WrestleMania 27 - legit the worst?
Mar 7, 2023 8:35:05 GMT -5
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Post by msc on Mar 7, 2023 8:35:05 GMT -5
Watching a sick child so my rewatch of WrestleManias got to 2011 this morning. I know WrestleMania 9, 13, 32 are often mentioned in the argument for Worst WrestleMania of all Time, but dear god, this show has to be up there as THE WORST:
1. Sheamus and Daniel Bryan get axed at the last minute.
2. The Rock does a meandering 13 minute promo before any matches happen.
3. Edge/Del Rio is OK. Edge is off his game (understandably - he retires that week) and Del Rio rarely meshed with anyone.
4. Edge then takes ages to smash up Alberto Del Rio's car while Del Rio cries about it. Time consuming and awkward.
5. Cody Rhodes/Rey is a good undercard match but you don't want to hear about successes on this night. Rest assured, Cody and Rey (and a certain Mr Trips later on) are some of the only people to come out of this night with credit.
6. The tag team champions and the IC champ (the main heels on Smackdown) get squashed in 90 seconds by the Local Men, Santino and a Kofi Kingston dumped into this match at the last minute to cover for the injured Kozlov and looking miles out of place.
7. Orton/Punk go 20 minutes during Orton's dull period, ending with Orton winning after Punk decided to go for the flying nothing into an RKO - always a stupid finish, no matter how often they do it.
8. Punk says he will never let Orton win the World title again. Orton has won the World title at least three times since then.
9. They waste 40 minutes of PPV time on Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler.
10. FORTY MINUTES
11. OF PPV TIME
12. ON MICHAEL COLE WRESTLING.
13. Nearly 20% of this entire PPV was used by Michael Cole getting ready to get his ass kicked, then all the shenanigans of that godforsaken match.
14. Michael Cole wins by DQ.
15. The after match bits never end. Beer here, stunners there, beating up harmless commentators for the sin of not being JR, the segment just never bloody ends.
16. Undertaker and HHH take nearly 10 minutes combined to get to the ring. I know their match is a great one but bloody hell, speed up the entrances a little.
17. Trips and Taker have match of the night not involving Cody Rhodes and Rey.
18. I mean, sucks to be Wade Barrett and Sheamus who got booted from the show to make way for the first time ever HHH and Taker faced (in the 2010s) but still, obviously the big match was better and Sheamus got a US title match in the undercard inst... oh.
19. Because the show is running long, the six person intertag gets 3 minutes but as it had Trish (first PPV since 2006), Snooki (not a wrestler), and John Morrison (suffering a bad case of Huff Face) teaming it was never going to last very long. Hey, at least the women made it onto this show, unlike Wrestlemania 29.
20. John Morrison huffed his way out of the WWE because of this match.
21. And the clincher is, it was Kelly Kelly and Drew Mac who got subbed out of the match and storyline for Morrison and Trish, not bloody Melina. He screwed up a likely future WWE Championship reign for no reason!
22. The main event. Miz v Cena. Sucks on paper. Sucks in real life.
23. To be fair to Miz, he got concussed early into this, so he's not to blame for the very dull match we sit through.
24. Then, there's a double count out decision. In the main event of Wrestlemania.
25. Then the Rock comes out again and does a big promo to cheer up the booing crowd.
26. Rock announces the match will re-start. Because he has the power now.
27. Rock immediately ROck Bottoms Cena. Miz crawls over and wins.
28. Rock eventually comes back to the ring and beats up Miz.
29. Show ends with Rock having beat up everyone in the main event, which ended on a f*** finish twice.
30. Show is so bad it actually makes me, a childhood Rock mark, boo The Rock FFS.
Between the time wasting, the terrible terrible main event, the blatant burial of the new generation, the 40 minutes of Cole/Lawler, and the neverending dull Orton match, I think this is the champion for crap WrestleManias.
At least Mania 9 has the Steiner/Headshrinkers and Luger/Perfect!
1. Sheamus and Daniel Bryan get axed at the last minute.
2. The Rock does a meandering 13 minute promo before any matches happen.
3. Edge/Del Rio is OK. Edge is off his game (understandably - he retires that week) and Del Rio rarely meshed with anyone.
4. Edge then takes ages to smash up Alberto Del Rio's car while Del Rio cries about it. Time consuming and awkward.
5. Cody Rhodes/Rey is a good undercard match but you don't want to hear about successes on this night. Rest assured, Cody and Rey (and a certain Mr Trips later on) are some of the only people to come out of this night with credit.
6. The tag team champions and the IC champ (the main heels on Smackdown) get squashed in 90 seconds by the Local Men, Santino and a Kofi Kingston dumped into this match at the last minute to cover for the injured Kozlov and looking miles out of place.
7. Orton/Punk go 20 minutes during Orton's dull period, ending with Orton winning after Punk decided to go for the flying nothing into an RKO - always a stupid finish, no matter how often they do it.
8. Punk says he will never let Orton win the World title again. Orton has won the World title at least three times since then.
9. They waste 40 minutes of PPV time on Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler.
10. FORTY MINUTES
11. OF PPV TIME
12. ON MICHAEL COLE WRESTLING.
13. Nearly 20% of this entire PPV was used by Michael Cole getting ready to get his ass kicked, then all the shenanigans of that godforsaken match.
14. Michael Cole wins by DQ.
15. The after match bits never end. Beer here, stunners there, beating up harmless commentators for the sin of not being JR, the segment just never bloody ends.
16. Undertaker and HHH take nearly 10 minutes combined to get to the ring. I know their match is a great one but bloody hell, speed up the entrances a little.
17. Trips and Taker have match of the night not involving Cody Rhodes and Rey.
18. I mean, sucks to be Wade Barrett and Sheamus who got booted from the show to make way for the first time ever HHH and Taker faced (in the 2010s) but still, obviously the big match was better and Sheamus got a US title match in the undercard inst... oh.
19. Because the show is running long, the six person intertag gets 3 minutes but as it had Trish (first PPV since 2006), Snooki (not a wrestler), and John Morrison (suffering a bad case of Huff Face) teaming it was never going to last very long. Hey, at least the women made it onto this show, unlike Wrestlemania 29.
20. John Morrison huffed his way out of the WWE because of this match.
21. And the clincher is, it was Kelly Kelly and Drew Mac who got subbed out of the match and storyline for Morrison and Trish, not bloody Melina. He screwed up a likely future WWE Championship reign for no reason!
22. The main event. Miz v Cena. Sucks on paper. Sucks in real life.
23. To be fair to Miz, he got concussed early into this, so he's not to blame for the very dull match we sit through.
24. Then, there's a double count out decision. In the main event of Wrestlemania.
25. Then the Rock comes out again and does a big promo to cheer up the booing crowd.
26. Rock announces the match will re-start. Because he has the power now.
27. Rock immediately ROck Bottoms Cena. Miz crawls over and wins.
28. Rock eventually comes back to the ring and beats up Miz.
29. Show ends with Rock having beat up everyone in the main event, which ended on a f*** finish twice.
30. Show is so bad it actually makes me, a childhood Rock mark, boo The Rock FFS.
Between the time wasting, the terrible terrible main event, the blatant burial of the new generation, the 40 minutes of Cole/Lawler, and the neverending dull Orton match, I think this is the champion for crap WrestleManias.
At least Mania 9 has the Steiner/Headshrinkers and Luger/Perfect!