Countdown To Wrestlemania 24: Wrestlemania 23
Written by sideshowraheem on March 28th, 2008 in Uncategorized.
WE MADE IT PEOPLE!!! For 22 straight days I’ve counted down every single Wrestlemania and now we’ve finally reached the end. Before I go ahead with the recap of Wrestlemania 23 lets just go over the main thing you should have learned about Wrestlemania in the past 22 days. Wrestlemania is never ever good from top to bottom for every match as good as Stone Cold vs Brett Hart there are at least 3 matches as bad as Kane vs Khali in fact any Wrestlemania with more then 3 great matches on the card should be considered a classic. With that said lets get to Wrestlemania 23.
Wrestlemania 23 set an all-time attendance record of 80,103 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The show also had one of the highest Wrestlemania buyrates ever with 1.2 million buys. The event was also the largest audience to assemble for a WWE event since SummerSlam 1992, which attracted 80,355 to Wembley Stadium in London, England. Aretha Franklin performed “America the Beautiful” at the start of the event, reprising her role from twenty years earlier at Wrestlemania III. Believe it or not this is the 5th consecutive Wrestlemania without an Intercontinental Championship match on the card and the 4th with the IC Champion being active on the card. Chris Benoit made his final Wrestlemania appearance when he defeated MVP to retain the United States Championship. Donald Trump made his third Wrestlemania appearance this time as apart of the show in the infamous Hair vs Hair match with Vince McMahon.
The Wold Heavyweight Championship match put The Undertaker’s 14 and 0 Wrestlemania streak against the champion Batista. After an exchange of several devastating attacks, including a Batista Bomb, Undertaker sealed his victory with a Tombstone Piledriver to keep his Wrestlemania streak alive. This was the fourth year in a row that the World Heavyweight Championship has changed hands at Wrestlemania. In the evenings final match Shawn Michaels took on John Cena for the WWE Championship this was Cena’s third year in a row competing for the WWE Championship in the main event. Like the previous two years John Cena would come out victorious bring his Wrestlemania record to 4 and 0.
The Date:
- April 01, 2007
The Card:
- United States Championship
Chris Benoit defeated MVP - The Great Khali defeated Kane
- Money in the Bank Ladder Match
Mr Kennedy defeated Edge, CM Punk, King Booker, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Finlay and Randy Orton - Hair vs Hair Match
Bobby Lashley (w/Donald Trump) defeated Umaga (w/Mr. McMahon) - ECW Originals defeated New Breed
- Women’s Championship Match
Melina defeated Ashley - World Heavyweight Championship Match
Undertaker defeated Batista - WWE Championship Match
John Cena defeated Shawn Michaels
Celebrities in Attendance:
- Aretha Franklin
- Donald Trump
- Miss USA 2006 Tara Conner
- Miss USA 2007 Rachel Smith
- Miss Teen USA 2006 Katie Blair
- Miss Universe 2006 Zuleyka Rivera
- Members of the Detroit Tigers
- Thomas Hearns
- Dominik Hašek
- Rev. Run of Run DMC
After the break see the Money In The Bank Ladder Match, MVP vs Chris Benoit(c) for the United States Championship, The Undertaker vs Batista(c) for the Wold Heavyweight Championship and Shawn Michaels vs John Cena(c)………………
United States Championship Match
MVP vs Chris Benoit(c)
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Money In The Bank Ladder Match
Mr Kennedy vs Edge vs CM Punk vs King Booker vs Jeff Hardy vs Matt Hardy vs Finlay vs Randy Orton
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Wold Heavyweight Championship Match
The Undertaker vs Batista(c)
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WWE Championship Match
Shawn Michaels vs John Cena(c)
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Part 2:
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March 28th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
it’s a really good point made that Wrestlemania is never amazing all the way through; and that’s why i’m getting 24. though i’m probs gonna be skipping backlash through vengence.
this show was a let down, but it also had it’s moments. I think we would be speaking in higher regard of the show if HBK had walked out with the world title, because it would have been a great moment, 11 years after the 60 minute iron man match Shawn Micheals back on top of the world. but instead we were left with a sour-cena taste in our mouths after an already unusually sub par event event.
March 29th, 2008 at 4:43 am
I agree with Kanadian.. Shawn should’ve walked outta ‘Mania the champ… that being said, i also felt that the ‘Taker Batista match shud’ve headlined WM… It would’ve been something special to see WM end with Taker walking out as the champ.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
HBK and cenu put on a great show, but little dissapointment as cena comes out as a better man, as in real HBK is the best and its really a shocking moment for me wen cena made it ova HBK, HBK did it multiple times and even this waz for best title of company and he missed it..hope HBK the very best person in company can do it several time for best title be4 retirement
November 30th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
MVP and Chris Benoit put on a terrific show at Wrestlemania, which lead to not only MVP being elevated, but Chris Benoit being put over through a fantastic technical display of counters, reversals, and MVP almost had it won a couple of times