Well WrestleMania has come and gone, The live crowd is still feeling the high that you get when you are at the biggest show on earth live. Atlanta was one of the hottest crowds of any WrestleMania ever.
The World Wrestling Entertainment claims it’s the biggest, most spectacular WrestleMania of all time, I beg to differ. Does anyone remember WrestleMania 18? Now that was the biggest, baddest Mania of all time. This years WrestleMania did things a little differently. The Royal Rumble winner opened the show. ( not counting the pre match crapfest . Now let’s take a trip inside my mind and let me tell you what I thought about WrestleMania 27.
The Rock gets everyone excited with a promo to start the show. Good stuff here The Rock is the best when it comes to promos.
Edge (Adam Copeland) defends the World Title Successfully against Alberto Del Rio – Crowd was hot and into this match, but the crowd was into the whole event, and being that this was the first match they would have been into Hornswoggle vs. Howard Finkel in a tuxedo thong match. Anyway, The match was completely carried by Edge (Adam Copeland). Alberto Del Rio showed exactly how bad he is. This guy has no business being in there. What a waste to the Rumble spot. The finish was good, Edge (Adam Copeland) did the best he could to make this piece of crap look good. 2 out of 4 stars for effort.
Cody Rhodes (Cody Runnels) beat Rey Mysterio – Decent match not WrestleMania quality but did it’s job. The Crowd was behind Cody. Rey looked like an idiot dressed like a Mexican Captain America. 2 stars
Kane (Glen Jacobs), Big Show (Paul Wight), Santino Marrela & Kofi Kingston squash The Corre in under 2 mins. – Maybe Just Maybe, if we didn’t have to sit through Khali singing, and Hornswoggle rapping, Snoop Dogg and Pee Wee Herman, Maybe this could have been a match that lasted more than a couple of mins. Complete disaster ½ star.
Randy Orton beats CM Punk – Finally a good match. A good strong showing between these two. Again my opinion the best World Wrestling Entertainment has right now ( besides the vets ). They did not disappoint, Good finish, 3 stars.
Michael Tool vs. Jerry “Give up already” Lawler – No offense to anyone who is a fan of Memphis wrestling, And no disrespect to a veteran like Lawler. But Lawler sucks, he has always sucked. Go back and watch his matches he has a suplex, a bodyslam, a piledriver, a fist drop and 1,234,542 punches and in big matches a sloppy dropkick. That’s all he has ever done. The only reason he has won more titles than anyone else in the business is because he booked himself to win those titles. The only redeeming factor of this waste of time match was Stone Cold Steve Austin and his Stunning everyone in sight. Booker T (Booker Huffman)’s spin o roonie was more entertaining than this match. ½ star
The Undertaker defeats Triple H – This is probably going to be the match of the year. This match had a lot of expectations and these two greats surpassed them all. They showed everyone in the back just why they have the spots they have. And if anyone whines about Triple H being overrated they know absolutely nothing about this business. Triple H will go down as one of the best ever, period. 4 stars, pretty much the perfect match.
Snooki, Trish and Morrison beat LayCool and Ziggler – Do I even have to go there? Snooki pins the former Women’s champion? The only good thing about this match was hearing the boos coming from the crowd at Snooki, showing Vince that the “World Wrestling Entertainment Universe” as he wants to call them, could wipe their ass with these celebrities. No Stars
The Miz beats John Cena – Again the best thing about this match was The Rock. Cena and Miz bless their hearts did the best that they could, but it was at times painful to watch. I wonder if they know that they were not the main event. The Rock was the main event, this is why he closed the show. 2 ½ stars
Not the best WrestleMania but not the worst either the whole event in my book gets 2 1/3 stars.
A couple of notes about Raw, The Cena/Rock confrontation was anti climatic. WrestleMania 28? Really? I know The Rock in the main event in Miami was going to happen but can’t he show up before then? Probably not. The World Wrestling Entertainment is going on saying that this was the first time the Main Event at WrestleMania was set a year out. LIERS! Let me explain.
Although changed due to injury, Mr. Anderson ( Kennedy ) won the Money In The Bank match at WrestleMania 23 April 1st. 2007, the next night on Raw, He announced he was cashing in his Money In The Bank contract to main event WrestleMania 24 against the World Wrestling Entertainment Champion. I guess since it changed and since he is in Total Nonstop Wrestling it doesn’t count.
Sin Cara- What a debut. The Crowd was dead. However this guy is going to be something. Now that is what I want to see from a luchador, not a generic Mexican version of the Million Dollar Man. Maybe Alberto Del Rio should have called himself the Million Pesos Hombre. His matches are worth atleast that much.
The Miz is over, no matter how much he actually sucks he is over. But he looked like a 12 year old kid asking for an autograph from Stone Cold. This was pointless except to see Austin beat someone up.
Michael Cole (Michael Coulthard) needs to die. Not because of his new gimmick. But because he is horrible. I rather here Jeremy Borash butcher everything he calls then to listen to this tool. Plus the gimmick is getting old.
For those of you who watched Tough Enough, maybe you didn’t like it, maybe you did. So far it looks better than years past. Better than the Mtelevision produced Tough Enough, Better than the stupid Tough Enough we got on Smackdown ( where the Miz came from, he lost by the way ). And it looks like Austin is not going to be easy on these guys. Araine was eliminated first, you know the one that answered, “Melina vs. Alicia Fox (Christina Crawford) ” When Austin asked her what her favorite match was. His answer to this was “Who?” that was great. I remember asking someone by the name of Little Mikey what his favorite match was. And he couldn’t even name one, Then I asked him who his favorite wrestler of all time was he couldn’t answer that either. I asked his if he knew who Stone Cold was his answer, No. People like this is what is killing this business, yet every indy promotion in Florida, likes to book people like this. A SomeWhat stupid thing to do.
Anyway I will be watching Tough Enough on Mondays, Probably more entertaining than Raw, Smackdown and Impact combined.
Until Next time
George Martel
