That's got to be the worst Wrestlemania I've seen since WM11. That finish was flat out horrible, I don't know who thought it was a good idea to book the match in the most opposite fashion, my god...that was bad. How in God's name do they begin the match by allowing Miz to cleanly get the upperhand on Cena? It's as if Cena decided to not try tonight. The card placement was bad, the action in the matches was mostly mediocre, and the entrances and post match conclusions were so drawn out and ridiculous. This really felt like a 4 hour Raw. I can't believe I almost paid $65 to watch this heap of crap. I'm glad I just watched it online instead;


The good:

Edge getting a WM title victory. He really needed a "moment" as a main eventer, and they finally allowed him to not look like the JTTS champion again. Alberto Del Rio is still young, and is probably going to win the title soon enough. He can still milk his Rumble win for a few more months. I'm also liking this Christian slow burn heel turn.

Cody Rhodes vs. Rey Mysterio was a decent match. It wasn't a 5 star clinic, but it got it's point across. Both guys made the best to make the other guy look good, and it was nice to give Cody the win, I cannot say enough good things about the guy. Major potential.

The tombstone fakeout! I'll be honest, I was basically rolling my eyes at a lot of the false finishes, but that actually was pretty good. It got me a little jumpy and truly made me believe that Triple H was ending the streak. The match overall was decent for what it was, but it doesn't hold a candle to their WM17 match.


The bad:

The US title match getting bumped for more shit. This should've been the opening match, not the fucking WORLD TITLE MATCH. Both guys worked a dark match instead and it went to a no-contest. There was then a Battle Royal where Sheamus was elimated by the Great Khali. I have no idea if the title was on the line or what was going on, it's just what I heard, and since the commentators made no mention of it, I assumed that Khali is US champ...but I guess not? Either way, shame on WWE for pulling what could've been a good match.

The Corre/Kane Bigshow etc. match was way too fucking short. I literally left the room to go get something to drink right after the match started, by the time I got back, Big Show's music was playing. It had not been 2 minutes. I wasn't expecting this to be Steamboat/Flair, but goddamn...give me something.

The Lawler/Cole match was way too fucking long! This should've been the 2 minute squash. Instead, we get a nice long abortion of a match, where most of the action was running around in circles. Also, I want to send a big "fuck you" out to Stone Cold Steve Austin. Please stay the fuck away from a wrestling ring, I'm sick of your routine that was tiresome 10 years ago, if you're not going to wrestle, then I don't want you to come out there and waste my fucking time with can what only be described as the most overused situation a person can put themselves in against a certain wrestling personality. You're done....your time is over. Please get the fuck out, and don't come back.

The segments in-between the matches were not needed. I don't think many people paid $65 to watch Hornswoggle interact with Snoop Dogg or see Pee Wee Herman do his Rock impression. Leave this shit on Raw.

The conclusion to the Undertaker/Triple H match made me go from "that wasn't too bad, I kind of liked it" to "please God, fucking end this". After the match, both guys must've fucking laid there for what had to have been at least 10 minutes. Do we really need to be reminded that both of these guys are old and that they were just "put through hell?", how about you edit this shit down to fit more matches in.

The whole Miz/Cena match. This didn't feel like a WM main event at all. I've already gone on at great detail about how Miz just doesn't feel the part to me. First off, Cena came out to gospel music. I thought for sure we were either going to see him nailed to a big wooden cross, or Darren Young was going to take his place or something. The match gets under way, and Miz immediately gets the upper hand, just knocking around Cena left and right. They wrestle a very basic match, with nothing standing out in any way, no special feel at all. Finally, the match ends in a double count out, which is probably one of the biggest "fuck you's" you can give to your fanbase. It's nice that WWE shows contempt for the people who paid for this.

The "restart" of the match: Naturally, I knew that wasn't the end, I knew the Rock would come out and save the day. Yawn. Even if we got a real match out of this in the end, it still didn't make up for the fact that they didn't plan this thing through thoroughly enough to have it not even in a double count out. Almost immediately after the match restarts, Cena tries to give the AA to Miz, but Rock steps in and delivers a Rock Bottom. Seconds later, Miz retains and then gets his ass kicked by Rock. End of show. What the fuck? How could you end on that note? How about having Cena beat Miz in a fair match, then end WM with Cena and Rock facing off? Did we need a conclusion for what Cena did to Rock last week on Raw? Because if this was that conclusion, it was a very very shitty one. I would dare say a worse finish than WM9. I seriously might be done with wrestling for a while.

aeonic wrote:

You mean you didn't love seeing Snooki in an inter-gender tag match! Blasphemy! Seriously, this was one of the biggest turds in the punchbowl from WWE in a loooooong time.

You know what? I didn't even mind. It was a throw away match that we had a pretty good spot in. Snooki didn't look horrible in the ring and they didn't waste too much time on it.So for that, I'm fine with it.

JRA wrote:

I'd say 95% of the old Wrestling fanbase would disagree with you on that one Dodds. LOL at Vince taking wrestling out of WWE. Yea, I've been reading reviews online and it pretty much does sound like the worst Wrestlemania since 9. Even with The Rock, Stone Cold, Roddy Piper, Jim Ross (for the second half, anyway) and Mean Gene involved. That's terrifying.

I don't care if Austin gets huge face pops still, because his segments contribute to nothing outside of making the other guy look like an idiot. Whenever someone is in the ring with Austin, someone is getting stunned. Then he's going away for a few months, only to come back and do it again to someone else. Every time it's the same, no one ever gets the upper hand on a retired Steve Austin, everyone always trusts this guy to drink a beer with him. And it's OH SO HILARIOUS to see them get stunned. No thanks...especially on a PPV.

Jim Ross, despite people kissing his ass, I felt he didn't even act like he wanted to be there. Yes, it was nice to hear him, but the novelty wore off quickly when he acted like he was phoning it in. And honestly, WM9 was better than this shit, although it's still not as bad as 11.

The Punk/Orton match was pretty bland as well. Orton hitting the RKO out of nowhere? Haven't seen THAT before! In all honesty, what was Punk even trying to go for? To me, there's a difference between a win out of nowhere (vintage Bret Hart rollup) rather than Punk/Orton laying there for 2 minutes doing nothing, Punk tries something and Orton counters. That's actually bad storytelling, the psychology was there, but the payoff wasn't. It wasn't a bad match, but for Wrestlemania, it fell short. I also like how they kayfabe Orton's leg, which is fine considering he isn't going to miss Wrestlemania, but he comes out to wrestle tonight, like it's no big deal. Hilarious.

I got about an hour into tonight's Raw, before I shut it off. It seems like nothing was accomplished from last night. Cole is still running around like a goof and WWE in all their wisdom felt they should let 16 people we've never seen before get air time to say hello for no reason (one was named Erik Watts, which I found to be pretty funny). Tough Enough DOESN'T work. None of that shit does. After every single contest they held, the only winner who went on to do anything significant has been John Morrison, almost everyone else gets fired right away and WWE hires the rejects like Miz, Michelle McCool and Josh Mathews. I think I might be done with wrestling for a while, this shit is just sad.

I think he's basically saying that even back in Austin's prime, his character was getting way too ridiculous.

The moment where I was ready for Austin to just fucking go away was when he "pissed" on Arn Anderson. Surprisingly, he actually did end up quitting WWE for real a few weeks later.