~ Official Wrestlemania 29 Thread ~

[leogar]

Well at least we can all look forward to the mixed tag match to be shown on Raw tomorrow.... Or will it ??

[PimpChitterling]

the shield hasnt lost ever. they also have the best set of guys with the most potential to go far; so they actually have no explaination who is giving them matches, they have no real fueds , no direction or reason to attack people. instead of giving these guys the tag belts,or a quest for the ic / us belts, we have them featured here and there with no rhyme or reason. dean is the best on the mic but even he's limited

They have only wrestled on PPV and are undefeated. There is still mystery about them. They are one of the best things the WWE has developed in YEARS. If they don't start moving up the latter now after Mania and pursuing belts, I will have a problem, but up until now they have been brought up nearly perfectly imo. Only thing I don't like is that Ambrose and Rollins are good on the mic and it took too long to let them loose.

[kneeonbelly]

i'd rather have watched men on a mission vs the smoking guns for 2 hours

[rjones416]

only watched the taker and triple h matches. both of them sucked. they were so predictable it wasnt even exciting. this is why i stopped watching wrestling like 13 years ago.

obviously taker isnt gonna lose his streak. i knew every single time when someone was gonna kick out and when it was gonna end.
lesnar kicking the **** out of hhh for most the match and hhh comes back and wins. havent seen that before smh.

[War Machine]

lets pretend....


next year 'taker vs Brock


taker undefeated at mania....


Brock 1-2 so far.


yeah...exciting

[Vandamwtc]

Glad i got free tix. The only match I enjoyed was taker/punk, even though the outcome was predictable. The problem with WWE these days I feel, they just don't seem to story tell in the ring. Same moves over and over. Let the guys off the leash, and call their own matches, and I guarantee WWE would be amazing again. There's too many good workers for it not to.

[War Machine]

Glad i got free tix. The only match I enjoyed was taker/punk, even though the outcome was predictable. The problem with WWE these days I feel, they just don't seem to story tell in the ring. Same moves over and over. Let the guys off the leash, and call their own matches, and I guarantee WWE would be amazing again. There's too many good workers for it not to.

soap opera writers in (not so) creative.

just sayin

[lazzara]

i think the main reason why wrestlemania doesn't feel like a wrestlemania is because we have bunch of new guys on the card.

the shield vs sheamus/ orton/ show - the shield debuted in november
ryback vs henry - ryback "debuted" after last wrestlemania... can't remember when exactly
ziggler didn't become a big deal 'till the past 2 years, same with bryan imo, so they're still in the limbo of being legitimate characters in WWE. then we also had Big E - debuted in late 2012
Fandango made his debut tonight... against Jericho who hadn't been seen for a while until royal rumble. even then, he didn't feud with fandango until like 2 weeks ago
it's del rio's second wrestlemania, swagger's third? but i thought they had a decent match, it's the one with a better build up anyway

compare it with last year's wrestlemania, when most people on the card already had wrestlemania moments prior


all in all, we had great matches and there wasn't any squash match. the lack of build up is probably what hurt the ppv imo. eg, if Cena and Rocky spent a lot of time in ring together, the hug probably would've had more impact to close the ppv .

[Jacket60]

My problems with this Mania:

Finish of Ryback/Henry was stupid. Not upset that Henry won, but he could have at least hit the WSS to win. Furthermore, if you're going to have Ryback pick up Henry, then go ahead and let him hit it for the win. It didn't mean as much the 2nd time he picked him up, especially since the match was over.

Obviously disappointed they didn't let Ziggler cash in. Perfect time to do it. Swagger could have given ADR the Ankle Lock after the match and left him laying. Or Ziggler and Big E could have attacked ADR while he was celebrating. So much potential for a great WM moment, even the fans were chanting "we want Ziggler" during the match. Wasted opportunity.

There were no real surprises. No backstage segments. Crowd was dead for most of the show.

Brock/HHH had the potential to be so much better. For a feud with two guys that have pure hatred for each other, I was kinda hoping there'd be a chairshot to the head or two. Maybe some blood. Maybe a couple more spots with someone taking a hard bump. It just didn't deliver. Furthermore, from a business standpoint, Brock should have won.

Rock and Cena didn't quite deliver in the ring either.


Best matches of the night, IMO, were:

Punk/Taker by far
Jericho/Fandango (finish could have been executed a little better)
Shield vs. Show/Orton/Sheamus
Swagger/Del Rio

[SYCOIZZZ]

not surprised that they gave cena the win...

[monty097]

not surprised that they gave cena the win...

that was pretty much the one absolute 100% guarantee that everyone knew would happen. well and HHH beating Lesnar

[Popcorn_fart]

not surprised that they gave cena the win...

well yeah predictability is what ruined the show. We all knew going in that Cena, Taker and HHH will win so its hard to buy into any near falls.

Even the undercard we knew Shield would win, Team Hell No would win an that Fandango would win. Only suprise was Henry beating Ryback for me but even that doesnt really mean anything.

The one thing Cena/Rock did was throw me off on when it was going to end.

[Younglifter16]

I think the only good part of this PPV was lesnar coming back jacked as fuk


this WM felt like a regular PPV, feel bad for anyone who payed the new 70$ pricetag for it.

[Popcorn_fart]

I think the only good part of this PPV was lesnar coming back jacked as fuk


this WM felt like a regular PPV, feel bad for anyone who payed the new 70$ pricetag for it.

agreed. **** he looked awesome, ended up hitting the gym afterwards. his legs are still small as though which looks funny. he really does have a black mans genetics (no racist) massive jacked upper body with chicken legs

[BillLumbergh]

Downloaded the show this morning and started watching it. Enjoyed it for the most part despite having to skip through all the charity/military/self-bragging BS adverts, loved CM Punk vs Taker and didn't give a sh*t that Punk lost. Skipped through even more promos, skipped to half way through HHH vs Lesnar, cringed at the thought of Brock tapping to the Kimura, facepalmed when he got Pedigree'd on the steps and got pinned and then skipped to the end of Cena/Rock without even watching it and heard Cena's music playing and clicked the red X in the top corner of Windows Media Player.

I couldn't even fathom paying to watch that anywhere but seeing it live in person.

My interest in pro wrestling dropped another 20 or so rungs down the ladder.

[LetsRide21]

Downloaded the show this morning and started watching it. Enjoyed it for the most part despite having to skip through all the charity/military/self-bragging BS adverts, loved CM Punk vs Taker and didn't give a sh*t that Punk lost. Skipped through even more promos, skipped to half way through HHH vs Lesnar, cringed at the thought of Brock tapping to the Kimura, facepalmed when he got Pedigree'd on the steps and got pinned and then skipped to the end of Cena/Rock without even watching it and heard Cena's music playing and clicked the red X in the top corner of Windows Media Player.

I couldn't even fathom paying to watch that anywhere but seeing it live in person.

My interest in pro wrestling dropped another 20 or so rungs down the ladder.

This

i just skipped to the end of the Lesnar & Rock match to see if they would lose

[BillLumbergh]

Oh, yea...the one thing I DID get kinda mad at was Ryback losing to Henry. What the f*ck did that accomplish? And then he gave him the f*cking Shellshock afterwards anyway...

Did they not think that after multiple PPV losses that he could have benefited from a big win with a big moment at Wrestlemania?

Out of touch, off the pulse, self-indulgent, protecting the status quo, morons.

Both Cena and HHH winning clean didn't piss me off though. I just expected that and held out a slim hope that they might do something interesting instead.

[TigerDriver90]

My main concern with the PPV (which is one of the first few I've watched live, which added an additional layer of excitement even if the card didn't deliver) was that in true WWE fashion they pandered to the kids way too much, and in every single goddamn instance the face went over.

Actually, no - is Jericho heel or face at the moment? I haven't watched consistently for years, just gathered what I could from crowd reactions, commentary etc.

[John_Connor]

hhh did that weird yell again last night.

http://youtu.be/VBiHuzduzQA

[treeleaf]

Little heavy on the reversal of finishers then kicking out them. Kicking out of finishers is nothing new at WM though so no bother to me. Didn't read anyone's comments but I thought while predictable UT - Punk, HHH - Brock, Del Rio- Swagger, Cena - Rock were all good matches. Didn't see rest of WM but with these being good I say WM was good this year.

[flipdriver80]

was there. was awesome. now i can say i lived my childhood dream..

so many FA's it was unreal.

[Deathstroke]

The big matches themselves were killer. The main matches delivered, though the outcomes I think turned out to be predictable to the majority of fans. Nothing surprising as far as that, but the big matches were very good. No surprises, or real shockers in terms of huge returns, huge heel turns, or unpredictable outcomes. We just got the matches that were advertised minus the 8 mixed tag. And all the top ones delivered for sure. But should we have gotten more?

[andyray]

was there. was awesome. now i can say i lived my childhood dream..

so many FA's it was unreal.

was the crowd really as bad as it was made out on tv

[flipdriver80]

was the crowd really as bad as it was made out on tv

what do you mean

[musselsbrah]

what do you mean

crowd was dead after taker match

[Kadafi25]

crowd was dead after taker match

You'd have thought WWE would have learned this lesson from WM25 when Taker vs HBK completely drained the fans who were then dead for the HHH vs Orton main event.

Undertaker needs to close WM every time!

[andyray]

what do you mean

you could hear a pin drop during the hhh lesnar match, throughout the show the crowd seemed dead

[flipdriver80]

you could hear a pin drop during the hhh lesnar match, throughout the show the crowd seemed dead

that was a quiet match for the crow yes. following 'taker isnt easy. we were going apechit for the punk/ taker match. the end it got good but for the most part 80k people chillin for 15 minutes.

plus when you are there theres no commentary to keep your mind in it. your only entertainment is the wrestling itself.

[musselsbrah]

plus when you are there theres no commentary to keep your mind in it. your only entertainment is the wrestling itself.

I guess but it hasn't stopped WMs and Raws to have loud crowds before, I'm guessing it was a combination of lack of enjoyment and the open roof + Nobody being able to see chit because of the set up, I heard many people couldnt see a thing because of chit in the way

I do expect tonight to be loud though

[flipdriver80]

I guess but it hasn't stopped WMs and Raws to have loud crowds before, I'm guessing it was a combination of lack of enjoyment and the open roof + Nobody being able to see chit because of the set up, I heard many people couldnt see a thing because of chit in the way

I do expect tonight to be loud though

RAW is in a basketball arena. WM is in an open air football stadium. 80k fans vs 20k inside a closed roof like Izod. I was sitting closer than 75% of the people there and we were still farther away than the nosebleeds in the IZOD center.