Thursday, April 2, 2015

WrestleMania 31 (aka Play Button) Review (aka quick and random thoughts)



WWE WrestleMania 31 - 29.03.2015



Kickoff:  WWE Tag Team Title Fatal Four Way Match
Cesaro & Tyson Kidd (w/Natalya) (c) vs. Los Matadores (Diego & Fernando) (w/El Torito) vs. The New Day (Big E & Kofi Kingston) (w/Xavier Woods) vs. The Usos (Jey Uso & Jimmy Uso) (w/Naomi)

Are they gonna do a 4 way tag every year, Wrestle Kingdom style? Cesaro is awesome. Every managers participating in the action was nice. A fun spotfest, perfect for an opener.

Kickoff: Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal 
Adam Rose vs. Alex Riley vs. Big E vs. Bo Dallas vs. Cesaro vs. Curtis Axel vs. Damien Mizdow vs. Darren Young vs. Diego vs. Erick Rowan vs.Fandango vs. Fernando vs. Goldust vs. Heath Slater vs. Hideo Itami vs. Jack Swagger vs. Jimmy Uso vs. Kane vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Konnor vs. Mark Henry vs. Ryback vs. Sin Cara vs. The Big Show vs. The Miz vs. Titus O'Neil vs. Tyson Kidd vs. Viktor vs. Xavier Woods vs. Zack Ryder

Why not give Mizdow is win, who cares about this trophy? You need to push that newcomer Big Show!
Not bad for a battle royal. I enjoyed it.


Intercontinental Title Seven Way Ladder Match
Bad News Barrett (c) vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Luke Harper vs. R-Truth vs. Stardust

Ok the most important thing first: Stardust custom ladder was awesome. I hate fake wwe ladders but the Ambrose bump was terrifying. I still don't know why R-Truth was in that match. Slightly better than your average modern multi man ladder match. Great punches by Bryan!


Randy Orton vs. Seth Rollins (w/Jamie Noble & Joey Mercury)

Your usual Randy Orton match except it was with a shitty random powerbomb no sell and a trully great finish. Not your fake RKO OUTTTA NOWHERE in almost every Orton match. That was in Evan Bourne's level of RKO. Orton marking out for his own finisher was fun.
Wasn't good.


No Disqualification & No Count Out Match
Sting vs. Triple H

Japanese Crow vs Shitty Terminator ~
Why these entrances? Why the first (and possibly only) Sting match in WWE is against HHH? How is this a WCW vs WWE thing? How did it become NWO vs DX?
I'll stop here with a quote from Sting on the last Raw before Mania: "I'm not here to fight for WCW that would be ridiculous at this point"
Wasn't good.


AJ Lee & Paige vs. The Bella Twins (Brie Bella & Nikki Bella)

The new thing is to give time to the divas in the main roster but eh it's Wrestlemania so fuck them, they've got 6 minutes.
Wasn't good.


WWE United States Title Match
Rusev (w/Lana) (c) vs. John Cena

Entrance of the night from Rusev.
So everybody kicks out of the AA except the man who is undefeated for 1 year at Wrestlemian where you have multiple finishers kick outs in every matches. You better not make Rusev a fucking jobber.
Wasn't good.


Ronda vs Stephany needs to happen, plz UFC authorize it. She does not even have to wrestle, a slap turn into a Shinsuke Armbar and it would be the huge wrestlemania moment that WWE wants.


Bray Wyatt vs. The Undertaker

This is my second favorite match of the show but I'm a pretty big Taker mark. Great selling by the old man. It has the spider walk/sit up spot that you want. It also has a Tombstone kick out that you don't really want. And a stupid Wyatt hurting his knee with the stairs by himself.


WWE World Heavyweight Title Triple Threat Match
Brock Lesnar (w/Paul Heyman) (c) vs. Roman Reigns

Shiiiiit that was stiff and it was indeed Suplex City Bitch. The ending wad kind of a cop out, the match was so good it deserved a proper finish. I like him so good for him I guess. It did have too many finishers, like the rest of the show...
****1/4



I liked that show, not great wrestling quality, it did have a lot flaws and it wasn't as good as last year awesome edition but fuck it's still a good show!



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