Wrestling Thread 6: It's Poppy • Page 164

I’ve watched many a PPV over the years that have been really good, yet slated on here. I’d say look at other people’s reviews of it before deciding whether to watch it or not.

 

I love these two. And I miss New Japan! (But I understand the difficult decisions they've had to make)

 

Best part of that Stardom show lol. I've come to realize that I can't stand Bea Preistley.

 

Not must watch in terms of story but if you want to see some good matches watch up until AJ/Aleister

 

lol thats exactly when I shut it off

 

Ok cool. Yeah it's really hard to get invested in main roster stuff right now, but I'm always willing to check out matches if they're still solid in ring.

 

I watched the outsider finale over finishing elimination chamber and honestly not sure if that was the right decision

 

That match was pretty boring. Raw tag was whatever. Main event was terrible. Saw the last two matches live and went back and watched the rest and I just couldn’t care about black/AJ

 

First two matches were really quality in-ring stuff. Mens tag chamber less so, but kind of a wild spot fest at times

 

I feel like Garza/Andrade/Carillo/Rey have collectively put on like a dozen 4+* matches in the last few months, and I wish it was some major story going somewhere. Hopefully they at least pay it off heading into WM

 

Mania Card:

WWE Championship -- Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Drew McIntyre:
Because: Rumble Winner

Universal Championship -- Goldberg (c) vs. Roman Reigns:
Because: Roman said so

John Cena vs. "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt:
Because: The Fiend said so

NXT Women's Championship -- Rhea Ripley (c) vs. Charlotte Flair:
Because: Rumble Winner/Rhea said so

The Undertaker vs. AJ Styles:
Because: I honestly don't know. Undertaker wanted some weird trophy?

Raw Women's Championship: Becky Lynch (c) vs. Shayna Baszler
Because: Sayna earned the opportunity at Elimination Chamber.

So far of the established card, the only match that's happening because of something other than the Rumble or someone pointing to a sign is the Raw Women's championship.

 

Hopefully a fatal four way ladder match at mania

 

WWE is even fucking up the pirate theme for Mania this year

 

definitely shaping up to be one of the worst Mania's ever - at least on paper

even 32's card wasn't that bad and that's regarded as one of the worst ones of the past 5 or so years

 

it's wild to think that 6 years ago WrestleMania 30 had a total of 8 matches including what was on the pre-show.

 

I'll never go to another Mania unless they break it up into two days. Its a fucking chore to sit through.

 

With Smackdown being the Friday show now...its crazy not to just trot out WM Night 1 then. Smackdown is the 2 hour pre-show where 3-4 matches from the card get showcased, WM is 10ish matches, RAW is the 3hr follow up show where 2-3 matches from card get placed as well as resetting the main WM feuds

Adding MORE nights to it is 1000% not the answer

 

But if you go to Mania and then decide to leave halfway through, you'd have the chance to hang on with the Ascension, OC, and the artist formerly known as Dean Ambrose while you all wait for your Uber!

 

The fact that they're not even using Kairi in promo material is insane

 

They just need to stop with the “every one on the card has to be in a match” thing. We don’t need more battle royales and 5 ways. Just have a handful of matches, give everyone else a bonus if you want them to get paid.

 

Also, Cena isn't even dressed up as anything? And their graphic design person loves to put the supernatural character of the year awkwardly crouched in the corner, don't they?

 

If you isolate just on Charlotte and Roman, name what the porno would be.

 

Reigning in Charlotte

 

Holy shit Hogan was bigger than Brock in 2002. I’m shocked at how good he looked then

 

i definitely will not be watching live this year unless my buddy that hosted Rumble offers to do that again. likely gonna spend two hours sifting through it on the following Monday during downtime at work. im genuinely more intrigued to see if AJ can pull a decent match out of Taker than anything else.