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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 7, 2019 23:52:38 GMT -5
and even being bummed Bayley lost. I beg your pardon?
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Post by S-Chrome on Apr 7, 2019 23:53:31 GMT -5
8.75
Minuses for the onerous length, Roman/Drew snoozer, Corbin/Angle, HHH/Batista being the longest match on the card and the dodgy Main Event finish.
Pluses for Kofi's win, Lesnar/Seth kicking the show off, Re-Establishing Joe as a monster, The IIconics winning, and the Kickamania Tag-Team 4-Way.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2019 23:54:24 GMT -5
Kofi won, Becky won, Brock doesn’t have the belt anymore, and George Mizanin threw down.
That’s a perfect show.
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Post by froggyfrog on Apr 7, 2019 23:55:14 GMT -5
I’d give it a 7.5. As far as the recent long ass Manias go it was a good one. I thought almost all the builds were terrible, but aside from the Triple H-Batista match and maybe the Women’s Tag Titles nothing was bad.
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Post by thetower52 on Apr 7, 2019 23:55:22 GMT -5
I enjoyed it a lot. Only things I didn’t like where the ending to the main event, Kurt has Corbin and Roman Vs drew
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 7, 2019 23:57:56 GMT -5
I’ll say an 8. The only real clunkers were Roman v. Drew and Angle vs. Corbin. The ending was shit. Guess we will see what happens.
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Post by BRV on Apr 7, 2019 23:58:32 GMT -5
If I could give half-stars, I’d say 7.5. But I can’t, so I’ll settle at 7.
The good definitely outweighed the bad, and when it was good, it was REALLY good. The WWE Championship match was one of the all-time WrestleMania matches and moments. Shane McMahon vs. The Miz was a fun brawl throughout the stadium. Batista vs. Triple H was fine for what it was, it was never going to be anything more than that. The two tag team four-way matches were frenetic and entertaining. Seth Rollins besting Brock Lesnar was a surprise but something that needed to happen.
As for the bad, there were definitely rough patches. Defibrillators couldn’t have brought the crowd back to life during that stretch from Drew McIntyre vs. Roman Reigns to the start of the women’s championship match. There were extended periods (McIntyre-Reigns, Elias promo, Baron Corbin vs. Kurt Angle, Finn Balor vs. Bobby Lashley) where I felt like I was stuck in a so-so episode of Raw. The show was also painfully, exhaustingly long.
Overall a 7. I’ll look back on it fondly but I’ll also skip a large chunk of the final 90 minutes upon second viewings.
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Post by BK From WV on Apr 7, 2019 23:58:54 GMT -5
4. The Kofi/Bryan match was great. I'm happy Becky won even if the match itself was just okay. I marked at Cena returning as the Doctor of Thuganomics. I was happy the Iiconics won but that match was awful. The rest of the show was just really bland for me. So a 4 seems about right.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Apr 7, 2019 23:59:25 GMT -5
I voted 8, if I could 8.5. The 10-11:30 stretch was brutal, lacked anything interesting. Can't just book everyone on WM.
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Post by schma on Apr 7, 2019 23:59:58 GMT -5
I went with 9/10. The second half of the show did start to drag just after we were all commenting how the show was flying but I genuinely enjoyed myself. I paid more attention to this than just about any PPV other than Evolution and maybe Royal Rumble in the past year. Nearly all of the booking was spot on with the right choices made in so many instances. When the heels won it typically made sense how it was done. I get that people are annoyed that Corbin got the rub in Angle's last match but we do always say go out on your back and Angle did and then had a nice brief speech after. The Triple H/Batista match should have been about ten minutes shorter. The main event ending was a let down after those women freaking killed themselves. You could tell what it meant to them so that was disappointing but we actually got all 3 wins which I honestly did not think would happen. At the end of the night I still had fun, though I only managed to watch from the ending of Seth's match and I tend to be up very late so this was not draining for me.
Edit: Oh I did go get my laundry out of the dryer during the Roman match so that might have helped.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 0:00:52 GMT -5
I'll say 8. On the whole I loved it but it was just way too long. Might be because I'm not running on much sleep anyway but I was barely managing to pay attention during parts of the main event I was so drained.
Also the Raw side of the card was pretty crap. Lashley / Balor was perfect but besides that Batista / Triple H was way too long, Angle / Corbin was Angle / Corbin, and Reigns / McIntyre was every boring Roman Reigns match ever.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Apr 8, 2019 0:01:29 GMT -5
My complaints are minor:
- Show was too damn long
- Kurt should’ve gone over
- I didn’t love the main event finish
Everything else was pretty good. I loved Kofi/Bryan, I thought the Cena segment was great and the babyfaces who should’ve won their matches (Angle aside) did.
I liked it.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 8, 2019 0:03:05 GMT -5
Best Mania in years, easily
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 0:03:57 GMT -5
Only not a ten because it was way too long and the crowd died the last hour
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Apr 8, 2019 0:04:13 GMT -5
9. Only thing keeping from being a 10 for me is the fact that it's just too damn long. Co-signed.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Apr 8, 2019 0:05:43 GMT -5
I gave it 8.
Your three main matches each had the right winner, even if only one of them ends up actually being a modern classic match, most of the undercard was perfectly serviceable stuff with popular winners (Balor/Lashley was a fun sprint, Joe/Mysterio made Joe look like a killer on the big stage with the quick win, Styles/Orton was decent stuff although not as good as their TV match, the SmackDown tag title match was fine with some great spots, Shane/Miz was a great brawl and the women's tag title match was OK enough with The IIconics winning being a very pleasant surprise... even Murphy/Nese and Revival/Major Broskis on the pre-show were fun matches). The only really weak and draggy parts was that late-middle stretch of matches after Joe/Mysterio and before Balor/Lashley (I won't rag too hard on the battle royals, those are a hard sell to start with)... Reigns winning was fine, but the match with McIntyre was blah and I'm sensing the crowds starting to turn back on him, Corbin v Angle kind of proved why Angle is throwing in the towel (and even though nobody likes Corbin, I'll take that if it meant we still got all the other results) and Triple H v Batista was your usual Triple H wankery.
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Post by J. Hova on Apr 8, 2019 0:07:25 GMT -5
I thought it was a pretty solid 8, but Jesus, they need to cut down the length. I was sitting here exhausted and I only watched the main show. I can't even imagine how tired I would be if I was there.
One of the main critiques I'd have (and cutting down the show would help this since the crowd wouldn't be blown up), do something with the audio for your main event. If I can hear half the spots being called, it's a little hard to get into the match.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Apr 8, 2019 0:12:16 GMT -5
5.
Only for the three main babyfaces winning.
Other than that I was bored out of my mind 80% of this show. If they were going to do the women's match ending like that, they should've just had Kofi/Bryan close the show.
The wrestling is just so sterile and hollow on the main roster, my brain hurts from 4 days of wrestling straight with more to come. Meh.
The booking was better than previous Mania's, but the product itself is just so lifeless.
*goes to look for PCO's electric chair
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Post by Shai on Apr 8, 2019 0:21:58 GMT -5
A perfect 10, I'm exhausted but it's the awesome kind of exhausted instead of mostly dead inside like I was after Mania last year
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Post by robferatu on Apr 8, 2019 0:24:57 GMT -5
I watched approximately half of it in the comfort of my home before going to work, picking up on the second half after I got to work so watching it in such a disjointed fashion may have affected the quality of it for me, but I give it a solid seven.
Aside from Kurt Angle losing his final match, it was definitely an all happy endings event, thrilled that they not only pulled the trigger on putting the WWE Championship on Kofi Kingston, but ending the Curt Hawkins losing streak with him and Long Island Ice Z winning the Raw Tag Team Championships.
Even though, the match was what it was, they started off the show perfectly, and in terms of "happy endings" it set the tone for the night, I was shocked that the IIconics won because I expected the Boss 'n' Hug Connection to have more of a run with them, the Sheamus and Cesaro chest barrage and big swing spot was nice and both the No Holds Barred and Falls Count Anywhere matches brought the physicality that both required to mask the limitations of the lesser participates in the respective matches and the return of the Doctor of Thuganomics was fun and cute, and as I stated on the offer thread about the main event. I didn't mind the sudden, seemingly inconclusive ending of the women's match as it leaves the door open for a one-on-one rematch between Rousey and Lynch.
However, everything other than that was just "meh" to me, Randy Orton vs. AJ Styles came no where near stealing the show, even though there was really no place for him on the card, not having an appearance by the Undertaker actually bummed me out and the exclusion of Kevin Owens disappointed me as well, and between Reigns vs. McIntyre, Mysterio vs. Joe and Lashley vs. Balor, there were too many matches I didn't have any invested interest in(thankfully, two of the three were five minutes or less)
Anyway, a solid seven seems about right to me.
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