Wrestlemania 35: The KawadaSmile tribute thread

[CarpetCrawler]

"You may have beaten leukemia, but you can't beat me" is maybe one of the most wrestling-ass wrestling lines of the entire show so far.

[Childs]

This match is fine but it's not the right pace for this point on the card.

[stunning_grover]

12 minutes ago, C.S. said:

WTF? Why would you step out on what should be a fun brawl?

Got to eat at some point. But, these two are not two of my favorites. I am still reading this thread while getting my food though. Lol.

[C.S.]

A decent-at-best match, but it accomplished what it needed to. 

[El-P]

Drew looks like a young Lemmy.

This match is boring as fuck. No one cares.

[stunning_grover]

Back... oh... Roman won... Good timing...

[Childs]

Man, that was some weak sauce for a big star making his return from cancer. Totally forgettable.

[Matt D]

Just no stakes. I almost wonder if it would have been better to do Angle/Drew and a brief, triumphant Reigns/Corbin squash.

[...TG]

That Lana-Rusev Snickers commercial was legit funny. WWE has wasted those two worse than almost anyone I can remember.

[CarpetCrawler]

THREE ELIASES

[Ricky Jackson]

We are in the modern big WWE show dead zone where you just want the main event but it is still nowhere in sight 

[C.S.]

This Elias segment is utter nonsense, but people need to eat/pee/shit/smoke/etc.

[goodhelmet]

That was impressive 

[El-P]

I'm so ready for Charlotte/Becky/Ronda.  This show has badly jumped the shark since the Kofi win, everything seems like wasting time.

[Matt D]

.... what the hell is Cena wearing? As someone raised twenty miles south of Boston, I'm offended. The one show I saw in MSG in 03 had Tazz beat him up for being a Red Sox fan.

This is a weird mid-life crisis.

[C.S.]

The Doctor of Thuganomics gimmick hasn't aged well.

[goodhelmet]

Just now, C.S. said:

The Doctor of Thuganomics gimmick hasn't aged well.

Not at all. 

[El-P]

Cena in complete middle-age crisis is something else. Still, this segment has killed what was left of my will to go on with this show. Totally unnecessary.

[stunning_grover]

I am also just waiting for the main event now. Hopefully it will get some decent time.

[Jmare007]

38 minutes ago, Matt D said:

I think he was working fairly different all the way back to the first Styles face vs face match from last year.

He talked about how frustrating it was for him to not fully commit to a new style in one of those WWE Network or youtube pieces. I think it was like a week after he turned or in the PPV that followed his turn.

[WingedEagle]

As much as I enjoyed that, and would have even more on a show that isn't longer than a leap year, its a shame to think that Cena is here for unadvertised comedy spots rather than a featured attraction like Batista on his appearances in '14 or this year, let alone what Rock's returns were like.

[Matt D]

I'm not sure what sort of goofy entrance de facto babyface Hunter gets. It better be worth it though.

[C.S.]

What the hell was that Babe Ruth shit? What significance am I missing? I love the hell out of baseball movies - including "Pride of the Yankees" in which Babe played himself in a supporting role - but I don't know much about actual baseball.

[El-P]

I was half-expecting something actually *good* involving Cena. How naive...

[Matt D]

I'm still upset we didn't get a Trips/Steph walk through Axxess this year.