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Post by sportatorium on Jan 7, 2016 19:54:27 GMT -5
Surprisingly, it could. It totally depends on how outside the box they are willing to go.
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Post by burdette25159 on Jan 7, 2016 20:10:25 GMT -5
And with wm going up against a ESPN doubleheader of the 1st game of the Women's Final four and the first time that the same 2 teams who played in last Octobet-November's World Series opening the season against each other, WWE better have to push some new blood well or there will be more people attending the men's final 4 in Houston for the Saturday night session then those at AT&T stadium for Wrestlemania 32
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Jan 7, 2016 20:24:34 GMT -5
Ever since WM 25 I've noticed that the majority of people seem compelled to like the most recent Wrestlemania, at least until the next one happens for the people who watched at home and until the next two Wrestlemanias happen for the people who were there in attendance. The more time and money people spend on it, the longer it takes. Every WM since then sees a drop in praise eventually whether it be a small degree (26,28,30) or a large degree (25,27,29) Wrestlemania 27 in particular is the funniest example since now it is widely hated, but go back and look at the opinions of people from right after it happened up until the now yearly "rank the WMs" thread right before WM 28. Most people thought it was good. You can pretty much guarantee that once WM 32 happens a large chunk of people are suddenly going to have a lesser opinion of WM 31 and then once WM 33 happens another large chunk will think lesser of it, regardless of how good WM 32 and 33 actually are. Even if Vince's panic over the injuries causes him to announce that WM 32 is going to just be 3 hours and 45 minutes of him waving his bare ass at the camera with "Thanks for the money, suckers!" written on his butt cheeks, you can be sure that at least 80% of people are going to come out of it claiming it was a great WM, not because they all realized they like the sight of Vince's ass, but because for at least 12 months they're not going to be able to admit "Whoops! That was a mistake! Wasted my time and money!" I thought WrestleMania 27 was garbage back in 2011, and I still regard it as one of the 5 worst WrestleManias ever (along with IV, VII, IX, and XI). That said, I think that this year's WrestleMania COULD be good because they now have to look at the roster of guys they routinely bury and belittle and realize that you have to make due with them. What was so bad about VII? I thought that was of the more underrated wrestlemanias. warrior/Savage is a classic, Hogan/Slaughter was surprisingly good, and there was several good matches in the undercard (Rockers/Haku and Barbarian,Bulldog/Warlord, Boss Man/Perfect,Harts/Nasties). I agree that 4, 9, 11, and 27 are all bottom tier manias but I think 7 is definitely better then 1 and 2.
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Post by abjordans on Jan 7, 2016 20:34:21 GMT -5
It could be a great show. As stated earlier, WWE has a history of turning chicken shit into chicken salad. However, 100,000 tickets with no Cena? I don't know about that.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 7, 2016 21:14:05 GMT -5
Thinking it over more I could see HHH main eventing. Oh well, the undercard still has me excited.
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Post by burdette25159 on Jan 7, 2016 21:56:53 GMT -5
It could be a great show. As stated earlier, WWE has a history of turning chicken shit into chicken salad. However, 100,000 tickets with no Cena? I don't know about that. There's always moving it to either the American Airlines Center or moving it to the Rangers ballpark which is smaller but still wrestlemania worthy even if it means that the Rangers will have to risk opening their home schedule in the Alamodome
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Post by abjordans on Jan 7, 2016 22:24:46 GMT -5
It could be a great show. As stated earlier, WWE has a history of turning chicken shit into chicken salad. However, 100,000 tickets with no Cena? I don't know about that. There's always moving it to either the American Airlines Center or moving it to the Rangers ballpark which is smaller but still wrestlemania worthy even if it means that the Rangers will have to risk opening their home schedule in the Alamodome I don't think they could or would do that in this day and age. They also don't have an incredibly controversial angle going to blame the move on.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2016 0:22:18 GMT -5
It would be awesome if this means the upper midcarders get to finally get the main events, and then guys like Slater actually get an undercard match. However, it will probably just mean more legends.
I'm reserving judgment until they start announcing matches though, and even then it could end up like last year and be a surprise hit.
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Post by SAJ Forth on Jan 8, 2016 2:20:03 GMT -5
No In days past, injuries would force them to step up their game and innovate. Today, it means more Sheamus, Big Show, Kane, Jericho, Big Show, HHH, Stephanie, Vince, Big Show, and Alberto. I really wish someone prevented this.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2016 16:38:07 GMT -5
I thought WrestleMania 27 was garbage back in 2011, and I still regard it as one of the 5 worst WrestleManias ever (along with IV, VII, IX, and XI). That said, I think that this year's WrestleMania COULD be good because they now have to look at the roster of guys they routinely bury and belittle and realize that you have to make due with them. What was so bad about VII? I thought that was of the more underrated wrestlemanias. warrior/Savage is a classic, Hogan/Slaughter was surprisingly good, and there was several good matches in the undercard (Rockers/Haku and Barbarian,Bulldog/Warlord, Boss Man/Perfect,Harts/Nasties). I agree that 4, 9, 11, and 27 are all bottom tier manias but I think 7 is definitely better then 1 and 2. To me, I just found VII to be pretty weak overall. The Boss Man/Perfect match was good, but I thought the motivation behind it, which was Heenan constantly making fun of Boss Man's mother, was stupid. But I found the undercard to be passable, though you must also remember it's the same event where the WWF debated on instant replay (which they removed from the Anthology sets because it featured George Steinbrenner) and the infamous Jake "the Snake" Roberts vs. "the Model" Rick Martel blindfold match where the edict for all blindfold matches was hoods instead of actual blindfolds. Also, the other 4 WrestleManias I mentioned stand out like sore thumbs, but trying to find a 5th "bad" WrestleMania to me has always been a challenge.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 8, 2016 16:46:04 GMT -5
No In days past, injuries would force them to step up their game and innovate. Today, it means more Sheamus, Big Show, Kane, Jericho, Big Show, HHH, Stephanie, Vince, Big Show, and Alberto. I really wish someone prevented this. You forgot Big Show!
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Post by drjayphd (feat. Pitbull) on Jan 8, 2016 16:51:58 GMT -5
It could be a great show. As stated earlier, WWE has a history of turning chicken shit into chicken salad. However, 100,000 tickets with no Cena? I don't know about that. It's Wrestlemania. It's gonna sell out one way or another, they're not going to have to move it. Why are we saying Cesaro's injury will make Mania bad? He'd probably be on the preshow anyways. Depth purposes. These injuries would have cleared the way for someone like Cesaro, who's shown the ability to get over but not receive a sustained push from the decision makers, to break out on the biggest stage of them all. But he can't do that if he's on the shelf too. (Seriously, watching the Giants the last few seasons, I've seen how screwed you could be if you don't have a strong bench, especially when everyone keeps getting hurt.)
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Jan 8, 2016 17:12:04 GMT -5
What was so bad about VII? I thought that was of the more underrated wrestlemanias. warrior/Savage is a classic, Hogan/Slaughter was surprisingly good, and there was several good matches in the undercard (Rockers/Haku and Barbarian,Bulldog/Warlord, Boss Man/Perfect,Harts/Nasties). I agree that 4, 9, 11, and 27 are all bottom tier manias but I think 7 is definitely better then 1 and 2. To me, I just found VII to be pretty weak overall. The Boss Man/Perfect match was good, but I thought the motivation behind it, which was Heenan constantly making fun of Boss Man's mother, was stupid. But I found the undercard to be passable, though you must also remember it's the same event where the WWF debated on instant replay (which they removed from the Anthology sets because it featured George Steinbrenner) and the infamous Jake "the Snake" Roberts vs. "the Model" Rick Martel blindfold match where the edict for all blindfold matches was hoods instead of actual blindfolds. Also, the other 4 WrestleManias I mentioned stand out like sore thumbs, but trying to find a 5th "bad" WrestleMania to me has always been a challenge. Honestly I think the blindfold match gets way too much hate. Yeah if you were expecting some workrate classic then you would be disappointed, but it was a great crowd participation match with some good stuff in it (Jake pointing and the crowd cheering when he was pointing at Martel, Martel hitting the ring post with the chair and hurting himself, Martel making a fool of himself stupidly going for moves like backdrops and elbow drops). It was also the appropriate gimmick match for their feud. Jake had been blinded by Martel and now Martel was going to have live in the darkness that he had put Jake through for months. I agree that the instant replay segment was dumb and a waste of time. I remember always fast forwarding through it when I would watch it on video tape. Even though the premise of it was dumb, I liked the Boss Man/Heenan feud. I thought the story of Boss Man mowing through all the Heenan Family members (Haku, Barbarian, Heenan himself, and I guess Rick Rude by indirectly running him out of the WWF), to get the IC title shot against the Heenan Family's crown jewel Perfect and winning it to stick it to Heenan for all the things he said about his mother was pretty good. I thought Boss Man should've won the title though instead of just winning by DQ to really get his revenge and stick it to Heenan, but I get why they didn't as Perfect had just won it back from Tornado and they didn't want to hot potato the belt too much.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2016 17:21:39 GMT -5
Any wrestlemania can be surprisingly great. We're so used to them sucking even if they're just somewhat decent they come off as surprisingly great.
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