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Tasuki

The decisions that they made for the outcome of the matches were bad. While having Zach Ryder win it was just confusing, why him now? It seemed like they should have given him that push years ago. And AJ vs Y2J horrible ending. Heck even the main event was bad. It's pretty bad when Triple H gets way more cheers then the guy you're trying to get over the crowd. What's even more amazing is the fact that the crowed booed Roman when he even won. That ending too felt like ok we tried everything to get Roman over, let's just end it. I just can't belive how stupid Vince is being by still pushing Roman.

Best thing of the night I agree was the Woman's title match nice to see them actually listening there. And while I am sure nothing will come out of it, the Battle Royale ending surprised me completely. I thought for sure they would have had Kane or freakin Mark Henry win it, but Baron Corbin, that was a pleasant surprise.

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Really meh Wrestlemania, lots of great matches ruined by some of the worst finishes and booking decisions imaginable. I'm willing to throw them a bone for Taker/Shane and HHH/Roman, since those could've gone both ways(not a good thing for HHH/Roman). Otherwise, so many stupid things happened, AJ losing his first Wrestlemania to Jericho for absolutely no reason. League of Nations winning at all, much less beating New Day only to get their butts kicked by legends(people love the New Day, they should've just let them win), Charlotte winning instead of Sasha or Becky, with freaking Ric Flair ruining it no less, Ambrose getting completely buried. Only thing I liked was Ryder winning the IC and Baron winning the ATGMBR.

The matches were still great despite awful endings, and I've seen worse Wrestlemanias, but otherwise, bleh

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Rafx

I thought that over all Wrestlemania was pretty great. The matches were great even though the endings to some of them were not but the outcomes shouldn't determine how good a match was.

Of course I was there so I might be bias too.

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Rafx wrote:

I thought that over all Wrestlemania was pretty great. The matches were great even though the endings to some of them were not but the outcomes shouldn't determine how good a match was.

Of course I was there so I might be bias too.

I disagree with the ending doesn't ruin the match, Ric Flair mucking about yet again cheapens it (especially when there's talk of Women's 'rastlin being important just for it to be settled by a male wrestler), New Day who are the most over act in WWE not getting a win or even a celebration just to show off the oldies, the most painfully predictable ending to Trips and Reigns happened when if they did anything else (heel turn, interferance etc) could of saved the main event etc.

My main disapointment is Lesnar-Ambrose though, the story they told was of is Amrbose with weapons the equal of Lesnar without weapons and would Lesnar be forced to use weapons rather than what people wanted was either chaos filled street fighting or the classic underdog story of can Ambrose actually beat Lesnar and it wasn't close to either of those.

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the_shpydar

It was certainly a strangely booked WM in that the matches themselves were good, but the booked finishes (with some exceptions) were just stupid.

At least my fellow Long Islander Zack Ryder got an awesome Wrestlemania moment and title win (even if he did drop the belt the next night, lol).

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Tbh I can't even say the matches were that good, the 3 biggies of 'taker vs Shane was a saved by a few big spots rather than it was a great match, Trips vs Reigns was awful and Lesnar vs Ambrose was disapointing. The lower card had good matches but aside from the women's triple threat I can't say they will be remembered in a months time.

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RIP Chyna, it's a shame they never made her the WWF Champ as she was probably the only woman who will ever have been able to hold it. At least this makes it easier for her to get into the hall of fame.
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Tasuki

@arronishere: According to Triple H when he was on Stone Cold's Podcast a few months ago. Due to the choices Chyna made during her post WWE life greater powers to be will not allow her to be put into the HoF. They are afraid of kids not knowing who she is googling her and finding out that she was a porn star. Triple H said that he would love to have her in their because of what she did during her WWE career regardless of what happened after. But it's not up to him.

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According to Triple H when he was on Stone Cold's Podcast a few months ago. Due to the choices Chyna made during her post WWE life greater powers to be will not allow her to be put into the HoF. They are afraid of kids not knowing who she is googling her and finding out that she was a porn star. Triple H said that he would love to have her in their because of what she did during her WWE career regardless of what happened after. But it's not up to him.

That's empty pr speak, the hall of fame fame is filled with rapists, murders, drug addicts, wife beaters, racists etc who are just as easily to google.

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True. But maybe in 20 years or so they will add here like Warrior.

I would of said Macho Man, if Vince can finally let the guy who slept with his underage daughter into the Hall of Fame in then he surely must let in the woman who he fired because his daughter wanted her boyfriend.

The way I always saw it was Chyna get's too riled up over it still and would constantly bad mouth them in interviews which means Trips and co wouldn't work with her, now that she can't talk there's nothing stopping it and they also come out lookng good for it too.

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Tasuki

Well someone was naughty appearently Roman Reigns has been suspended for 30 days for violation of the wellness policy. What makes it even more odd is that according to rumors WWE knew about it before MitB and that's why they wrote Dean in as cashing in the contract and becoming WWE champion cause Roman wouldn't be able to keep the storyline between him and Rollins going due to his suspension

It kinda sucks if that's the case that they are just using Dean as a intern champion till Reigns comes back. I hope for Dean's case, he can make something out of this like Austin did when Triple H was suspended for the MSG incident and the winner of KotR was changed from Triple H to Austin.

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the_shpydar

I have to wonder if they knew before MitB or even RAW, mainly because it's strange they booked a 3-way match if they knew Roman would be gone for 30 days. He be eligible to return before the PPV, but only by like 2 days or so, which will make for a strange way of storytelling until then — I'd think they would have at least done a kayfabe injury angle during the match on RAW to explain Roman's extended absence before the PPV (not to mention it'd be a good way to get some heat on Rollins, since they seem determined to keep him as the arrogant heel — which isn't necessarily a bad thing since he's great in that role). Granted, this is modern WWE, where writing and booking decisions are often stupid-to-ridiculous.

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Tasuki

@the_shpydar I agree with you it is odd, but then again I have read that's why they waited till after Raw so he will be back for the next PPV. Interesting enough, he won't be around for the draft and rumors said that he was to be the face of one brand while Cena was going to be the other. My guess now either Ambrose or Rollins will be the first draft pick.

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I've been seeing some rumors of WWE trying something different with the brand split ... since they know RAW is the flagship that will always get certain numbers (and thus essentially locked-in advertiser rates, which is the most important), RAW may end up being the "mainstream" show, with Cena and Reigns both on it, while Smackdown would be the "hardcore" fan show (not unlike the days of the "Smackdown Six"), with a heavy focus on the Women's Division and peoples like AJ, Samoa Joe, Balor, etc., in order to establish a good rating (and again, establish high advertiser-rates). I'd be all on board with that ... Smackdown would be the show i'd really watch, while RAW would be the one that i have on while i play games on my 3DS (which is pretty much how it is now LOL )

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Tasuki

@the_shpydar I can see that as it will give both kinds of fans the wrestling show they like. On one hand, you have the one show more family friendly for this people and Smackdown for us old folks lol. That would be smart indeed. And if that is the case, I wold be just like you.

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A brand split wont cover up the problems of the WWE has and it wont touch the amount of talent it had when they first split Raw and Smackdown.

My main hope is with all the talk of Angle, Goldberg etc coming back is they don't start feeding their potential stars like Owens and Neville to them.

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