BowserBasher Posted April 8, 2024 Posted April 8, 2024 This WrestleMania may go down as one of the greatest ever. From the first match of night 1 to the main event last night, I think it was almost perfect. Perfect in a WrestleMania should be this way. WrestleMania has always been the culmination of stories. In the past we’ve had some where it just didn’t seem to finish anything and you get the same story continuing. Well it seems that the new direction is exactly how it should be going. Reveal hidden contents I actually think I called like 95% of the results. The only one I didn’t get right was the tag titles match, however as soon as I heard that both sets of titles had to be retrieved and they weren’t placed together, I knew they were splitting them up. Still didn’t call the winners though. I thought DIY was gonna win and Judgement Day would retain the others. I thought Becky may win but just felt that Rhea is just on too much of a roll right now. Jey was always going to beat Jimmy, that was an easy call. Damage control had to lose as they were up against Jade Cargill making her WM debut, knew shed get the fall there. The only one I was unsure on was Sami vs Gunther. That could have easily gone ether way, what with WWE having a PLE in Germany in the near future. But damn I was pleased Sami won. I wanted Drew to win and did think he would, but I was also calling a cash in too. It just seemed that it had gone quiet with that and it seemed like a perfect moment to do it with the interweaving stories with Drew and Priest. Just hated that it was Punk that instigated it. I just don't like the guy. As much as I don't like Logan Paul, I didn't see him losing. With the whole new Prime sponsoring stuff and it being a triple threat, I knew there was going to be some screwy finish for him to keep it. Oh well, his time will come to lose it. Bayley...oh Bayley. This story started last year at SummerSlam and it just felt like that perfect end. I didn't think this was the end they were going for, I truly thought Bayley would challenge Rhea and Damage Control would have all the gold, however this was just the better story. Plus it means we get to chant our favourite Bayley chant when she is over here and she can enjoy it and not have to act heel towards it. The Main event. I actually called both, once the tag match was set to determine the rules, I'm sure everyone knew it was going to be Bloodline Rules, just to make it harder for Cody. I even called Cody being pinned by The Rock. Everyone knew there would be all the Bloodline getting involved but I doubt anyone would have guessed at the two that came down in that match. Cena and The undertaker making and appearance and both having a spot with The Rock too. Just amazing moment. then it finished as it should have. It's been a year long story, mixed into a 3+ year long story. This could very well be one of, if not the best storyline in wrestling this century, possibly since the Austin McMahon stuff. Either way people will. be taking about Romans reign for a long time to come. did it go on too long? Maybe. Has there been matches where it could have ended just as well? Yes. Was this is final chapter it needed, I think so. One last point, and it's one that a lot of people also agree with, and is actually getting praise and recognition for. Samantha Irvin. the best ring announcer in a long time. Even Cole took a moment to say how great she was after she did the announcements for Saturdays main event. But to me, these clips just show how much she loves what she does and is probably a big a fan as anyone. Rhea Ripley winning. Announcing new IC champ, you could hear this live when she did it. To be able to hold back that emotion and still make the call. But to feel that coming through just added so much more to the wins. So much passion and love shown in those few clips. Not for getting NXT Stand and Deliver which was also a great show from top to bottom. 1
Jimbob Posted April 9, 2024 Posted April 9, 2024 Have to admit, that was a very solid Wrestlemania. It's up there (for me) as one of the best Mania's in a long time. First one i stayed up to watch live, kind of wish i booked the day off work yesterday to sleep afterwards.
Happenstance Posted April 11, 2024 Posted April 11, 2024 I just can't understand why AEW decided to show the footage of CM Punk and Jack Perry. No matter what it showed it just makes Tony Khan look pretty and pathetic. We all know CM Punk is a dick and all the video did was show what we'd already been told. There was no big revelation that made him seem worse. 3
Jimbob Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 Yeah, i'll agree that the footage wasn't needed to be shown. I've no idea why they needed to show it either, lot of people have left the situation in the past. If anything, they should have released a statement after the CM Punk interview as a better way of dealing with the situation. Or do nothing, that would have worked as well. 1
Helmsly Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 Yes, that was the first time I’d ever watched AEW and that CM Punk video seemed ultimately pointless. It didn’t achieve anything. Other then that I enjoyed the show though and thought the match between Edge and Penta El was pretty good
Jimbob Posted April 16, 2024 Posted April 16, 2024 Yeah, the Penta - Adam Copeland match was pretty good overall. The Swerve/Samoa Joe rivalry is getting more and more interesting as time goes on, hopefully Swerve wins the big one as he's pretty hot right now. Started watching RAW/Smackdown again since Wrestlemania (have TNT Sports as part of my EE phone). How many adverts does the show need to have, probably close to an hours worth of ads with about 80 minutes of actual wrestling
BowserBasher Posted April 16, 2024 Posted April 16, 2024 On 4/16/2024 at 3:21 PM, Jimbob said: Started watching RAW/Smackdown again since Wrestlemania (have TNT Sports as part of my EE phone). How many adverts does the show need to have, probably close to an hours worth of ads with about 80 minutes of actual wrestling Expand Just remember it’s American television. They have a lot more ads per hour than we do. But yeah when I watch RAW I can get through it in around 2 hours by fast forwarding all the ads and even more if you do the same for recaps and stuff (though they seem a lot less than in the past). Also love the new World Tag Titles, I expected the change to go inline with the men’s and women’s belts on RAW being named World too. Guess we’ll be seeing new WWE Tag Team belts on smackdown Friday. 1
Helmsly Posted April 22, 2024 Posted April 22, 2024 (edited) The WWF Attitude Super Bowl commercial from 1999, randomly popped into my head this morning so I found it on YouTube to see it again. This video also shows some of the behind the scenes stuff that went into making it as well. Edited April 22, 2024 by Helmsly 1
Hero-of-Time Posted April 28, 2024 Posted April 28, 2024 What the hell was he doing? Shawn Michaels looks so young there. Quite beefy as well compared to when he was HBK.
Helmsly Posted April 29, 2024 Posted April 29, 2024 On 4/28/2024 at 6:54 PM, Hero-of-Time said: What the hell was he doing? Expand The best I can come up with is that Warrior was trying to show the bond his team had... by taping them all up lol I'd love to see what happened after the crew said Cut! and they all had to awkwardly remove the tape while asking Warrior "what the hell was that about man!?" I bet they all had a laugh about it though On 4/28/2024 at 6:54 PM, Hero-of-Time said: Shawn Michaels looks so young there. Quite beefy as well compared to when he was HBK. Expand Yeah i forgot he got that big but i think there was a lot of pressure on the guys back then to look huge or they'd never get pushed higher up the card. I assume he was on something like so many of them were back then 1
Hero-of-Time Posted July 12, 2024 Posted July 12, 2024 I've not watched it yet but The Iron Claw is now on Amazon Prime. It's the true story about the Von Erich brothers. Looking forward to finally watching it. One for this weekend methinks. 2
lostmario Posted July 12, 2024 Posted July 12, 2024 On 7/12/2024 at 6:47 AM, Hero-of-Time said: I've not watched it yet but The Iron Claw is now on Amazon Prime. It's the true story about the Von Erich brothers. Looking forward to finally watching it. One for this weekend methinks. Expand Going to do same and try and watch it this weekend. Texas Tornado (Kerry Von Erich) was one of my favourites as a kid. His theme music was simple but awesome. 1
Happenstance Posted July 12, 2024 Posted July 12, 2024 They really did waste Texas Tornado. Should have done a lot more with him. 1
BowserBasher Posted July 12, 2024 Posted July 12, 2024 @Hero-of-Time and @lostmario I hope you enjoy it. I’d like to hear what you think. I watched it a while ago, I only really knew about Kerry in WWE as Texas Tornado so a lot of it was new to me and boy does some of it hit home. I actually never knew about the motorcycle accident and that he had a prosthetic leg.
Hero-of-Time Posted July 13, 2024 Posted July 13, 2024 On 7/12/2024 at 10:16 AM, BowserBasher said: @Hero-of-Time and @lostmario I hope you enjoy it. I’d like to hear what you think. Expand I watched it this evening. I cant really go into much detail as spoiler tags don't work at the moment but I really enjoyed it. It was a lot darker than I expected and most of this was down to the dad. 2
lostmario Posted July 15, 2024 Posted July 15, 2024 On 7/13/2024 at 7:26 PM, Hero-of-Time said: I watched it this evening. I cant really go into much detail as spoiler tags don't work at the moment but I really enjoyed it. It was a lot darker than I expected and most of this was down to the dad. Expand I watched it yesterday before the game. It was okay, I had heard great things about it so I was a bit disappointed. It didn't live up to the hype for me. Seemed to be on fast forward for certain big events without time to breathe and take it all in. The dad was a nasty piece of work.
Hero-of-Time Posted July 15, 2024 Posted July 15, 2024 On 7/15/2024 at 5:36 PM, lostmario said: The dad was a nasty piece of work. Expand Indeed. Seems to be a bit of a thing over in the US. My brother has told me a fair few stories of parents at his daughters sporting events who are really harsh with their kids for how they perform. Essentially trying to live their sporting fantasies/dreams through them, instead of being a loving parent.
CrowingJoe79 Posted July 24, 2024 Posted July 24, 2024 John Cena retiring next April truly is the end of an era. I can still remember his first match in the summer of 2002. The one where he narrowly lost to Kurt Angle. 1
Happenstance Posted August 25, 2024 Posted August 25, 2024 Hmmm, AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door is being held in London in August next year. Might be one I have to try and go to.
Happenstance Posted September 5, 2024 Posted September 5, 2024 This should be an interesting one. Given the people they've got in that trailer who still refuse to badmouth Vince you've got to wonder if they'll be annoyed at what I'm sure the documentary eventually turned into. I bet its definitely not what they originally signed up for when they did their interviews for it.
Hero-of-Time Posted September 5, 2024 Posted September 5, 2024 Yeah, seems like a promo piece for Vince.
Happenstance Posted September 5, 2024 Posted September 5, 2024 On 9/5/2024 at 5:07 PM, Hero-of-Time said: Yeah, seems like a promo piece for Vince. Expand I'm still hopeful it pivots. Netflix already have the deal with WWE in place and I don't think it benefits them or their image to do a puff piece on him.
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