The biggest wrestling event of the year recently went off the air and today I will be giving you all of my thoughts on the matches and feuds leading up to them.
Sheamus,Randy Orton, and The Big Show vs The Shield
I thought this was a pretty good way to open up the show. It was a fairly good match with the shield dominating somebody and then them getting the hot tag. The ending came when it looked like Sheamus was going to tag in The Big Show but Orton tagged instead. He was eventually over powered by The Shield and pinned with the Big Show looking on from the ring apron. Then after the match Big Show delivered the WMD to both Sheamus and Orton.
I was hoping that Randy Orton or Sheamus would turn heel in this match because I think that they both really need to. I was still pleased with the match and I've been liking the out come it with a feud between the three. One thing that I really liked about this match was that The Big Show didn't do anything until after the match. That way it still made The Shield look good with a win. I'm very glad that wwe did it that way and I'm looking forward to see what happens with The Shield, Undertaker, Kane, And Daniel Bryon.
Mark Henry vs Ryback
This match was very very bad. I thought this was going to be Rybacks match to win but surprisingly Mark Henry dominated most of it and then when Ryback attempted his finisher Mark Henry fell on him basically and then pinned Ryback. The match was in the ring way too much, I wanted to see them go all over the arena fighting but they didn't. This match should have seemed like more of a spectacle since it was two of wwe's biggest wrestlers but instead it was just a terrible match with a strange ending.
I am glad to see Henry get the win, I was afraid that he was only being brought back to for Ryback to feed on for lack of a better word. It looks like they are going to do something with him now and I'm glad about that because he is a really great heel in my opinion. I just hope we don't have a rematch between him and Ryback because this match was really terrible.
Wwe TT championship match: Bryon/Kane vs Ziggler/Langston
I wasn't ever very exited about this match, I don't know why they had Ziggler in it. I was expecting that it would be Ziggler vs Chris Jericho, that would have been really good for him since most of his build up has been terrible.
This was an ok match with Kane and Bryon getting the win. I did like how they played off of AJ's former relationships with both Kane and Daniel Bryon but other than that this was pretty much a useless feud and a useless feud isn't what Dolph Ziggler needs at wrestlemania right before he's going to become world heavyweight champ.
I am kind of interested to see what smackdown will be like now that Dolph is champion mainly just because it'll be something different. Considering how big of a fan I've been of Ziggler interested doesn't cut it. I should be very exited to see him as champ but instead he's just there. I really wish that wwe would have given the proper build up when their trying to make a new star. They need to realize that putting the money in the bank briefcase on someone won't magically make they into a main eventer.
Chris Jericho vs Fandgano
Even thought I wish it would have been Chris Jericho vs Dolph Ziggler I was still pleased with this feud. I liked Fandango and Jericho attacking each other and I'm hoping that the best is yet to come in this feud since it looks like it will be going into Extreme Rules.
I do think that Fandango's push came on a little too sudden but so far they're building him up to be a fighting heel and not just a coward. Also this Fandangoing thing has started to catch on and could maybe be the 2013 version of the yes chant.
WHC: Alberto Del Rio vs Jack Swagger with Zeb Coulter
I had really been liking this feud, without Zeb Coulter though it would have been a mess. He really did a ton to build Jack Swagger up. Even though Swagger got the jobber entrance it was also a pretty good match with Del Rio getting the win. I hope that wwe continues to use Zeb Coulter and I wouldn't mind seeing Jack Swagger get suspended now for being arrested with drugs earlier this year.
CM Punk vs The Undertaker
The feud going into this match I didn't really like that much, I thought using Paul Bearer to enhance it and really make it seem like the Undertaker had a reason to be mad at Punk was ok but they based the entire feud around it. I mean I would've liked to see some of what they were planning to do in the feud. Towards the end of the it I thought that CM Punk's segments got more disrespectful and I wish that they wouldn't have completely based the it on Paul Bearer.
The match though was wonderful and very enjoyably to watch. It is definitely a match that I'll watch again.
It looked like we would see the suicide dive by Taker but Paul Heyman blocked. Hey I'm not gonna complain though The Undertaker's almost 50 and he's putting on near five star matches. There was also what looked like a botch where Punk had had Undertaker laid out on the Spanish announce table and when he went to do the Macho Man elbow tribute onto him the table didn't break and they both just rolled off. That was kind of surprising and looked botched.
I really liked this match, The Undertaker's matches at wrestlemania are always the match of the night and this match was no exception. It wasn't as good as Shawn Michaels and Undertaker but it was definitely very entertaining.
No Holds Bared: Brock Lesnar vs HHH (with Shawn Michaels) HHH career on the line
The build up for this match was for the most pretty good, not as good the build up for their summerslam match but still pretty good. I thought putting Triple H's career on the line really put the feud in the next gear. Paul Heyman did wonderful as usual acting as the voice for Brock, in fact I'm not sure if Brock spoke at all during the feud.
The match was also pretty good, I was worried that it would not be because I didn't like their summerslam match. I was glad to see them go outside the ring and we also saw Shawn Michaels involved some too. When I heard his music hit I was pleasantly surprised because I'd actually forgot that he was in Triple H's corner for the match. At one point Brock punched him in the face and it looked like he was bleeding a little bit after the match. He also got an F5 after he tried to super kick Lesnar. It was nice to see in my opinion the greatest of all time again.
At the end of the match HHH and Lesnar put the submission hold that broke Triple H's arm on each other. That got little boring because it went on for a while. It ended with Triple H pedigreeing Brock onto the ring entrance steps and getting the win.
WWE Championship Match: The Rock vs John Cena
This match had hardly any build at all! As you may know if you've followed my youtube channel or pro wrestling review these last few months I really haven't liked how they got to this feud. I didn't like the wwe championship and especially the royal rumble match being involved but all that aside I figured it would still be a decent feud. The feud that these two had the last couple of years I thought was most of the time pretty enjoyable but this year it was not. Maybe that has something to with the Rock not being on tv for most of the time. I don't really blame the Rock for that though I blame wwe.
The match it's self was ok and a bit of an improvement from last year. There were a couple false finishes where I thought it was over so that made it more enjoyably. At the end of it though Rock and Cena kept countering into each other's finishers which got a little old. Even though I don't think it will ever happen (or at least not anytime soon) after listening to a few people on the internet I was getting a little bit suspicious that a John Cena heel turn would take place. I kept watching for it in the match and at one point I thought it might be happening, Cena had an almost a sinister look in his eye and it looked like he might have been turning but to no avail.
I know that I'm probably in the minority on this from what I've heard from most people on the internet but I personally didn't really mind them shaking hands after the match. I mean I don't know what else they would do if this was their last match together and Cena wasn't going to turn heel then what else was their to do. Either we just see them walk out and be done or the whole hand shake deal I didn't really mind it.
Someone said on twitter the other day that Vince McMahon had lost touch with the wwe universe and is just booking every match for the most money. I don't know if that's too far off. Now I'm not saying that they need to book a match that won't make any money and give someone like Zack Ryder the wwe championship just because some of the fans really like him. (Although they could at least acknowledge the reaction that he gets and give him some type of a push.) Even though I didn't like them putting the wwe championship on the Rock and using the the rumble match I was pretty much ok with Rock and Cena main evening wrestlemania I mean they are two of the biggest stars in company. What wwe has been doing lately though isn't going to lead them down a road to success. Since the Rock has been back they've sold the last three wrestlemanias on mostly his name. It doesn't stop there though having Raw gets rocked the rock comes back to raw the rock returns (anyone think it's odd that the Rock was returning when he was
supposed to be the WWE champ!) They can't just use his name for everything I mean this is the second year that's he's had this match and it's for the main event of the biggest show of the year they should be able to come up with a descent storyline. Seriously. They need to have something more than just Rock's name attached they need to have a compelling storyline. I'm interested to see what the buy rates for this years wrestlemania are compared to last year. Probably not too much of a decrease yet but what are they going to do when people stop caring that the Rock and John Cena are going to be there and they actually want a compelling storyline to watch?
They also can't simply just sell every big event off the Rock and John Cena's name and couple other big stars and then not build hardly anyone else up all year to take their places. The days of wwe being able to rely on stars that they've built up years ago are ending. The Triple Hs and Undertakers of the wwe are going to be gone soon and then what does wwe do when they have no new stars to sell the shows? The only semi new big star in a big match at wrestlemania was CM Punk and I guess Fandango. Where was the new big star Cody Rhodes or The Miz oh that's right they didn't keep them built up. Most of the mid card feuds going into the show were very bad this year especially with the supposed to be world heavyweight champion jobbing......again.
I'll get into this more in another article but I'm hoping that now after wrestlemania they start to build more people up like Wade Barrett, Antonio Cesaro, and others to become future big stars of the company.
Main Event: Team Rhodes Scholars vs Tons of Funk
No I'm just kidding apparently they ran out of time on the show because this match was never on it. Which is kind of sad considering how these two in the near future should be the future of the tag team division and have the potential to eventually become big stars in the company. But that goes back to what I was talking about before burying these superstars now is preventing them from possibly becoming the next breakout stars and main eventers for wwe.
All in all the show itself was mostly enjoyable for me with Undertaker vs Punk being the best match, HHH vs Brock being second and Cena vs Rock third. The build up though was terrible even for a normal ppv and this is supposed to be their super bowl. It also makes me worried for the time when people like The Undertaker and Triple H aren't there anymore.
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