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The angles were all well done and cool, the main event was great. Maybe I'm just spoiled by New Japan and the indies though because the rest just seemed kind of meh Wyatt/Taker was a lovely match, Sting/HHH was a lovely match that was probably really awesome if you had any interest in seeing the nWo, but I'm so loving sick of those guys that it just sucked. The women's tag was fine, the ladder match was fine but nothing special, Cena/Rusev seemed like an average at best match but maybe that's just because I was expecting more from it. The finish was also trash especially with it being randomly telegraphed by them having Lana throw her shoes into the ring so she could take the bump without dying. (Seriously wtf was that about). Orton/Rollins had a cool finish to an otherwise forgettable Raw quality match. It's a weird show in that it was way better than I expected and the main event to me definitely made it a very good show, but nothing on the undercard was very interesting and I don't know if there was any single match that I'd ever want to see again. Oh well, I'll just take it as a positive that despite how lovely WWE has been lately and the fact that I usually only watch 1/3rd of Raw before I turn the channel or fall asleep I still watched this entire show and was into it and the ~wrestlemania experience~
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Mar 30, 2015 06:19
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Twisted Eye posted:all this post-WM discussion and not enough talk about that incredible curbstomp->rko counter I lost my voice after that move alone If there is an RKO/cutter or whatever better than this please post it, because oh my god that was one of my favorite moves of all time.
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Marquis de Pyro posted:The angles were all well done and cool, the main event was great. Maybe I'm just spoiled by New Japan and the indies though because the rest just seemed kind of meh I mostly agree with that, but to me the one thing that helped the show the most was the announcers actually called the matches instead of making GBS threads on everything and goofing off. Really helps getting stuff that would usually be considered mediocre to the next level.
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purkey posted:If there is an RKO/cutter or whatever better than this please post it, because oh my god that was one of my favorite moves of all time. the only one that comes close is when he caught sydal during the ssp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f70WSKnDyb0
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purkey posted:If there is an RKO/cutter or whatever better than this please post it, because oh my god that was one of my favorite moves of all time. Randy's shoulder was a springboard for Seth, who managed to launch himself something like what, six feet into the air? That's banana.
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Mar 30, 2015 06:23
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Sigma posted:Aren't those just Scramble match rules, more or less? Without a countdown timer and fewer people. I really want one of those extra tall WrasslorMonkey gifs now, like the reverse of the one where Rey gets thrown into the abyss.
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Mar 30, 2015 06:25
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Ah ha! Theeeere it is~
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NickRoweFillea posted:the only one that comes close is when he caught sydal during the ssp Yeah, that's cool as hell.
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Tr33 posted:I mostly agree with that, but to me the one thing that helped the show the most was the announcers actually called the matches instead of making GBS threads on everything and goofing off. Really helps getting stuff that would usually be considered mediocre to the next level. Yeah, the presentation was really good overall. The entrances were cool, the announcing was actually good, the video packages were good. Everything about the show was legitimately awesome except that at least for me personally the main event was the only match that I actually cared about or thought was particularly interesting in the ring edit: I have to take that back partially if only because HHH's entrance was probably the funniest/worst thing ever. But I guess that actually made it kind of awesome...
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Mar 30, 2015 06:27
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MotU posted:About roman reigns " he don't seem like he can wrestle " - my mom MMA moms have good opinions but it seems like wrestling moms have bad ones.
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MassRafTer posted:MMA moms have good opinions but it seems like wrestling moms have bad ones. sorry you are jealous about not having a cool mom and projecting
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Mar 30, 2015 06:30
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I just caught up. Did everyone see that horseshit HHH entrance where they used iMovie and a Lifetouch backdrop to try to make a retired governor look intimidating? Or the stumpy robot t-rex arms they glued to HHH's shoulder pads? Great times at the Wrestlemania.
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Mar 30, 2015 06:30
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I'm so happy that Seth celebrated up the ramp so JAG THINDH couldn't ruin another victory party.
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freud mayweather posted:I just caught up. Did everyone see that horseshit HHH entrance where they used iMovie and a Lifetouch backdrop to try to make a retired governor look intimidating? Or the stumpy robot t-rex arms they glued to HHH's shoulder pads? Great times at the Wrestlemania. yeah that was so loving bad that it actually circled around to the point where it completely owned
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Mar 30, 2015 06:33
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Mar 30, 2015 06:33
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I'm kind of puzzled what they're doing with Bray next (real answer: It's WWE, they'll do nothing), as they seemingly fed the guy a winning feud with Ambrose, the Iron Man spot in the Royal Rumble, and all sorts of stuff to generally pick him back up from the scrap heap...and then he loses to Taker so JBL can yell about how it's still his yard. I'm guessing the usual thing happens and he beats the snot out of Taker tomorrow to send him away for another year, but it's all just kind of weird.
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freud mayweather posted:I just caught up. Did everyone see that horseshit HHH entrance where they used iMovie and a Lifetouch backdrop to try to make a retired governor look intimidating? Or the stumpy robot t-rex arms they glued to HHH's shoulder pads? Great times at the Wrestlemania. 
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DeathChicken posted:he beats the snot out of Taker tomorrow to send him away for another year,
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I haven't had a chance to watch the pre-show matches. Are they worth the time or should I just accept the results I've read and move on with my life?
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Mar 30, 2015 06:41
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I hope that's a new model of Terminator in the movie.
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Mar 30, 2015 06:41
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That Trips entrance was so loving bad I could not accurately figure out what my eyes were seeing. It shouldn't have happened, but since it did I have to ask: Why the gently caress didn't Sting call his good friend RoboCop?
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Mar 30, 2015 06:42
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Archbishop Karaoke posted:I'm so happy that Seth celebrated up the ramp so JAG THINDH couldn't ruin another victory party. tfw you will never be JAG THINDH
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Mar 30, 2015 06:42
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Shinjobi posted:That Trips entrance was so loving bad I could not accurately figure out what my eyes were seeing. It shouldn't have happened, but since it did I have to ask: Sting's a busy man. You think it's easy to bedazzle an entire Sgt Peppers jacket?
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AlmightyPants posted:I haven't had a chance to watch the pre-show matches. Are they worth the time or should I just accept the results I've read and move on with my life? The tag match is good. The battle royal is good in the sense of "WWE Hates the Viewers: Condensed Version"
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Mar 30, 2015 06:44
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AlmightyPants posted:I haven't had a chance to watch the pre-show matches. Are they worth the time or should I just accept the results I've read and move on with my life?
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AlmightyPants posted:I haven't had a chance to watch the pre-show matches. Are they worth the time or should I just accept the results I've read and move on with my life? Tag match was fun, ARMBAR had Axel getting Slatered as soon as the match started, Itami debuting, Bo returning, Ascension actually going over anyone, Mizdow turning on Miz, and the rest of it was a rehash of the worst parts of the Rumble
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Mar 30, 2015 06:50
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If they had just let Sandow eke out a surprise win over Big Show in the Battle Royale, it would have been a good match. Big Show winning just makes the thing so... pointless. They also broke up Mizdow, which is a storyline that's been going on for like four months, in an un-televised segment.
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Baby Babbeh posted:They also broke up Mizdow, which is a storyline that's been going on for like four months, in an un-televised segment. ...huh? Does the network not count or something?
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I loved Mania. Pretty much all of it. I didn't over analyze poo poo, I didn't get my hopes up for anything special, I just turned my brain off and enjoyed everything. The only REAL complaint I have about the night is that Ronda didn't armbar anybody. She should've dropped Steph and slapped on an armbar. The ending of that segment just seemed so anticlimactic and abrupt. Other than that, I'm glad I watched it live instead of watching after The Walking Dead. And gently caress YEAH ROLLINS. Thank god they didn't put Reigns over. Dude did what, two, maybe three unique moves in a total of 3 minutes on offense? He's not ready, I wasn't impressed, he needs to squint the hell back to mid-card. And Brock totally bladed. Hit post, bladed during the hit, and his hand lingered on the one turnbuckle pad for like 20 seconds trying to shove the blade back in there. No way in hell was that a hardway cut.
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Marquis de Pyro posted:Cena/Rusev seemed like an average at best match but maybe that's just because I was expecting more from it. The finish was also trash especially with it being randomly telegraphed by them having Lana throw her shoes into the ring so she could take the bump without dying. (Seriously wtf was that about). I actually liked that set up - Lana seemed genuinely worried that Cena would beat Rusev, but didn't want to show it as that would discourage Rusev. She couldn't work out how to cheat to help Rusev, so she impotently threw a shoe in the general direction of Cena. Problem here is they didn't commit to the shoe distraction spot, because everyone sensibly ignored the shoe against decades of wrestling tradition of stopping whatever you're doing as soon as anything distracting occurs. Baby Babbeh posted:If they had just let Sandow eke out a surprise win over Big Show in the Battle Royale, it would have been a good match. Big Show winning just makes the thing so... pointless. They also broke up Mizdow, which is a storyline that's been going on for like four months, in an un-televised segment. I want a disturbingly huge amount of the roster to just go away, with Big Show definitely being amongst that number.
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Mar 30, 2015 07:17
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I was secretly hoping Robocop to come out to face DX instead.
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Crube posted:I was secretly hoping Robocop to come out to face DX instead. After that Terminator entrance all I could think about was BUT HERE COMES ROBOCOP I was disappointed.
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Mar 30, 2015 07:26
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MotU posted:sorry you are jealous about not having a cool mom and projecting My mom knew Roman Reigns would have a great match with Brock Lesnar.
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I'm pretty sure there was nothing in that match done by Roman Reigns that couldn't just have easily been done by Erick Rowan.
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Mar 30, 2015 07:53
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i think roman bumped a lot harder and better than erick rowan would have
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Mar 30, 2015 07:57
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DeathChicken posted:I'm pretty sure there was nothing in that match done by Roman Reigns that couldn't just have easily been done by Erick Rowan. Plus Rowan has better music and a sweet spin kick
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Mar 30, 2015 07:57
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All the contentious interviews replaced with Lesnar and Heyman sitting at a table in Sonoita sampling Rowan's wine, not really thinking about Wrestlemania much at all.
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Remember when WWE tried to get a nice-guy rookie called Rocky Maivia over and the audience absolutely hated him? Yeah, Reigns needs to go mega-heel.
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