Razor Gives It A 4/10
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Post by Razor Gives It A 4/10 on Dec 20, 2013 1:23:22 GMT -5
imgur.com/a/IgsFVLooks like the Wrestlemania 29 script is the latest in the recent flood of WWE scripts being posted online. Enjoy!
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Dec 20, 2013 1:26:59 GMT -5
The most interesting thing here is that Rhodes Scholars/Bellas vs. Tons of Funk was still on the script.
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Post by Chiral on Dec 20, 2013 1:27:16 GMT -5
Interesting...there doesn't seem to be much space for promos yet Wrestlemania's of the last few years have had such bad time managment for matches.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Dec 20, 2013 1:32:28 GMT -5
According to this script, it was the plan for Colter and Swagger's entrance to be during a video package, despite them using a special entrance vehicle. I assumed it was cut during the show to save time, but this indicates it was the plan going into the show.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2013 1:35:11 GMT -5
Well atleast we know who to blame the The Rock Vs Cena match on.
Damn you Arn and Patterson.
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Dec 20, 2013 1:39:32 GMT -5
The most interesting thing here is that Rhodes Scholars/Bellas vs. Tons of Funk was still on the script. And it was apparently going to be the cool off match after Punk/Taker.
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Post by celticjobber on Dec 20, 2013 1:46:17 GMT -5
So it was as boring on paper as it was on TV...
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Post by khali on Dec 20, 2013 1:47:37 GMT -5
From looking at it, you can see why the match was probably cut. Punk/Taker is listed at 25 minutes. The match itself went around that length, but throw in entrances and Taker's exit and it definitely went over that. I'm assuming that chunk of time is a big reason they had to cut the match.
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Dec 20, 2013 1:48:20 GMT -5
Who's the moron who thought that Undertaker/Punk should only get 25 minutes including entrances? Their entrances alone together were AT LEAST 10 minutes long at the show.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Dec 20, 2013 1:57:18 GMT -5
Who's the moron who thought that Undertaker/Punk should only get 25 minutes including entrances? Their entrances alone together were AT LEAST 10 minutes long at the show. Better yet, who the hell watched Rock vs. Punk at the Rumble and then decided Rock vs. Cena needed FORTY MINUTES?
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Post by Renslayer on Dec 20, 2013 1:57:25 GMT -5
Looking at the script, where are the promo buildups? Practically every Mania I've seen has had a video package for the match that's coming up.
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Dec 20, 2013 1:59:00 GMT -5
Who the hell thought it was a good idea for a guy who barely wrestled in 10 years to go for a 40 minute match?! No wonder Rock was gassed out.
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Dec 20, 2013 1:59:52 GMT -5
Who's the moron who thought that Undertaker/Punk should only get 25 minutes including entrances? Their entrances alone together were AT LEAST 10 minutes long at the show. Better yet, who the hell watched Rock vs. Punk at the Rumble and then decided Rock vs. Cena needed FORTY MINUTES? It was supposed to be somewhat more special entrances and a long ending, but the intros had to be shortened a lot so it didn't go 40 minutes really.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Dec 20, 2013 2:02:33 GMT -5
Better yet, who the hell watched Rock vs. Punk at the Rumble and then decided Rock vs. Cena needed FORTY MINUTES? It was supposed to be somewhat more special entrances and a long ending, but the intros had to be shortened a lot so it didn't go 40 minutes really. Even so, if you gave half that time to the intros, special ring intro, and long ending putting over Cena, that's still Rock in a 20 minute match, and that would have been one of his longest matches even in comparison to his prime.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Dec 20, 2013 2:15:46 GMT -5
The return of "BALLYHOO!". Also love that they somehow know they've set an attendance record before the show even starts.
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Post by The Heenan Family on Dec 20, 2013 3:05:22 GMT -5
Just adding up all of those times gets you to about 3 hours and 28 minutes. But I'm not sure if some of those times are including the Hall of Fame segment, the opening with Hurricane Sandy stuff, the special olympics segment, the attendance record, the video on Fan Axess, the Extreme Rules promo, the Pain and Gain promo, the several announcer table shots with a Miz versus Barrett recap, the Cena and Rock promos throughout the night, and so on. That would really only leave them about 20 minutes for all of that. If that was the case then they didn't leave themselves any room other than "if we go over, cut the mixed tag match." So even if the Taker match went over, I'm not sure what they thought all of that was going to really run.
I think at the very least they could have had a Plan B for the mixed tag match with a backstage segment that goes from a skit to a brawl in about a minute or two.
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Post by Slammy Award-Winning Cannibal on Dec 20, 2013 3:56:33 GMT -5
Also love that they somehow know they've set an attendance record before the show even starts. Wouldn't they kinda have an inkling of that based on gate sales prior to the day?
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Post by thegame415 on Dec 20, 2013 4:18:18 GMT -5
Who the hell thought it was a good idea for a guy who barely wrestled in 10 years to go for a 40 minute match?! No wonder Rock was gassed out.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2013 6:10:55 GMT -5
Blimp??
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Post by Boo! on Dec 20, 2013 7:07:05 GMT -5
IMO the subsequent 'script leaks' after perhaps a genuine first, are just people 'on da internet' replicating them. It's not difficult to retrospectively write a script for what has already aired. I could understand one or two leaking but the fact there seems to be a new script every week now, seemingly, makes me suspicious of how genuine these new ones are.
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