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Mr. Nice Guy
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... and I actually nodded off for a bit during the Cena/ Tista matchup.... I woke up in time to hear "STF! STF!" and see Batista tap.
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continental drift
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Horrible, horrible Wrestlemania
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Hazardous to Your Health
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Tag match - blah
Orton vs. Rhodes vs. DiBiase - garbage Money in the Bank - boring, supposed to be a ridiculous spot-fest, where were the cool spots? Also Jack Swagger is mad gay Punk vs. Mysterio - I guess it was ok. Way too short to be good. Can't believe Punk didn't win. Triple H vs. Sheamus - Horrible, horrible match. Almost fell asleep. Worst match of the night. Hart vs. McMahon - Stupid. I understand Bret Hart, who is my all-time favorite wrestler, cannot wrestle anymore. He shouldn't have had a "match" if he couldn't wrestle. The whole Hart family lumberjack thing was retarded. I guess it was surreal to see Bret Hart just kick the shit out of McMahon for about 10 minutes. I guess that's what it was supposed to be. I guess I shouldn't have expected anything more. Jericho vs. Edge - Good match. lol @ Spear Womens clusterfuck - horrible, really did not need to see Vickie Guerrero's ass Cena vs. Batista - fucking terrible. Almost fell asleep again. Hate Cena. Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker - Really good match, even though it looked like Shawn was going to suck Taker's cock for about 17 minutes. Predicted every match correctly except MITB and I thought Punk would beat Mysterio. |
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Oh, and they made me hate Cena again. I was very much prepared that he would win the WWE Championship; but somehow they made me really want him to lose. Thanks, WWE.
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WOOOOOOOOO!
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I didn't think it was that bad...
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Doin' It Right
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Seriously, outside of the main event what was good? Jericho/Edge was pretty good but nothing memorable. Everything else was pretty much terrible.
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Just a bro.
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I will say this Mania ranks behind 8, 10, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 24 |
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Nah, it wasn't bad. Just nowhere near the sum of its parts.
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It wasn't as shitty as like Wrestlemania 2, 9, 11 or 15 but it was pretty bad.
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You think it's better than Wrestlemania 3 and 6? Come on
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Just a bro.
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Yeah but only because of Taker/HBK. I guess 13 could be better simply for Austin/Bret. I think the Iron Man is over-rated so yeah, better than 12.
A pretty big let down to say the least though, on paper this had one of the best cards ever |
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12 and 13 were better also.
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He's Here
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This was a one match show too
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And 13's one match is one of the greatest matches of all-time
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A big part of what made this one so shitty was that it was a let-down. The card really did look good pretty good going in.
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President of Freedonia
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I'd give it a thumbs up. Not a huge thumbs up, but a thumbs up nonetheless. The only surefire stinkers were Bret/Vince and the Divas, and to be honest they really shouldn't count when evaluating a show.
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He's Here
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I disagree. Bret/Vince was one of the main angles going into Mania. Even looking at the match as an angle and not rating it based on what a match is it was terrible.
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Absolutely. The "fight" was poorly executed and the twisted involvement of the Hart family was ridiculous and unnecessary. When Bret sat in the folding chair for like 5 minutes I was like come on really
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President of Freedonia
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I don't think I was really disappointed in it because I literally pictured the match as just being chairshots and a Sharpshooter.
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Hazardous to Your Health
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Holy crap! Didnt notice this thread reached 36 pages.. That's 30 more than TNA's Destination X PPV thread.
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HBK mark since 1995
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The crowd was pretty dead for the first half of the show. It was clear that the crowd was saving itself for HBK-Taker.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought Jericho-Edge was a little disappointing. I loved that Jericho won - caught me completely off-guard. But still a little bit short of what I had expected. Punk-Mysterio was awesome. A little rushed, but great. Those two can flat-out go. The finish was predictable, but well-done. MITB - cool, but where did the Swagger win come from? Weird. He'll be the first MITB to lose the cash-in, without a doubt. Stupid. The Divas are hot. Kinda neat to see Vickie pay tribute to Eddie with the splash. Beyond that, meh. Triple H and Sheamus were very good. Again, predictable match - HHH really worked to help get Sheamus over. Good match. Cena-Bats was pretty good. Normal Cena match. I hate the STF though. It looks like crap. Bret and Vince was painful to watch. Whoever booked the Hart buyout storyline should be fired. No one bought that for a second. Cool to see one more sharpshooter, though. HBK-Taker - great roller-coaster. But again, I never felt that HBK had it won. Last year, there was a moment when I was sure it was over. This year, it didn't happen. It doesn't help that last year HBK hit 2 SCM's and Taker kicked out, so I knew two wasn't going to finish. And God awful Michael Cole screaming "THE STREAK IS O-VERRR!" was a giveaway (which WWE does way too f*cking much, ruins the match). The mark in me wanted to see HBK hit one more kick after the "Stay down!" spot. Then I would have been convinced. Alas, wasn't meant to happen. The end was tough to watch - I kept waiting for them to play HBK's music one more time, and they didn't. Made it feel absurdly real. They've actually convinced me that HBK has wrestled his last match. |
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Just a bro.
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This show really lacked the big WM "feel" aside from Taker/HBK, the end of Batista/Cena and some parts of Jericho/Edge and HHH/Sheamus.
I think that is one of the reasons WM 18 will go down as better. That show felt massive |
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I agree. I didn't get the whole EPIC WRESTLEMANIA vibe from anything
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Tongue my Fartbox
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Wonder why there was no highlight package at the end of the show this time, seemed like they just ran out of time.
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The only two matches that I really did not like at all were Bret/Vince and the Divas Match. Everything else was respectable at least.
I will say this: 10 men in MITB is obviously at least 2 but probably 4 men too many. There were a couple spots that were good this year (Kofi on stilts, Air Bourne off the ladder, Swagger getting sandwiched) but they've been getting worse each year...if they do it next year they definitely need to take it back to 6 men. |
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Overall, felt this was not really good at all.
Wasn't really into HBK vs. Taker. I mean, I liked the match..but when I heard that HBK was going against Taker again I thought it was going to be some pretty epic shit for them to repeat a Taker rival again. oh well.. |
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Just a bro.
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what? Can you elaborate? I understand that people thought this WM was a let down (I agree with that) but Taker/HBK was the one thing that wasn't a let down IMO. How was that not a classic?
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Well, like I said..overall it was not really a bad match. I just felt that since they are doing it with HBK again..it was going to be even more epic than the first one. You know when you have friends that run their mouths about a movie so much and then you see it and you expect it to be so huge but it isn't? that is what I felt like. There was cool spots like the moonsault and such but I guess my expectations overall were higher.
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Just a bro.
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Just a bro.
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No JR was bullshit. Striker and Cole are annoying as hell and King stopped caring in 2004
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I think people on here need to accept the fact that JR is done as announcer and move on. If he had shown up and been sub par then people would have been bitching about "why did they put JR on WM when he wasn't fit to do it".
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Just a bro.
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JR would never be sub par. He also makes great ribs.
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Retired Prolly.
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Kofi should've won MITB with the ladder stilts.
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Just a bro.
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Kofi on stilts was retarded. I thought it was hilarious. Like who would actually think they had a chance at winning the match in such a manner?
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anyone a little disappointed in this year's entrances? nothing really blew me away
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