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Wrestlemania
Topic Started: Mar 18 2009, 09:56 PM (741 Views)
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Is it just me or does this year's Wrestlemania seem kinda lame?
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It has that WM21 kinda feel to me. Its Wrestlemania - but the matches on paper sound terrible.
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March Haire
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Somewhere on these boards I said that I wanted a Big Show main event. I got it. I'm happy.
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Mark Henry in MITB is making sure I'm watching

but aye it looks shit.
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I was really hoping for Kendrick to be in MITB but Finlay phuckked it up. I could just imagine Kendrick giving somebody The Kendrick off the ladder. It'd be a phuckking krayzee ass move.
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What's the card?
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Mar 20 2009, 09:25 AM
What's the card?
Matt Hardy vs Jeff Hardy
Big Show vs Edge vs Cena (World Heavyweight Championship)
Triple H vs Randy Orton (WWE Championship)
Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels
MITB: Shelton vs Mark Henry vs MVP vs Kofi Kingston vs Christian vs Finlay vs Kane
25 Diva Battle Royal
Jericho vs Steamboat, Snuka, Piper (possibly but blech)
Tag Team Title Unification Match

The rest of I missed some, has escaped me for the moment

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JBL vs Rey IC Title............probably
Edited by Doakey, Mar 20 2009, 02:58 PM.
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Looks shit..... extremely disappointed with the Jericho match.
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Has Punk not got a match yet?
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March Haire
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Punk is the eighth man in MITB, I thought.

And yeah, a shit card. On the plus side, it's the first time in forever that the IC Title or the Tag Team Titles will be defended on the show.

WWE Title:
Triple H v. Orton

World Heavyweight Title:
Edge v. Big Show v. Cena

Undertaker v. HBK

Extreme Rules:
Hardy v. Hardy

IC Title:
JBL v. Mysterio

Tag Team Title Unification:
Miz & Morrison v. The Colons

Money in the Bank
Punk v. Kane v. Henry v. Benjamin v. MVP v. Kingston v. Christian v. Finlay

Y2J v. Legends

Diva battle royal
Edited by March Haire, Mar 20 2009, 03:57 PM.
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Yeah, I just checked it out.

It's an underwhelming card made worst by the fact that's WrestleMania's silver anniversary.
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After Rey got eliminated from the MITB qualifying match, I just knew they'd put him in some worthless fucking match with JBL. Granted, it's for the IC title, and he's likely to win (which is cool with me, I'm not gonna' lie), but at this point in his career such a bout is beneath him. Not to mention that it limits what he is capable of given the right kind of environment. Personally, I would have either booked an opening card bout between Rey & Evan Bourne (which, given the right amount of time, would be reminiscent of a WCW-era Cruiserweight match, and therefore awesome), or I would have placed both men in the MITB instead of Kane & Mark Henry (seriously, WTF were they thinking?)...

Sure, I understand that such a match would also technically be considered beneath someone as tenured as Mysterio, but from what I saw between the 2 on RAW a couple months ago led me to believe that both men have amazing chemistry, and an excellent understanding as to how to complement each other's individual styles en route to putting on a great finish. Give 'em 20 minutes on the "Grandest Stage Of Them All", and tell Jibbles to go fuck himself.

As for the rest of the card:

Given how both Matt & Jeff have stepped it up over the past couple of years, this could end up being a show-stealer... but probably won't. This is one I'm looking forward too, though, even if Jeff is all but guaranteed a win.

The Triple Threat does nothing for me, personally. I'd much rather see Cena vs. Edge for the zillionth time, because at least we know what they are capable of. Show's only there to take the pin or tap like a little bitch to the "STF", which makes the whole storyline leading up to the match that much more inane and repulsive than I'm sure had already been planned.

Hunter vs. Orton has been done to death, but I'm actually quite invested in this current angle. Randy is really starting to show me something with his current gimmick, and as arguably the #1 heel in the company, I expect him to bring it in some sort of Street Fight/LMS match in a way that he has never done before, and has often been criticized for not doing in the past. Could it possibly lead to another injury? Yes, it could... but it could also lead to another reign as WWE Champion, which has been my expectation since seeing him win the Rumble.

Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels is the reason I'm ordering this PPV; plain and simple. It's a feud I've been waiting for the company to re-visit since 1998, and as long as these 2 icons are given enough time to play things out from beginning to end, there is absolutely no way that they can put on anything other than an instant classic. Worth the price alone, as far as I'm concerned.

The MITB will be exciting, I'm sure, even if it has lost some of it's luster with every showing. MVP for the win, by the way, as Christian's return will limit him from winning anything for awhile, still. And the only reason I will even entertain the thought of watching this Diva Battle Royal will be for the opportunity/chance to see Trish & Torrie one last time. Jericho's inclusion on this show is a disgrace to the awesome heel work he's been doing since early into his return, and will more than likely be overshadowed by a Ric Flair SWERVE~! (I'm calling it), so there's that to look forward to. And I could have sworn this tag title unification match had already happened, or was supposed to have happened a couple times already? Either way, it will be uneventful, and will more than likely lead to yet more unwarranted success for the Miz...

So, yeah. I'd say that half, to a little more than half of this card is capable of bringing the house down, and is representative of what WrestleMania is supposed to be. Other than that, though, the rest is filler, and would just barely be acceptable to make up an old school "In Your House" lineup than the 25th-fucking-Anniversary of what is supposed to be the Super Bowl/World Series of pro-wrestling.
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Being that this will be the 25th Wrestlemania, doesn't that not make it the 24th anniversary instead of the 25th????
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Mar 21 2009, 02:12 AM
Being that this will be the 25th Wrestlemania, doesn't that not make it the 24th anniversary instead of the 25th????
It does... but, apparently, not enough to go back and change the fact.
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I'm really looking forward to 3 matches.

Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker (Should be a 35-45 minute classic but it's probably gonna be around 26 minutes.)
Money in The Bank. Kane kicks ASS in Money in the Bank, I don't know why everybody hates this idea. Mark Henry is gonna do something big, I guarantee. The rest of the superstars WILL be A-okay. We got Christian, Punk, Kofi, Shelton, and MVP along. Finlay is the one I'm gonna be indifferent towards. You just know Hornswoggle is gonna come under the ring and try to climb the ladder only to get pwned. I would like to see a Horny heel turn on Finlay.

And for some, unknown reason, I think Kennedy is gonna make a run in during this match.

And Matt and Jeff extreme rules will be kickass.
Edited by Crimson, Mar 21 2009, 02:26 PM.
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Granted, it's for the IC title, and he's likely to win (which is cool with me, I'm not gonna' lie), but at this point in his career such a bout is beneath him.


Yeah, what's with this? The IC title should be a "try-out" title for younger exciting stars to see if they have what it takes, not a veteran's championship. But I suppose they have the ECW strap for that now.
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Granted, it's for the IC title, and he's likely to win (which is cool with me, I'm not gonna' lie), but at this point in his career such a bout is beneath him.


Yeah, what's with this? The IC title should be a "try-out" title for younger exciting stars to see if they have what it takes, not a veteran's championship. But I suppose they have the ECW strap for that now.
Anymore, it's the last belt a wrestler needs for Triple Crown/Grand Slam. It's also a stop gap for guys like Jericho.
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It looks weaker than diluted piss.

We’ve seen HHH/Orton numerous times in the past and it really doesn’t appeal to me like Cena/HHH in 2006 and Batista/Undertaker in 2007; both of which were first-time ever “dream” matches.

Their current feud is garbage and merely highlights that a) the McMahon’s are horribly miscast as babyfaces and simply not suited for the role of sympathetic characters and b) Orton’s “one-man-against-the-system” underdog role is not designed for heels.

Granted, there are few high-profile matches that haven’t been done to death, but these two have wrestled six times on pay-per-view in the last eighteen months. It might not be so bad if they worked well together, but only one of their numerous matches was any good.

What makes this match worse is HHH’s inevitable victory. He’s defeated - owned - Orton in almost every one of their previous matches and the only justifiable reason for another match is for HHH to put Orton over once and for all. Expect HHH to smash Rhodes, DiBiase and possibly overcome a nonsensical McMahon heel turn before destroying Orton for the win.

The triple threat is an abomination. A lot internet fans dislike Cena, but he is the top star in the industry today and should be working a marquee match, not playing a supporting role in the Edge-Vickie-Show love triangle. Something is very seriously wrong when your top star gets lost in the mix. Hopefully McMahon will have the sense to put Cena over in the final match of the night, but I can just see him taking out Show with the Attitude Adjustment and then being speared by “the opportunistic” Edge. How original.

I guess the saddest thing about the two championship matches is that HHH and Show headlined WrestleMania in 2000. Imagine if Hogan and Warrior headlined WrestleMania XV. Same thing. Step the fuck aside.

Jericho versus the retirement home is going to be a train wreck. Somebody once claimed Jericho could carry anyone to a decent match, but the last time I saw Snuka and Piper they could barely walk and looked like they might crumble at the slightest impact. Their involvement was easily the worst moment of the 2008 Royal Rumble; the type of thing that makes you look away from the screen and make excuses for being a wrestling fan. Since then Piper has been undergoing treatment for cancer. What the fuck is Jericho going to do with them?

If I remember rightly, the previous Hardy/Hardy matches were duds, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Undertaker/Michaels should be good, but we already know the outcome. There is no chance of a Michaels win. Not even half a chance. Even if Michaels connects with Sweet Chin Music and a dozen elbow drops from the top rope, I will not be surprised when Undertaker kicks out at two and three quarters…

Money in the Bank is a joke. I’m not a fan of spotfests by any stretch but, if you insist on booking one, at least have the good sense to utilise those best suited for the match. The likes of Morrison and Killings were put on this earth to compete in these matches, and we get Henry instead…
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But Nathan; you'll no doubt watch. Am I right?

But you're correct; not a WM card at all!
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