Magnus the Magnificent
King Koopa
didn't want one.
I could write a book about what you don't know!
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Sept 30, 2022 14:37:52 GMT -5
Lesnar and Cena always had good matches, from their rookie year on Smackdown to today. 2002 - Smackdown 09/19 2003 - Smackdown 02/13 and Backlash 2012 - Extreme Rules 2014 - SummerSlam and Night of Champions 2015 - Royal Rumble (Threeway with Rollins. Oh my! Uh, phrasing?!?" According to WWE.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Sept 30, 2022 14:44:31 GMT -5
Here's a shot I took from the upper-level: This was an incredible main event for one of the best overall PPVs of that era. I have it on DVD, but now that the quality is better on the Network, I need to go back and actually watch the broadcast feed. The Bryan/Sheamus match was unbelievably good (my section was a lot of families, and Bryan was working heel and getting plenty of 'no's haha), Jericho/Punk had a fun street fight (Punk's uproarious Chicago ovation was incredible; I've got a good HD recording of it that I should put online sometime), The Big Show lost the IC title by stepping on a table, and Lesnar's big return delivered in spades. That match seriously rocked, it was intense and Lesnar had something to prove. When he gives a damn, he DELIVERS. Cena actually got a lot of cheers from Chicago of all places. I remember at the end of the night, Cena gave some kind of speech thanking everyone, implying that he was going away for awhile. He fought Johnny Ace the following month in the main event. Very glad to have gotten this show instead of that one...
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Sept 30, 2022 15:22:56 GMT -5
My favourite post Attitude Era match. Nothing else like it, and nothing has topped it.
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Squirrel Master
Hank Scorpio
"Then the Squirrel Master came out of left field and told me I'm his bitch!"
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Post by Squirrel Master on Sept 30, 2022 16:38:17 GMT -5
Superb commentary by Booker T during the classic Extreme Rules 2012 match between Brock Lesnar and John Cena, He astutely observed how "John Cena is about to feel the pain in the worst way, dawg!"
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Post by tntchamp on Sept 30, 2022 17:27:55 GMT -5
Such an excellent match. It truly felt different then what we usually saw. It Also had this great feeling of just being a vicious brutal match. While I will always maintain that Cena winning was a bad decision (Even if it was portrayed as kind of a fluke lucky win) I still think the match is top notch. It also helps that they did make up for it when they had Lesnar destroy Cena at SummerSlam two years later. Honestly probably one my favorite Lesnar matches second maybe only to his match with Punk at SummerSlam.
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Renslayer
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
every time i come around your city...
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Post by Renslayer on Sept 30, 2022 19:50:30 GMT -5
Here's a shot I took from the upper-level: This was an incredible main event for one of the best overall PPVs of that era. I have it on DVD, but now that the quality is better on the Network, I need to go back and actually watch the broadcast feed. The Bryan/Sheamus match was unbelievably good (my section was a lot of families, and Bryan was working heel and getting plenty of 'no's haha), Jericho/Punk had a fun street fight (Punk's uproarious Chicago ovation was incredible; I've got a good HD recording of it that I should put online sometime), The Big Show lost the IC title by stepping on a table, and Lesnar's big return delivered in spades. That match seriously rocked, it was intense and Lesnar had something to prove. When he gives a damn, he DELIVERS. Cena actually got a lot of cheers from Chicago of all places. I remember at the end of the night, Cena gave some kind of speech thanking everyone, implying that he was going away for awhile. He fought Johnny Ace the following month in the main event. Very glad to have gotten this show instead of that one... This is such a badass picture
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Oct 1, 2022 5:39:44 GMT -5
Such an excellent match. It truly felt different then what we usually saw. It Also had this great feeling of just being a vicious brutal match. While I will always maintain that Cena winning was a bad decision (Even if it was portrayed as kind of a fluke lucky win) I still think the match is top notch. It also helps that they did make up for it when they had Lesnar destroy Cena at SummerSlam two years later. Honestly probably one my favorite Lesnar matches second maybe only to his match with Punk at SummerSlam. I like that match, but honestly, I feel like it hurt his rep more than the Cena and HHH loses did. Look at Brock. Look at Punk. No f***ing way Brock struggles that match. This wasn't Bryan or AJ where their character is bulit on being quick and able to catch a bigger guy. This is Punk. He was built on getting in his opponents heads and having good matches, but he wasn'ta"fighter"necesarrily. Brock should have wiped the floor with him. 5 minutes and done.
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AdamAFL was sooooo wrong
Hank Scorpio
note to all: he's a pants-less heathen
I Survived The Impact Spoilers 7/22/15-7/30/15
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Oct 1, 2022 6:23:51 GMT -5
The Bryan vs. Sheamus 2 out of 3 Falls match might be one of the most underrated matches of the last 10 years just because it was on the same card as Punk/Jericho and Brock/Cena. At just about any other show it would've been the easy MOTN. I will never stop saying that Sheamus/Bryan is better than almost any of Danielson's ROH matches. It's just so good and it's unfairly overshadowed by 18 seconds. I really wonder what Bryan's trajectory looks like if he and Sheamus had that match at Wrestlemania. Sheamus might well have been made for life off of that. I disagree with this just because I can think of 20 matches just from Bryan's reign as Champ in ROH (nevermind his entire run in the company) that superseded this match but it was still incredible and deserves way more love than it gets. I think if they have that match at Mania YES is not the most over thing the night after and, although there's a good chance Bryan still wins the title at some point, he probably never reaches the level of popularity he did in our timeline.
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AdamAFL was sooooo wrong
Hank Scorpio
note to all: he's a pants-less heathen
I Survived The Impact Spoilers 7/22/15-7/30/15
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Oct 1, 2022 6:29:50 GMT -5
He was more John McClane than Goku here. I absolutely love this comparison. It sums up how I felt about Cena the character during this match in a perfect way that I wouldn't have been able to accurately articulate myself.
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Post by tntchamp on Oct 1, 2022 6:52:02 GMT -5
Such an excellent match. It truly felt different then what we usually saw. It Also had this great feeling of just being a vicious brutal match. While I will always maintain that Cena winning was a bad decision (Even if it was portrayed as kind of a fluke lucky win) I still think the match is top notch. It also helps that they did make up for it when they had Lesnar destroy Cena at SummerSlam two years later. Honestly probably one my favorite Lesnar matches second maybe only to his match with Punk at SummerSlam. I like that match, but honestly, I feel like it hurt his rep more than the Cena and HHH loses did. Look at Brock. Look at Punk. No f***ing way Brock struggles that match. This wasn't Bryan or AJ where their character is bulit on being quick and able to catch a bigger guy. This is Punk. He was built on getting in his opponents heads and having good matches, but he wasn'ta"fighter"necesarrily. Brock should have wiped the floor with him. 5 minutes and done. I have to respectfully disagree. The match was booked in a way that made it believable for how punk could get the upper hand in that fight. It had to be no DQ which means Punk could use weapons on Brock. In general too most of the match was Lesnar clearly dominating punk and they really played up on the size difference. Punk had a resort to using chairs and other tactics to actually get one over in Lesnar As opposed to just actually straight up out fighting him.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Oct 1, 2022 10:52:19 GMT -5
Here's a shot I took from the upper-level: This was an incredible main event for one of the best overall PPVs of that era. I have it on DVD, but now that the quality is better on the Network, I need to go back and actually watch the broadcast feed. The Bryan/Sheamus match was unbelievably good (my section was a lot of families, and Bryan was working heel and getting plenty of 'no's haha), Jericho/Punk had a fun street fight (Punk's uproarious Chicago ovation was incredible; I've got a good HD recording of it that I should put online sometime), The Big Show lost the IC title by stepping on a table, and Lesnar's big return delivered in spades. That match seriously rocked, it was intense and Lesnar had something to prove. When he gives a damn, he DELIVERS. Cena actually got a lot of cheers from Chicago of all places. I remember at the end of the night, Cena gave some kind of speech thanking everyone, implying that he was going away for awhile. He fought Johnny Ace the following month in the main event. Very glad to have gotten this show instead of that one... This photo is so ICE COLD. Man, you gotta see if you can license this photo to WWE. Organic photos like THIS is what makes wrestling.
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Blade
Don Corleone
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Post by Blade on Oct 2, 2022 0:34:23 GMT -5
When you get Chicago to cheer uproariously for Cena winning less than a year after MitB 2011, it is difficult for me to believe it was the wrong booking move.
Also, from a practical point of view, immediately putting Brock clean over your biggest star after how he left last time is kind of a... risky move.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 2, 2022 0:56:39 GMT -5
I’m wondering how people would’ve felt if the 2014 Summerslam squash happened here instead of 2014.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Oct 3, 2022 16:15:04 GMT -5
I’m wondering how people would’ve felt if the 2014 Summerslam squash happened here instead of 2014. Bryan Alvarez wouldnt have had a bitch fit for 25 minutes on his show right after atleast
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Post by bluebeach25 on Oct 3, 2022 22:21:31 GMT -5
I’m wondering how people would’ve felt if the 2014 Summerslam squash happened here instead of 2014. Basically it was anyway but the Matchoutcome just killed the whole Impact of it in 2012.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 4, 2022 1:58:34 GMT -5
Such an excellent match. It truly felt different then what we usually saw. It Also had this great feeling of just being a vicious brutal match. While I will always maintain that Cena winning was a bad decision (Even if it was portrayed as kind of a fluke lucky win) I still think the match is top notch. It also helps that they did make up for it when they had Lesnar destroy Cena at SummerSlam two years later. Honestly probably one my favorite Lesnar matches second maybe only to his match with Punk at SummerSlam. I like that match, but honestly, I feel like it hurt his rep more than the Cena and HHH loses did. Look at Brock. Look at Punk. No f***ing way Brock struggles that match. This wasn't Bryan or AJ where their character is bulit on being quick and able to catch a bigger guy. This is Punk. He was built on getting in his opponents heads and having good matches, but he wasn'ta"fighter"necesarrily. Brock should have wiped the floor with him. 5 minutes and done. The 'just look at the guy' argument has always been ridiculous, wrestling is not real, it is stupid fun fake bullshit
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