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Post by angryauthor on Mar 29, 2010 12:06:35 GMT -5
It isn't really a gripe, but I wish that HBK had used his "Shawndertaker" entrance from last year. It was beyond epic. Their match this year was truly THE main event. But last year was built ona thematic contrast between light and dark, so his entrance made perfect sense. This year it was built on his career, and just on being good enough to beat Undertaker, so it wouldn't have made the thematic sense that the original did, which is what made it special.
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Post by GaTechGrad on Mar 29, 2010 12:16:50 GMT -5
So did anyone else spot the referee in gloves during the Legacy triple threat match? Anyone know any kind of explanation behind this? Noticed him half way through the match adjusting his gloves and going by the pics on WWE.com, he wasn't wearing them at the start of the match. Loser gets a proctology exam? ;D
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Post by CMWaters on Mar 29, 2010 12:18:30 GMT -5
It isn't really a gripe, but I wish that HBK had used his "Shawndertaker" entrance from last year. It was beyond epic. Their match this year was truly THE main event. But last year was built ona thematic contrast between light and dark, so his entrance made perfect sense. This year it was built on his career, and just on being good enough to beat Undertaker, so it wouldn't have made the thematic sense that the original did, which is what made it special. Which makes me more upset that Shawn didn't go back to his 94-05 style tights with the multiple broken hearts on it, but that may have telegraphed the finish of the show.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2010 12:21:34 GMT -5
sheesh that last ride was absolutely perfect. and that final tombstone... wow
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Post by GaTechGrad on Mar 29, 2010 12:21:38 GMT -5
Main Event for Wrestlemania 27 in Atlanta just announced: {Spoiler}Shawn Michaels vs the Undertaker 3: Electric Boogaloo
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Post by Steveweiser on Mar 29, 2010 12:24:52 GMT -5
GLENDALE, AZ – World Wrestling Entertainment made history tonight at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, AZ, as WrestleMania XXVI grossed $5.8 million, becoming the highest grossing and attended entertainment event ever held at the stadium. The previous record was a U2 concert on Oct. 20, 2009, that attracted 50,775 fans and grossed $4.9 million. 72,219 fans from all 50 states and 26 countries attended the sold out event, outdrawing Super Bowl XLII (71,101 attendance) in the same building.
WWE’s annual pop-culture extravaganza was broadcast around the world on pay-per-view in more than 100 countries and 20 languages.
“WrestleMania XXVI was a tremendous success, and we thank the public and private sectors of Glendale and Phoenix for rolling out the red carpet to WWE and our fans during WrestleMania Week,” said John P. Saboor, Senior Vice President of Special Events, World Wrestling Entertainment. “WrestleMania is an important rite of passage for WWE fans each year, bringing with them a tremendous economic impact to the community.”
WrestleMania XXVII will take place on Sunday, April 3, 2011 from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA. Ticket information will be announced later this year.
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Post by hajimenoippo on Mar 29, 2010 12:52:06 GMT -5
loved being there live great wrestlemania crowd went insane for cena
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Post by TheOutsider333 on Mar 29, 2010 12:52:08 GMT -5
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Post by wrestlecrapcrap on Mar 29, 2010 13:31:18 GMT -5
I thought this really was a great show, and was probably my favourite Wrestlemania of all time.
There's a lot of negativity towards it, and I understand why, but when it comes down to it the way things went last night sort of had to be done the way they were. Because the card was so stacked, even really big stars didn't get as long as they would normally get on a lesser card, but the benefit was that the focus was on the matches that should have had the focus. The fans popped where they should have popped, and every match told a story.
The tag title match was short, but they needed more time for what people truly paid to see. Morrison's my favourite wrestler, but he wasn't going to be a big player this year with everything else going on.
Orton is my other favourite wrestler, and I just love watching him. So I enjoyed the triple threat match. Again it told a story, and they've successfully turned Orton into an anti-hero type babyface that doesn't need to swear or put his hands on referees in order to be cheered. Cody and Ted will both be huge one day, their time will come.
Money In The Bank had a surprise winner, but that's not a bad thing. Swagger gets good enough heat, and the whole point of the briefcase is to bring the holder up a level, so his heat will increase as the months go by. Really interested to see how they deal with having a MITB PPV, but they wouldn't do it unless they could make it work. As for the match itself, there was less insane spots, but more innovation. Little things like not just simply wedging ladders together for a spot, but actually having the guys hit Swagger with the ladders and giving them a reason for being there, it made me enjoy the story. Kofi's stunt was cool. There's only so many times you can see someone to a suicide dive off a ladder so I'm glad they went with something else, although I can see why some people would rate it lower than previous years.
HHH vs Sheamus was a good match. Sheamus got good heat and the crowd got behind HHH. He got a good showing. I'm not sure I see why people criticise the fact that HHH suddenly beats Sheamus. It's the way you look at it. Could look at it like Sheamus in control and HHH realising he has to hit a desperation move to salvage the match, or you could look at it like HHH no sells his offence. Sheamus will recover fine from this, wouldn't be surprised if he gets a win back at Extreme Rules too.
Punk vs Mysterio was good for what it was. Short but with so many matches and with the selling points of the PPV elsewhere that was to be expected.
Jericho vs Edge was another great story told. Jericho winning means they didn't have an Edge title win get lost in the shuffle, and he gets his heat back with the cool stunt afterwards, but Jericho gets to play a nice sneaky heel and keep the belt, making him not look like so much of a failure as champion to lose it at the first hurdle.
Divas were the Divas. Vickie gets good heat. This maintained it, while getting the crowd behind Beth.
Bret vs Vince is getting largely crapped on, but it really never was supposed to be a match. They were in a rock/hard place situation here considering Bret's health. He can't do a long technical match, and he can't really take any punishment. So what do you do? End it early and have people say that they waited all these years and got nothing to show for it? Or do you let Vince well and truly take the beating that people knew he deserved? The story was Bret was making him pay, which is why he teased the Sharpshooter a few times before inflicting more punishment. Because Vince couldn't get any real licks back in on Bret to build heat, the crowd reaction was never going to be great because they didn't need to get behind Bret, but overall they did the best with what they could. Bret gets to sign out from the company with his head held high, with a nice moment, and the Hart's can put a lot of misery behind them by sharing that with him. It's quite selfish to expect anything more because it really couldn't happen.
Cena vs Batista was always going to be good. I have no idea why people had low expectations, because the fact is the two guys are good storytellers. Their characters aren't technical wrestlers, but if you give them good build, book them strong and tell them to fight over the WWE title, of course they are going to deliver.
HBK/Taker...just wow. I'm going to rate it higher than last year because of the build, because I was emotionally invested more. I didn't really ever think Shawn would do it last year, no matter how many times he kicked out. This year I thought he had an outside shot. And the most telling thing of all was that I was on the edge of my seat, shouting at every move and every kick out, cheering even though I had no idea who I actually wanted to win. I just never wanted that match to end. But the ending...holy crap that was amazing. I get goosebumps just thinking about Shawn doing Taker's signal and then slapping him, and then after Taker's brief moment of respect/weakness or whatever it was realising that he finally has to finish him off. Just utterly great, brilliant, fantastic storytelling.
So yeah, my favourite Mania of all time. Reason people say only some matches delivered is because only some matches are supposed to. Of course every match has to tell a story, and they did last night, but you can only have a few matches that are supposed to suck the crowd in to the extent that they are on the edge of their seat. As Seth Mates said in a blog post yesterday, Vince always tells the staff that the more focus you give to each individual angle, the less impact they all have. The show was perfectly booked last night in that all the big, major angles got the focus, and every single match delivered as it should. If they wanted Rey and Punk to steal the show last night, I reckon they could have given them 20 minutes and easily done so. But the time was supposed to go to the main event matches, and it worked tremendously.
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Post by B.B.M on Mar 29, 2010 13:34:53 GMT -5
Tag titles match: Went too quick for my liking, but everyone in the match managed to pull of something good.
Triple threat match: Very slow paced, but a good match overall. the Double DDT is always great to see, and like someone has already said, Randy is quite good at controlling the crowd with Body Language.
MITB: A fun match like always. Evan Bourne was the star of the match, climbing the ladders like he's spiderman. and I can't forget Kofi's use of a broken ladder as stilts. Sure some wrestlers were mostly down for the count, but the ones who wasn't on their back, put on a good show.
HHH/Sheamus: A good match, with Sheamus being made to look like a threat. The final Pedigree looked very weak, but that isn't a big thing. People who are calling this a Burial, need to study up on their wrestling terms.
Punk/Rey: Short, but fast paced match. Gallows and Serena played their parts very well, and made the match that extra special.
Bret/Vince: Sure it wasn't the five star match, which everyone had in mind, but it did get the job done. it was bloody long though.
Edge/Jericho: A Great match, the Attack on Jericho at the end of the match, tells us it isn't over between them, and after what they put on, I'm looking foward to it.
Divas Match Let's just say, that Vickie was the highlight of that match.
Batista/Cena: I don't care what people say about Batista and Cena, they can put on a Hell of a match.
Streak vs. Career: What can I say, that people haven't already said about a hundred times already. This match made WM26, and made the night very special. Both men pushed themselves to the limit, and it payed off. and for once, Lawler was useful, with his final words of "So Long Shawn" ending the PPV, making it the topping on the cake.
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Post by Miz-Wannabe on Mar 29, 2010 13:57:20 GMT -5
Man, I'm a grown man and Shawn's goodbye made me want to cry.
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Post by Lord Bendtner on Mar 29, 2010 14:29:05 GMT -5
My humble thoughts on WM 26.
ShowMiz vs Morrison/Truth: I wasn't really paying attention to the start of this match-up, and when I came round to paying attention to it, it was over. Definitely was the right opening match choice, however.
Orton vs Rhodes vs DiBiase: Is Orton over or what? The crowd went CRAZY when he set Rhodes up for the punt. Something tells me that Legacy are on the road to X-Pac heat in the not too distant future.
MitB: Kofi on stilts. Even if he was set up to win the match, he probably would not have been able to win on stilts, so that makes the spot pretty stupid, even though it was innovative and cool. Swagger going over...that took me completely by surprise. He had absolutely no set-up or hint that he was going to win it, which is good and bad at the same time. When he was commentating on the MitB qualifying match last week on Raw, I was just thinking to myself 'this guy has absolutely no charisma anymore'. And, now he's the MitB winner.
HHH/Sheamus: Holy botched final Pedigree, Batman! I went into this match not caring whatsoever, and pretty much felt the same way after this match was over. I knew HHH wouldn't give up his 'spot' even for his new workout friend. I guess at times he did look like a legitimate threat, but I wasn't 100% convinced of that throughout.
Punk/Rey: I was disappointed in the length of this match, as are most people it seems. What confused me was; why were the SES only distracting Rey a few times, and not distracting him during his final 619? I was really expecting more from the SES to help Punk steal the victory, but alas, Rey won. Not sure where they'll go from here on out; a re-match might seem a little pointless now.
Bret/Vince: WAYYYY too long, awkward, and sadly, boring. Bruce Hart looked like a d'bag too. Hearing the Hart family scream stuff at Vince while he was getting beat down was kinda awkward too. I know it was meant to be in character and everything, but...it felt like they were shooting at times too. The women beating up Vince made me lol too. And that Hart Attack on the floor, wow. Looks like Vince hit the floor HARD.
Edge/Jericho: Definitely the 2nd best match on the card. These guys have amazing chemistry, and the teased finishes and counters were amazing. These two need to go at it again, probably at Extreme Rules. And, that spear off the table was BADASS.
Divas 5 on 5: The f***. Vickie Hog Splash. No care from me.
Batista/Cena: I enjoyed this match, a lot more than I was expecting. Batista's entrance is still amazing...SO much better than his other entrances in the past. Cena's entrance was..well...stupid. I know he's the face of the company, and he was in The Marine, and the WWE are pro-army etc, but it's getting ridiculous. As for the match, there were some SICK spots, including the redux from the Summerslam broken neck spot, and a SICK DDT from Batista that looked like it really hurt Cena. Even though Cena won, I can't see him holding the title for long - maybe until the May/June PPV.
Taker/Michaels II: I really did not know which way this match was going to go, because arguments could have been made for either side to win. My heart was right though, I just knew Taker would win. Their handshake and Taker being emotionally beat-up was a really emotional moment that will for sure live on in WM history. I'm still unsure if Taker's knee injury was a work or real, if it was real I have no idea how he was able to keep going. I'm expecting Michaels to actually be retired, and stay retired, and I'm sure Taker will be taking some time off too, even just for a few weeks.
This was actually the first WM I watched live on PPV, as in the past I watched it the next day or some other time, or read results etc. I'm glad I got to watch this event as it happened. A pretty positive thumbs up from me.
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Post by HMARK Center on Mar 29, 2010 15:23:52 GMT -5
Realizing fully that I don't watch WWE outside of an occasional show, I did happen to catch WM last night (most of it, anyway, think I missed Punk/Mysterio and HHH/Sheamus), which is only the second WM I've seen since 1994.
All in all, it was a pretty good show. Nothing to get me interested in watching WWE again, but some good matches.
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Post by hajimenoippo on Mar 29, 2010 15:25:22 GMT -5
It took 3 years, but orton rainbow pose was epic
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Post by hajimenoippo on Mar 29, 2010 15:40:56 GMT -5
I was there live so I enjoyed everything
dragon gate sucked ass though no sell a thon if there ever was one
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Post by 4real on Mar 29, 2010 15:43:09 GMT -5
My top 10 moments of this year's Wrestlemania:
1. Jack Swagger winning MITB
2. Chris Jericho winning
3. "Look it's Layla!"
4. Swagger being ladder sandwiched
5. "Knee to the back"
6. The whole CM Punk Rey Match
7. "I'll drive my kids nuts in 3 weeks"
8. The Orton Pose returns
9. Kofi stilts
10. Jumping Tombstone
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Mar 29, 2010 15:54:13 GMT -5
Didn't the chief camera guy botch a lot? As well as that random shot of the wall, they missed Orton's punt and a close up on Vince's face when he realised the Hart family had screwed him... Other than that, solid show, a few of the undercard matches sucked but the main event was epic, Batista/Cena was a lot better than I expected and Edge/Jericho was very enjoyable after a sluggish start. MITB wasn't as good as usual but an unpredictable winner made up for that, not a Swagger fan but am intriged to see what he does with it... Thanks for mentioning that, I'd forgotten to mention it myself. The viewing party I watched it with was REALLY losing patience with the camera work and the directing of the show. Started off early with "Why are we seeing the crowd so much?" It got bad during Batista/Cena and we were actually having small chants of "Fire the director!" during Taker/Michaels. Camera work was REALLY bush league last night with a lot of missed spots and odd shots. As someone sitting next to me said, you know there's a problem if you're making TNA look professional. Agreed, plus how about when Shawn was climbing up for the moonsault & one of the announcers got in front of the camera, you could hear the cameraman screaming to get out of the way & he did right before Shawn did it, it would've been kinda funny if they missed it though.
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Mar 29, 2010 15:55:53 GMT -5
So did anyone else spot the referee in gloves during the Legacy triple threat match? Anyone know any kind of explanation behind this? Noticed him half way through the match adjusting his gloves and going by the pics on WWE.com, he wasn't wearing them at the start of the match. Ted got busted open towards the end of the match.
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Post by Quote the Tozz, Nevermore. on Mar 29, 2010 16:09:22 GMT -5
My top 10 moments of this year's Wrestlemania: 4. Swagger being ladder sandwiched 8. The Orton Pose returns 9. Kofi stilts Agree with these three. How could you not love the Swagger sandwich and the Kofi stilts?
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Mar 29, 2010 16:22:19 GMT -5
Funniest moment in the entire history of Wrestlemania. Yeah. I said it.
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