03-21-2016, 01:18 PM | #23881 |
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Jericho and AJ plus Owens and Zayn is not on the card yet from what I can see. Unless something has changed? They needed those two matches to guarantee a few quality matches on the undercard. But they are not there on the card I just commented on. More important than that though, in terms of the card (not the event quality), they need those matches for a few feuds with depth and a story. Something the majority of the card has none of.
I actually think this is a year they could have done with Undertaker in there against a 'real' opponent. Not thrilled at the prospect of seeing Shane, a decade older, acting the wrestler. It doesn't appeal to me. Reigns and HHH will be good but this is supposed to be Wrestlemania, the main event, the biggest match of the year! As for Lesnar/Ambrose, it will almost certainly be great but I feel like they haven't done enough to focus on the feud and make it heated. It was a mistake for each to be looking at Bray and HHH so close to the event if they wanted us to care about this match. I just don't see where the pull is, in terms of heated feuds culminating on the biggest stage, or even marquee matches...anywhere on the card. There will be some great matches, there could be some shocking moments and am sure the night will be enjoyable enough, but it is a shocking card for a Wrestlemania |
03-21-2016, 01:33 PM | #23882 |
b/c 5 is better than 4
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Owens/Zayn & Jericho/Styles are off that card and the two I look most forwards to.... Owens/Zayn could easily be the Steamboat/Savage of this generation.....
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03-21-2016, 01:35 PM | #23883 |
Trickster Demon
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lol @ Rusev
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03-21-2016, 02:37 PM | #23884 |
TPWW's #3 Peep
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That looks absolutely awful. Why do WWE even bother with these shitty movies? Surely that's not gonna make a profit for them?
(Also, Ziggler had a clear shot throughout most of that. Idiot...) |
03-21-2016, 09:12 PM | #23885 | |
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03-21-2016, 09:18 PM | #23886 |
Former TPWW Royalty
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Last year's and either Mania 27 or 28's build was pretty bad as well although this year does feel like they aren't even trying. Injuries have played a big role but doesn't excuse how half-assed the card feels with what they have left.
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03-22-2016, 12:28 AM | #23887 |
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Hulk Hogan's lawsuit being mentioned on The Edge and Christian Show.
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03-22-2016, 01:28 AM | #23888 |
"Ask him!"
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Damn. This has got to be the worst WrestleMania card of the modern era, say, since WrestleMania 8. And yes, it absolutely has to do with the injuries. The WWE has been dealt a very shitty hand this March season. Imagine what the card would look like if they had John Cena, Randy Orton, Seth Rollins, Sting, Bray Wyatt and Daniel Bryan healthy for this event. Or if they had managed to get The Rock or Ronda Rousey to get into the ring? They really did get a bad deal for Mania this year.
But that's not the whole problem. They have also decided to play the hand they were dealt in a really disappointing fashion. The main event is the worst of it. The last main event I remember where the fans were so ambivalent toward both parties was WrestleMania 22. Some people think that night made John Cena. Perhaps that's what they're trying to accomplish again. I'm personally of the belief that Roman Reigns doesn't have half of what John Cena has in him. Reigns has not had his "Doctor of Thuganomics" phase where he more or less got over on his own. He will absolutely need that if he's ever to reach the heights of Cena, Austin, Rock, Hogan, Macho, or any of the other "faces" of the WWE. And it's going to have to be one hell of a performance if they plan on pulling off the "big push" at Mania. I mean Oscar caliber performance from both guys. The Shane/Undertaker feud has really boiled down into shit. Everyone was excited when Shane came back. But he's really made a mess of the whole thing by his constant screw ups on the microphone and by those embarrassingly weak punches he threw at Taker on RAW. The corporate world has clearly taken from Shane some of that spark he had in him during the Attitude Era. The stakes are "high" from a storyline standpoint, but I think we all know that there's no chance Shane wins and ends Undertaker's WrestleMania career. It will likely be a really good match and Shane will probably damn near kill himself to make sore of that, but the best way I can put it is that everything feels wrong about this match. It's completely out of its time and incredibly contrived. Don't get me started on the Intercontinental Title situation... you have an incredible heel wrestler, who is also very over with the fans, as your champion, and you could choose one of SEVERAL face wrestlers for him to go against, and give us a guaranteed, solid, in-ring 20-25 minute classic. The glaringly obvious choice is Sami Zayn, and we already know that match will deliver. AJ Styles would also make a perfectly acceptable opponent. Instead, they are going with another clusterfuck 7-man Ladder match, which we have already seen a thousand times before. I get that, in theory, it is more "difficult" and therefore more "prestigious" to defeat 6 other men in a ladder match than to defeat one other man in singles competition, but when you have a card that is already struggling to deliver, why would you put so many of your most talented young stars into a match where only one of them is really going to get over in the end? And to make it even worse, they actually DO give a singles match to the trashy United States Championship in a match between Kalisto and Ryback, two guys who really are not capable of putting on a "classic" WrestleMania contest. Why not make Kalisto's US title up for grabs in a Ladder match and let Owens defend the IC Title in a singles contest? It is impossible for me to believe that no one suggested this very idea. New Day against the League of Nations makes absolutely no sense. Turning New Day face is a bad idea. The only bright spots that I can see are Ambrose versus Lesnar and the Diva's Championship triple threat, but back in the days, these matches alone would not really persuade a $60 purchase out of me. Ambrose is awesome, don't get me wrong, but this is kind of a waste of Lesnar. He should really be doing something "bigger." What that would be I'm not too sure, but it would probably involve the WWE Championship in some form or another. |
03-22-2016, 04:21 AM | #23889 |
Doin' It Right
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Haven't the last 4 Mania's or so been called the "worst ever?"
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03-22-2016, 04:23 AM | #23890 |
Doin' It Right
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I'm gonna be really disappointed if this year isn't the worst Mania ever
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03-22-2016, 04:51 AM | #23891 |
Cranky Kong
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I'm not so sure the Young Bucks have any idea how to sell. They pull off some cool-looking moves, but they're a pretty weak package overall.
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03-22-2016, 05:34 AM | #23892 |
Doin' It Right
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I don't think I've ever seen one of their matches
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03-22-2016, 07:08 AM | #23893 |
#R.I.P.U.S.A.
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03-22-2016, 07:09 AM | #23894 |
#R.I.P.U.S.A.
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03-22-2016, 11:07 AM | #23895 |
King of Suplexes/Oxy
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03-22-2016, 01:06 PM | #23896 |
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03-22-2016, 01:08 PM | #23897 |
is brat
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Former WWE Divas Champion Eve Torres to play the sometimes villain, sometimes hero "Maxima" on upcoming episode of Supergirl...
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03-22-2016, 01:17 PM | #23898 |
3 Dicks Out For Trips
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Boy howdy Rasslemanier is lookin to be the tits.
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03-22-2016, 02:27 PM | #23899 |
Inno Knows.
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03-22-2016, 02:31 PM | #23900 |
is brat
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First Wrestlemania without John Cena and Randy Orton since Wrestlemania XX....
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03-22-2016, 02:32 PM | #23901 |
Inno Knows.
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You mean 19
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03-22-2016, 02:33 PM | #23902 |
Inno Knows.
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Because XX was thug rapper Cena and Legend Killer in all his glory Randy Orton
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03-22-2016, 02:36 PM | #23903 |
is brat
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Yeah.... worded it wrong.... I meant since WMXX they have not missed a Mania....
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03-22-2016, 02:47 PM | #23904 |
TPWW's #3 Peep
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Shit totally forgot about Randy Orton!
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03-22-2016, 02:51 PM | #23905 |
President of Freedonia
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Figures Cena and Orton would finally miss a Mania and they'd still manage to churn out a Mania that looks so bad that I'm not going to be watching live for the first time since I started watching wrestling (first Mania for me was WM15).
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03-22-2016, 02:57 PM | #23906 |
is brat
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What is this statement supposed to mean...... that without Cena and Orton the show should have been a better one?
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03-22-2016, 03:10 PM | #23907 |
Former TPWW Royalty
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Yeup. WWE would have been forced to have done a lot better job at building new top stars like in the past whenever the old top stars no longer could bail them out of a mess.
They don't have Cena (and Orton) as the usual fallback panic options but at the same time doesn't seem like they care about fixing the serious issues that's plagued them for years. |
03-22-2016, 03:56 PM | #23908 |
Cranky Kong
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03-22-2016, 04:00 PM | #23909 |
President of Freedonia
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Pretty much what Smeat said. Maybe not necessarily a better show but one that would require a little bit of effort on the part of creative to build new people. Instead they put the title on a semi-retired guy and brought back Shane McMahon.
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03-22-2016, 04:21 PM | #23910 |
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03-22-2016, 05:08 PM | #23911 |
Former TPWW Royalty
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03-22-2016, 05:10 PM | #23912 |
Wrestling Marks Rejoice!
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03-22-2016, 05:41 PM | #23913 |
boop/bop/beep
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03-22-2016, 07:05 PM | #23914 |
The black Corey Graves
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03-22-2016, 07:33 PM | #23915 |
The black Corey Graves
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03-22-2016, 10:26 PM | #23918 |
Inno Knows.
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EVIL EMMA on Main Event |
03-22-2016, 11:24 PM | #23919 |
Hazardous to Your Health
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NOOOOOOO
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03-23-2016, 12:37 AM | #23920 |
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The Rock wants to waste a WM appearance on New Day?
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