Diary of an insane wrestling nerd: Rock/Austin/Hogan's opening segment was pretty cheesy and lame; worst of all running far longer than it should have. I weep for when they took their characters seriously. Probably took time out of the other matches if that's how it works, even though it doesn't make any sense for ppv's to have a strict run time, especially 'Mania. I will ponder this by my pond; shall we continue?
Triple H/Daniel Bryan was great. Might go down as one of my favorites. The main event hit all the right notes as well. It's a shame that Bryan's injuries have finally caught up with him; I don't know why they let him use the diving head-butt after the Benoit tragedy.
'Taker and/or Vince wanted the sad "broken-down-warrior-dies-fighting" ending, but it just came off as anti climactic. Lesnar was as gassed as 'Taker; pretty mundane affair. The shock ending was a great moment just on fan/Heyman/Lesnar reactions alone.
I liked Cena/Wyatt though the way they booked who won at each ppv over the course of the feud was completely off & made the whole thing pointless(Cena should've only beaten him in the Last Man Standing match).
The Shield match was pointless and almost killed Billy Gunn(oh the humanity!). They had to immediately hit the rewind on Kane afterwords to make up for it.
Everyone else was thrown into a decent battle royal; kiss any solid under-card matches goodbye.
I either skipped or blocked the opening tag match out of my mind, I'll let you decide, though the wrestlers involved are good so I might have to go with the former if I were you.
AJ destroyed the other divas; at least the right girl won.
All in all, this ppv proves that filler matches matter on the Grandest Stage of the all, as most of the marquee matches delivered, yet a feeling of emptiness pervades once its all said and done.
Triple H/Daniel Bryan was great. Might go down as one of my favorites. The main event hit all the right notes as well. It's a shame that Bryan's injuries have finally caught up with him; I don't know why they let him use the diving head-butt after the Benoit tragedy.
'Taker and/or Vince wanted the sad "broken-down-warrior-dies-fighting" ending, but it just came off as anti climactic. Lesnar was as gassed as 'Taker; pretty mundane affair. The shock ending was a great moment just on fan/Heyman/Lesnar reactions alone.
I liked Cena/Wyatt though the way they booked who won at each ppv over the course of the feud was completely off & made the whole thing pointless(Cena should've only beaten him in the Last Man Standing match).
The Shield match was pointless and almost killed Billy Gunn(oh the humanity!). They had to immediately hit the rewind on Kane afterwords to make up for it.
Everyone else was thrown into a decent battle royal; kiss any solid under-card matches goodbye.
I either skipped or blocked the opening tag match out of my mind, I'll let you decide, though the wrestlers involved are good so I might have to go with the former if I were you.
AJ destroyed the other divas; at least the right girl won.
All in all, this ppv proves that filler matches matter on the Grandest Stage of the all, as most of the marquee matches delivered, yet a feeling of emptiness pervades once its all said and done.