WrestleMania 32 tonight!

My opinions on the show:
Spoilers coming:...
Stop reading this thread if you don't wanna know yet...

Ryback SHOULDA won, but I didn't see the match
I didn't see the divas/women's match. Who won?
Zach Ryder SHOULD have won the IC title... Just NOT at THIS WM.
Shaq coulda done more than he did... I woulda "marked out" a little more than I did.
Baron Corbin WILL be a big(ger) star... Once he gets a tummy-skin-tuck.
The tag team match was only kick-off show important. I didn't care who won.
I actually didn't see Lesnar match, but compared to what I expected (stealing the show) I was disappointed.
Hell in a cell, although cool, was underwhelming... Was kinda a lose-lose (outcome) match.
I can't believe HHH beat Roman.
I mean Roman is strong...
I mean STRONG!!!
I don't mean "Nakamura strong."
I mean STRONG! (Sarcasm... Lol)

Triple H only loses when he wants to. It's in his contract.

F U HHH. Doing the job for the upand comers is a ttime honored tradition. He cares too much about his legacy, which one loss for the good of the company should have been what he did.

Rollins is going to beat HHH when he returns and go face.

a reply to: japhrimu

Did you watch it? Because Roman beat Triple H.

a reply to: onehuman

Now that Im up again and hungover...I have to say I'm slightly disappointed. The women's title and ladder match were by far the highlights of the night.

The Ambrose/Lesnar match was the biggest disappointment by far!

Shane jumping from the cage onto the obvious air bag table was great...but...what a slow match. Have to give it to a 40 year old on wrestler and a 50 ish year old giant, though. In that match, I was more disappointed there was no Vince McMahon!

The Triple H/Reigns match was shocking for only one reason...the fans reaction to Roman! They've been setting him up for the belt forever, the crowd usually loves him, Stephanie has been really working on being totally unlikeable...but the boos from the crowd! Roman Reigns is probably a little baffled.

originally posted by: Atsbhct
belt forever, the crowd usually loves him, Stephanie has been really working on being totally unlikeable...but the boos from the crowd! Roman Reigns is probably a little baffled.

I feel like when you say that "the crowd usually loves him" you havent watched any WWE for the past year.
Reigns was only over with the crowd one night in Philly over the past year.
Beyond that he has been either generating boos (any heat is good) or ice cold.

a reply to: opethPA

When Roman walks through the crowd...they usually seem pretty excited to me.

I'd like to see how long he keeps the belt if it stays this way. Unless he turns heel like the Rock, how does WWE save it?

A set up for Rollins to come back?

originally posted by: Atsbhct
a reply to: opethPA

When Roman walks through the crowd...they usually seem pretty excited to me.

I'd like to see how long he keeps the belt if it stays this way. Unless he turns heel like the Rock, how does WWE save it?

A set up for Rollins to come back?

In wrestling heat is heat which means if he is a face or a heel as long as he is generating a reaction it's good. When Ambrose gets a pop (positive) it's much different then what Reigns gets which is negative.

I think the crowd reception to him has already dictated that he is a heel and like you said have Rollins return as the face would go over great.

originally posted by: opethPA
I think the crowd reception to him has already dictated that he is a heel and like you said have Rollins return as the face would go over great.

It isn't even heel heat, though. Reigns hasn't progressed beyond the "Blue Chipper" Rocky Maivia stage of his career... McMahon is dead set on jamming him down the fans' throats as a babyface, and the fans are largely disliking both the character and the push. Unfortunately, this type of nonsense has been the WWE's SOP since they realized as long as little kids and parents LOVE John Cena, there's no need to turn a face that's widely detested by the adults in the crowd. 20 years ago, the reactions Reigns has been getting would have facilitated a REAL heel turn, with Reigns being escorted through the crowd by a phalanx of body guards, trash talking the fans, telling them he's their unquestionable heroic God even though he hates them all, etc... and after mastering that aspect of his game, he'd organically become the badass face similar to the organic evolution of The Rock. The way this crap is going, however, he's going to end up like Sheamus... a marginally talented big man who was mishandled early in his career and forced down the fans' throats to the point where nobody really gives a flip what he's doing or whether he's active in the title scene.

I'll go out on a limb here and say SummerSlam will answer all questions. The most sensible storyline would have Brock vs Reigns on that card. If Reigns wins cleanly, we're stuck with another "Super Cena" garbage character until Vince tires of it in 8-10 years and somebody new pops up. If Reigns either heel turns or (really shaking things up) loses the match due to Dean Ambrose interfering, we may have something watchable.

Rest of WM (Only watched some of it here and there, so meh)
-The bump Shane took from the top of the cell was awesome. Hard to believe it's been 18 years since Foley's "As Gawd is muh witness, King, he's broken in half!" mother of all bumps off the Cell and yet I still have to judge all HIAC matches off of that match's standard. It was an OK match, but not the stuff of legends.
-Lesnar vs Ambrose: I love watching Brock wrestle. It's coreographed, but you just know he could legitimately break his opponent in half if he decided to do so.

and the rest of the show lacked much interest from me...

I didn't think much of it early when some posters were saying how HHH won. Thought just a mistake on their part.
Now though, watching Raw and Newday still having the belts, I'm thinking twice about that.
I distinctly remember THe League of nations winning and even though I didn't really care, I was glad it wasn't Newday.

That was one reason I thought it was very cool that Stone Cold and company came out and put a little education on LON.

So what's going on here. I can't imagine how we could have seen different things... Anyone have this oddity going on?

Eta: lol silly me, never mind I just realized what it was. I forgot it wasn't for the belts last night.. Duh

a reply to: onehuman

I'm sure you heard...

Black Jack Mulligan died today...

Sports news

RIP...

a reply to: TNMockingbird

Somewhere in Minneapolis, Ole Anderson is probably having a good day.