texano and Fantasma are in the main event.

At least we got that much.

 

[slightconfuse]

This dude