Haven't read the thread yet, so I'm posting thoughts without being clouded by you negative b*stards. I thought this was a hell of a good night's entertainment.
Pre-Show
Cruiserweights put on a show, but didn't quite have the "nobody can follow that" we'd hoped for. Great heeling from Neville for the finish.
Battle Royale was entertaining, but they only squeezed TWO stories into 30 odd wrestler appearances. Not mad at the result... I'm not a fan of Mojo, but I get why. He's great with the kids.
IC Match: Meh. Should've given the strap to Baron really, but the match just never grabbed me. Maybe because it was the last thing I could watch before I had to go to bed on Sunday night... felt anti-climactic.
WrestlefreakinMania
Tinashae did a decent enough job. I love me a bit of America the Beautiful.
New Day's hosting was good, but expected a little bit more fukkery I have to say.
AJ/Shane - GOOD start. Absolutely ridiculous to have Shane competing on the level that he was, but it was entertaining and dude's reversal to the Phenomenal Forearm was phen... good. Bit by numbers for a Shane match, but well executed considering.
Owens/Jericho - hottest storyline of the year. Good match to pay it off... some great reversal sequences. They played up to the "they really know each other inside out!" shyt and sold it well.
Raw Womens Title Fatal 4 Way Elimination - MEH. I love these ladies, but this just never caught fire for me. The Nia angle at the start surely sets her up as next challenger. First major booking mistake IMHO. Sasha should've turned and won. Looked like she was wearing her WM fee in weave.
Charlotte's entrance was swagged the fukk out.
Tag Team
Triple Fatal Four Way - I MARKED THE
fukk OUT.
FULL ON SHOUTING AND CLAPPING.
Dog thought I'd gone nuts. The match was an excellent spotfest too, but despite not fully getting the Final Deletion the Hardys were my all-time favourite tag team as a teenager and they've put in WORK recently to make themselves relevant again... seeing them back atop WWE ladders was fukkin' REAL.
Also, Jeff Hardy getting to do a death dive off a ladder and ACTUALLY HELPING MATT WIN WITH IT AT WRESTLEMANIA.
Cena/Bella Vs Miz/Maryse - shares the title for best build with Jericho/Owens, but the match was TRASH. Maryse looked GOOOOOD though. The "NO" chants before the proposal were predictable with a Cena win... luckily the crowd found some decency and let them play it out. My girlfriend liked it.
Seth/Trips - Trips entrance was SOMETHING.
I don't give a fukk what you think, Stephanie can get it each and every way each and every day. Match was excellent tbh.... Seth's knee selling was legit and Trips looked dangerous. The never ending chain of Pedigrees, reversals and all the rest should've been smark nectar.
Stephanie going through the table was unexpected
Randy/Bray. First BIG fukkup of the night.
The match itself was entertaining as hell.. Bray is a legit star and they brought out the big guns to sell his creepy supernatural side, the ring projections were fully bizarre
.... but then they just let Randy take the belt with an RKO out of nowhere.
I'm fine with Randy getting the strap occasionally, but not after Bray's just played EVERY card in his pack. Randy should've been squashed here, making him go away and "prepare fully" for Bray's psychological warfare before taking the strap at the next PPV if anywhere.
Brock/Goldberg. Didn't give a solitary fukk about this, but by the end I was marking out. That was SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT ladies and gentlemen. My only fault with it is that Goldberg only has two moves (and their both finishers) and Brock has forgotten all but two of his. Barrier spot was hard. Half looked like the thing wasn't even rigged. When Brock finally caught up with dude, he should've been into the ground and pound once or twice rather than spamming the suplexes
every time. Brock looked dominant, but not
vicious like he did against Cena.
Smackdown Womens 6-Pack Challenge - All the participants looked FIRE save for Carmella who'd just apparently been for a department store makeover. Naomi's entrance had us dancing. Some good action and the CORRECT RESULT. Feel the motherfukking GLOW.
Reigns/Taker - glad it went on last (only other option was Bray/Orton IMHO and the result would've ruined the show). They both pulled a good match out of the bag, but Roman is SO one-note to me. I'm sick of Superman punches and spears, but the energy was good and the story was one that NEEDED telling. Taker's curtain call at the end apparently coincided with all my neighbours chopping every onion in the building.
Show had its problems, no doubt, but I enjoyed the shyt out of it.
