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He's definitely turning, isn't he?

Breeze enters to near silence. He would have got a massive pop if he appeared in front of this crowd last year. Sad.

For some reason I had it in my head that it was July.

Crowd doing a Mexican wave in a match featuring an act they're supposed to care about. Awful.

Ok, Shane running the show for one night only because reasons.

Live thread for the show. Can they revive any sort of interest after a deflating show last night? What big debuts or returns can we expect? How quickly will the smarky crowd get annoying?

Some fun promo segments to look forward to then.....

That was very odd to me. When Flair was pulling back Sasha I thought it was a given that it was a set up for Snoop punching him and her going back in to win the match. Very bizarre to miss that opportunity. That whole thing was quite bizarre really. They made the big deal about changing belts and it being a new era, had Sasha come out with an entrance performance from a legit mainstream star, put her in gear paying tribute to a beloved deceased wrestler complete with tribute spots in the match and then she didn't go over? Considering the monster pop she got for the entrance, if they give her the belt and did the whole new era hype and firework display etc., it could easily be argued that she is the biggest star on the full time roster. I understand setting up a chase for the belt but this seemed like a missed opportunity. Wrestlemania is the place for pay-offs not set-ups.

That was the point where I was more hopeful for wrestling than I have been in a long time. Wrestlemania 30 to me was the best modern Wrestlemania because it had feel good moments up and down the card, including the ultimate pay-off for fans with Bryan winning the title. When The Shield squashed Kane and The New Age Outlaws JBL on commentary said something akin to "Goodbye to the Attitude Era." It genuinely felt like that's what that show was. For a brief few weeks, HHH and Stephanie were brilliant as mega heels who the fans hated and Bryan was getting Steve Austin pops as the people's champion babyface opposing them. All was right with the world. Now, two years on, it feels like we're being punished for forcing their hand. Just as part of why Roman Reigns is hated is simply residual bad feeling for him not being Daniel Bryan, I honestly think that Vince is more ardent than ever before in sticking to his direction of travel in opposition to the hardcore audience after they forced his hand in 2014. It's a trial of will to see how far he can go before the hardcores are broken for good. They'll throw in cheap, empty legend pops but these are counterproductive for reasons we've discussed to death and they feel hollow when we look back. Even the women's triple threat, which was a fantastic production from the rebrand, to the entrances to the match itself was undercut by not giving the fans the result they were clamouring for. It's as if Vince is throwing down the gauntlet. Dystopian wrestling. Is this the new work?

I really hope there's a reaction show for this.

Is there a chance that modern WWE booking is a trial of endurance to see how far they have to go to make the hardcore fans break and leave forever? I feel like they might still be punishing the audience for force Daniel Bryan into the main event lol.

I don't think I can comprehend what I've just witnessed. This whole thing has felt like peering into another dimension, or an alternate universe or something. Perverse comedy that stopped being funny long ago.

I would absolutely love a Hogan run in right now. Is MMA a new McMahon family trait? Stephanie ought to put him in a triangle choke.

Fucking rest holds. Good idea Hunter you ring general you.

Exact same position here. I'm unsure whether the sheer tiredness and length of this show is tainting my view of it but it really is absolute tripe. It seems like an eternity since that Ryback match.

Oh my God the cocaine must have been amazing in the booking committee. Stephanie looks like a Cher drag act.

I should be so lucky...

Wyatt interrupting Rock and then Cena coming to save him could have been a cool ten minute segment. But that was like half an hour....

Roman beating HHH in two minutes would be a great way to cap off this absurdity.

Maybe HHH and Roman are going to get bumped.

So a The Rock came out just to announce a fake number?

I was almost expecting Rock to rock bottom Reigns to send the crowd home happy but I guess not.

The gulf between NXT and the main roster is just so clear to see - NXT gives you feel good results and this show has had none of them. That changes the perception of a show so much. I guess we get to see our hero Roman Reign win the title though...

I'm from the UK, I'm really not bothered about Shaq but eh. No Wyatts on this show at all?

The big bump was the big bump but the story is basically that Shane told us that WWE was a shit product, fans agreed and then he lost so we're stuck with a shit product? TNA level of self burial.