Wrestlemania 2

Lovelyguy

Hi all - I'm going through a retro loving phase! Currently I'm watching WM 2 and IMO, its an absolute shocker. From the short matches, to no gap to in between the matches, and worst of all: The women commentators! Jesus Christ, they are the most annoying people I've ever heard. The lady for the first 4 fights must've said "uh oh" about 150 times (no exageration).

I've yet to see the main event, but the undercard is awful.

It thought most the other early WM were great in their own way, but this (so far) is TERRIBLE!

jaykhunter

yep, the show is pretty atrocious alright. it might be the worst of the manias. Although the battle royal is fun enough and the main event does save it from being an absolute clunker. it's no wonder why they never did 3-arenas-live ever again!

i did do a review with some mates of it if u care to watch

rovert

Dream Team vs Bulldogs is pretty great and wouldnt have wanted to be Davey here:



I think the reason for doing three shows at Wrestlemania 2 is that they wanted to one-up Starrcade.

jaykhunter

dunno if anyone's gonna have a good match vs Beefer/Valentine! I was thinking 3 arenas, 3 times the paying audience, also three cities to advertise in

rovert

According to Bret's book and pretty much everyone else Bret Hart vs Ricky Steamboat were initially going to wrestle on the show but plans changed. So they decide to have their big Wrestemania epic here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8r_lYoEwaY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwfhNQtcXyE

From the Bret DVD

They probably wouldnt have gotten the time on Wrestlemania 2 so no great loss.

steelcityblues

Lovelyguy wrote: »

Hi all - I'm going through a retro loving phase! Currently I'm watching WM 2 and IMO, its an absolute shocker. From the short matches, to no gap to in between the matches, and worst of all: The women commentators! Jesus Christ, they are the most annoying people I've ever heard. The lady for the first 4 fights must've said "uh oh" about 150 times (no exageration).

I've yet to see the main event, but the undercard is awful.

It thought most the other early WM were great in their own way, but this (so far) is TERRIBLE!

Susan St.James. Didn't exactly do a good job of feigning interest, did she?

'C'mon George' (in monotone voice)

steelcityblues

Also, if you were on the West Coast - you got to see the LA bit live first, then NY and Chicago pre-recorded. What a mess there!

Lovelyguy

steelcityblues wrote: »

Also, if you were on the West Coast - you got to see the LA bit live first, then NY and Chicago pre-recorded. What a mess there!

Oh yeah , I never thought of that. Unless, they had it much later in the night?


P.S. Great shout with the "C'mon George" comment - I suppose 25 years ago, people wouldn't be as quick to notice how terrible female commentators were/are. (No offense to any women, but in fairness its true).

rovert

A serious omission to this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-egRajis0E