chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Apr 3, 2017 13:55:23 GMT -5
Weirdest moment for me live was standing in line for water, Raw womens match starts and a guy next to me leans over. "Hey. Who's music is this?" "Bayley." "Oh. Who?" THE GUY WAS WEARING A BAYLEY SHIRT. He's in the sunken place.
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MAGGLE
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Post by MAGGLE on Apr 3, 2017 14:02:42 GMT -5
So I have another question for you guys that went to Mania, how much money were all the tickets in total? I got a travel package, 3 Day Gold Tier. That's pretty damn good seats for HOF, NXT and Wrestlemania, 3 nights in hotel and 2 Axxess sessions.The more people you get in the package the lower the cost, so it was me and a friend which brought the price to about $1,050/$1,150 each. Ok thanks, but you had to pay the travel by yourself right? Because I think the flight would be like 500Dollars for me from europe.
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Bobeddy
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Post by Bobeddy on Apr 3, 2017 14:24:35 GMT -5
I got a travel package, 3 Day Gold Tier. That's pretty damn good seats for HOF, NXT and Wrestlemania, 3 nights in hotel and 2 Axxess sessions.The more people you get in the package the lower the cost, so it was me and a friend which brought the price to about $1,050/$1,150 each. Ok thanks, but you had to pay the travel by yourself right? Because I think the flight would be like 500Dollars for me from europe. Yeah, ironically the travel package doesn't actually include travel.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 14:55:25 GMT -5
Weirdest moment for me live was standing in line for water, Raw womens match starts and a guy next to me leans over. "Hey. Who's music is this?" "Bayley." "Oh. Who?" THE GUY WAS WEARING A BAYLEY SHIRT. The guy's always thought it's pronounced Bah-yul-aye.
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Post by kingofthings on Apr 3, 2017 17:08:45 GMT -5
Went in on Wrestlemania with a savage hangover last night so the prospect of staying up until 4am was daunting to say the least.... and yeah I didn't make it all the way through. Not even close. My experience of it live went a bit like this:
- Buzzing after AJ/McMahon, ended up falling asleep just after Owens got the pin... - Woke up for a couple of seconds during mixed tag - Woke up again for a brief few seconds during Pitbull - Woke up to see Wyatt and Orton make their entrances - Managed to catch the end of Goldberg/Lesnar - After 4am I woke up again in relative disbelief that the SD Womens match was only just starting but thought whatever... - I seen Taker/Reigns staredown at start, then thankfully woke up to see the final stages of Taker bowing out.
In between all of this I also had a BIZARRE dream that Metallica were in the middle of the ring performing 'Am I Savage?' before doing a live performance of JR's entrance music. It felt incredibly real and just added to my general tired confused thought process.
ANYWAY. Watched it all from start to finish now (5 hours, 10 minutes run time, you MAD?!?) and honestly enjoyed it all for the most part. Few points:
- AJ/McMahon. Great start. - Built up Owens/Jericho a bit much for myself I think. It was good but not a 'classic' like I'd hoped. - Hardys blew my mind. I was buzzing so much throughout the match. - Cena running made me lol. His and Nikki's in ring chemistry was also so oddly awkward. - Lawler was excellent when he got on commentary (and I've been a very vocal critic of him in last few years). Felt like he actually just had chance to let loose and enjoy himself. - To be honest commentary was great on the whole, Byron and Otunga obviously being the exceptions. Otunga always speaks so quietly, like he is scared to say anything. - HHH entrance should have been the police bikes chasing him rather than other way around? - Enjoyed seeing Shane O Mac's kids giving Rollins shit and cheering for their Uncle. - LOVED that Rollins got the win through a Sweet Chin Music/Pedigree combination. - In the overhead shots of Orton's entrance it looked like a giant sperm in the graphic rather than a snake. - Result of Wyatt/Orton annoyed me a lot. Those mat graphics were nuts at first but a bit "too much" if you know what I mean? Easily worst match of the night. Boring, slow, failed to grab the crowd and sort of just ended really quickly. Very very poor. Wyatt should never have lost that title already. - With RAW/SD sharing that table, where did they go and sit between having to call matches?! - Goldberg/Lesnar was awesome. Loved it. - JR is God. - SD Womens match wasn't as good as Raw's. - Taker bit was incredibly difficult to watch at the end, so sad to see the great man finally bow out. Reigns did brilliantly in my opinion, feel like there has been a pretty mega over-reaction. Laughable that everyone is so aggy with Vince when Taker himself would have had a HUGE say in all of it. - The New Day barely did anything. Pointless.
Cannot wait for Raw tonight.
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saintpat
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Post by saintpat on Apr 3, 2017 21:44:19 GMT -5
Some random observations and thoughts from being there live:
Merch Watch: From all the merch I saw people wearing around Orlando all weekend, Enzo and Cass were most popular of current superstars, with Roman a close second. Lot of Bayley on the women's side. Of the many matchup shirts WWE made, AJ vs. Shane was No. 1 by far. And also a fair amount of Shane O'Mac jerseys were being worn. Oddly, I only saw one other Samoa Joe shirt (I wore one to an indy show, or maybe it was to lunch; I forget). Saw one at the airport today when I was leaving. Thought there would be a few more. Of superstars past and present who didn't appear on the show, Finn was tops from what I saw. Not much Hulk at all, but a fair amount of Macho Man. The CLEAR, OVERWHELMING winner of the 'merch wars' was WrestleMania 33. So many people were wearing the shirts and jerseys, WAY more than any superstar.
Oddest sight: Sorry if this offends anyone, not meant for it to, but I couldn't get over it. A woman in a burqa including head covering, with a shawl over everything but the front of her shirt -- which was a "Seth Freakin Rollins" shirt, haha.
Funniest Unplanned Moment: There was a live 'wrestling match' on the edge of the floor area maybe half an hour or so before the first preshow match. We were in the stands fairly far away but the crowd that was closer was really into it and did the "1, 2 ... oooohhhh" on some false finishes. We could occasionally see one or the other of the 'combatants' go up on a rail or something where they were high enough to be seen and then jump off. Hilarious.
Stage: Incredible piece of art. The unsung hero of the show, from the ever-changing ramp to the versatility of how the whole thing was used for each entrance. And the fireworks were frequent and VERY good.
Riots: Roman won. There weren't any. Boos, yes, but nothing out of hand. And the vast majority stayed to offer final respects to Undertaker. Thank you, Deadman.
Chants: They tend not to carry in a big, open stadium (unlike a dome). You could hear things get started here and there that died down. But you could also hear things in your own section that didn't catch on with the whole crowd. My favorite was "That was cree-py" for Wyatt's roach projection. Our section also sang "He's Got the Whole World" every time the bugs showed up.
Yay/Boo: Hardly any match had a majority for one participant and against the other. Maybe 70-30 splits at worst (with Cena and Roman on the short end of those) from what I could see/hear.
Reaction: On the way out of the stadium, on the way to the car, at the Steak N Shake we went to after, at the hotel after, at the airport today, on the plane -- several short 'So what did you think of the show?' conversatons. The answer every time: That was awesome.
It's a different experience going to WM than watching it on the Network (or PPV back in the day). You don't get the commentary, you're probably not analyzing booking -- you're there to have a good time, and on a show like this it's hard not to do so.
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Post by hbkid718 on Apr 6, 2017 22:44:18 GMT -5
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Post by Tea & Crumpets on Apr 9, 2017 6:01:32 GMT -5
My god what a show of 2 halves.
From Orton-Bray onwards the quality of the show and interest of the crowd dropped off a goddamn cliff. I'm amazed the crowd were behind Lesnar over Goldberg, it telegraphs the next year's worth of booking.
And the main event was frankly sad. A broken down Undertaker unable to wrestle the same sort of No DQ match he's worked at a half dozen Manias. They botched the Tombstone reversal, the Hell's Gate, a Spear...The crowd only seemed to care when Undertaker kicked out and gave them hope that the obvious outcome wasn't happening. I've never heard an audience so dead for Taker at Mania. It was like an audience resigned to depressing inevitability.
I enjoyed the first 3 hours of the show, pretty much everything from the opener to HHH/Rollins was solid (Save the Cena match but that wasn't there for the match), legit didn't expect the Hardyz after the ROH show I figured they weren't coming back for a month or so yet, Shane actually impressed me. And then Bray/Randy was incredibly disappointing with the audience dying almost as soon as it began, and from there...yeah. Absolute day-and-night show.
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