Official Wrestlemania 23 Thread
 

So there's no thread yet and I'm probably not gonna be on the whole time, so here.

Cena vs HBK - WWE Title

Batista vs Undertaker - World Heavyweight Title

Battle of the Billionaires (Donald Trump's Lashley vs Vince McMahon's Umaga) - Hair vs Hair

Other Stuff

Money In The Bank Ladder Match - Winner gets a title shot contract good for one year)

Hey, someone keep an eye out for the first celeb that WWE shows in the crowd.

I need to know for TIpsters, and I'm watching the stream at work, so not sure if I'll be watching constantly.

I am in the middle of a physics midterm, so yeah. Someone hadle this ish.

Aretha singing National Anthem right now.

Tell me who gets the biggest pop.

Ah yes i just realised we get the first ten mins on box office free lol.

MITB first:

Jeff Hardy out first. Decent pop
Booker -No real reaction
Finlay- No reaction
CM Punk - Decent reaction
KENNEDY - Does his thing, pretty good reaction
Matt Hardy - Pretty good reaction
Orton - Good
Edge - Good

Okay, I came in at Orton's entrance, did I miss anything good?

Booker and Finlay have the worst entrances out of those 8.

Let's go Punk!

I hope they have an extra tall ass laldder or reinforced it because the one on the Cutting Edge broke so easily.

Kennedy looks hurt, back of his head on the ladder and a stiff swanton bomb...I can't even c him now!

Edge kicking ass

Shit

HOLY SHIT, HOLY SHIT!!!!

Thats HUGE!

That had to hurt.

Jeff Hardy does a bomb half way up the big ladder, and jumps on Edge whose lying on a ladder, ladder breaks, and Edge is folded in half.

Edge being strretchered out of the arena, could be a work tho, probably is

RKO to Cm Punk off the ladder

Bookend to Orton off the ladder

Booker goes for briefcase, Hardy threatens a Twist of Fate on Sharmell, Booker gets down and gets the twist of fate, Matt climbinb, Finlay knocks over the ladder. Finlay bleeding from his head.

Celctic Cross to Hardy on the ladder

Okay, so we've had an RKO and a Book End off the ladder so far. Any chance that we might see a Green Bay Plunge off the ladder?

"I think Finlay would rather taste his own blood than Irish potatoe soup". - JR, LOL

Two ladders setup, Finlay is the only one standing in the ring. Little Bastard climbing up.

ROFL. Lilttle Bastard punches Kennedy.

Green Bay Plunge to Little Bastard off the ladder!

awesome green bay plunge (?) by Kennedy on Hornswoggle.

CM Punk setting up the ladder. Everyone else is down.

Fucking called it!

Punk knocks Kennedy off. Kennedy knocks Punk off with a ladder. Kennedy climbing! He gets it!

Winner: KENNEDY

Kennedy wins the breifcase!

Edge must really be hurt.

OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG KENNEDY OMFG

I am Mr. Money in the Bank.............













BANK

MITB was good.

Seemed a little short, but still good.
Some awesome spots tho, hope Edge isn't hurt.

Good start.

Kennedy cuts a good, short promo.

Next match is probably MYP VS Benoit

Fucking Khali time. :roll:

BBBWWWAAAARRRGGHH!!

my bad, Khali VS Kane

Did they have to cut the match short cause of Edge's injury i wonder? On the news forum I heard it was getting 30 minutes.

RAAAAAAAAAAWR

MITB was good. It was a huge spotfest, more so than I expected. But all the spots were awesome.

For some reason I have a feeling that Kennedy is cashing it in tonight.

I bet Cena wins and Kennedy announces he's cashing in.

Edge and Jeff both looked dead.

That would be good.

Did Jeff come back after the Leg Drop?

Pretty sure Edge died

Kind of ironic since he spent all that time avoiding risking injury for this match.

what exactly happened to Edge?

Kane bodyslams Khali.

Khali wins after a slam to Kane.

Holy shit.

Jeff Leg Dropped him through (and I mean through, it snapped in half) the ladder off a giant ladder from the ring to the outside.

KHALI CHOKE

Khali choking Kane with his chain afterwards.

5 star match right there.

.......All joking aside, HOW THE FUCK DOES KHALI GO OVER KANE!? GOD DAMN IT!

So that's now two wrestlers the Hardy's have seriously injured within the space of a few months in ladder matches..

pathetic match.

They could so easily have done that on Raw.
Fuck that! Khali now chocking Kane with a chain. Really shit match, @ least it was short I suppose.

Wish they'd put on Flair VS Carlito instead

KHALI > SOULS

CRYME TIME

YIKES

Cryme Tyme with Eugene and a bunch of hot chicks dancing backstage. Mae Young and Moolah start dancing.

SLICK dancin!

I've read reports that Kane was contemplating taking a couple months off after Mania due to a nagging knee injury.

LOL SLICK!

Dusty Rhodes and Slaughter dancing! IRS! Jimmy Hart! Gerald Brisco. WTF is going on!?

RICKY FUCKING STEAMBOAT!



And now.........DAMN!

KHALI SMASH

.........DAMN!

Detroit Tigers in the crowd.

Odd

MVP/Benoit now. Haven'r watched Smackdown in forever. Does MVP always have cheerleaders during his entrance?

MVP/Benoit.

Undertaker/Batista is probably next, then BotB, Divas and the Super Cena/Michaels.

bunch of ppl dancing, including:
Cryme tyme, the girls from ECW, Eugene, Dusty Rhodes, Ricky steamboat, some black guy.

MVP VS Benoit, haha; MVP has his own cheer leaders, hope benoit comes out and snaps one of them in the crossface.

This'll be a good match

bunch of ppl dancing, including:
Cryme tyme, the girls from ECW, Eugene, Dusty Rhodes, Ricky steamboat, some black guy.

MVP VS Benoit, haha; MVP has his own cheer leaders, hope benoit comes out and snaps one of them in the crossface.

This'll be a good match

Benoit vs Power Ranger...

Fuck him up, Benoit!

No.

This has got to be a Benoit submission victory surely.

Shit, an hour in and only 4 matches to go. Kennedy HAS to be cashing in.

Don't forget the ECW match Xero.

i would tax MVP's theme music

Yeah, remembered it after I posted.

Shows how much I give a shit about it.

Speaking of which, is it elimination or one fall?

What's happening in this match?

BALLIN'

Wait. So the Detroit Tigers were the first to get on camera? Who had them for tipsters?

One fall. Should be extreme rules since it is ECW, and it is Wrestlemania, and it would give the match more meaning/entertainment...but i guess common sense is once again missing from WWE.

Edit: And damnit@Benoit winning by headbutt not submission.

Benoit wins after flying headbutt...

Should be one fall to a finish.

When's the last time the headbutt won a match?

Yeah, I thought about that. Kennedy ending the streak would no doubt be a hell of a lot better than Batista ending it, but I think Taker holding the title is fine.

Cashing it in for the WWE championship would be more unpredictable.

Would someone shut Michael Cole up.. i am sick of hearing the sleeze bag

Wait, Taker/Batista is NEXT!?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

LOL, BOOGEN!

That match seemed to be over quick btw..they're getting through these matches pretty quickly, the main events must be going for like 30-40 mins each or something. Strange wrestlemania.

Trump backstage on the phone. Boogeyman appears. Trump is not phased. Tells him to get him a sandwich.

Hennig :(

LOL at Boogen.

I figure BotB will be about 45 mins-an hour total, including the inevitable "It's an April fools'"/whatever from Vince and the head shaving, which I don't doubt will be 20 minutes in itself.

So that leaves about 2 hours. Figure a half hour-45 minutes for both the ECW match and the Diva's match (combined). 20-30 minutes for Batista/Taker and 30-45 minutes for Michaels/Cena.

It fills out okay I suppose.

lol, this PPV is NOT going three hours even. :lol:

Well, I guess Cena's gonna have a ten minute entrance.

Anyway, eight matches in four hours is still pretty crappy. Coulda had Flair vs Carlito. London/Kendrick defending their titles. Chavo vs Jimmy Yang.

The Fink!

Finkel announces HOF inductees.

^ The question is why the fuck didn't they? I'm confused about that tbh.