so another Wrestlemania has left us, where undertaker wins, a career is saved and a once in a lifetime match is….erm done again? now I could just leave the review at that, but anyone that knows me knows that I literally can’t do that. So here’s my review of Wrestlemania 29, does anyone else want to shout like JR right now? ‘there’s pandemonium right now!’ pandemonium was probably an idea for a wrestler in the early 90’s too. anything’s better than the gobbledy gooker right?
I suppose the best place to start would be the build up to Wrestlemania, and hope its nowhere near as disappointing as the road to Wrestlemania in any of the video games (sorry THQ but there’s a reason no one liked the games). I have to say ,in regards to undertakers build up this year, they got an unlikely bit of help by the unfortunate death of Paul Bearer. Now, I know that WWE gets de
stroyed whenever they take advantage of real life events, but if you listen to CM punk for example in out of character interviews, this is what the industry has always been like.
As CM punk said on the Nerdist podcast, if the horrible thing that happened to Jerry Lawler was during his Memphis Wrestling’s day’s then they’d be making it out that CM punk poisoned him or something. Now it does bother me slightly when they use that to their advantage, but that’s the point of being a bad guy is to piss people off and be disrespectful. now in that character they wouldn’t be thinking, ‘Am I going too far?’ so in that sense i totally get why they decide to do that. The thing that also confuses me, is the same people who think WWE is too PG are the ones that’s saying these kind of things are too much. They can’t have it both ways, so in a weird fooked up sense it makes sense to be controversial in that way while staying true to their established PG format. I miss Stone cold too guys, the shattered glass, but its gone, least in the long term. damn you memories!
What seems bad though, is I generally believe that they had no idea how to build up CM punk vs Undertaker as it just seemed to be, ‘everyone else 
is set, lets just put a good match together’. Not that I’m complaining, cos even though they massage and wheel out undertaker every year for Wrestlemania, he still has it and CM Punk is the best thing about the company. I’m not a consistant viewer anymore, but I do go back and watch CM Punks matches on raw because I generally think he cares about how all his matches look. In fairness to Cena (who I’m not the biggest fan off), their number one contenders to decide whose facing the rock I thought was superb, roughly a half an hour match that felt very watchable right to the end. I just think the writers have it all too easy and Wrestlemania proved that with the lack of risk involved in majority of the story lines. To rely on horrible circumstance to make storylines makes you wonder how any of the writers earn their money anymore.
so to Wrestlemania and sticking with Undertaker vs CM Punk, It was again top of the pile match wise just like all the undertaker matches were in recent Wrestlemania matches. having said that, his recent competition has been excellent, being Shawn Michaels twice and Triple H twice being much better than giant gonzalez or a train for example. I thought the urn was an interesting idea, again very similar to triple H’s sledgehammer as in, he must use it to beat the undertaker. but in all honesty, this is all irrelevant as there was no chance in hell (no pun intended) of CM Punk winning it, as it just wouldn’t make sense for him to win such a prestigious win at this time. I think that undertaker will probably carry on till around 25th win and call it a day,or maybe next year at 30th Wrestlemania? I would love if Sting would do a Wrestlemania, considering I’m such a huge fan and it almost happened a few years ago. Either way, It’ll have to be someone legendary, as long as its not Rick Flair (you said you’d retire Rick, So leave it….ok?)
the match that surprised me was triple H vs Brock, I thought it was fairly watch able. I really didn’t think that it would be very good, it just seemed a shame that the crowd weren’t interested probably due to undertaker cm punk match being on before I really think they should of pushed these matches out, I would of had this match on first or second, simply cos having undertaker, then this match ,then Rock vs Cena, I just think the fans didn’t care as much after the great match before. I liked the idea a couple of years ago to have the world title on first, because you want a good start to kind of start the momentum. the first match of Sheamus, Randy Orton and big show versus the shield was a bit too much of an obvious start, because the Shield were clearly going to win. the reason being: they’ve built this group up for ages and they are facing three well established stars= piss boring match. The idea is they get quicker credibility and the three well known guys get a good payday. Check please! someone get my accountant!
they then had Mark Henry and Goldberg sorry Ryback(a cheap shot is still a shot) which for some reason I thought was a good idea, although I had no idea why they let mark henry win it. But it was ok, I like Ryback so I hope he doesn’t end up disappearing and being a one time Wrestlemania guy, but we will see what happens. I think if they were going to put a lesser match on first I really think they should of had Team Hell no Tag team match on first. Although it wasn’t too long there was enough there to make it all guns blazing. I really like Kofi Kingston, I hope they use him and he doesn’t end up leaving the company like John Morrison. I’ve loved the stuff between Kane and Bryan, it’s nice to have some comedy in the show I think a lot of the shows I’ve watched are far too serious. Which is why I was gutted CM punk turned face because I loved him dissing people. Again though, you can’t have it all, but something different would be nice! burn number one accomplished. (it’s probably way more than one but I’m not counting)
Jericho, as much as I think he is prick, he is still good, and I firmly believe he was the
king when he arrived in WWE in 2000 in terms of ability. I really couldn’t care less about fandango (is Michael Hayes watching dancing with the stars or something? ll the characters these days dance). Again another win I don’t think made any sense, is Del Rio keeping the title but I found out swagger is getting suspended. So he has kind of ruined his own momentum. Apparently he had weed in his car, so that might explain why he looks so dull and uninterested. the reason I say that is i think this was his time to go up the next level and del rios run with edge meant he could of took a loss here. but hey, swaggers a tool. simply put.
so the once in a lifetime match, happened again, Cena versus Rock again, I predicted Cena to win, because it made absolutely no sense if rock won. being that it would mean he would of had to give up the title if he wanted to go of and make movies, this way he can disappear and all is forgiven for hardly being around. As much as I like Rock, its a bit like watching a dinosaur to skate, in that he just fecking huge now he isn’t as fast as before and looks more likely to fall down in tiredness than anything else. Cena as much as you can hate him, its born out of frustration, cos he can wrestle, its like he chooses not to because he is comfortable in the company. It started unbelievably slow, but it was ok, not as good as last year but I think the spectacle of last year made it automatically better. I thought the ending sucked, it was a bit like the awkward moment after a one night stand. whose going to leave first? It always irritates me that they never seems to be a great like holy shit moment at the end that makes you think. Instead it was, ‘we are all friends now, yay! great for us!’
so the show ended and the whole thing felt predictable, which disappoints me because they are always going to sell the tickets, why not try? I left the whole event feeling like a one stand actually, misled, frustrated, half wishing I hadn’t of done it. But it was bearable. now where have we heard that before?
sting for wrestlemania 30! 🙂
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