[04/07/2019] Official KOFIMANIA Thread

[Roid Jones]

I feel asleep during Lahsley's entrance, I've just seen the main event......that's how they have Becky win

 

[Conscious Pilot]

 

[Norrin Radd]

Ronda Rousey Reportedly Injured At WrestleMania 35, Backstage Notes On Main Event Finish, Her Future - Wrestling Inc.

Ronda Rousey reportedly suffered a broken hand in the WrestleMania 35 "Winner Takes All" main event with Charlotte Flair and new SmackDown Women's Champion and RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch, according to Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Radio.

There's no word yet on details of the injury but Meltzer noted that this was scheduled to be Rousey's last match with WWE for the time being as she's been expected to take time off.

There are a lot of rumors going around on the finish of the match but Meltzer noted that at one point Rousey was going to lose to Lynch by submission. A lot of people was for the submission but a lot of people were also for Rousey losing by pinfall. In the end, it was decided that a pinfall would be he best direction, not the submission.

The idea behind the pinfall was that Rousey has never submitted in a WWE match. She also never submitted in MMA or judo. There's no word yet on why the finish was switched to a pin, but lots of people internally fought against Rousey losing by submission. It was said to be a split, but people were fighting against the loss by submission. It was speculated that the idea of a wrestler submitting Rousey is a negative compared to a wrestler pinning her. It was also speculated that Vince McMahon could be protecting Rousey for a potential return because then she would have an issue with a fluke pin.

Regarding the rumors on Rousey being upset at the referee botching the finish, Meltzer noted that those are not true. Meltzer added that Rousey was not supposed to get her shoulders up, but for whatever reason they came up at the finish. It was also noted that it was strange that WWE called attention to the shoulder coming up, which could have been a Vince call or something Corey Graves did on his own. The replay showing this could be an indication that it was a call from the production truck. Meltzer also said the only screw-up was that Rousey was supposed to be "really pinned" as opposed to getting defeated with the fluke pin. He added that the finish could cause fans to think Rousey is staying for a rematch, but that's not the current plan as of this week.

Lynch has been announced for tonight's post-WrestleMania RAW and the Barclays Center has Rousey advertised, along with the WWE Events page, but there's no word yet on if Flair will be appearing on the show.

How much yall wanna bet it was one of those wack punches she throws that did it

 

[TheGodling]

Tapped out after the pre-show since I'm on a different time zone and I wasn't planning to watch this shyt all night until 7am or something, but from what I read only D-Bry/Kofi is truly worth the watch and maybe the main event for the finish fukkery.

 

[SmarkMero]

We did it

Spoiler

D Bry now that's a white ally.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Tapped out after the pre-show since I'm on a different time zone and I wasn't planning to watch this shyt all night until 7am or something, but from what I read only D-Bry/Kofi is truly worth the watch and maybe the main event for the finish fukkery.

No it was a great show as a whole

 

[TheGodling]

No it was a great show as a whole

I'm only checking for WWE these days when I have a personal investment in the wrestler(s) involved. I don't care how generally "good" some of these matches were.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Cena's like "if I could speak candidly for a moment without my caricature accent"

Stray shot fired at Dwayne

 

[DoubleJ13]

It is pretty amazing that Kofi won the WWE title at Mania because Ali got hurt a few months ago

 

[HipHopStan]

The build up was comedy and the match wasn't too good either but if that's how Dave wanted to go out then . Plus he wanted HHH to be his last opponent. I'm sure he'll look back on this with a more positive experience than he did with his 2014 run. That run seems to have been a chip on his shoulder for years so I'm glad he can knock it off and get back to cooking in Hollywood. See you on the big screen on the 25th, Dave.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Ronda Rousey Reportedly Injured At WrestleMania 35, Backstage Notes On Main Event Finish, Her Future - Wrestling Inc.



How much yall wanna bet it was one of those wack punches she throws that did it

Botched pin. She went into business for herself.

 

[OHSNAP!]

Man, Takeover was so so fukking good

 

[DoubleJ13]

Went back to watch the preshow matches, they did a Ember & Naomi standoff & had them try to do stuff with way too many people in the ring. Lana just kind of stumbled into it at one point & the shyt that happened was so sloppy that I can't tell if Lana was supposed to be involved or not

 

[HoldThisL]

Fell asleep during ending of Batista match. Wrestlemania was over for me once Kofi won

 

[Rell Lauren]

Last night was a disaster getting home from everything I've read. Holy shyt.