Wrestlemania 25 (Spoilers, Rumours, Speculation, News)

well seeing as im up in about 2 hours im off too bed. good company had here if nothing else.
Oh but staying up was worth it for the HBK match. the rest
Night

cooker3 wrote: »

This show is not going to make me return

To be fair, i wouldn't blame you.
That said, we talk about more than current stuff that's being shoved down our throats every week.

I can't say I was let down by the PPV, for one reason and one reason only.
I wasn't expecting much in the first place.

Rjd2 wrote: »

But we got Kid Rock and some minger from the Pussicat Dolls:pac:

I laughed

Furious-Red wrote: »

I actually went for a pee when she was singing , just to make sure the tank was pretty empty before it started. Then the minute the MITB ending had to run over to my friends house and grab my phone but didnt miss anything

As i said earlier, over the years, she actually had a better voice for it than most of the yokes they had singing America The Beautiful (Gladys Knight, Jamelia, Robin Smith and Little Richard spring to mind).

But once MITB was first match on, i went straight for the JD. lol

Here's what i find hilarious.
People knew the card wasn't up to scratch and that it was going to be basically a one match card. Knowing this for weeks prior to the show.

And still, they're unhappy with it. Ok, opinions are opinions and each gets respected.
But at the same time, none you can honestly say that you didn't see this coming?

Anyone?

to be honest i wasn't disappointed at all. i was watching this wrestlemania mainly for the undertaker and hbk match, as i grew up watching these two wrestle and was delighted to see one last feud between them culminate on the grandest stage of them all. bias aside, i knew they would deliver once again - even with their decrepit bodies.:p Still, it doesn't augur well for the future of wwe wrestling when two forty-plus men with broken down bodies steal the show.

was i the only one that actually kind of enjoyed kid rocks performance? thaught he put on a good show, it was better than most of the fcukin sh!te we had to watch tonight!

i really do feel sorry for people who (imo) wasted a rediculous amount of money on the trip!

didn't see it, but read the results this morning. massively disappointed with the results.

Punk winning the MITB again? Why, they screwed it up last time, why would this time be any different? Santina? FOFF!!

As for the Orton/HHH match.... they could have kept the story going with an Orton win, but nooooooooooooo, HHH had to win, which imo buries the story line, and makes crap of the excellent performances from Orton recently. Really, REALLY annoyed by that result.

ShawnRaven wrote: »

That was bound to steal the show though, especially as they'd pretty much had unfinished business since 1998.

I don't care what anyone says, Steamboat's performance was close second! For a guy who turns 57 in two months time, he outshone most of the card that was on that PPV! As i said earlier in the thread, to me, that was a show stealer from a biased perspective as to me, that was Vince's way of saying "Sorry we f*cked you over when you wanted to take time off while your wife was pregnant, 22 years ago, you can still give an awesome performance, off you go!". Because his 1991 run was rather indignant too.

Yeah, i admit, i nearly cried in my drink, sue me!

Was too knackered to come on here last night but Steamboat shocked everony I think with his performance, while me and my cousin were watching it we were saying "jesus he can still do it" , nice pop from the crowd for the (still perfect) armdrags.

Hated the Orton/HHH match, absolutely killed the crowd, did you see people actually running for the exits once it ended? cant believe that was the main event of Wrestlemania, no big moment or angle or anything, and why on earth was HHH slowly wearing Orton down, he should have just ran into the ring, chucked the title belt at him and started pounding him senseless instead of trying to wrestle him, there also seemed to be something going on in the crowd about halfway though, you could hear a big reaction to something and everyone in the first few rows were looking over to the other side of the arena, maybe anyone on here who was there can shed some light on this?


Undertaker v Shawn Michaels: 2 guys in their 40s show the entire roster up and put on a class of how a Wrestlemania match is supposed to go down, an absolute, 5 star, stone cold classic match.
Its been a very, very long time since a match had me screaming at the tv and standing out of my chair but this did it in spades, Im a Shawn fan and the guy i was watching with is a Taker mark, so the back and forth action and god knows how many 2 counts had me riveted, Shawn looked to have seriously hurt himself in the moonsault to the outside spot and then Taker comes along and basically dives headfirst into the ground, a sick spot, the replays showed just how close Taker was to breaking his neck.

Thought the match would be stopped but it went one for another 15 minutes or so, Shawn kicking out of the tombstone, with arms crossed and takers tongue out shocked EVERYONE in that arena, once the finale hit and Taker went 17-0 the crowd were at fever pitch for this and the 2 guys earned their place in Wrestlemania history, this is a serious contender for the greatest Wrestlemania match of all time.


Overall a solid but not amazing show, MITB was a spotfest but entertaining, Santino, sorry Santina is a legend, Steamboat pulled off a miracle, Hardys was ok but nothing spectacular, the 3 way was dull, ditto the main event, Taker and HBk tore the house down as was expected

My opinion of the night was that even though a lot of people have jumped on the bandwagon of slating this show.
I honestly didnt think it was one of the worst manias ever.

From a WM standpoint it had everything that meant it wasnt going to be that great, but they pulled a few things out which was quite good:

So they booted the Tag match to be a "dvd extra".
Good idea, gives people another reason to buy the dvd i guess.

Which would lead me to believe that is why Kid Rocks performance lasted so long.
I remember reading premania he was going to be playing 3 songs maximum.Batiwaba, Cowboy and So hott. So maybe to fill time that they gained from the Tag match being taken off the card they gave him an extra song.

And it made the divas match a little easier to watch seeing as i didnt have to sit through each one of them come out.

MITB was pretty decent, had low expectations for it to be honest i quite enjoyed it, great originality at points.

When Henry struggled to get up the turnbuckle i had to ask "How the fcuk is he going to get up the ladder?!"

Glad Punk won in a way because i hope it could lead into a him v christian fued.
Gawd, the crowd was on fire when Chrisian was going up that ladder!If that doesnt make people realise how over he really is then vince really does not like him!

Hardy v Hardy was decent. Fair dues to Matt for turning the notch up on his in ring ability to be a heel.

When he was walking out my little brother brilliantly pointed out that he must have shopped and had his hair done in the same place as edges .

Taker v HBK was one of the best matches i have seen in a while.
A long while.
Everytime someone kicked out i marked out like a 10 year old.

At one point i said, this is stupid, we will know when the finish is when taker tombstones HBK and does the tongue pin thing, a few seconds later when he went for it i said "See, this is how the always end it".
No sooner then i finshed saying that, Michaels kicked and i honestly thought he was going to win then.
Taker will not have a better mania match than that one, so i thought it would end.

The title matches just bored me.
Mainly because we have seen all them before. Cena v Show was done way too much back when it was for the US and the same with Edge, so it was destent that nothing new would happen.

And as for HHH v Orton i think when we didnt see that there was no McMahon heel turn, it only made sense to have HHH go over to keep the fued going by having shane or steph turn now rather than last night.


One last thing, Wasnt it advertised on Raw a few weeks ago that the night after Mania would be the Draft?....
Wonder why that changed....

Deleted User wrote: »

Triple Threat sucked. Mickey Rourke, an old has been killed chris Jericho with one punch on wrestling's biggest night of the year. Does vince have any idea how bad that makes his company look?
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From a Media standpoint it was needed.
If that shot gets as much coverage as Mickey did going into mania then the WWE and Mickey Rourke will be very happy financially.

But its not as if Mickey Rourke is just an actor either, he was a decent boxer in the 90s who was never defeated and was capable of knocking someone out.

after the dust has settled on the night before i think we will all agree it wasn't the worst mania ever (that title belongs to WM2, 4, 5, 9 or 11) and it wasn't the best mania ever either

undertaker/hbk was the best wwe(f) match since well undertaker/hbk at badd blood in 1997 it had everything, fantastic storytelling, psychology, crowd heat; 31 minutes of pure brilliance, young kids getting into the business today should be made to watch this match on day 1 of their training. i would give this match 5 stars, best mania match imo since austin/bret at WM13.

MITB was probably the poorest one so far but despite the botches (and botches in ladder matches are to be expected btw) it was still a very solid opener

divas battle royale and rey/jbl were duds, steamboats performance saved the legends matches from being another dud. jeff and matt was decent but too short, they need to take a lesson or two about storytelling and psychology from hbk though.

the triple threat was far too short as well, enjoyable though while it lasted, people are s**ting on this match i expect because cena won and because it followed taker/michaels. i don't understand what they are trying to achieve with cena, having him job clean nearly every week to winning titles. ffs either stop giving edge the belt or give him a run, these hot potato runs p*ss me off

HHH/orton was 20 mins of slow-motion, this is the same match HHH has put on for the last 7 years, sometimes people like cena/jeff hardy manage to get him interested. again i suspect people are s**ting on this because HHH won, i thought it was ok, i can't believe some here (alot of people reading other forums and wrestling observer) thought orton had a chance, i have no problem with HHH winning, orton flatters to deceive imo, he is like watching undertaker in 1991 except slower