Matt D

It isn't that they are/were shitting on Cena though, it was just a weird crowd reaction, they seemed restless and unsure. Had a weird premonition that Cena goes heel tonight and costs Bryan the belt. They tend not to have such big changes at Mania anymore.

I kind of like this. It started with Wyatt pushing Cena into a dangerous territory, and then choking down on him, but then it becomes this metatextual traditional WWE superhero match, chinlock and all, with Cena coming back heroically in the traditional old WWF style.

Feel good show of the century.

This is the most smile-tastic Mania ever so far.

I think the third act wasn't nearly as bloated as what Trips usually gives us, though. That's what made it come through the finish line well.

That was a killer visual, Hunter coming out of nowhere.

God I wish I could have been a fly in the room when they discussed Hunter doing a Tiger suplex.

It's sad that I actually get excited to see them work a headlock base for the babyface shine. It feels weirdly fresh.

I love that Rock and Stone Cold have a secret handshake.

I really need to dig through the raw data of the DVDVR board one of these days to retrieve my Midnight Rockers cage match rant.

Just watching Warrior interact with other human beings is going to be sort of surreal.

I still have problem streaming just about anything live on my laptop. Maybe it's because i'm multitasking too much or because my wife is usually watching TV and playing on the internet when I watch stuff. I haven't had any problem during the day, really, but at night, it'll go for a few minutes with the live stream, freeze and I'll have to refresh.

There's a video on Wrestlemania Today from Thursday where they have a piece on the Yes Movement with some WWE figures interviewed but also a lot of fans interviewed. Little kids who say that they love Daniel Bryan because of YES! YES! YES!, a little girl who says he has great moves, another kid who likes him because he's a flying goat, and they show all the other media appearances of the Yes chant and quite a bit more and I think that, more than anything else they've done or that he's accomplished, is the craziest, most surreal thing. It's a really well produced video and it just hammers the point home that even though it's the most unlikely thing in the world, it's all real.

I like Solie when he's annoyed at people. There's a great Ivan Putski clip on youtube where Putski keeps singing and Solie gets more and more annoyed.

I don't have four or five hours to watch wrestling Sunday night. I'm mainly planning on watching Mania monday throughout the day presuming it's posted immediately after the fact. I have no reason to think it won't be. I have to make a call on whether I'll try to watch a few key matches with the time I do have or to not spoil myself at all til Monday. It's kind of enjoyable to follow things here and watch what I can though, so we'll see.

This is what I was thinking of. They installed some sort of really severe no-compete after Russo left and people balked at it.

Wasn't it the Russo jump that changed everything?

The Billy Robinson bio was sort of a litany of matches I was happier not knowing the existence of since we don't have them.

It's a little surreal since the build to that was just so, so bad.

For the legal minded people, why does Ryback have the ® and the others don't?

Weirdly enough, I think he could get a ton of heat with old Missy Hyatt by his side.

I really, truly think that they gave Taker Bearer because he was too scary with Brother Love.

It's interesting because Hunter's put a ton of attention on himself. He made his proclivity not to put people over part of the story. You almost think he might be on his best behavior just to stick it to people. EDIT: I missed Charles saying a lot of this, but I agree with him on the point.

They'd boo RVD if they paired him with CJ Parker.

It'd have to be a strong contrast to Summerslam, and I think the way to do it is to have Bryan as dominant as Austin was in 98, on the idea that HHH created this populist monster out of just a wrestler, that he forged him in fire over the last 9 months.