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and also screw y'all steph was great last night because steph is always great.

 

Soooooooo the big photo project I was working on for Mania is up and I'm super stoked with how it turned out
Behind the Madness of WrestleMania 32

 

The more think about it I'm not sure how I feel about the way they have been using Styles. I kind of feel Vince certainly has something against him, I don't know I kind of felt he should have went over in his first Mania match.

 

Yeah that is really weird. He is one of my favorite guys but he has to be a heel. In a company desperately in need of a heel why wouldn't they bring him up as a monster heel? Didn't make a whole lot of sense. Here's hoping they correct that mistake tonight.

 

I'm surprised they didn't switch out the plates on the belt before Roman was on Good Morning. Looks silly with him carrying around HHH's plates. Rollins had it switched out the night he won.

 

We all have our least favorite moment of the night I'm sure, but mine has to be new day losing. Talk about a feud and a match whose only purpose was to tell the world "new day has had an awesome year, let's celebrate them at mania" and yet they couldn't even do that.

If you wanted to have a legend involved then have new day win and then post match they get out manned and then ONLY Austin shows up. Gets a few stunners in and end with a Xavier stun cause of lolz and now we have a nice fun new day moment/match/ending.

Or if you wanted continuity edge and Christian coming to save new day would've worked too.

But dear God I know I shouldn't care about a loss so much but fuck how do you have the new day lose to losers!!!

 

I read on Reddit yesterday that the odds for that match switched big time the day before and Jericho became the heavy favorite. There was speculation that it'll lead to them main eventing or being near the top of the card for their last match at Payback

 

I thought New Day losing was pretty obvious when it was announced it wasn't a title match.

 

ANOTHER MATCH????? I really hope this is wrong. They have good chemistry but there are so many other feuds/storylines that Styles could be a part of.

 

Finally watched WM. What a disappointment.

The IC match was great. Easily my favorite of the night. I don't understand why they booked Ryder as the winner but it was still one of the better ladder matches in recent memory.

Triple threat match was the only other bright spot up until the finish. I can't stand Charlotte, or Flair, and was pissed she won.

The Ambrose-Lesnar match was such a joke. I mean, what the fuck was that? They had potential for a classic and gave us maybe the worst match of the night. It was awful.

HIAC match was ok but predictable. We kinda knew Shane was going off the top. It was still an awesome spot but the match overall kinda sucked. I was really hoping for Shane to be back and more involved full-time but that looks unlikely.

And then there's the main event. What a shit show. Stephanie's promo at the beginning was so stupid. She delivered it well, but holy crap it was so stupid. The actual match was incredibly boring. I literally fell asleep watching it this morning. The ending was dreadful and predictable. It didn't make Reigns look any stronger. It didn't make sense to have Trips go down that easy. Reigns was raising the title and people were either booing or just didn't care.

Something big has to happen tonight. But I'm not getting my hopes up after what I just watched.

 

The Dudleyz returned after Summerslam last year. I think we got Neville the Raw after Mania though.

 

The only major return/debut I remember from last year's Raw after Mania was Neville's debut.

 

The best moment from last year's Raw was Lesnar killing everyone.

 

Yup you're right. Shit, I was ready to delve into how two years in a row they'd bring back/debut a tag team for the New Day to feud with and

 

Hopefully we get Anderson and Gallows tonight.

 

it might not provide that to you, but it does to a lot of people (millions and millions to be exact)

I just haven't met too many wwe fans who don't enjoy 5 of the biggest superstars of all time. But to each their own

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in last years ARMBAR, didn't Hideo get like one comedy spot in the match where he was punching Big Show, didn't faze him, and then got tossed out? Kinda weird how last year they had this big tournament WM weekend in NXT to see who would be their representative, only to see him get eliminated fairly quickly.

This year, no announcement whatsoever an NXT person will be in it, then all of a sudden you see Baron Corbin walking down the aisle, only to actually win the whole thing.

Just kinda weird and somewhat insulting to Hideo in my eyes. Not that I'm sure this will all planned over a year ago.

 

Steph said this:


Our female performers are world-class athletes, actors, public speakers and philanthropists. They’re role models, inspiring and empowering women and girls to be confident and strong. They dedicate themselves to WWE, achieve great success and earn the same respect as their male counterparts.

Therefore, from this point forward, all of our performers – male and female – will be known as “Superstars.”

 

One more complaint. Michael Cole. Fuck that guy. He's so bad.

Every match we hear "What Wrestlemania moment!!!!!" multiple times. Stop trying to force this shit product down our throats. We're already suckered into watching it every week even though we know the majority of it is trash.

 

32 was easily one of the worst Wrestlemanias ever. Possibly worse than 27, I'd have to think about it.

The two best matches of the night were the IC title, which suffered due to sloppiness and an overall lack of story, and the Divas title, which was a great wrestling match until the laughably bad finish. That's it. That's the best of the "biggest Wrestlemania ever."

Ambrose/Lesnar was mostly pathetic, with the entire psychology of the feud just inexplicably abandoned during the match. Shane/Taker was, for the most part, slow and boring. The main event was somehow even more slow and boring.

 

I honestly think WWE's intention was to only have the best two out of three series with Y2J and AJ Styles but then Vince saw how well received it was and decided to make it best 4 out of 5.

 

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but did it seem like the ending to the divas match was just Charlotte and Sasha going back and forth on who could make Becky tap? Poor Becky.

 

It's not his fault he has to listen to Vince, it's his job.

 

I enjoyed them in their prime, not now. Now I want to see the guys on their prime instead. It's pretty simple.

 

I'm personally hoping we get the Raw debuts of Enzo, Cass, and Carmella tonight.

I thought it was weird they haven't used them for anything during Mania weekend, maybe they were saving them for tonight.