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Really gonna be all singles matches or they gonna toss an unadvertised tag in there somewhere?

Instead of taking Lana's place, they should have had Becky jump Nia and take her spot. Then Nia coming back out for the Men's Rumble would have made more sense.

There was some weird, vague angle where after a bunch of guys had jumped to the nWo, JJ Dillon announced that actually some of their "nWo contracts" were invalid for some reason, and so Wallstreet (and I think, Big Bubba? Maybe?) was forced back on to the WCW roster.

I remember when Brunzell had a match on Raw, against Damien DiMento I think, and got a regular entrance with music and everything instead of the in-the-ring jobber intro. I thought he'd been promoted to being a "main" guy again, but I believe that was actually his last match.

The Bushwackers overlapping with Austin 3:16 is the weird one to me. They're around until September '96!

The Miz does a double axehandle from the top semi-regularly, and Sheamus still uses the Not-From-Texas Cloverleaf.

at least AJ won. I guess. But that was horrible.

Man, remember last year when people complained about how Jericho made AJ look like a chump? That was a million times better than this shit.

Finally Sting gets to beat Triple H.

T & A vs Al Snow and Steve Blackman at Wrestlemania 2000 is certainly a candidate for worst Wrestlemania match, at least.

Nothing strange about it really, as Yoko's entire title run was based on the trend of Japan bashing sparked by this.

Last time i watched this I thought the "not yet" was because Hogan was basically responding to Piper's promo before Piper even started it. That it was Hogan jumping the gun, skipping ahead in the "script" before Piper got his lines in.

Wait, is that what that spot's supposed to be? I always saw it as him just doing a backflip.

Who the hell wants to see Sting finally have a Wrestlemania match and lose? And he sure as hell should be losing against any of those other guys. The entire point of Sting working WM is for a feel good moment, you don't bring the guy in for this to do a job. He needs to go over and better he goes over Triple H than anyone else on the roster who'd be hurt by being beat by a fifty-something year old.

One of those names is not like the others, one of those names just doesn't belong..... (It's one who's current role is "Midcard Tag Team with Tyson Kidd")

I never once imagined that Bryan would be facing Brock. When he cut that promo that he was entered into the Rumble, I assumed he'd be winning and that Brock would dropping the belt before Mania. But the idea they'd put the guy just back from career-threatening injury in the ring with Brock Lesnar isn't something I saw happening, especially after Taker got that concussion last year.

Is Taker even really in shape to work at all?

What possible logic would there be to a "winner faces Undertaker" match when the streak is already dead?

Bryan vs Sheamus? Wasn't that said to be the original plan for last year? And the same match that went 18 seconds the year before that? And the same match that got bumped to the pre-show and turned into a battle royal the year before that? What is the weird obsession with this? Why wouldn't Cena vs Rusev be for the US Title? He's surely not going to drop it before hand if they're going with Cena as the guy who finally pins him, so why the hell not have the belt on the line?

Man, I'm just trying to imagine babyface Repo Man now. How would that even work? Stealing stuff from the heels, I guess.

Don't know why this popped into my head, but what was up with the random Papa Shango vs Repo Man match that aired on Prime Time in 1992? It was weird because heel vs heel matches weren't exactly a thing that happened a lot on WWF TV, and I can't see it as testing either one of those guys for a potential face turn. Then again, they had just done a whole heel vs heel feud with Shawn and Martel earlier that same year. And that match happened on a PPV headlined by two face vs face matches (Summerslam with Bret/Bulldog and Savage/Warrior) which is kind of weird thinking about it.

Worldwide was in syndication and therefore aired at different times in different markets, and could be on either Saturday or Sunday, in the morning or the middle of the night or any time in-between. I remember watching it at like 1 AM or so on WCBS out of New York.

Yes, that did happen. He got a pretty tepid response which became boos and DB chants before it was over. Smackdown crowd seemed into him thougb. Visibly so, not just crowd sweetening. Wait, what? I haven't seen the last Raw, and I'm completely baffled as to why a crowd who didn't like Reigns would start chanting for Daniel Bryan. They know he can't actually be wrestling right now, don't they? It's not like they're getting Reigns in his place, he's still not cleared from his injury.

How can the "same thing" possibly happen? The circumstances aren't anything remotely close to what they were last years. Daniel Bryan had had his title stolen by Orton and the Authority, and all semblance of logical wrestling storytelling dictated that he would go to Wrestlemania, get his revenge and take back what was rightfully his. So when he didn't come out at number 30 in the Rumble, the crowd died because the guy they loved was being screwed out of what he was owed, and they as an audience were being screwed out of what they were owed. And then here's this guy Batista who left the company several years ago, as a huge asshole heel mind you, being brought back and put in this spot that he didn't deserve and didn't even make any sense within the storyline they were invested in. So of course they took it out on him. None of that context applies to Roman Reigns this year. Even if the crowd doesn't fully get behind him the way the company wants, it won't be anything on the level of what happened to Batista. He's not stealing any beloved underdog's spot, he's not disrupting any major storyline for no apparent reason, Roman Reigns winning the Rumble this year actually makes perfect sense and is consistent with how he's been booked.

Umaga. That's Umaga's move they use, not Rikishi's, no matter what Michael Cole wants you to believe. But no, I can't them apart at all.