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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jan 22, 2024 16:22:04 GMT -5
I voted the Rock at Wrestlemania 27, but his involvement at 27, 28, and 29, plus the stuff in between 28 and 29, cast a shadow of suck over the booking.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 22, 2024 16:52:32 GMT -5
I kind of struggle to mind Mania 36 too much because the Fiend's title reign was awful and really needed to end. There were better ways they could have done it but Goldberg doing nothing with it for a month then losing it to Braun was fine, other than Braun being rewarded for being a massive dipshit in regards to COVID.
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Post by mountaindew on Jan 22, 2024 19:56:12 GMT -5
Batista was not part time in 2014. He was there every week and did house shows.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Jan 22, 2024 22:09:18 GMT -5
The one with Dwayne. And also Oldberg can f*** off too. Can I just combine them into Rockberg?
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Post by BRV on Feb 3, 2024 21:44:47 GMT -5
Boy, this thread aged about a hundred years in a matter of like two weeks.
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Post by Woo on Feb 4, 2024 0:49:45 GMT -5
WM 29 is the 2nd highest buyrate the WWE ever did. Sometimes hardcores have to realize WWE is booking for a more mainstream audience We should we care? We don't work for the WWE. Mania 29 gets by vote. Rock in the main event over CM Punk was awful.
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Post by Some Guy on Feb 4, 2024 1:05:29 GMT -5
The WrestleMania 9 one was just a horrible capper to an atrocious WrestleMania, so that I guess. 36 is such a weird Mania that I don't really know what to do with that from COVID season so I don't blame Goldberg that much, since that has the most votes. This and the Bray/Cena "match" from 36 might be the most interesting thing WWE has done in the last decade or so, and would be way more interesting than Bray/Braun or Bray/Roman or whatever.
I do think that when you realize how good Cena/Punk was on the Raw a few weeks before Mania and what could have been the main event at 29 from that is rather striking. Especially as Rock/Cena at Mania 29 is like a parody of a big match with it just being endless finishers then kickouts until one wins.
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Post by ChitownKnight on Feb 4, 2024 1:17:52 GMT -5
I think in 2013, Cena vs Rock 2 was the right choice. Punk had a good long title run (even if it didn’t main event every PPV) and Rock was only in his early 40s and a hot commodity returning after 7-8 years. A 52 year old Rock that hasn’t had a real match in 11 years? Where he injured himself in that match? Taking away from the logical end game to the story? Yeah that’s an issue
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Feb 4, 2024 7:27:26 GMT -5
The WrestleMania 9 one was just a horrible capper to an atrocious WrestleMania, so that I guess. 36 is such a weird Mania that I don't really know what to do with that from COVID season so I don't blame Goldberg that much, since that has the most votes. This and the Bray/Cena "match" from 36 might be the most interesting thing WWE has done in the last decade or so, and would be way more interesting than Bray/Braun or Bray/Roman or whatever. I do think that when you realize how good Cena/Punk was on the Raw a few weeks before Mania and what could have been the main event at 29 from that is rather striking. Especially as Rock/Cena at Mania 29 is like a parody of a big match with it just being endless finishers then kickouts until one wins. Agreed with Wrestlemania 36. Goldberg was statistically at high risk from COVID, given his age, and interestingly, weight, even if it's lean muscle. The fact that he came out to entertain us isn't a hijacking at all. As we've seen from Bray, COVID leads to fatal consequences.
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