“The” Jsnwwf’s WM 24 review….and its bigger than Texas.
Written by jsnwwf on March 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized.
“The” Jsnwwf’s Wrestlemania Review
This is long, so get ready to read. As JR would say, “Bye God, this is a Wrestlemania sized blog post”
580+ comments for a discussion= NEW PWB record, by more than double.
Lex, don’t change a think. I was thinking about this. I wasn’t there for the discussion because it would spoil me later watching the show, via internet, but still observed the discussion. If there was a chat, then comments wouldn’t be saved. With comments saved, its there in cement (figure of speech) for those missing the discussion and new PWB members to observe.
On to the show…
Let me say now, Howard Finkle, the only performer I believe to appear in every single Wrestlemania. Is he in the Hall of fame?
With low hopes for the PPV, I enjoyed it immensely. Having the WWE Title match come before the World Title match was a good move because the was little talk about the triple threat match. While the storyline between Edge and Undertaker sucked, it was guaranteed to be a better match.
Finlay vs JBL:
I was a bit surprised for this to starts the show because this was a “big” storyline, god bad. I what was even more shocking was Finlay actually losing. Who predicted this? Why? I thought for sure that Hornswoggle would dance at the end giving the show a feel good moment. Good match. Best parts of the match included Finlay with a suicide dive through the ropes and the part with JBL throwing a trash can into Hornswoggle’s face from inside the ring to the outside of the ring.
Great opening match, how often is the opening match at a WWE PPV this good?
Out of 10, give this a 6.5 overall.
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MITB match:
lol at Coach being there and getting no mic time.
Great match. In fact this has to be the greatest MITB match, ever. The best athletes that WWE has to offer were in this, other than Noble, Wang, Kendrick, London, and Rey. Great spots including Benjamin killing himself, a Morrison moonsault (with ladder in hand), Morrison climbing an unset ladder then busting his balls, and both Carlito and CM Punk jumping from rope to ladder. The moment of the match had to go to Matt Hardy. I can still hear a ringing in my ear from that pop. Mixed chants of “HOLY SHIT!” and “THIS IS AWESOME!”
CM winning? Another one I didn’t see coming. He will definitely move to Smackdown or Raw if WWE has a Draft in the next weeks.
P.S. TNA a pathetic. Who the fuck would be looking up during the MITB match to miss a big spot? TNA = stupid. Noone could read that stupid sign anyway, idiots…
8.5/10
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Batista vs Umaga:
”ZZzzzzzzzzz……….”
I expected a good match out of this. I was waiting for a “Boring!” chant. The finish was funny. Botchmania here we come. That’s the Batista we all remember.
2/10
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Chavo vs Kane:
I’m SO glad that Kane gets a title reign.
11 sec. match. Good for Chavo. Its serves him right for doing drugs, AFTER Eddie died. I picked Dreamer to be in this, even though I wanted Kane to win. When will an ECW wrestler win the title? Kane is from Smackdown, just like Chavo.
5/10 because Kane won.
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HBK vs Flair: Smackdown vs Raw match, oh wait…Flair is really a RAW guy, right?
Anyway…
Flair breaks out the ole’ school Flair tights. WOW! A FUCKING CLASSIC, from beginning to end. HBK almost dies in the first 3 minutes outside of the ring, but continues. Then moonsaults off the turnbuckle to the outside to have flair not catch him, ugh. HBK has 3 lives. Blown spot in the middle. Its ok, Flair, its ok.
Great “Struggling dog put to sleep” ending.
Austin said a few weeks ago that he has never seen HBK screw up. That got me thinking, has he ever, I mean other than with the super kick on numerous occasions(ladder match with razor wasn’t his fault)? The best wrestler ever, period.
8/10 Only HBK could have had that type of match with flair, well maybe Triple H or Taker, but that’s it.
Too bad Flair didn’t do “The Turnbuckle Spot.”
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Great promo by Edge
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Great Pyro
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Bunny Mania:
LOL at this coming after HBK/Flair. It’s sad that Mickie and Victoria are on the sidelines. Don’t be surprised if you see them in TNA. “Ohh wee.” Ashley is fugly, ok?!!!?..with no ass, might I add…
How dead was the crowd? You could literally see people leaving to the bathroom. I wanted the crowd to cheer went the place went dark..Sting?
Lawler didn’t get his match, but I guess he got something.
I’m done with this…
WTF? Snoop and Maria? WWWWWWWHHHHHHAAAAA????
-0.34398439392934/10
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HHH vs Orton vs Cena
I don’t care about this so it will be short.
Cena entrance was corny, without his theme. Who’s bad idea was that? The spotlight in dark made mania better in my view. LMAO at Orton only getting 8% of the votes.
I swear, as soon as I saw this go early, I said that Orton was retaining. Predictable PPV, huh? Orton will lose it to HHH tonight on RAW o at Backlash.
6/10 Other than the crowd, this match didn’t live up to….oh wait it did live up to the built up. Next.
So far everybody that I wanted to win, other than Shelton has won.
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Big Show vs PBF(Pretty Boy Floyd)
Like I said, Mayweather has two guys taller than Big Show, SERIOUSLY! Oh, so that’s where the 20 million is going, to the fans that bought Mania tickets. Making it rain, outside. Lol. Ok, I laughed when Mayweather started singing his own theme song.
meh. 40-0.
Is it em or does it seem like ECW and Smackdown doesn’t exist? Lawler does the interpromotional match and Tazz/Joey do an 11 sec match. That’s it.
4/10 Damn, I was hoping for 50 Cent. I guess he just lied. wtf?
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Main Event: Edge vs Undertaker
1st off, I would like to congratulate Edge on finally making a Wrestlemania Main Event. A long time coming.
Lol at Coaches first words of the Night, near the end. They must have had a mute button on him.
I havent seen Edge/Taker yet, but I have to leave for college classes.
good mania. In the top half, maybe.
Pop of the night:
Matt Hardy,
Flair
Orton winning.
Big Show
Heat of the night:
HBK
Cena
JBL
Floyd winning
Batista
Match of the Night(show stealer):
Money in the Bank,
Flair/HBK
March 31st, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Overall, I give the event a 6.5/10
Flair and HBK was still the best match of the night, and it wasn’t even well executed.
Money in the bank should be moved to main event status. Shelton Benjamin, thank you for being awesome! Morrison’s moonsalt w/ ladder was freakin insane! But I can’t put it down as the best one ever because of who won it…(sorry, CM.)
Batista/Umaga match sucked. He needs to stop getting beat up by everyone and go back do doin some damage!
Chavo/Kane match sucked- at least Kane gets to hold a title, now…
Finlay/JBL match sucked- they thought weapons might make people more interested…
BunnyMania match sucked- I could write a thesis paper on all the tweaking the Diva’s division needs to get interesting..
3hreat match- just okay. There needed to be a huge spot. There wasn’t. these guys work hard, but none of em seemed to be into it this year. Would have been nice to see Cena F-U two guys at once.
Money Mayweather- after he stopped laughing, it got better. Celebs always win. But I think people wanted to see him chokeslamed. What’s with Big Show looking so sad afterwards? Are you a mouse or a man? Go after that punk and kick his butt!
Edge/Taker- the most obvious win of the night. Why waste our time with it being the last match?
Wrestlemania: 6.5/10- not their best
March 31st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Rob Grizzly,
Could not agree with you more. i said earlier that this was a poor show. But people were actually trying to argue with me that it was great???????
I totally agree that the triple threat was a let down. Cena’s entrance has to go down as one of the lamest entrances in years. Whoever made that desicion should be canned. All three of these competitors were out of it. They didn’t seem like they were giving it their all out there. Which is dissapointing because it had potential with these three.
Mayweather match was brutal. Don’t bring Celebrities anymore, they always win it’s more predictable than a Taker match.
The only thing that saved the night was Flair’s emotional moment and the pyro displays.
I give it a 6 out 0f 10.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Have you people even been reading those 23 Mania post I made match for match this is on par with most Manias rarely in 24 years has a Mania show been good top to bottom. You usually get 2-3 good matches and maybe on great match of course there are exceptions like Wrestlemania 17 and Wrestlemania 22 but the overwhelming majority of Mania’s are equal to this one quality wise. Just look back at all the cards and tell me I’m wrong.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I agree with sideshowraheem. It seems to me that no matter what happens in wrestling, some people on the internet won’t be pleased. This was probably one of the better Manias if you were following Sideshow’s recaps of the 23 Wrestlemanias (which, by the way, were awesome sideshow). If this one is a 6, does that make 17 a 8 and 22 a 7.5?
And here’s another thing; If the same thing had of happened in the Triple Threat, but Triple H just pinned Cena, everyone who was saying Orton winning was predictable would be complaining that they predicted Triple H winning; same for cena, “Well that was predictable, Cena wins at Mania again.” This was exactly the reason I posted the “Is There No Pleasing You?” post, because i knew no matter what happened, people would complain about the finish.
And for the Undertaker match; isn’t one of the special moments of every Wrestlemania watching Undertaker fight to retain one of the most special things remaining in wrestling, seeing him kick out of finishers, hit the Tombstone; Edge is my favourite wrestler in the business, but I was rooting for the Taker in this one.
As far as booking is concerned, It’s exactly how I’d have booked it. JBL vs Finlay was the opener, it couldn’t be Edge vs Mick Foley, MITB followed it, it got the crowd excited and prepped JBL for his feud with Triple H for the WWE Title. MITB would have killed the buzz for a match if it occurred later in the card. Batista vs Umanga and the ECW Title gave a break to the crowd before Flair vs HBK. You can’t put Taker on 4th again, and you can’t put the WWE Title that early in the card ever. You need to separate the 3 main events with matches that fans more or less don’t care about.
I’m not saying all the matches were great, Batista was sloppy as hell, Models, Mayweather / Big Show wasn’t a match (i liked it though). But I enjoyed most of the show.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:11 pm
The show wasn’t terrible it was just okay good even from a wrestling standpoint.
However what WrestleMania has missed for a few years now is massive moments the Flair reteirment should have been one last night but I felt that it was spoiled a little by the placement on the card. The major reason we don’t get these moments I feel are because all the main event guys are the same, don’t get me wrong I have no problem with Edge, Orton, HHH, Cena or Taker main eventing a show but not against each other, it feels as if we have seen all the fueds a million times before.
The last time the WWE was truly exciting was between 1998 to about 2001 and at that point have a think how many main eventers the WWE produced The Rock, HHH, Austin, Foley, Kurt Angle, Y2J even Kane for a while all produced in a short period of time. From that period to now the WWE has only produced a handfull of main eventers Orton, Cena and Batista thats it. I know some say that they are not ready but why not just push the guys with talent like MVP, Kennedy and CM Punk if they are skilled and can get a reaction push them to the moon, give them more freedom on a mic and lets see the title change hands more.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:21 pm
By the way guys just read this on prowrestling.net what a class act
Many wrestling fans were hopeful that Ric Flair’s match against Shawn Michaels would be the final match to close out last night’s WrestleMania XXIV. It turns out that Flair was offered the main event spot but turned it down.
There was a pitch made by a creative team member to have the final shot of WrestleMania be a spotlight on Flair’s boots and robe. However, Flair strongly disagreed with those sentiments when the idea was brought up to him during a press conference held prior to the WWE Hall of Fame convention.
Flair told reporters that nothing is more important than the title belts and insisted that his match with Michaels did not belong in the main event position.