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I guess I am in the minority that I was let down by WM21. I wouldn't say it was awful but it just seemed like the performers made it feel like a wrestlemania as opposed to say a backlash. A lot of potential that I think the WWE missed a chance on and let slip away. Should I be surprised?
Eddie/Rey.... decent match but they have had better. Eddie seemed a bit slow or maybe not into it? main eventing WM a year ago to first match on the card may have gotten to him. Rey's mask problem kind of set the tone for the night in my opinion that none of the guys (excpet benoit, benjamin, michaels, & angle) were prepared or had things ready. Eddie turning heel would have made this match more enjoyable to me. not bad, but both have had better.
ladder match.... Shelton Benjamin ..WOW! the t bone, the ladder clothesline were 2 tremendous spots! Benoit amazes me, and he should amaze WWE bookers! from main eventing last year to 2nd match of WM this year, and he still goes balls out without even being in the title picture! do something with benoit!! bring back the horsemen or something to give Benoit the spotlight again! edge's win made the only sense they could with this match, once he won you knew batista had his match locked up. good match, I just still think Kane should not have been in it.
hogan/hussan.... i saw someone said earlier the net was saying austin was gonna be making the save, I read it was gonna be hogan, completely saw this coming. nice gut on hogan these days!! i notice they didnt really have an impromptu match per say! i wonder if hussan pulled his creative control of his character card backstage and said , fuck this im not selling for some 50 year old guy with Rick Derringer singing his theme song??? the part with hogan posing by the american flag on the screen was a great touch tho! hopefully hogan stays gone! good to see eugene, midgets ARE awesome!
Orton/ Taker.... I just didn't care about this match. I like both guys just fine, but you can't have taker lose at mania, there's just no way to make that look right, especially with orton missing time coming up as someone mentioned. BTW shouldn't cowboy bob sue vince by now for the shit doctors mcmahon provides if that arm is still broken after 21 years?lol
women's..... was surprised hemme didn't win. Although 5 head has absolutely no skill in the ring I just figured laying down for playboy guarunteed you a title run. trish looked hot even with not much skin showing. but anyway does anyone ever care about the women's match?
hbk/angle...... the reason i spent 50 bucks for this ppv was this match. not for cena, not for jbl, not for hhh, and not batista, i wanted to see this match and thought it had potential to be better than savage/steamboat. What a thriller many great spots. I still can't believed michaels tapped. i thought it could defnetly go either way but thought it would be a pin, not a tap.both men are what is good about WWE they made it feel like wretlemania!! outshined every match put together. be interesting to see where each man goes from this
piper's pit...... what a total piece of crap. huge opportunity blown here. well let me clarify, if austin being there was a 1 time thing then it doesn't really matter. But to me the sign was he is coming back in some capacity, the austin returns promos, and the new t shirt seem to indicate he is going to be around. that is the great news. But.. if that is the case boy did WWE blow a shot at making this great. What better man to go face to face with austin than piper. He was more on last night then he had been in almost 10 years. I thought when piper started introducing him then said "bullshit" he was gonna try to claim he was the originator of what austin does. I loved when piper got on the idiot fans about the "what" (the dumbest thing in wrestling). but where they dropped the ball...... piper should have kept into austin, goading him about leaving, coming, back, leaving again. Kept on him about quitting, what kind of rebel just quits? whre is that fire austin, where the hellraiser? what kind of worlds toughest son of a bitch rides a 4 wheeler and calls himself the sherriff? prompting austin to light up and claim hes gonna come back and take over then stunning piper. CArlito????? are we serious??? Fing carlito? what a waste, totally idiotic
Sumo match.... again huge blown opportunity. we all knew this was gonna suck and it did. However at least for the torment of seeing 2 500 lb fatties in butt floss the least we could have gotten was big show going ape shit after losing, and chokeslamming tub o goo and that annoying screaming kimono wearing fruit! turning him heel. We are all concerned about who is batista going to fued with no since there is only HHH, what about Cena, all there is is JBL again. At least with show heel u gain something! waste of time and dollars!
jbl/cena..... we all know how i feel about marky mark and ted dibiase jr. The match sucked, they had a month to design this match together and that is what they came up with?? cena is over with or without the title so he didn't need it, and i wouldn't say he has paid al lthat many dues to earn the title so i don't see the sense of this. jbl without the belt isn't even a midcarder, his character is useless without the title, but whatever. this match though should have been like a streetfight though. Neither guy can wrestle, and with michaels and angle just putting on a wrestling clinic, and HHH/ batista coming up next who are gonna have the same snoozefest as these two goons, i thought jbl and cena could have gotten better reviews by just going all out with a streetfight. In and out of the ring, making it look real personal, not just mailing it in like they did. JBL had escaped every situation as champ you could think of...yet he couldn't escape the power of pumped up reeboks?wow way to go guys! lets make him look like a total chump!
HHH/batista.... as a kid i was always so mad that even if hogan didn't have the belt he was still the last match of the night and title matches played second fiddle, but this should have been one of those nights. Angle/michaels should have gone last! HHH and batista had been running mates for 2 years and the best match they could give was that on the biggest night?? both of them exposed that the other cannot carry a good match with a like opponent. Such a slow pace. reminded me at some points of hhh/steiner. Good to see batista win only for the fact that i would like to see anyone but HHH have the belt
some good spots in the night don't get me wrong, but some missed spots i thought too. got what i expected of the title matches , but would have liked to see some things different, here is hoping that the new storylines are good for this year
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