WWE Wrestlemania 40- 6th/7th April 2024 'spoilers'

I noticed Rollins sat very gingerly into the corner and rolled out to KO just before he had the interaction with Cody, torn between whether it was a work or legit, I'd say he's going to have a lengthy enough layoff himself, isn't he due to have some sort of back surgery? I know he struggled through the Crossfit open with it being so hingey

the ending was absolutely perfect, and it showed that this is all Roman's story, even more than it is Cody's.

Seth really was the shield he promised he would be. Roman had the chance to attack Cody towards the end, chose Seth instead, in an exact replica of the attack Seth perpetrated on his when he broke up The Shield, and Cody ended up winning the title.

just next level storytelling.

R Truth crying seeing his childhood hero John Cena back at WM 😄

If Only

Rhodes leading the way

That main event was excellent, just landed perfectly. First time dipping into WWE in any kind of serious way since Becky main evented WM, and I thought it was average enough outside of the Bloodline stuff. The US title match was good, ladder match had it's moments, and the Punk/Drew stuff was good but I thought most of the undercard stuff was very meh. Much of that feeling might be down to my own ignorance of current acts and their backstories.

My favourite thing from the whole weekend was Michael Cole saying he loves professional wrestling. No more sports entertainment.

Just caught up.

• The opening match was decent but totally agree it was finisher spam. That being said, the cash-in and furthering the Punk/Drew story was amazing. Loved it!
• AOP/Street Profits. I thought I was smoking the same **** as Snoop when he came out on commentary and Bubba Ray was ref for no real reason. Fun, pointless throwaway, I actually liked Snoop's weird commentary.
• LA Knight vs AJ was fine, more good than bad but forgotten half of it already.
• Triple threat was decent. Like KO/Randy's dynamic a lot. Think Logan winning was actually the right choice, think Knight might take it off him at Summerslam. Randy was laying it in there with that knob of a streamer hahaha.
• Bayley vs Iyo was excellent, better than Becky/Rhea which I also enjoyed. Still confused why Bayley was Egyptian.
• MAIN EVENT - Amazing, they managed to pull it off and in doing justified him not winning last year. Lots of long-term pay-off. Undertaker I was okay with, even if I expected Stone Cold, in retrospect Taker was the more apt choice. Seth coming out as the SHIELD and being Cody's Shield like he promised and Roman not being able to move past it was a great story bet. It just felt big, had someone I know who's not even following wrestling, watch it and said he loved it all the same. Feels like a new era, now let's hope they can pull off Cody as champ and a decent Raw after Mania (hasn't been good for a while).

Sidenote - Samantha Irvin is amazing. Brought so much to proceedings and her emotional call at the end was great.

Her voice must be absolutely gone with how she calls the matches. This seems the new era of WWE has started. Did I hear somewhere the Rock has a movie starting soon how will they tie him in now because next Wrestlemania is a long time away if it is meant to be Rock Vs Reigns.

I know they have too have product placement but the over use of Prime (except maybe Logans "mascot" it is his brand) and the Slim Jims (or whatever) was a bit naff

Seems fine to use them interchangeably to me but it's nice to think McMahon-style conniptions over "wrestling" or "belt" or "[guy signed to another company]" are in the past. McAfee still needs to know when to shut up though.😉

Arrived back in Dublin from Philadelphia yesterday morning….. I'm still not recovered physically or emotionally 😁.

What a weekend it was. We landed on Thursday afternoon, flew back on Monday evening. We didn't do any indie shows, we didn't really have time as we wanted to do some tourist stuff as well.

Friday: WWE World in the convention center. We didn't arrive until 3pm, bought tickets at the door, no queues. Around $70 each including taxes. I believe the place was absolutely mobbed when it opened at 10am. It was still busy when we got there, but no issues moving around the place. We got the last few mins of Pat Mcafee. Miz, JLB, Big E and Natalya were doing autograph signings. The Shop was packed, large queues for the checkout, so we didn't bother buying anything.

Saturday & Sunday: Mania was everything I was hoping for, plus a lot more. I thought the two main events would be good, but Sunday nights main event blew me away. The pop for Cena was huge, but the pop for the Undertaker was on another level. Like many others, when the shield's music played, for a second a Dean Ambrose return went through my head. So many great matches, both women's title matches and Sami v Gunther could have been match of the night on a regular PPV. The Uso's match was probably the only match not to a "wrestlemania standard". I missed the 6 women tag, I had to get something hot to eat and drink as it was absolutely freezing on the Saturday night! I noticed when watching mania on the network when I came home that they had large garden heaters suspended above the ring, you can see them on some of the camera shots.

Monday: Went to the shop at WWE world, it was a lot quieter, but most of the popular stock was gone, with only sizes S and 3XL available in the tshirts I wanted. Charles Robinson was walking around the shop, got a quick photo with him.

Saturday:

Sunday: