WingedEagle Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 My mistake Rumble 15 was Seth Makes more sense. That was also spectacular. Didn't think tonight would approach that but it absolutely did. Brock for President! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 WWE: We can't deviate from the Plan no matter how much the crowd rejects it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 So insulting to call HHH "possibly the greatest of all time" when Ric Flair is in the building. I thought the show was good. Cut everything from after Charlotte match to just before main event and it was a hot show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parties Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Brock squashing HHH in five minutes might now have been the correct Mania finish. Reigns is so much colder now than he was two months ago. Unreal how bad this push has been. Ambrose takes a massive beating and looked heroic in the process. Lesnar looked far beyond the leagues of both faces, and was cheered much louder than both of them combined. This show was so bad that I forgot we were essentially getting Brock-Reigns II. From a booking/kayfabe perspective, I don't even get why going through a cardboard table is supposed to incapacitate anyone - let alone Brock - for five minutes. Then the corny stuff with putting the table on him. Even the Reigns-Lesnar stuff felt subdued and second-rate. Reigns booed the entire match. First crowd shot is several people motioning thumbs down. Hunter not even trying to phone a reaction in. I need to rewatch this, because I'm really surprised to see it getting high marks here (aside from Ambrose eating suplexes on the floor which was just madness). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bierschwale Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Ambrose-Reigns was far better than Cena-Rollins in terms of the "Brock's taking a powder right now" matchup within the triple threat, and it meant no Michaels cosplay, even if there was the lack of foolwrecking that came with J&J. Great, great pace, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Triple H is literally the least over person in a company that still has Cody Rhodes stuck playing Stardust. I honestly enjoyed almost everything on this show, sorry to be positive on the internet and stuff. Mania is setting up to be boring at the top but really fun on the bottom half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Triple H is literally the least over person in a company that still has Cody Rhodes stuck playing Stardust. I honestly enjoyed almost everything on this show, sorry to be positive on the internet and stuff. Mania is setting up to be boring at the top but really fun on the bottom half. Huh? He's more over than Reigns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Redman Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 JBL calling Hunter possibly the greatest of all time makes me want to leave him off my GWE ballot altogether in lieu of actually vomiting. Gross. Brock is from another planet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Ambrose-Reigns was far better than Cena-Rollins in terms of the "Brock's taking a powder right now" matchup within the triple threat, and it meant no Michaels cosplay, even if there was the lack of foolwrecking that came with J&J. Great, great pace, too.Agree, I think this match was better than Rumble 15, which I had at 4.5. Hated the Cena vs Rollins finish spam. Would still have WM2015 above this, but three great matches from Brock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 In other news I'm turning this Edge and Christian shit off and going to sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOTNW Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 JBL calling Hunter possibly the greatest of all time makes me want to leave him off my GWE ballot altogether in lieu of actually vomiting. Gross. Brock is from another planet. Well Reigns is nominated so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakeplastictrees Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 So now its official. HHH/Reigns at WM. The crowd reaction starting from the end of the 3 count to the fade to black was so funny. The crowd didn't care, the commentators did their best, and HHH looks like he couldn't give a shit about this heatless stuff and is just looking forward to having his 'Mania Moment' in front of potentially 100K fans. Owens/Styles, Lesnar/Ambrose, and what I assume will be a 4 way for the Divas title featuring Banks/Charlotte/Paige/Becky should make for a good under-card. If Cena does come back and fight Taker then Mania won't suck on paper, but that main event!? Good gravy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 If we actually going to get Taker vs Cena at WM, we could possibly have the last two matches on the show where the current golden child and the proclaimed new golden child are booed out of the building Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcmmnx Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 I dug the women's tag, Jericho/Styles, and the main event which was awesome. Roman vs HHH is D.O.A for a Mania main event feud fuck off with that and do Roman vs Brock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Won't the 42 days of build to Hunter vs Reigns be fun? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Felt like a Raw. Not understanding why people are gushing over the decidedly average spotfest main event. It was over too quickly and ended too abruptly. Then again, maybe everyone was sighing in relief that Bray Wyatt didn't do anything to Brock Lesnar. I don't think anyone wanted to see that feud. I'll take an abrupt ending any day over that shitfest. Potential WM card: H vs. Reigns, Owens vs. Styles (?), New Day vs. League of Nations (?) - yuck, Charlotte vs. Sasha (?) or some sort of tag match with Becky? Not sure where Wyatt and Ambrose go from here. Maybe Brock faces Ambrose? Not really nuts about that match, to be honest - unless they pull the trigger and put Ambrose over strong. Not sure where Taker figures in, unless Cena makes another miraculous comeback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Loved the main event. Surely they have to turn Reigns heel, because I don't think there is any chance he's going to get babyface heat anytime soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy James Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 HHH posting a selfie with Nakamura immediately after the main event puts this beyond parody. I can't believe this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Main event was decent. I really liked the divas match. Just really bored with everything else, and the finish to the main event was eh. I think my interest in this product is at an all time low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man in Blak Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 I bounced off the main event pretty badly on first watch, though maybe I'll appreciate the layout more the second time around. It told its story well enough, but that story did a remarkable job of making Ambrose and Reigns look second-rate. Reigns blowing off the Kimura and multiple chairshots so that he could spear his best friend for the pin felt about as video-gamey as you can get. Whatever Lesnar does at Wrestlemania, it's going to be a huge letdown unless they hot-shot him into the main event. And even that would present more booking problems than solutions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Fun show. 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Felt like a Raw. Not understanding why people are gushing over the decidedly average spotfest main event. It was over too quickly and ended too abruptly.OK, I'm not alone here, then. They sucked Lesnar into their shitty, rote, emotionless generic WWE triple threat match main event. Lesnar did his suplexes and then pissed off for a while. Ambrose is now a cartoon character who substitutes shaking like he's having a seizure for charisma. It was a nice run for longer than we could have ever expected, but WWF style wrestling is now back to being almost uniformly terrible factory bullshit. Case in point: Styles was the best wrestler in the world and having to shoehorn himself into their one size fits all style has screwed up his timing and pacing to the point he's now just really good. And made to look worse by having to carry that idiot trying to do his 1990s cruiserweight BS while too old to pull it off. Maybe Styles will figure it out by so far he's as ruined as a lot of'80s guys were. I don't know what it is, but even when they're not that good, the women's matches have been to only ones lately where I didn't feel like I was watching everyone work a match laid out for them by someone running TNM7. Different road agents? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Waco Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Odd to go after Ambrose for his performance in that match sense it's the least comical he's looked in months in a match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Redman Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Just got home from Maltese Falcon. Playing catch up. Did they build up the half crab at all to make it seem like a potential danger spot for Charlotte? Has anyone tapped out to a half crab since Lance Storm was in WCW in 00? I don't think that was the point, it was just an opportunistic counter. Brie had the Yes Lock on but Ric was looking to put Charlotte's leg on the rope, so Brie grabbed the leg to transition to the crab to keep her away from the ropes, and Ric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cactus Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 What a dire show. Nothing of importance happened and everything was predictable.Styles/Jericho was a fun watch, but will ultimately be forgotten about in a week's time.The main event was great even if it ended prematurely and Roman no-selling the chairshots irked me.That's all the positive I can say about this show. Owens/Ziggler felt like it went on forever, Brie looked awful out there (she botched a small package) and not even milking of her husband could make anyone give a crap. The New Day segment was awful. The only other good match taken place on the pre-show.I haven't been so bored watching a WWE PPV in years. It wasn't even so bad, it's good, it was just abysmal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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