If bray is fucked this could be lolz but also we can get closer to my hope of luke harper new zombie spirit god genie
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 29 March 2015 22:59 (nine years ago) link
Unless they have to amputate I assume Bray is going to be out there.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 29 March 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
god Rusev is just the fuckin best
surely the Rusev-Lana act must be getting monster babyface reactions in every non-Poland-or-Ukraine country they go to
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 30 March 2015 01:20 (nine years ago) link
Lots of good storytelling so far. Give me good ring psychology over high spots every day.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 March 2015 02:32 (nine years ago) link
:(
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 30 March 2015 02:34 (nine years ago) link
sounded like big reigns boos to me
― Mordy, Monday, 30 March 2015 02:40 (nine years ago) link
omg
that was perfectly done imo
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Monday, 30 March 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link
^^ so great
― Mordy, Monday, 30 March 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link
holy shit
― qualx, Monday, 30 March 2015 02:59 (nine years ago) link
And so ends the Roman Reigns experiment.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 30 March 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
when brock was dazed and bleeding i was into the idea of reigns winning, obviously i am a much bigger mark than the 77k in the stadium
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Monday, 30 March 2015 03:05 (nine years ago) link
Well that main event was fucking dope.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 30 March 2015 09:36 (nine years ago) link
Overall that was a really entertaining show. Nothing was bad, and nobody got stiffed for time unlike pretty much every other WM. The pacing was a bit off, the crowd seemed to peak for the Sting-HHH match but they followed it up with an hour worth of commercials/HOF stuff/divas match and lulled people to sleep somewhat. It must have been tough to be out there in the sun for five hours too.
The ladder match was kind of paint by numbers, but the right guy won and the backstage segment to put over Bryan and the title was great.
The finish to Orton-Rollins was insane.
The ending to HHH-Sting was telegraphed once it turned into WWE vs WCW. I still don't get the build up for this feud, first it was vigilante Sting vs the Authority, then it was WWE vs WCW with exactly opposite heel/face roles, why couldn't they just make up their damn minds about what they were fighting for. For me it hurt the match a lot and I didn't like this as much as most people seem to, but the spectacle was definitely something you'd only expect to see at Mania, and that justifies the match by itself. The post-match handshake was BS by any measure though. Sting's entrance was great.
The divas match was good time filler, but nothing was on the line and I still can't figure out who is supposed to hate who in this feud.
Rusev rode out in a Russian tank to the Russian national anthem waving the Russian flag and they STILL BOOED CENA!$@! I had no problem with Cena winning, but the finish didn't do anything for Rusev. The guy goes undefeated for a year and crushes everyone he gets in the ring with, and in the end he eats one AA and gets pinned just like any other jabroni.
I loved the Attitude era HHH-Rock feud, but they were staring each other down in the ring and I realized I didn't really care if I ever saw this match again, even though it would probably be really good. Then it turned into Rock and Rousey vs HHH and Steph and suddenly I was all like HELL YES GIVE ME THIS MATCH.
Taker vs Wyatt was about what I expected. Taker was jacked. I guess they'll do Taker vs Sting next year but Sting got buried against HHH and they definitively established that WCW has no chance against the WWE, so does anyone think Sting has a snowball's chance in hell against Taker in Texas?
Lesnar's performance in the main event might have been the best of his WWE career, he single handedly made it into a semi-legendary match. I think WWE thought that Reigns would get sympathy cheers, but that plan backfired because Brock throwing him around like he weighs 150 pounds was beyond awesome. I even bought into Reigns' comeback once Brock started bleeding and was sure he was going to win.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 30 March 2015 09:54 (nine years ago) link
i did love that john cena was here representing and defending everything that is great about america, but eh fuck it, BOOOOOOOOOO.
it would be great if lesnar has more dates on his new contract and we get to see him spend a few months trying to catch rollins so he can murder him while cowardly slimebag rollins evades him
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Monday, 30 March 2015 11:31 (nine years ago) link
Only Sting could give a handshake to the guy who just hit him with a sledgehammer. It would have only been a better Sting performance if Flair came out to turn on him. And Luger too. And the nwo again.
Im over multi man ladder matches with no story but i love the bullhammer party and them taking ambrose out so he couldnt stop rollins for once.
Orton is so dull.
Cena Rusev was dope. Boo the guy with reagan and bush in his video! Cheer the guy in the tank with the hot chick! That stunner was fun too, i love cena. I love rusev.
Flair chopped Steamboat!
Rousey held Steph arm in arm so they could skip around together? Steph has been in matches before, was she really scared of 1 worked punch in the face?
Taker is so old and i kinda fell asleep during it.
Brock Lesnar is tge greatest professional wrestler of all time. Rollins and Reigns are both acceptable and enjoyable parts of the main event now but... fuck Brock is the greatest ever. Better than flair, savage, austin, funk, whoever. Still wish i had a time machine and could get him vs big poppa pump in his prime though.
I'm interested in who Cena feuds with and who he puts over at Like SummerSlam. Bryan as Smackdown champ could actually make me watch SD again. Lesnar has a new fucking deal and will be chasing motherfuckers down. WM did the best thing ever, which is make me care again about what happens.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 30 March 2015 12:21 (nine years ago) link
rousey murders people with armbars so a tiny little armbar-ish type thing should be expected
― qualx, Monday, 30 March 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
Yeah but that wasnt what took out cat zingano, that was best friends foreverz
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 30 March 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Just finished watching this, bit too drained for coherent impressions right now, but that main event was basically as good as it could possibly have been
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 30 March 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
what are some sites with good thoughtful writing on wrestling? whenever i want to catch up on stuff i check 411mania (only coz it was the only one i remembered from years back), but their level of critical insight is sub-sub-av club
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Monday, 30 March 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
http://uproxx.com/author/brandon-stroud/http://grantland.com/contributors/the-masked-man/http://aubreysitterson.com
― Mordy, Monday, 30 March 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link
i stopped watching raw and started reading stroud's recaps instead because A) life's too short for 3h of raw per week and B) they are entertaining as hell
― GGGOAT: greatest goat game of all time (Will M.), Monday, 30 March 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link
i knew brandon back when he was just B, i randomly decided to click on his fbook link to his survivor series recap which is 90% of the reason i got back into wrestling
we mostly argued
― qualx, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
in case anyone is missing raw right now, brock lesnar just burst out laughing at the crowd's SUPLEX CITY chant, confirming he had no idea the mics even picked it up last night
― qualx, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
kalisto just destroyed in front of a smarky af crowd
if yesterday hadn't happened in a huge outdoor park it would've been the best mania ever
ADRIAN NEVILLE PROMO
― qualx, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
lol at JBL and Booker being completely taken out by the announce table being pushed on them but it taking another F5 to put Cole away
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:22 (nine years ago) link
those things are really getting devalued
it really made the announce tables look weak
was hoping the rest of raw would be arty and completely announcer-less
― qualx, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:34 (nine years ago) link
NEVILLE IS BILLED AS NEVILLE AND HAS A CAPE
FUCK
― qualx, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
still using his shit theme
― qualx, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
that is...the stupidest arbitrary forename cull yet
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
IF ONLY AS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED HE'D IN FACT BEEN CALLED RIPLEY BISHOP ALL ALONG, HE WOULD'VE SOUNDED KIND OF BADASS WHEN HE DEBUTED ON THE MAIN ROSTER, BEING GUARANTEED TO HAVE THE NAME OF A CHARACTER FROM ALIEN WHICHEVER WAY VINCE'S WHIM WENT
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:43 (nine years ago) link
The Neville Brother
― qualx, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:45 (nine years ago) link
he could steal the hulkamania theme from axel
ahaha mick foley just tweeted aaron neville by accident
― qualx, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:08 (nine years ago) link
Hehe
Cena making Ambrose look like $0.9 million in a cold title match
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 02:10 (nine years ago) link
*kevin owens chant*
lawler: listen to the wwe universe, chanting "randy orton"
― qualx, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
besides that main event and the usual wreddit mutant crowd tryna get themselves over, real good raw. most of the work was good, debuts that are def long overdue, sheamus turn that was WAY long overdue
― fadanuf4erybody, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 04:24 (nine years ago) link
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/31/cardboard-children-luchador-mexican-wrestling-dice/
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
3 hours is way too long. i started watching last night (without commercials even) and i still had to stop after the 6-woman tag and save the rest for later, TOO MUCH STUFF.
― GGGOAT: greatest goat game of all time (Will M.), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah I'm fascinated that many still do it regularly. Or that so many used to for Nitro to see like Hugh Morris v. Alex Wright or whatever. And I fucking love wrestling.
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
if you haven't already there is no need at all to watch past this point
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
I watch the 90 minute version on Hulu if I watch at all. 3 hours can fuck right off.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
apparently the 90 min hulu cut off the debuts of kalisto and ~!NEVILLE!~ so they can fuck off, just use watchwrestling.ch and skip the obviously horrible shit
― qualx, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:27 (nine years ago) link
such great debuts. am i naive to hope they'll have good careers on the main roster? i know the last few call-ups haven't been spectacular but Rusev! Rollins! Reigns!
― Mordy, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
i worry about kalisto being tethered to sin cara, he could very easily be the ~next rey~ vince wants so bad, not gonna happen with anytime soon w/mr relative snoozefest
― qualx, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:41 (nine years ago) link
AJ Lee is retiring. Guess she came back for the Wrestlemania paycheck and nothing else. At least that's what her completely uninterested wrestling showed since her return.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 3 April 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah respect but she's been half assing it for quite some time--that AJ/Paige series of PPV matches from last year was outright bad tbh
― fadanuf4erybody, Saturday, 4 April 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
neville vs rollins
― qualx, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link
not exactly cena/angle
― qualx, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:51 (nine years ago) link
Haven't caught much of Lucha underground since it started but I just finished watching the Grave Consequences casket match from the other week and it was totally really good as casket matches go, probably primarily because the casket actually had very little to do with anything except for the finish and a couple of big spots. Mainly it was just a damn fine brawl, another solid big monster / little underdog fight of a similar vibe to zayn / Owens (though Fenix got in a good amount of offence here).
Thought that fenix was good as the sympathetic though kinda non-descript tecnico getting his ass kicked all over town, but more so I really enjoyed Mil Muertes, who actually didn't seem very Lucha-y in terms of his style, aside from the odd tope or two which seemed kinda obligatory just to prove that he could do it. He worked well as this big bruising asshole, his look and demeanour reminded me of The Spoiler or someone, one of those big and surprisingly athletic masked heels you might sometimes see watching old southern territories stuff. But old-school look or not, he worked a great pace here. I am also a fan of mask-ripping and bloody-forehead-biting as heat-seeking offence in these kind of matches. I'd certainly have been booing the dude if I'd been there, anyway.
Basically it is only a short match really and the pace is wicked fast from the outset so if you have a spare 15 mins at some point then I would definitely recommend this as a good watch.
On the down side, everyone there was chanting "holy shit" every time either dude in the ring moved a muscle while matt striker was sitting there going "lol right on guys" while also, and perhaps even more annoyingly, providing the most infuriatingly smug and self-satisfied meta commentary one can readily imagine I.e. At the climatic moment when the apparently conflicted valet is holding the casket open as the two dudes struggle on the apron and vampiro is doing an ok job of selling the "but which dude is she helping?!" tension, matt striker is literally sitting there saying "this is building tension" yes thank you you fucking goon we have read books and seen films before, we do not need you to signpost the fucking plot points for us, I mean one of these guys is carrying a magic stone from which he draws mystical occult powers, whyyyy would you want to draw attention to the artifice of this whole thing??? He wasn't totally terrible for WK9 imo and I do like that he calls the moves, but my god, trying to get over with the "internet crowd" by saying shit like "I'm markin out bro!!!!!" On a fuckin royal rumble ppv of all places or nodding along sagely for every superfluous overkill This is Awesome chant or w/e srsly fuck matt striker for always
But yeah matt striker and wrestling fans in general are the worst, check out that match
― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 9 April 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link