OT: Wrestlemania 29
I know everyone is understandably geeked about the basketball team, but as a fan of both collegiate athletics and fake fighting between part-time movie stars and guys who dress like dinosaurs, I figured a thread should be set up for the biggest night in sports entertaintment, Wrestlemania 29. At least when the refs screw up here, we expect it!
The card:
The Rock vs. John Cena
Undertaker vs. CM Punk
Brock Lesnar vs. Triple H
Alberto Del Rio vs. Jack Swagger
Team Hell No vs. Dolph Ziggler & Big E. Langston
The Shield vs. Big Show & Randy Orton & Sheamus
Ryback vs. Mark Henry
Chris Jericho vs. Fandango
Tons of Funk & Funkadactyls vs. Rhodes Scholars & Bella Twins
Wade Barrett vs. The Miz
I expect Cena to win the title from the Rock, for Punk to go down to the Undertaker after a good match, Swagger to win the world title, team Ziggles winning the tag title, and Henry and Ryback to HOSS FIGHT through a pretty boring match with (I assume) a Shellshock finish. Jericho will put over Fandango, the Shield will win with a swerve, Tons of Funk will squash Rhodes Scholars, and the Miz will win whatever secondary title Wade Barrett currently holds (IC title?). The only result I can't put my finger on is Brock vs. Triple H, though I'm leaning toward Lesnar pulling it out.
Feel free to post your thoughts.
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Does Mark Heny still go by the unforgettable moniker, "Sexual Chocolate"?!
Haven't watched since Owen Hart died. I was 13 years old, and he was my favorite wrestler and it broke my heart.
Blue Blazer
You realized it was fake and wanted to get laid.
but I think Punk will end Undertaker's streak. Taker's getting old and this would be the perfect way to put Punk over as one of the biggest, if not the biggest, heel ever.
But if the likes of triple h and hbk didn't get the win punk sure won't
Reaaallllllyyyyyy now?
The money and buyrate was so nice, they'll do it twice.
Wrestling isn't real.
Thank you for the insightful comment. I clearly had no idea.
I bet you watch reality shows and those are not real either.
I am excited for four matches. The Build to The Undertaker and CM Punk, although completely tasteless at times, had been spectacular. Brock Lesner Triple H will be great as well. An of course Cena and Ryback.
the Wade Barrett match got bumped to the pre show
It's still real to me, dammit!!!!1!!!1!
Who the hell are these people?? Where's Koko B. Ware?? Where's Hillbilly Jim?? Where's the Red Rooster??
It's the 27th anniversary of Wrestlemania 2. The British Bulldogs beat the Hart foundation to become tag team world Champions! That's when wrestling mattered. . .
I agree. It's like Vince doesn't even try anymore. Sure, some of the 80s gimmicks were cheesy but I'll take the Hart Foundation over whoever the hell Tons of Funk are any day of the week.
Rock win (Cena turns heel)
Brock Lesner
Undertaker wins (streak to 21-0)
Del Rio Wins (Ziggler tries to cash in Money in the bank)
Ryback wins
Shield beats Big Show/Shamus/ Orton
Ziggler and Big E win tag championship (Team Hell No splits up)
Is the Undertaker the same guy who was the undertaker many years ago or do they replace 'the undertaker' with new people, like James Bond?
Same guy, he's 45-ish years old now
Yep. On the ultra-nice schedule of a match a year, but still an institution.
FAAANN-DAAAN-GOOOOOOO
Nice win by The Miz. I feel the faces are going to win except for the team of Randy Orton, Shemus, and The Big Show and Jericho will lose to Fan-donnnnnggg-goo.
I like the set. A little schmaltzy, but cool skyline.
The smarky fans are everywhere at this event. My wife and I were at the NY Auto Show this Friday and saw a bunch of people entering Hammerstein's ballroom for the ROH event. It honestly took over a part of NYC.
Shocked I could hear a lets go Ambrose chant during the first match. Definitely a very smarky crowd.
Lazy booking there. It's a secondary story, but the Giant "turning" on guys is pretty cliche.
Ill fly over it tonight and post pics of it. There's a fake Statue of Liberty
Ziggler is absolutely cashing in his money in the bank tonight. They need a heel champ somewhere, and jack swagger is not that guy. Whoever wins the match, Ziggler is definitely taking the belt
HOSS FIGHT! How I imagine Taylor Lewan and Mike Martin hitting each other in practice.
I have been wrong about every match so far. Good to see that fake fighting can still trick me.
I have been wrong about every Mission Impossible so far. Good to see that fake spying and shooting people up can still trick me.
This had been an absolute nightmare. I ordered the stream to watch on my computer via WWE.com. 7 minutes into the show the website goes down. I haven't seen anything since they did the Hurricane Sandy tribute thing.
Rassled
He barely. He's wrestled something like 4 times since 2010.
Swagger just got the jobber entrance at mania.
Awesome intros for Punk and Undertaker.
Two of my favorite wrestlers ever
No way Taker loses. HHH and Cena will also win.
I was really looking forward to the possibility of a couple of "heel turns" last night, and it didn't happen. Cena would have been perfect, but he means too much to their "child friendly" direction and Make a Wish, so they didn't turn him, even though he had teased it this week.
It would have been a perfect time to turn HBK heel and have him cost HHH the match, leading to them wrestling next year at WM. This would have been possible because "retirement matches" only result in someone staying "retired" about 20% of the time.
Instead, they jobbed Lesnar out, making Lesnar the highest-paid JTTS in the history of professional wrestling.