Jimmy Redman

Y'all said it, it is surreal as fuck to be watching this take place.

OH MY GOD JEFF HARDY AND SHELTON ARE HAVING BACK TO BACK MATCHES ON SMACKDOWN LIKE IT'S 2008 THIS FEELS LIKE A GIFT TO MY 18 YR OLD SELF FROM THE FUTURE THANK YOU DOUBLE DOUBLE E I LOVE IT. EDIT: OK I spoke too soon.

I dunno guys, The Iconics are now on some pure, uncut Laycool shit and I am so here.

Ronda looks amazing every time. I am giddy at the idea of Mickie bumping like a maniac for her.

Sarah Logan is getting herself over in this match whether y'all like it or not.

Heat would be fantastically useful for me.

There is absolutely zero reason to watch Raw now.

They really should have struck when the iron was hot with Carmella after she won MITB and had all that heat. This seems silly now.

Can someone please tell me that the full footage from everyone doing that song ad dance thing is up somewhere?

Nice to let Jeff and Shelton have this match on the 10 year anniversary of their last SD banger.

I feel like with these drafts and shakeups that they move so many people around that you end up with the same damn match ups, just on different nights, particularly on the bottom of the cards.

She is above Ziggler, if that aliviates things.Jinder in his miserable stinking life has never had a match as good as Nattie vs Alicia Fox. This is very true, but also quite the backhanded compliment. Not when you realise how much I like Nattie vs Alicia Fox. Is there something in the air at this arena? Is the ring icy or something? There's been bad botches in like every single match today.

She is above Ziggler, if that aliviates things. Jinder in his miserable stinking life has never had a match as good as Nattie vs Alicia Fox.

Wash your mouth out KawadaSmile.

I can see them pairing Ronda with Nattie to face Absolution as her next feud after that backstage thing.

Why would you anchor DREW MAC like this.

Ember's main roster entrance aesthetic is banging. Also Mickie fucking killed her with that forearm. Also great fucking bump there. Now I need to see Sasha take the Eclipse pronto.

AHAHAHAHA FUCKING JINDER. This is what I get for watching Raw.

The only non-WWE show I saw all weekend was Spring Break, and for what it's worth I thought it was great. Never in my life did I ever imagine I would be live in the building to witness The Invisible Man win the prestigious second annual Clusterfuck. That shit was tremendous and I loved the fucking hell out of everyone taking his shit. That dude hitting him with a piledriver and getting EJECTED FROM THE BUILDING was the smartest comedy spot I have ever fucking seen. Well, not seen seen. But yeah I loved the Clusterfuck and all of the shenanigans within. Particularly the Session Moth sheila and when that guy jobbed to a cigarette burn. WALTER vs PCO was another big highlight, that shit was brutal beyond belief. WALTER has the hardest chops I've ever seen live. When PCO started Hulking Up and NO SELLING THE CHOPS I lost my damn mind. It was truly insane. And then on top of that he busts out his FLIPZ and you have a 50 year old bowling ball looking motherfucker just flipping all over the place like a maniac. His chest was fucking disgusting. PCO actually winning was surprising and felt unexpected, but you can't begrudge him that when he's working out of his skin like this. The opening cluster was a fun spotfest. I was fucking HOWLING at Teddy Hart flat out refusing to catch a single one of those dives. What a dick. Riddle/Ellsworth was worth it just for the spot where Riddle missed the superkick past Ellsworth's nonexistent chin. Starr/Quack was some neato chain wrestling stuff that actually got over to a past 2am crowd so that's something. I'm glad to have seen Quack live. To be honest I got out of there while Janela/Sasuke was going on because I was completely fucking cooked and out on my feet. But it was a hell of a show. On another note, not sure where else to say this but the entire Wrestlemania Weekend was a motherfucking blast and I loved every second of it. Shoutout to anyone who posts here that I met over the weekend, we were all using shoot names so I have no idea who that would be, except of course Matt and Justin, and Zoo Enthusiast who helpfully introduced himself to me as Zoo Enthusiast.

Well I appreciate that. It's a full week later and it feels like Mania might still be going on actually so I'm not sure how insane I can go now. But I should write this stuff down. Being there is insane. A giant mass of 80-odd thousand wrestling fans packing into that sardine can of a Superdome hallway, the anticipation, the RIDICULOUSLY sexy giant NOLA Baybay Wrestlemania set (get a load of that beautiful looking thing), everything is just amazing to be around and soak in. Felt that the entire weekend, but more on that later. I had a pretty decent seat in the lower bowl, Section 152 represent. I don't see a lot of live wrestling and I'd never been to a TV taping until the night before so it's really strange for me to be live in the arena watching this stuff from relatively afar compared to seeing it up close on TV with commentary. I tried to keep my eyes on the ring and not the screen as much as possible. It was the battle royals that were hardest to discern what was happening. Goldust is a motherfucking worker because he did all his shit in this jobber battle royal and got himself super over in the middle of it and was the only interesting part until the finish. Between this and the stuff on Raw Bray Wyatt is already improved exponentially by this tag team. And Matt talking to the Andre trophy was outstanding. I don't watch 205 Live so I didn't really care about the CW match, but I did want Ali to win if asked. I MAY have had my first micro nap of the evening during and after this to be ready for the Women's BR. Don't judge me I was on like 3 hrs sleep a night in NOLA and I usually function optimally on about 17 hrs. There was more happening during the women's BR I feel. I appreciated getting to see Becky's entrance live, and Sasha's. Bangers. LOVED spotting all the NXT girls when they came out, Kairi the Pirate and DAKOTA and Bianca Belair and That Indian Girl and...the other ones. So I super loved them running wild and doing the NXT shine spot. Fuck it just do an all-women show, that's all the wrestling content I'd ever need. I motherfucking TAPPED when Becky got tossed. FUCK ALL Y'ALL. Utter bullshit. And it wasn't just me either, everyone hated it and I heard people who aren't me saying that Becky should have won. The Sasha/Bayley face off was cool though. Nobody noticed that Naomi hadn't been eliminated so it was a genuine surprise. What was also surprising was WHY COULDN'T THEY DO THE EXACT SAME FUCKING FINISH WITH FUCKING BECKY?!?! That pissed me off all over again that they somehow DID want a random SD midcard face winning it and it still wasn't Becky. Seth was pretty damn over for reasons I don't fully understand. But he has a fun song. Balor's entrance live was one of my legit highlights even though I'm fairly indifferent to Balor himself. But at home, my mother LOVES Balor's entrance and we get a kick out of watching it together every week when she watches Raw, so doing it in a sea of 80k like that was stupidly fun. Plus the gay shit. I'm a big ol' dyke who loves her some gay shit, and I made sure to buy the big gay Balor t-shirt when I was there. Match itself was a fun three way spotfest that we were all really into. Opening Mania must be an even more coveted spot these days since you're guaranteed a far better crowd than later on. I knew Miz would lose, I thought Balor would win beforehand, but in the building seeing how over Seth was he was the right choice. ASUKA VS CHARLOTTE BLEW MY MOTHERFUCKING TINY LITTLE MIND INTO A MILLION PIECES. When Asuka hit the main roster, for my own sanity I came to terms with the idea of her losing sometime eventually. I choose to view her NXT run as its own separate perfect entity. Undefeated forever. And I fair dinkum bet ACTUAL money on Charlotte winning on my Sportsbet account before I left the country and won a lot of ACTUAL money on the result. I know how much they love to push Charlotte and have her make history. So my point being, in my mind, I was definitely cognizant of the possibility. Then the match happened and IT happened and I lost all control of my body. I couldn't move and my jaw was stuck gaping wide for a good 10 minutes of my life. If WWE had a camera on me I'd have been meme fodder for all eternity. This shit fucking FLOORED me. They had an Asuka vs Charlotte tale of the tape style t-shirt on sale at the stores that I passed by countless times over the weekend. When this ended I realised I couldn't leave the building without buying that shirt and having a souvenir of this match. Fucking destroyed me. Then we get this Jinder bullshit. What a comedown. I stayed in my seat for this whole nonsense just for RUSEV DAY but even then it wasn't nearly as over at Wrestlemania as it had been the entire rest of the weekend. I can't explain to people who weren't in NOLA just how over Rusev Day was. It was chanted non-stop on the streets, constantly sung in bars and shouted at strangers, the t-shirts were everywhere, and the GIGANTIC Rusev Day chant in the tunnel outside of the arena after Takeover was one of the craziest things of all. Too many dang casuals at Mania I guess. I was hopeful going in that he'd win just so they could shut everyone up in their eyes, but when the match got underway I realised that was folly and I was right. I didn't expect Jinder Fucking Mahal though. FUCK JINDER. I had to sit through Jinder Fucking Mahal winning a title at Mania, get fucked. But I do not despair, because here in this place, in Row 10, Seat 8, Section 152 of the Superdome in New Orleans, LA, and on this day, Sunday the 8th of April, in the Year of our Lord 2018, at approximately 7.30pm CDT I myself bore witness to the most astonishing miracle in the history of wrestling, and also possibly the history of miracles. STEPHANIE MCMAHON WAS THE BEST PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER AT WRESTLEMANIA 34. This was a stacked fucking card going in, everyone thought it would deliver, a bunch of good looking matches lined up, all their stars, workrate for days...and Stephanie fucking McMahon outworked EVERYBODY. Every fucking body. What a woman. Also Ronda is fucking amazing. She's gonna be just fine. Had no idea how she'd go in a match, and God damn did they build and build to her hot tag, and then she BLEW EVERYONE THE FUCK AWAY. Minds visibly exploded, I don't think anyone in their wildest dreams thought that she'd be as good as she was. So badass, so fucking QUICK and so smooth. People were LEAPING out of their seats when she did a throw. It was nuts. Her finally beating the holy fuck out of Steph after all that work was glorious, and her beating the shit out of Hunter was even better. I was fucking ROLLING at this, THE ALMIGHTY HUNTOR fucking Almighty Huntor's all over the place over everyone in WWE for 16 years only to job like a fucking bitch to a girl. I love wrestling. What they did with this match, from the lengthy heat period building up to Ronda getting in, Steph's all time heel work fucking with her, then the HUGE hot tag and all of the twists and turns from that point on, and fucking Hunter and Steph are such cunts that the threat of them actually winning felt super real and created insane tension in all their bullshit nearfalls only for Ronda to run fucking WILD and finally, FINALLY put Steph in this fucking armbar and when she was looking down at Steph as the grip on her fingers slowly slipped away and she was BEGGING and SCREAMING for mercy and Ronda just stared at her all "Die, bitch" and popped her arm out that was the most gloriously badass thing in the universe, and also the most cathartic when you consider this is the ultimate comeuppance for such a piece of shit character that has run ridiculously, stupidly roughshod over everyone for years without any consequences. Until now. It's like if Vince had been Mr. McMahon on TV for a decade before Austin finally turned up and gave him a Stunner. Yeah this was fucking tremendous. Steph is the GOAT and they gotta strap the rocket to Ronda immediately. I missed the SD tag match to get food and recover. I just caught it now on the Network stream and it looked fine. The New Day entrance was some weird ass fucking shit though. So Cena's music hit when I was in the back getting food, and everyone else was too because the hallway was PACKED and joints were running out of food. So anyway I'm shuffling along with my food and Coke in this crowded corridor when CENA'S MUSIC HIT. Suddenly the hallway CLEARED because everyone freaked out and started RUNNING back to their seats. It was a sight to behold. I was freaking out so much I bounded down the aisle trying to balance my shit only to get to my row and realise these weren't the clowns I was looking for (I was sitting in a row with literal clowns yes) and I had gone into the wrong fucking section. So I piss bolted around and was stumbling down the right aisle when Elias' music hit and I laughed and realised I'd been had. Fucking Elias. I like that they went to the lengths of doing this beatdown and having Cena moping all the way up the ramp before BONG. I love Cena looking SHOCKED when he came out when he'd been expecting him to come out the entire segment. That goofy shot of Cena's jaw on the floor is me after Asuka lost. I'm gonna be honest, I fucking loved this. The angle was such that Cena was being such a shit and deserved to get his ass kicked by Taker. Taker is 100 years old and this was way better than watching him wince through a longer match. And it was fucking FUN. When Taker SAT UP and Cena TOOK A FUCKING BUMP FOR IT I LOST MY SHIT. Almost nothing pleases me more in wrestling than people selling the fuck out of the Sit Up. It's easy to forget now but before the angle started a lot of us, myself included, were not keen on the idea of Cena/Taker. It was a few years too late, Taker was too old, he'd retired last year, it was going to be sad, not fun. Then Cena did his thing and talked everyone into wanting the match and suddenly people were...expecting Cena vs Taker. When in reality, Taker was never going to be able to deliver on that. So they went in this direction and did the question mark build and did this as a quick squash and it WORKED. It was fun. It wasn't sad. It paid off the build. Everyone is happy. And we got our Undertaker entrance. I'm happy for Bryan that he's back. He was beloved. I could not give less of a shit about Shane or this angle though. And immediately taking out Bryan, doing the stretcher job and having fucking Shane work the whole thing just killed the match for the crowd. Nobody wanted to see Bryan dead on the floor. And to me it felt too similar to us waiting for the Ronda hot tag, and they did it much better an hour earlier. But once Bryan got in it got super fun. Shane's coast to coast was impressive though. I super loved Alexa vs Nia and it's one I'm keen to rewatch. I only got the vaguest sense of Nia killing the fuck out of Mickie and eating her, for example. But it looked fun. Alexa is a great heel piece of shit just continually raking the eyes and being a shit. The last hour was rough for any kind of heat segment just because we were exhausted, but they built it well and the finish was brutal and final and great. Nia crying killed me. This was about the last of my energy here. AJ vs Nak came way too late in the show for people to really get into. I feel like at 6pm it would have been a fun workrate match like the IC match, even if it wasn't a truly epic dream match like we imagined. But this late, it was a bad spot for a long match like this. I was looking forward to it as much as anyone but I was tapping and my eyes were starting to close on me. I was somewhat shocked that Nak lost, although it didn't seem set in stone, but I was more shocked by the heel turn, which was pretty cool. Gives Nak something interesting to do now at least. The Nicholas thing was the weirdest thing in history and yet at the same time might have only been the 6th weirdest thing on this show. It took a while for him to find the damn kid. People were into it just for how fucking absurd it all was. "We Want Nicholas" and "Fuck Him Up Nicholas" chants and shit. And the memes, my God the memes. I still have no idea what I actually feel about it, this time of the night is a tired blur and it was just so ridiculous. So, listen. The people sitting to my right literally got up and walked out when Roman's music hit. No kidding, legit said fuck this and walked out before the main event. So I laid down across their seats and had a nap. I could still hear and see the big screen but I just could not stay upright at that point. People bitch about people bitching about the length of Mania, "oh too much wrestling, boo fucking hoo!" but when you go there, already tired, and sit through a show that is SEVEN FUCKING HOURS LONG it is a HARD SLOG. It is exhausting. No matter what the event - if it were wrestling, a sporting event, a concert, a show, literally anything would be hard to sit through for seven straight hours. You can't blame crowds for dying at these shows. They are just too long. Having said that, you could have shot all 80,000 of us with cocaine before the main event and it wouldn't have made a difference because nobody gave a fucking SHIT. I cannot adequately convey to you how little anyone in the crowd cared about Roman or Brock. EVERYONE checked out. The beach balls came out, and 90% of the cheering and booing heard during this match I guarantee it was for a beach ball appearing or being confiscated or popping up again. It was actually fascinating to witness, and far more entertaining being there live and watching the crowd than it would have been being at home and having to watch the actual match. What a fucking shitshow. And then he fucking lost! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I was motherfucking ROLLING in my seats. All of this utter bullshit, years of going with Roman, so many attempted coronations because they fucked it up in the first place at 31, and we had to suffer through it because we KNEW they wanted to do the rematch so Roman would get his win back and then when he did he'd be The Guy and the pain would be over and here we are and man they tried with the build I guess but absolutely zero fucks were still given and Roman still is not The Guy and then to top it all off ROMAN STILL FUCKING JOBS TO BROCK IN THE END. Howling at this nonsense. They troll us with this for years and at the end they fucking EVISCERATE Roman once again because Saudi oil money buys a world title change. What a world. It actually annoys me a little that the show was so long and the main event was so worthless because my first reaction when people asked me how Wrestlemania was has been "long". And that's bullshit because I finally got to see a Wrestlemania live in person and that's not the impression I want to be left with, or the impression I want to leave others with. I enjoyed the vast majority of it, there was a lot of super fun stuff like Cena getting squashed, Nicholas, people's entrances, and a few genuinely holy shit level moments in Asuka/Charlotte and Ronda/Steph. And of course, it is fucking insane and amazing to be at a live Mania at all and I loved every second being in the building, not to mention the entire weekend. I will never forget it. I am so, so, so glad I decided to just do it this year and go. I truly recommend it to everyone here, anyone who loves wrestling as much as we do to be posting here will really appreciate a Wrestlemania weekend. It is a glorious, surreal experience. And I mean I don't even watch the TV anymore, I follow WWE by watching most of the PPVs and whatever I catch from being on here and various chats. But you can absolutely enjoy Mania regardless. In fact I think I enjoyed it more because I'm not watching and didn't have to worry about booking and shit, just enjoy the spectacle and want people to win. Wrestlemania man. What a ride.

I'm just now starting to realise how restless I'm going to be sitting by myself watching the show with no commentary for 47 hours.

I said last week, the way to go is to pair them up, keep doing the will they won't they kiss stuff, and then just before they FINALLY do Alexa drops him like a sack of spuds and cuts the all time rejection promo and becomes the top heel.

Alexa getting squashed by Nia only to win the tag team titles by the end of the night would be amazing.

People in the world are trash?

I already lost it when he was getting into it with NANNA in the front row, and then JOHNNY! This shit is amazing.