Ending up live blogging the whole thing and it got kinda messy, so I'm rewriting things to better work out feelings from Wrestlemania.
Kalisto vs Ryback - Fairly innoffensive match. Nothing exciting, but both looked good for what it was and Kalisto came out in a fantastic dragon outfit. Downside of the match was that the stadium had issues with scanning tickets, so most of the audience wasn't even in the theater. It had to be only like 1/3rd full and it looked kinda bad because of it, but it was just the pre-show.
10 Diva Tag Match - Basically a nothing match. A couple spots here and there, nothing special. Kinda cool to see Lana acting like a wrestler, but she only did two kicks. Nice to see Brie get her stuff out and to have Nikki come out in full gear and a neck brace to celebrate with her, possibly for the last time for either of them.
FILLER - Lita announced that the belt is now the "Women's Championship" and matches the main one, just in white/red instead of black. It's a good move.
Dudleys vs Uso's - Another kinda nothing match. It was fine, nothing special, and not even the reversal of the Dudley's going through the tables is interesting. I don't know what they are doing with the Dudley's anymore.
IC Ladder Match - This was a super fun match. Lots of great spots and probably more fun than the last two ladder matches because there was more going on in general. I think the only spot I remember from the IC belt match last year was Ambrose thrown through the ladder. Surprising win on this one, but I don't know the wrestler well enough to care other than I would've like Zayn to get it or KO to keep it for abit.
AJ Styles vs Chris Jericho - It's the same as every other time they fought, so it was alright. Jericho winning is dumb I think, because it just buries Styles and it makes no sense with all the heat Jericho was getting with the build up to Mania. I hope they are done fighting. This is the worst feud.
New Day vs League - New Day coming out of a box of giant Booty-O's, dressed like Saiyans from Dragonball Z. No joke. This is amazing lol Match was alright, a few good spots, with a League win, but it wasn't for the belts, so it's not a big deal, but the League is being buried so hard. How hard? Why they are being buried so hard, that for no real reason Mick Foley, Shawn Michaels (Who looks in fighting shape), and Stone Cold come out for a beat down, stomping the League 3 on 3 after New Day pulls one of the four out, and then do all their moves. It was honestly a lot of fun, but it so buries them. I don't care about the League any ways, so it's great. Rusev and Xavier do amazing selling for the stunner.
Just look at this selling! Xavier also sold it well, with more arm flailing, but Rusev killed it.
Lesnar vs Ambrose - I was interested in this, and while it was kinda the beat down I expected, it was honestly kinda meaningless. All the buildup and Lesnar just beats Ambrose out legit after a million suplexes. I like both, but I think Ambrose should've won. Lesnar having one loss every so often doesn't ruin him and this would've propelled Ambrose.
Charlotte, Becky, Sasha - Shockingly good match, no joke. I might even say better than Asuka and Bailey at Takeover, though they had much harder hits I thought. Overall it was very high energy, they tried a lot, did a lot, and it felt like they were going for it. Then they ruin it by having Ric Flair interfere, making Charlotte once agains cheat to win the new belt, because fuck you, that's why. This shit was old weeks ago, but to have it on Mania? Dammit WWE.
Shane vs Undertaker - This was what I expected, but it was still pretty incredible at points. I wanted Shane to win so much, because it would lead to hopefully interesting story. And his jump off the top of that huge cell was INSANE. Highlight of the night for sure as they gave it there all and I thought it was pretty good.
Rumble - This was weird, but alright. Like they had Diamond Dallas Page, Tatanka, and freaking Shaquille O'Neal in this. Shaq went out quick and was kinda dumb to have, but whatever. DDP was cool to have for abit and Tatanka for novelty sake. I thought Kane had this, but out of nowhere, it was a clean win for Baron Corbin from NXT! I guess he'll be coming up soon to the main roster. I'm cool with that. He's a good tall guy that builds heat well.
FILLER - No band this time, thank god, just a quick bit of Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders dancing to Thunderstruck for like two minutes. Meh. Then the Rock comes out and does his thing for abit till the Wyatts interrupt. I thought that finally they were gonna do something for them to build heat. I mean they even were gonna make it a legit match! But Rock pins Rowan in 6 seconds and then gets ready for a beat down...OH THEN CENA APPEARS, BECAUSE FUCK YOU, THAT'S WHY! Once again they bury the Wyatts. Despite building them up as this destructive force. They are constantly wrecked. It's even worse here because they are jobbed out by a guy who maybe wrestles once a year, if that, and he didn't even wrestle, he just hit his signatures. I love the Rock, but this was terrible. Most still hate Cena too, nothings changed.
HHH vs Reigns - This match exemplifies everything that is wrong with WWE right now. Despite building up this hilarious intro with Stephanie, trying to garner ultra level heat for HHH, it doesn't work because Roman comes out to nearly theme defeaning BOOO's. The largest boo's I've ever heard. They spent much of this match mic'ing out what they can to hide the boo's. Roman wins after a boring match (which makes things worst, is that it wasn't even a good match), and the boo's explode again, just to be mic'd out so they can fake the disdain the crowd has for Roman.
Overall - With this Wrestlemania, I can say I've learned this. WWE hates us. Obviously so. You don't want Becky and Sasha to win, setting a new stage for the women's division? Screw you, cheat win for Charlotte. You are loving New Day? League win in a handicapped 3 on 4 match. Can't get enough of Styles? Screw you, Jericho hates you all too and he won. Ambrose maybe hitting that next level of awesomeness for you with all this build up? Screw you, Lesnar is the beast, he can't be beaten other than through cheating. Want Shane to win so that some big interesting change could happen to WWE? Screw you, Vince always wins in the end. Reigns is booed more than anyone else in the entire event and clearly no one wants as the face of the company or as the champion again, let alone three time champion in 6 months? Screw you, we'll do what we want and we want our new Cena, even if you hate him more than Cena now.
It's so frustrating when there was a lot of good going on, but it was like so much of this Wrestlemania was just a big middle finger from Vince to people. Maybe Raw will be interesting today, but holy crap, WWE can't not overcome their problems.
