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Originally Posted by Sadistic
I'm pissed off. I really wasn't going to order this until everyone was saying "OMG IT'S WRESTLEMANIA" so I gave in, I ordered it.
And I'm fucking disappointed.
The PPV as a whole was absolutely shit.
Lets start with MITB. It was terrible. The whole thing was so slow paced and really felt like it was missing something. MITB the last 2 years was amazing and full of action. The spots in this year's one were few and far between. And I was bored for the whole match.
Kane vs. Khali? Why?
MVP vs. Benoit. This was nothing greater than an average match you'd see on smackdown. It seems that wrestlerts don't step it up a gear for WM anymore.
Undertaker/Batista match was the only good match on the card. I actually enjoyed this one.
ECW match was not no DQ. How does that make sense. It's WRESTLE FUCKIN MANIA. Why not make it no DQ and make it a bit special? Have the ECW stars winning by battling hardcore, the way they are used to? It was a less than average tag team match.
Head shaving match was watchable because of Austin. The match itself was crap. Austin was entertaining...but no surprises. It's wrestlemania, I thought they'd throw in a few surprises like The Rock coming down or something. Too predictable.
Womens match. I've seen some really great womens matches. So it makes me sad to KNOW that they can put on great matches, but they don't. This is wrestlemania, why not just put on a great match? Instead we get the standard piss-break women's match that we are all used to.
HBK/John Cena was a good match. Nothing special, not as good as the Batista/Taker match, but nonetheless, it was good. Cena wins again with the STFU. Why have the same finish as last year? And once again, no surprises.
No match had the wrestlemania feel. Nothing BIG happened, no surprises, no matches that we will be talking about for years to come. This wrestlemania will be forgotten quickly, there was absolutely nothing special about it. And I'm sorry I wasted my time and money on it.
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So what you're saying is that this year's Wrestlemania
BROKE IT. Right? Although Cena won, so did that
MAKE IT?
Anyway, judging by the variance in responses here, I'm starting to think that the diluted quality of PPV's over the past five years (getting more and more average with each year) has accustomed a lot of us to mediocrity, so that when you have a show that's decent (which this WM was, as a PPV by itself), people go "oh hey, that was good, pretty nice, etc... etc..."
Judging WM 23 from a pure PPV perspective, I think it was a good show. Meaning, say this was Judgment Day or Unforgiven. People would have been like, "Whoa, this was really good!" or "Great show!" and stuff (assume it'd be adjusted to normal PPV length).
But judging it as a Wrestlemania, it just lacks pizzazz. Yeah, definitely not the worst ever, but it just came off as blasse. It was a whole lot of style and not a lot of substance. It's as though Vince thought the big pyros, amazing stage, flash, glam, falling cash, custom entrances, and skits would make up for absolutely nothing happening from a storyline perspective (except Taker going 15-0... that's really it in terms of any significant major storyline evolutions) and average wrestling.
I only say all of this because I'm honestly a bit surprised by the reactions I'm getting from some people who I would have expected to be more critical about the show. Or maybe it's just that the steady dilution of the product has just led to a lot of us not caring, so if it doesn't suck ass, we don't waste the energy to critique it.