Perry

4 minutes ago, Yakashi said:

I don’t think it’s suspicious really. Each night was a woman’s title match that she doesn’t belong in. How often do they have random non title women’s matches on shows? If “deserves” is a word to use when talking about mania, then she had a great year last year and does deserve spot. But the way the company works with the women on PPV, I can’t see any space for her.

The women's tag title match is rumoured for Night 2, so considering that there's only 6 matches on Night 1, I'd say there was plenty of space.

If Becky was going to return they wouldn't stick her in a match for the women's tag titles.  If anything they should have Bayley go out to the ring complaining about not having an opponent at WrestleMania so she challenges anyone in the locker room to a match and it's Becky who accepts.

As Supremo said, it's strange why they've kept Bayley off the card.

That doesn't look like 10 bags worth.  The bags must be quite small in those tins.

Was HBK winning at One Night Only done on the fly?  I thought that was always the plan to set up the rematch (that never happened) at Mayhem in Manchester which I believe was originally meant to be another UK PPV.

When you see the reaction to the card for WrestleMania this year, it just drives home the fact that WWE can no longer create stars.

There was a time when a card like that wouldn't even cut the mustard for a SummerSlam.

I think the original plan was to have Bryan V Uso at Mania until they decided to add him to the title match.

Just read that Big E V Apollo Crews will be a 'Nigerian Drum Fight' match, whatever the fuck that is

Maybe Jericho likes the idea of having one more match infront of 100,000 plus fans again at WrestleMania 38

If the spoilers for Raw next week are anything to go by, there's only 2 more matches that'll be added to the card which will make it 7 matches on each night.  I can only assume the likes of Rollins V Cesaro and Owens V Zayn will probably go almost 30 minutes to pad each night out to around 3 hours. They'll have no Undertaker entrance to waste a good 15 minutes either.

Peacock have removed all the back catalogue of Raw, Smackdown and Nitro etc until they've reviewed all episodes before adding them back. Sounds like they're going to be cut to shreds.

Someone mentioned in a shoot interview that Dynamite Kid used to inject steroids into Matilda. If true he was an utter cunt.

When Matilda died she was replaced by Winston around '91

38 minutes ago, Yakashi said:

Mr T was someone that the audience knew because there was crossover with viewers and wrestling wasn’t dead and the media somewhat cared. Wrestling fans obviously watched the A Team and Rocky. WWEs current audience is almost 60. They have no idea who he is. So to the current audience, he’s a guy they don’t know doing horrible comedy with two geeks. And wwe can’t create new fans so there’s no hope that would change. Will be interesting to see the reaction at mania. If there’s no sound cheating, I’d guess at either booing or complete silence.

There might be more older viewers that still watch via linear TV, but plenty of younger fans will keep up with the product via other means. They still have a young following as twitter proves.

Meltzer has bleated on for ages trying to make out that it's only sad old fuckers that continue to watch WWE.

They taped the 2020 class last night and will tape the 2021 class on Thursday night. Both classes will stream on Tuesday 6th April. 

On a side note, it looked like Davey Smith Jr went as Don Johnson last night

It's all about the Social Media buzz, the trends and headlines on the Sunday morning (after Night 1) will be all about what Bad Bunny had done at Mania. It also helps to spread the word that WWE put on a show infront of 25,000 fans on 2 consecutive nights.

Just noticed that WrestleMania has a start time of 8E on both nights which will be 1am UK time. Seems odd as PPVs have had a start time of 7E for a while now. I suppose we can expect both nights to run at 3hrs or just over.

2 hours ago, air_raid said:

The celebrity wing throws up a few oddities. “Appeared once or twice” and “says yes to the invite” are probably the only requirements. I’d make a joke about “Probably get Pam Anderson in next year” but she’s obviously ruled out by the Chyna rule. Can’t have impressionable kiddies putting her name into Bing, can we?

To be fair, Pam didn't intend to make a legit porno for the wider audience unlike Chyna.

Jerry Lawler will most likely return the favour by inducting him into the HoF

You're a bit late to the party with that bollocks, eh, Rick

53 minutes ago, uklaw said:

I’m fairly sure that shorter guy is Ryan Ward, one the lead writers of RAW. He’s constantly used in scenes in the back, usually being intimidated, mainly because of his height. Strowman, Hurt Business a few months ago and now Rhea Ripley.

So he's mostly to blame for Raw being so shit

4 minutes ago, AshC said:

It was originally set to be Quake vs Borga, which begs the question, would they have squashed Borga in a minute after he'd ended Tatanka's mighty unbeaten run?

Puzzles me how that was meant to be Borga, he hadn't even been on TV for months prior. He was also meant to face Tatanka at the Rumble that year. Surely by WrestleMania they knew he wasn't going to return

1 hour ago, air_raid said:

Earthquake v Adam Bomb definitely wasn’t the worst match on that show, there were plenty that were boring or rubbish. And the point was it reminded people Quake could be absolutely devastating, because he’d soon be on the road with Yokozuna.

Speaking of that, how much of a disappointment was Savage V Crush?  It was a major let down considering it had 5 months of build up. Also turned out to be Randy's last match on PPV with them. Still Mania 10 gave us that cracker between Bret and Owen. 

Owen V Skinner and Earthquake V Adam Bomb have to be the most pointless singles matches at a WrestleMania

1 hour ago, Rule One said:

Christian and Edge vs Road Dogg and X-Pac - Backlash 2000.

 

The highlight of that opener was a pissed up Debra as the guest ring announcer

Saturday Night 

WWE Championship Match:
Bobby Lashley vs. Drew McIntyre
(Hurt Business banned from ringside)

SmackDown Women’s Championship Match:
Sasha Banks vs. Bianca Belair

RAW Tag-Team Championship Match:
The New Day vs. AJ Styles & Omos

The Miz vs. Bad Bunny

Shane McMahon vs. Braun Strowman

Sunday Night

WWE Universal Championship Match:
Roman Reigns vs. Edge vs. Daniel Bryan

RAW Women’s Championship Match:
Asuka vs. Rhea Ripley

WWE Intercontinental Championship Match:
Big E. vs. Apollo Crews

Randy Orton vs. The Fiend

Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn

So if Edge was to become champion, when would he defend it? SummerSlam?  He only agreed to work 3 PPVs a year right?