TimeEffect
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2 years ago, people simply chanted YES and Daniel Bryan to retaliate against the booking.
He truly was the saviour.
He truly was the saviour.
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WrestleMania 32 |OT| OHHH! Written in the Stars! A Million Miles Awaaaaaay........
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The whole booking of that Wm was about negating the actual roster to show people old stars.
Actually, now that i think about it, Owens and Zayn are almost lucky cause i think the little they had (they had what, 2-3 minutes of actual wrestling in that match ?) made their feud finally something, and for everyone. Maybe the only thing that WM could build.
Ok, i hope, that's still a little weird.. Sure he's not dead or anything but in the same time i was thinking.. IF someone died like that in the middle of a match, of a 100,000 crowd, at the start of the show.. They certainly wouldn't communicate on it till after the show. Shit i realize now that would be a fucking curse story... Can you imagine, Steen taking Owens's name and dying live on tv... Ok i need to sleep.
I hope at least he's not injured for weeks or months. (And he's anger and fierce violence tomorrow night).
Velcro Fly
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Do we have any update on if Kevin Owens is ok?
Just because she is a heel doesn't mean we need to see the same finish for 6 month straight.
Oh, yeah. Now I remember why I never look at the GAF wrestling thread anymore.
Vince calls the shots on everything baring NXT.
HazySaiyan
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And don't forget Byron Saxton! I mean I try to but still...
Bjoern the Smexy
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One of them was me.
There were maybe two matches that weren't really good, but still interesting.
I mean, I didn't like Charlotte becoming the Women's Champion or Roman Reigns NOT turning heel (seriously, wtf?!), but the rest of this WrestleMania was pretty awesome.
Taker vs Shane is my match of the night.
New Day's entrance was hilarious as fuck. And the match was pretty awesome too.
HBK, Steve Austin and Foley RETURN TO THE RING?! How is that not awesome?
Jericho vs Styles was fucking awesome, man. Shame that Jericho won, but what the hell, the match was really good at least.
Also John Cena. I love that guy. Pretty sure if he fought any longer his arm would've come clean off, but MAN was it good to see him back.
The Andre the Giant Memorial Match was...yeah okay, that one was a bit stupid. Shaq joining the fight and getting thrown out two minutes into the match? Money well spent, WWE.
Fucking Corban winning? Why? Why not Mark Henry? Or Kane? That was stupid.
Aside from one and a half fuck-ups this Wrestlemania was really good in my opinion. Way better than any salty beings in this thread actually think it was.
serenewarfare
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That's fine, but for tonight that finish worked. Bitch about the past six months all you want. But in judging WM, I see no issue with that finish.
Yes. Forgotten about him. Bryon is not in Corey and co's league.
Something like that wouldn't matter now. They'll just mute it and replace it with a Roman chant.
Simply Sami
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Who cares what went last?
Triple H was still fighting for the world heavyweight championship in 2016.
Let's not make out Triple H is some sort of saviour.
People having a different opinion = salty now.
Barrage
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I'm...just gonna step away fot a day.
I just stepped out of a room for 100 people who were throroughlt ebtertained for 3+ hours.
To see people pretend this was even comparable to some of the worst WMs..its embarassing.
You can know wrestling is fake and still be a mark.
Good night, folks.
I just stepped out of a room for 100 people who were throroughlt ebtertained for 3+ hours.
To see people pretend this was even comparable to some of the worst WMs..its embarassing.
You can know wrestling is fake and still be a mark.
Good night, folks.
Not a great wrestlemania. It was really sad the way HHH and Step turned themselves into supervillians to get Roman over only for it not to work. It was so bad, they muted the crowd and piped in cheers at the end. I mean, I do feel bad for Roman. Its not his fault Vince wants to push him. And there's not wrestler alive who wouldn't want that push. No one would it down, even if they weren't ready. But I think he's got that kind of heat that you can't really shake. At best, I think its going to be a mixed reaction from here on out unless they turn him heel and he gets a chance to become a character that isn't "that dude who used to be in the shield".
Yeah who leaked that? Triple H?
Rellik
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Because we watched a good NXT event this weekend that had a lot to do with Triple H and not a lot to do with Vince.
HazySaiyan
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I know he's terrible. He seems to talk purely in soundbites, there's nothing natural about him
ENOUGH OF THAT this is all Vince's fault. According to the geeks.
I signed up for wwe network today and watched wtestlemania x-7 in its entirety before this show. While today's show didn't hit the highs that show did, it was way more consistent with good in ring action. As someone who isn't planning on engaging with the product again, the finished really meant nothing to me, so maybe that's where the difference is. Previous manias tended to spend more time on big guys who couldn't work and gave little time to good workers in the first half of the card. Ladder match was great, Jericho match was great and booked like a main event, new day was really entertaining, woman's match was great and also booked like a main event, hell in a cell was a bit slow but built to that huge hell in a cell wtestlemania sized spot, only real dud was the main event.
Really. REALLY?
Jericho goes over AJ Styles after kicking out of the Styles Clash, a finisher that should be protected to hell and back because it looks difficult and brutal, in what should have been the culmination of their months long feud.
League of Nations goes over New Day, because the prime moment to rocket them to the stars is better spent putting over two guys who have been around forever and can't get over, one guy who's probably leaving soon, and one cool up and comer. Then all of these people get beat down by three people who haven't wrestled in years, one of them in over a decade, and who won't be on Raw tomorrow.
Ambrose/Lesnar after hyper amounts of hype with buildup across both shows is a short stinker with some sticks and chairs. Ambrose loses after one F5, making his ironman claims look dumb as fuck.
A new women's championship belt is unveiled, the time of real women wrestlers is finally here! Except the match was decided by a very old man who looks drunk all the time.
Shane o' Mac/Undertaker was a slow as molasses match with one really cool spot. And that one really cool spot was basically just "oops, I missed". The ending itself was ok, I guess? Nothing special though, just a regular Taker match ending.
Rock buried the Wyatts in six seconds.
Trips/Roman ends the same way literally every fucking Roman match ends, with a result that ends with Wrestlemania's 100 (actually 85) thousand strong crowd booing the biggest wrestling event ever.
It was fucking awful.
Professor Beef
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Because I don't agree with your opinion? lmao
Talonz
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Well I'll be staring at this:
and this:
To feel better *shrug*
Like Vince is going to put over any wrestler from Japan anytime soon. They'll be jobbing just like AJ. Haven't you guys learned by now?
Well I'll be staring at this:
and this:
To feel better *shrug*
The way Nakumura collapsed in silhouette and in time to the first violin string and his name appearing in the monitor was genius! Followed by the strobe lighting and his posture mad everything even more stunning. ... then when you see him run to the ring ropes and does his signature charismatic pose and the crowd flipping out in awe was too mUCH!
Simply Sami
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Also Triple H was the guy who wanted Reigns pushed initially.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The problem is that if you say "the match results don't make any storyline sense at wrestlemania" someone will always say you're a salty mark who doesn't like your favorite not winning. I mean, its pretty clear most people think Ambrose is a bad wrestler, but he was totally buried for no reason in this match and several other people were buried for reasons that escape me.
The Shane match was just a bad match period.
The Reigns match was just a bad match period.
The AJ match was paced weirdly because Jericho is slow and I've seen the match 3 times already.
ZombieSupaStar
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According to everyone who works there, there is one man who has final say, and its Vince. When he was lucid it was good. Now hes 70.
It's in the bottom 5 for sure. The only thing embarrassing here is the booking tbh.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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That's silly. HHH has always been a very good and underrated wrestler, and Reigns has spent the last year delivering in pretty much all of his big matches. It was slow, yes, but methodically so, and both HHH and Reigns told a good story through most of it.
Strangelove77
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Is anyone going to defend the burial of the Wyatts? I wanna hear it. There has to be someone. It's the Internet after all.
Show yourself.
Show yourself.
Nah, because of the desperate attempts to get heat by basement tier talent.
Freezasaurus
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Maybe he's ready to admit he was wrong? Reigns should never have gone above the mid-card.
The fact that people act like this is a bad thing to be ashamed of is a fucking joke, tbh.
"Who the hell could possibly take the Wyatts seriously still?" would be my guess at the defense. Can you bury something that's already underground so long it's become fossilized? The Wyatts are the pushover heels that exist only to be beaten.
MassiveNights
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The worst thing for me is that the status quo has been maintained in every way.
They continued to undermine their current roster.
They are completely out of touch with their fans.
They had a good opportunity for a change in storyline direction and blew it.
I guess we see what happens tomorrow, but if it looks like another 6 months of the Authority I will be keeping tabs on it and not watching until something decent comes along. It's too much of a time investment every week/month.
I mean it was a fun show for what it was (nostalgia pops etc), but it was also pretty underwhelming in terms of interest going forward.
They continued to undermine their current roster.
They are completely out of touch with their fans.
They had a good opportunity for a change in storyline direction and blew it.
I guess we see what happens tomorrow, but if it looks like another 6 months of the Authority I will be keeping tabs on it and not watching until something decent comes along. It's too much of a time investment every week/month.
I mean it was a fun show for what it was (nostalgia pops etc), but it was also pretty underwhelming in terms of interest going forward.
Did you see how Owens left his match ?
Glorified G
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How many people stopped reading this up until this point?
So fucking what? People aren't dispassionate and judging the show in a vacuum, both of these performers have massive amounts of baggage that makes objectively enjoying their performances a feat for a lot of fans. They weren't buying the matchup before the match, so why would having the predictable story that they didn't want to see performed well make it work for those people?
Professor Beef
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That was a pretty mediocre Wrestlemania to be honest. Not that it was surprising.
+ Intercontinental title match w/ Zack freaking Ryder winning. I'm an Owens mark, but Ryder deserves it and Owens can move on to brighter things.
+ Women's match. Disliked the outcome, but good action.
+ Surprise Corbin win in that battle royal.
+ Shane's jump.
- Everything else really. Boring HIAC, typical Roman win, wasted opportunity for a real Rock match.
+ Intercontinental title match w/ Zack freaking Ryder winning. I'm an Owens mark, but Ryder deserves it and Owens can move on to brighter things.
+ Women's match. Disliked the outcome, but good action.
+ Surprise Corbin win in that battle royal.
+ Shane's jump.
- Everything else really. Boring HIAC, typical Roman win, wasted opportunity for a real Rock match.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I don't understand how anyone liked the Taker v. Shane match it was utterly awful and the spot was lame and just made me worried about Shane getting hurt. That's not the reason you do a high spot.
Jimmy King
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Strangelove77
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That's...that's actually pretty good.
HeisenbergLannister
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Maybe Sasha will win the title tomorrow night, right guys?
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