Had a great time last night watching it. Beer and BBQ watching it with my bulldogs. Far from the best WM. The Rollins/Brock match could have been so much better then using a low blow. AJ kicking out of the RKO was a low point for me as well. The Angle and Mysterio squashes were unnecessary. Too many title changes and Miz should have gone over. Didn't watch the HHH match. Gonna watch it all again tonight.
Trust me. You didn't miss much. Batista vs. Helmsley was hardly a classic. If anything, The Game should have lost and Angle should have won.
I noticed that you didn't mention the much-ballyhooed main event. I was about to do so. My wife, at the last minute, told me that some friends from Missouri were in town and booked us to visit them. So, I had to watch 'Mania in patches, based on Wi-Fi availability. I had wings and lemonade. No beer for me; I was driving!!
I was SHOCKED that the Universal title match was first. That only happens to Smackdown world title matches. The nut-shot to Lesnar was great, as payback for Lesnar jumping Rollins before the match. The crowd loved it; but did you see the bruises, the lacerations and welts on Rollins' back?
Lesnar was announced at 265 lbs, which is the maximum he can be for UFC fights but 20-30 lbs LIGHTER than Lesnar normally is. So, he must have a date with the octagon. As stated earlier, there was no way WWE was going to swerve us this time, as they did with Reigns last year.
As for the winner-take-all match. First, they have Charlotte Flair show up in a chopper, with a red carpet rolled out and man-servants taking her coat and fetching her robe, before she walks into MetLife Stadium.
Then, we get Joan Jett and the Blackhearts performing "Bad Reputation" live, as Ronda Rousey heads to the ring. Then, Flair heads to the ring with pyro out the wazoo. Finally, "The Man" shows up. The intros go, the match starts, and at first Rousey starts pounding everybody. For a while, Becky is taken out and it's Flair and Rousey. When Flair starts hitting chops, Rousey no-sells and yells,
"You chop like a b---h". When they go outside, Rousey does her "Piper's Pit" Samoan drop on them, until Lynch shoves her into the post.
Then Flair and Lynch tried to use each other's finishers but fail. At one point, we get double power bombs, moonsault suplexes, and Flair stealing the Hart-figure-four-around-the-post moves to put it on Rousey.
Lynch gets her flurry and tries to use a table. Rousey counters, knocks the table down and yells,
"Tables are for b----s". But, Flair set the table back up and bounced Rousey's head in it repeatedly.
One good spot was Rousey's armbar on both Flair and Lynch, only for her face to shutter in fear when Flair and Lynch double power bomb her THREE TIMES!!.
But, we get a controversial ending. Rousey goes for armbar to put Lynch away; but Lynch rolls her over. The ref counts one....Rousey lifts her shoulder off the mat; but Lynch wiggles to put her shoulder back down. The ref counts two and THREE!!
Lynch wins both belts and Rousey does her best Hogan '88 impression (after the double Hebner referee thing). We get a shocked Lynch, who gets handed both belts.
She walked away in shock; Flair is crying in disappointment; and Lynch is holding the belts with pyro blasting all around the stadium and elsewhere.
The Smackdown matches BLEW the Raw matches away, virtually across the board. And, as I figured the REAL MAIN EVENT was the WWE world title match. The crows dug it the whole time, even chanting "YES" when Kingston nailed Bryan with any succession of punches or kicks. The women did fairly well but they still ain't ready for prime time.
