WrestleMania Backlash 2021 *Spoilers*

Loughc

daithi1989 wrote: »

the Batisia’s film people will be happy!

Just because I'm talking about it here doesn't mean I'll watch it on Netflix, available to stream May 21st.

CastorTroy

When better to go all in on zombies than the middle of May? No one will see that coming. (Like one of the ninja zombies in Walking Dead)
Also goes to show the commentary team doesn't have a brain between them when the zombies have no interest in them

Lithium93_

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

Jesus, just caught the clip of the ending of that Lumberjack match, sell this **** to Disney and be done with it.

Ask yourself though, would anyone at Disney even want to be associated with this ****?

What purpose would it serve them? They aren't exactly short of their own stuff anyways.

PTH2009

Really enjoyed the Romam vs Cesaro match last

JP Liz V1

Zombies should have done Thriller dance

Loughc

PTH2009 wrote: »

Really enjoyed the Romam vs Cesaro match last

In fairness it was a good match made Cesaro look like a million dollars and as someone else said the logically things to do now is have Cesaro finish his feud with Rollins at HITC and then move on and beat Reigns at Summerslam in front of a live crowd.

Do I trust WWE to execute this. Absolutely not.

JP Liz V1

Miz deserves to be back in the Raw world title hunt imho all he does for WWE, add JoMo too

Cherry_Cola

Saw this stated on another forum and it's spot on:

"Peacock have a paid a billion dollars to broadcast an extended commercial for a Netflix movie."

JP Liz V1

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

Saw this stated on another forum and it's spot on:

"Peacock have a paid a billion dollars to broadcast an extended commercial for a Netflix movie."

Hasn't Batista said he done for good with wrestling but is anyone ever done for good completely, he is fairing well in the movies

Necro

Loughc wrote: »

In fairness it was a good match made Cesaro look like a million dollars and as someone else said the logically things to do now is have Cesaro finish his feud with Rollins at HITC and then move on and beat Reigns at Summerslam in front of a live crowd.

Do I trust WWE to execute this. Absolutely not.

It actually writes itself the way the PPVs are set.

Cesaro Rollins blow off match at HITC

MITB the following month, Cesaro wins

The next night he states he's cashing in on Roman at Summerslam

Simple and effective.

Wait now and see Dominik Mysterio randomly win MITB :pac:

LineOfBeauty

Alright here we go.

I did not like this show. I liked Wrestlemania a lot, Fastlane was meh, Elimination Chamber pretty good, Royal Rumble grand but this was unfortunately bad.

Asuka/Rhea/Charlotte opener was pretty good though it did have every WWE Triple Threat trope imaginable except for the tower of doom (teased). The finish looked ridiculous with Charlotte slipping (?) off the apron after kicking Asuka allowing Rhea to hit the Riptide to win. ***1/4

Dirty Dawgs/Mysterios managed to bore me literally to tears. How long did this go? I think around 20 minutes, it felt double that. Whoever wrote 20 minutes on the runsheet beside this match should be standing trial in the Hague. It just kept going, long boring heat spots, Dominic doing the run in, he's awful, and the splash at the end looked awful. Dreary. **

Miz/Priest I have little to say. It speaks for itself. In a year where WWE main roster has banged out more dud matches than ****1/2+ matches this didn't feel out of place. Cringe to the extreme. Embarrassing to watch. I watched the UFC show the night before which the Snyder movie also sponsored and weirdly enough after Tony Ferguson lost no zombies ate him alive but I guess WWE is fair game. But this genuinely might not even crack the top 5 worst WWE matches of the year. DUD

Bianca/Bayley was pretty good but impossible to get into after the sour taste of the last match. They had some chemistry issues and a botched finish too. ***

Raw Title Triple Threat had action at least, things were happening. The Lashley LED board spot is another overdone WWE trope that is cringe and needs to go away. Braun the fall guy. Yamato is the only almighty I recognise. ***1/2

Reigns/Cesaro was excellent and the only thing worth going out of your way to see. Slow first third but it heated up in the middle portion, strong storytelling but the layout of this and the finish tells you everything you need to know about what they think of Cesaro, in case you missed the last 10 years (they didn't even give him the F*** finish even though it made sense in the story) presented as a total underdog, lost clean in the middle. The show ending with Rollins doing a beatdown was a damp squib in an altogether bad show. **** for the match though.

CastorTroy

That tower of doom/double suplex made Asuka look foolish, I thought. I was just thinking she's smarter than that and should just wait for Rhea to do the suplex and go for the pin or submission while both are recovering.

johnnysmack

Loughc wrote: »

In fairness it was a good match made Cesaro look like a million dollars and as someone else said the logically things to do now is have Cesaro finish his feud with Rollins at HITC and then move on and beat Reigns at Summerslam in front of a live crowd.

Do I trust WWE to execute this. Absolutely not.

Cesaro is not the guy to beat reigns so everyone may as well start tempering their expectations. Will he challenge him again? Sure. Will it be a good match? Definitely. Will he win? No.

JP Liz V1

johnnysmack wrote: »

Cesaro is not the guy to beat reigns so everyone may as well start tempering their expectations. Will he challenge him again? Sure. Will it be a good match? Definitely. Will he win? No.

Why? Who would you choose?

He is their most over face imho on SD with DB gone and KO back to midcard

Reigns and Rollins are excelling as heels

I'd like to see Sami and Roode pushed

The Usos are likely to get singles pushs, tbf Jey definitely deserves

Sirsok

Watched Backlash with a colleague yesterday after work. He doesn't follow wrestling at all however went Cesaro came out for the title he remarked he looks like the default create a wrestler in a smackdown game.

Then said Reigns is what you turn you create a wrestler into.

Found it funny, but I looked for any humour in life after the utter embarrament of that zombie stuff.

beakerjoe

I love Cesaro, but hes not the guy to beat Reigns. He just hasnt the personality to be the guy. In ring, yeah hes great but hes upper mid carder at best, he's not main event level guy who can carry the weekly shows as Champ.

I would love to be wrong.

That Zombie match was all sorts of wrestlecrap..... I didnt hate it. Its crap, but I thought it was so hilariously bad that I couldnt hate it.