When did having a "Wrestlemania Moment" become a thing?

[Playaz Eyez]

Idk when but it’s such blatant forced trash now. All that sign pointing is stupid as shyt. People watching these shows don’t need silly reminders like that. They’re ALREADY WATCHING THE SHOW and clearly know what WrestleMania is and when it is.

2004. After WrestleMania XIX flopped they turned WM into a bloated legacy show.

The WrestleMania that had multiple legit big matches on there? That’s probably the most underrated WrestleMania ever.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Lawrence Taylor has a WM Moment

Pete Rose has a WM Moment

 

[JerseyBoy23]

I’d say wrestlemania 23. They brought Trump in, had Kane bodyslam Khali, had Aretha sing the anthem. Ever since wrestlemania went football stadium status, it’s been overproduced and manufactured for moments.

 

[El Cocodrilo]

I think it might’ve been first acknowledged by a wrestler during a promo around WrestleMania 22 during one of Mick Foley’s comebacks, he flat out said he never had a WrestleMania moment and that’s why he’s come back to face Edge and get one

It started with HBK at 12 but Mick Foley made it was it is today with his match with Edge at 22

Yeah, this is what I came in to say.

Wrestlemania moments have technically been since Hogan slammed Andre, but Mick Foley unfortunately coined the phrase that the WWE over-uses in their corny way of putting labels on shyt (the YES movement, the women's revolution...)

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Idk when but it’s such blatant forced trash now. All that sign pointing is stupid as shyt. People watching these shows don’t need silly reminders like that. They’re ALREADY WATCHING THE SHOW and clearly know what WrestleMania is and when it is.



The WrestleMania that had multiple legit big matches on there? That’s probably the most underrated WrestleMania ever.

It was a great show but it did a bad buyrate. There were outside factors like I mentioned earlier but business had already dried up by then.

 

[WaveMolecules]

Lawrence Taylor has a WM Moment

Pete Rose has a WM Moment

Both are first ballot HOFers and All time greats though

 

[MartyMcFly]

It’s all about marketing and branding. They live off that shyt now. So things that used to feel organic are now storylines. It’s more important to get a “moment” than a W. More important to “steal the show” than get a W.

 

[GOATpernick]

It’s all about marketing and branding. They live off that shyt now. So things that used to feel organic are now storylines. It’s more important to get a “moment” than a W. More important to “steal the show” than get a W.

And more important to be able to up a 3 minute excerpt of a 30 minute promo to youtube

 

[MartyMcFly]

And more important to be able to up a 3 minute excerpt of a 30 minute promo to youtube

Yup. The good things the company does are sometimes outweighed by the bad. This is one of the bad

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

i like it, just been a bit forced

i like how everyone is trying to get to "the big dance" like "March Madness"

Makes it feel like everyone is trying to up their game and make it to the "Superbowl" but the finger pointing to the sign is a bit cringe.

 

[Versa]

yeah i don't like that now "wrestlemania" is considered the storyline for alot of the matches. It used to be they made storylines that ended at mania. Now you got Cena running around trying to be on the card and that's the "story". Like where is story of like two dudes fighting over a girl. Or somebody fighting for their career. Or a simple hair vs hair match or something.

Wow. Never thought of this, but you're right.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

It was a great show but it did a bad buyrate. There were outside factors like I mentioned earlier but business had already dried up by then.

Ok I can see that. Sucks though, that WM was loaded with star power that they desperate crave right now

 

[Alpha Male]

Most of these ‘moments’ are forgettable to mostly everyone to begin with.

- Hogan slamming Andre, that’s a moment.

- Savage and Liz reuniting, that’s a moment.

- Even Kane giving Pete Rose a tombstone... that was a moment.


Seth Rollins cashing in the fukking briefcase? THAT’S what constitutes as an all time moment now? Something we’ve already seen countless times? What it’s special because it happened at Mania?

Did that moment really culminate to ANYTHING? I’m sorry did Seth Rollins have some magical run with the belt that I must have missed? That entire “reign” was filler.

 

[Homer Simpson]

Stephanie McMahon Levesque, also known professionally as Stephanie McMahon, is an American businesswoman, and Chief Brand Officer of WWE.

#historic

 

[dbp]

Might legit be the GOAT gif