Have at it..

EDIT: I meant to say Wrestlemania 9...but you can include Wrestlemania 11 in there as well

3 on a 10 scale, because of taker and hhh

I'd say about a 5 out of ten

Taker/HHH was REALLY GOOD, Rey/Cody was a good match, and Cole/Lawler was entertaining. Other than that, a disappointment. I love the end result of the Miz/Cena match, but the match was nowhere near its potential. Edge/Del Rio was boring, Punk/Orton was also well below those guys' standards, and the other matches blew.

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6.5/10

This was my first Wrestlemania and I expected so much more. It was pretty Meh, more suitable for Smackdown rather than the big event of the year for the industry.

If it were just a PPV in October, then it would be meh.

but it's WrestleMania. It was hyped to be a huge deal. It was bad. REALLY bad.

2 squashes and the finish to Cena/Miz make it TNA bad for me. HHH/Taker was good, but not good enough to take this show out of TNA territory.

HHH/'Taker was very disappointing. (does anyone else HATE 'Taker's new opening!??)

Punk/Orton and Rhodes/Mysterio were my favourite matches.

The Rock made the ending worth watching and "divasaurus" was pretty awesome.

Bad.

Taker/HHH made it watchable along with Rhodes and Rey.

Orton/Punk would be up there if it weren't for the predictable ending.

Meh, no where near TNA bad but it didn't feel like a Wrestlemania, more like a three hour RAW

This was the one ****ing chance to get fans back into wrestling. It was time to make it "cool" again. They completely ****ed it up. Have fun enjoying 3.1 ratings on Raw, WWE. You deserved it. All you had to do was bring us what we wanted for Wrestlemania. Instead you gave us two of your top draws looking weak as hell. You made the US/IC title worthless. There is no tag division. The WWE title and WHC are jokes. You also proved the only guys who can still go are almost ready to retire. On top of that you make Rock look strong as hell and he isn't even going to stay to benefit your product.


I have to say this though - Taker vs. HHH was amazing. Those guys threw each other around and put on an incredible show. That match deserves a very high rating and was the only match to save Wrestlemania. I hope nobody says Taker can't bring it... because he continues to prove all you guys wrong.

HHH/'Taker was very disappointing. (does anyone else HATE 'Taker's new opening!??)

Punk/Orton and Rhodes/Mysterio were my favourite matches.

The Rock made the ending worth watching and "divasaurus" was pretty awesome.

How in the world was HHH/Taker disappointing? Those guys killed it.

-10/10

Orton/Punk would be up there if it weren't for the predictable ending.

Only way to make that unpredictable is Punk to win. They didn't want to do that, so it makes sense to go with the best of the predictable endings(RKO out of nowhere vs. the punt or a normal RKO) than something maybe a little unpredictable, but dumb. It also wasn't nearly as unpredictable as people claimed after Punk had just escaped an RKO from nowhere.

How in the world was HHH/Taker disappointing? Those guys killed it.

I'm not a fan of finishers after finishers and laying in the ring until the next finisher is delivered, thank you very much. By all means with the **** that they gave us, sure they had one of the best matches, still I was not a fan.

I'm not a fan of finishers after finishers and laying in the ring until the next finisher is delivered, thank you very much. By all means with the **** that they gave us, sure they had one of the best matches, still I was not a fan.

It was telling a story. HHH delivered a finisher, or a chair shot and yelled, "STAY DOWN! JUST DIE!". A wrestling match is like telling a story to the audience, always has been and always will be.

It was telling a story. HHH delivered a finisher, or a chair shot and yelled, "STAY DOWN! JUST DIE!". A wrestling match is like telling a story to the audience, always has been and always will be.

Adding a bit more would of been nice.

-10/10

Overreacting much? HHH-Taker was amazing, just as good as HBK-Taker I and II. Rhodes and Rey was good. ADR and Edge was okay IMO. Rock was great delivering the Rock Bottom to Cena. Sure it had it's bad moments, but it wasn't THAT bad.

ADR vs. Edge: Good match, surprised it started off the show but this was the one match which the crowd was into. Surprised with the result but good match

Rhodes vs. Mysterio: Started off slow but got better as it went on, Rhodes had an impressive showing

8-man Tag: Pointless

Orton vs. Punk: Typical boring Orton match, don't care for either and didn't get too involved in this fued

Cole vs. Lawler: Terrible until Stone Cold got involved and King started beating Cole

Undertaker vs. HHH: Match of the night, good match but for me the finish was kind of anti-climactic

Mixed tag: Not as bad as I expected it to be, Snooki's flips was impressive I must admit. Would have preferred to see JoMo vs. Ziggler singles

Cena vs. Miz: Decent match but its something we've seen before, only difference was kicking out of finishers

The "comedy" skits were horrible, only the Mae Young one got a laugh out of me. The Pee Wee Herman was stupid and Snoop Dog was a waste of 5 minutes which they could have gave to Bryan/Sheamus

Adding a bit more would of been nice.

Addition or subtraction to the story is a matter of opinion. They did their job at telling the story, hence why so many people loved it. I don't think there was any more to add either.

Overreacting much? HHH-Taker was amazing, just as good as HBK-Taker I and II. Rhodes and Rey was good. ADR and Edge was okay IMO. Rock was great delivering the Rock Bottom to Cena. Sure it had it's bad moments, but it wasn't THAT bad.

I agree with you sf24 about HHH/Taker being as good as HBK/Taker I and II. They are older wrestlers who established their career and made their money. To take the bumps they did tonight, I was shocked. Everything was so real and everything was spot on perfect. I was worried about timing, and it was never an issue.

Those guys put on one hell of a show.

take hhh, taker, and the rock away from the show, who aren't wwe regulars anymore

what's left? both the miz and john cena got buried by the rock in the main event after a goldberg v. brock lesner-worthy performance, the booking was terrible by letting the crowd wait for the rock for so long, and there were no memorable matches beyond hhh-taker to elevate the program beyond what is seen weekly on raw or smackdown

orton-punk was ok but other than that there was the usual bunch of pg-13 vanilla "stars" out there that are indistinguishable from each other generating no heat whatsoever from a dead crowd at the biggest show of the year

it was so inoffensive that it can't be down at a tna level, but was so uninspiring that it can't be anything more than a meh

it's mostly just tragic that a wrestlemania main event is now relegated to an overbooked crapfest because the federation's two major stars can't wrestle and look weak compared to the headliners from ten years ago

UT/HHH was the only thing that kept my vote from meh to bad.

3/10

It was really bad.

Overreacting much? HHH-Taker was amazing, just as good as HBK-Taker I and II. Rhodes and Rey was good. ADR and Edge was okay IMO. Rock was great delivering the Rock Bottom to Cena. Sure it had it's bad moments, but it wasn't THAT bad.

Did you pay 65 dollars for it?

I don't care how OK HHH-Taker was. Too many botches made that match go from a 9 to a 5. Taker botched the flying through the ropes, he took two AWFUL looking pedigrees and Triple H botched the tombstone which probably killed Undertaker.

Rock should have come out and given Cena the Rock Bottom instead of having Alex Riley hit Cena with the briefcase (why is that there? He won and cashed in his MITB) instead of a count out and a stupid "it doesn't matter what you think" to an inanimate object. Coupled in the fact with idiotic backstage segments like Mae Young (who I still love), and Snoop (thank God for Regal and Ryder), and Del Rio losing the title, which as a rumble winner normally never happens.

For what it should have been, it's a -10. Maybe even lower. If I didn't pay for it, I wouldn't have complained a bit.

take hhh, taker, and the rock away from the show, who aren't wwe regulars anymore

what's left? both the miz and john cena got buried by the rock in the main event after a goldberg v. brock lesner-worthy performance, the booking was terrible by letting the crowd wait for the rock for so long, and there were no memorable matches beyond hhh-taker to elevate the program beyond what is seen weekly on raw or smackdown

orton-punk was ok but other than that there was the usual bunch of pg-13 vanilla "stars" out there that are indistinguishable from each other generating no heat whatsoever from a dead crowd at the biggest show of the year

it was so inoffensive that it can't be down at a tna level, but was so uninspiring that it can't be anything more than a meh

it's mostly just tragic that a wrestlemania main event is now relegated to an overbooked crapfest because the federation's two major stars can't wrestle and look weak compared to the headliners from ten years ago

Great call w/ the bolded. That's exactly how everyone at my house felt and exactly how I feel.

The only thing I'll disagree with is that Miz can't wrestle. His match with Morrison proved he can put on a good solid show. That was a complete joke from a writing standpoint. If I'm John Cena, I start speaking my mind. The fact that their top cash cow is now officially booed by 90% of the audience is a joke. It was terrible writing from the very beginning to have Cena/Rock going at one another.

How the hell does it make sense to have Rock/Cena feud continue when we know Rock isn't wrestling. If Rocky does wrestle, why in the freaking world wouldn't he wrestle at the grandest stage of them all? Are you serious?

The booking has me so angry that I could care less about watching the same garbage anymore. I'll DVR it if nothing else is recording and check up with results until the entire writing staff is fired. Sadly, I'm not even one of those wrestling fans who want to quit watching. They just make it too hard to enjoy.

Miz is actually a decent wrestler. But they don't want to be called wrestling anymore. So they clearly don't care about that aspect of it anymore.

Miz and Bryan put on a great match at a PPV a while ago.

Miz is actually a decent wrestler. But they don't want to be called wrestling anymore. So they clearly don't care about that aspect of it anymore.

It always cracks me up when people knock his wrestling skills. Until people step into a wrestling ring, take courses and compete in matches, you have no right to see anything. Miz is good.

It always cracks me up when people knock his wrestling skills. Until people step into a wrestling ring, take courses and compete in matches, you have no right to see anything. Miz is good.

I also believe he has more moves than two flying shoulder blocks, a STF, a "five knuckle shuffle" and a fireman's carry (I think that's what the move is actually called, maybe I'm off)

Cena might be able to do more, but every match that's all I see recently.

It always cracks me up when people knock his wrestling skills. Until people step into a wrestling ring, take courses and compete in matches, you have no right to see anything. Miz is good.

let's not hype him up to be the second coming of ricky steamboat or anything...if you're going to main event wreslemania then the bar should be higher than the old "well, you've never stepped into a wrestling ring" argument

he's a passable wrestler, which is all that's needed in today's wwe i guess

the bigger issue is that it doesn't really matter when main events get overbooked all to hell

I voted bad, just because I've never seen WM11 and this was slightly above TNA.

let's not hype him up to be the second coming of ricky steamboat or anything...if you're going to main event wreslemania then the bar should be higher than the old "well, you've never stepped into a wrestling ring" argument

he's a passable wrestler, which is all that's needed in today's wwe i guess

the bigger issue is that it doesn't really matter when main events get overbooked all to hell

He's an entertainer, he should be at the main event because he's more than passable in that aspect too. They just don't book him the way they're supposed to.

He looked stupid in this one

Did you pay 65 dollars for it?

I don't care how OK HHH-Taker was. Too many botches made that match go from a 9 to a 5. Taker botched the flying through the ropes, he took two AWFUL looking pedigrees and Triple H botched the tombstone which probably killed Undertaker.

Rock should have come out and given Cena the Rock Bottom instead of having Alex Riley hit Cena with the briefcase (why is that there? He won and cashed in his MITB) instead of a count out and a stupid "it doesn't matter what you think" to an inanimate object. Coupled in the fact with idiotic backstage segments like Mae Young (who I still love), and Snoop (thank God for Regal and Ryder), and Del Rio losing the title, which as a rumble winner normally never happens.

For what it should have been, it's a -10. Maybe even lower. If I didn't pay for it, I wouldn't have complained a bit.

No.

It did have a couple of botches, but they put their bodies on the line in that match. You can't take away from the quality they put on aside from the botches. They gave us everything they had, and I thank them for that. Trips really doesn't know how to do a tombstone though. :laugh:

When should Rock have done that, and I have no idea why they still have a briefcase. The double count out was really lame I agree there. The segments again were lame, when I was looking forward to Sheamus-Bryan.

I give it a 6/10. I enjoyed most matches, besides the Corre- and the other people, and Snooki. Every other match I enjoyed.

It was too good for meh...and not quite good enough to qualify for good either...but I voted good anyway just on the Taker match alone...

let's not hype him up to be the second coming of ricky steamboat or anything...if you're going to main event wreslemania then the bar should be higher than the old "well, you've never stepped into a wrestling ring" argument

he's a passable wrestler, which is all that's needed in today's wwe i guess

the bigger issue is that it doesn't really matter when main events get overbooked all to hell

I don't think he is being over-hyped at all. He's doing a stand up job promoting the WWE to the media, he's a likeable guy, he has the charisma and his in-ring ability is good, for the most part.

To say he's bad, is just wrong.

Hopefully Jericho will be back for one more WM.

Edit: Hopefully Kurt leaves TNA as well.

As for my take on it:


ADR-Edge: They could've done a better job, but I liked it. Edge win definitely surprised me a bit, as well as no Christian turn. Would've loved to see Christian turn and get in the title mix, but oh well. If that would've happened, or ADR won, this one easily gets labelled as one everyone saw coming, so they were kinda damned either way.

Rey-Cody: Absolutely loved it. Thought that Cody would get pushed a little, but thought it would be maybe with just a strong showing with a guy like Rey, or more likely a cheap win. Never thought he'd get put over like that, not only giving it to Rey like that all match, but getting the victory as well. Loved how they played the vanity angle, too. Cody talked quite a bit about how unmasking Rey was the biggest thing for him, and he had a great opportunity to do so, but hiding his face was more important. Perfect.

8-man tag: Very surprising that it went down like that, but not in a good way. Good chance to put guys like Nexus and Kofi over on the biggest stage, instead(from what I can tell, stream was very bad during this match) everyone just sort of jumps in for a bit, clears the ring and Show wins it. 8-man normal tags(instead of elimination) are hard to do, though, and it should've been avoided.

Orton-Punk: Pretty good match. I thought they did well and towards the end thought Punk just might take it(especially with so many faces having gone over/about to go over). Predictable to a degree, but like I said, any way Orton won would've been deemed predictable, and the RKO out of nowhere is not only a great spot, but they took away a bit of predictability by teasing it earlier. I definitely wonder why Punk was still wearing the arm band, though, is he not the only one actually in Nexus?

Lawler-Cole: I liked it. Again to avoid predictability, they wanted Cole to get the upper hand for a bit instead of it being squashed, and eventually gave him the victory. I definitely want to see how that plays out, as it was a ridiculous call, and really enjoyed Lawler squashing him like that. Also like how they took Booker and Matthews out of the event, although this match went on way too long. Making a match like this a quick absolute squash would've made it a lot better and allowed for either a longer 8-man tag or the US title match. However, can never dislike anything involving Stonecold.

Streak: Unreal match that made the show worthwhile. Definitely thought Trips might take it, especially after the Tombstone(absolutely loved that and the Taker pin afterwards). Not a huge fan of the finish. Liked that they went with something different, but Trips basically had him pinned for half of it, and had the sledgehammer, so it looked like he easily could've gotten out. Also would've had him just pass right out a la Austin-Hart, would've been a perfect ending. Also didn't know the Hell's Gate was banned, and if I had, I might've thought this one was predictable. I had no clue why this one was no holds barred going in, but now I do.

Mixed tag: Missed the whole thing. Thought it would've mainly been Morrison-Ziggler, but from what I could tell involved a lot more Snooki than I thought, which sounds dumb. Although I heard she did not bad, so good for her.

Miz-Cena: Not the greatest match, but loved how it played out. The double count out part was a bit lame, but again, something no one saw coming really, and wasn't the final part, so I can definitely live with it. Loved the Rock-GM segment, and loved his involvement. IMO could lead to a Cena turn of some sorts and/or Rock sticking around for more than just one night. Miz was victorious and Vince had the stones to bury Cena on the grandest stage of them all, absolutely loved that part. Also, incredible hype video for the Miz. Absolutely incredible.


Overall, pretty meh. Liked some things creative did, others not so much, but definitely would've been a lot better if the guys would've put on a better show. IMO ADR-Edge, Orton-Punk and Miz-Cena could've been a hell of a lot better. On a card with 8 matches, 2 of which where quick gimmick matches and another being a squash between two announcers, you need your five actual matches to step up in a big way at WM and only two did. Also, not a fan of only two title matches on the card, at both ends of the show no less, and having both retain. Next year I really hope they get the tag titles and, at the very least, one of the US/IC titles(would love for both, though) on there. They can all be respectable belts again, if WWE chooses to make them.

Did you pay 65 dollars for it?

I don't care how OK HHH-Taker was. Too many botches made that match go from a 9 to a 5. Taker botched the flying through the ropes, he took two AWFUL looking pedigrees and Triple H botched the tombstone which probably killed Undertaker.

Rock should have come out and given Cena the Rock Bottom instead of having Alex Riley hit Cena with the briefcase (why is that there? He won and cashed in his MITB) instead of a count out and a stupid "it doesn't matter what you think" to an inanimate object. Coupled in the fact with idiotic backstage segments like Mae Young (who I still love), and Snoop (thank God for Regal and Ryder), and Del Rio losing the title, which as a rumble winner normally never happens.



Rumble winner ALWAYS loses the title now. This is the 4th year in a row its happened now.

Rumble winner ALWAYS loses the title now. This is the 4th year in a row its happened now.

I didn't know that. I had stopped watching for a while.

I was in attendance for 18 and I remember how awesome it was.

Mixed tag: Missed the whole thing. Thought it would've mainly been Morrison-Ziggler, but from what I could tell involved a lot more Snooki than I thought, which sounds dumb. Although I heard she did not bad, so good for her.

The match was basically a Trish/Michelle singles match with J-Mo doing Starship Pain to Ziggler on the outside and Snooki being tagged in to do 2 moves and get the pin.

it was like a 3 hour episode of raw, miz and cena have had more entertaining battles in the weeks leading up to mania than on the night itself.

The match was basically a Trish/Michelle singles match with J-Mo doing Starship Pain to Ziggler on the outside and Snooki being tagged in to do 2 moves and get the pin.

Oh ok, so then then basically the amount of Snooki I expected. And Morrison hit that on the outside? Wow, sounds like a pretty good spot.

The Taker/HHH (9/10) 2 is better than their first match I think. Considering their age. It's one my favorite WM matches ever. Its up there with:

-Bret Hart/HBK
-Kurt Angle/HBK
-TLC 2
-Kurt Angle/Brock Lesnar
-Chris Jericho/HBK
-Bret Hart/SCSA

Should've been called Entertainia. Too many segments which didn't belong on a ppv let alone a Wrestlemania.

Isn't bad and meh the same thing here? This might of been a good ppv, wait, good Raw or Smackdown, but this was an awful Wrestlemania which was saved by Miz going over. HHH/Taker at X7 was better than this, sorry. Do finishers mean nothing now? Rest was okay to garbage. And predictable up until the main event(Lawler/Cole had a plot change, but it was so stupid)

5/10. Now I'm 50/50 on whether or not I watch past Raw tonight.

Overreacting much? HHH-Taker was amazing, just as good as HBK-Taker I and II. Rhodes and Rey was good. ADR and Edge was okay IMO. Rock was great delivering the Rock Bottom to Cena. Sure it had it's bad moments, but it wasn't THAT bad.

Agree to disagree I guess.

HHH-Taker was good. Not great. Not Amazing. They didn't kill it (they damn near killed each other, but they didn't tear the house down and steal the show with a Mania classic).

To me, this match will get praise because of the card is was on. Think of it like this: Put a girl that's a 7 next to eight other girls that are in the 2,3 and 4 range. That 7 is gonna look a 9 or 10 because of the ugly that surrounds her (but in reality that girl is still just a 7).

The overall show really was THAT bad. This wasn't a random PPV in September, this is supposed to be their SuperBowl but instead it was just a glorified RAW with a guest host and cheesy pre-tapes that cut into the time of the matches.

Bad, the rock saved it from being brutal.

Bad.

I can see votes going worse than that if people paid for it.

I've taken a long break from wrestling since before Royal Rumble (when I heard Booker T announce, I was thrilled. I know he's been back for a while, but I don't care. I love Booker), so this was my first event back from that break. As mentioned by others, this seemed like an extended Raw. I personally thought HHH/Taker was a pretty good match though, especially since I thought Taker was done after the 1,000,000th feud with Kane ended. They botched a few moves, but overall the match was enjoyable. As much as I don't like HHH, he tends to put on some really good matches, this being one of them. Some of those moves they did surprised me, given their age.

The feed died out for most of the Rey/Cody Rhodes match, which from the sounds of things was a bit of a disappointment, as it appears they put on a decent match. The other matches weren't really that memorable, although I will admit the little they let Snooki in the ring wasn't as bad as I was expecting. I really disliked the Miz/Cena bout though, I've seen them do much better on Raw.

Basically, Taker/HHH, watching havoc being wrecked upon the Spanish Announce Table, hearing JR call matches again, and seeing Stone Cold, Trish and The Rock once more were the highlights for me. I expected more, seeing as Wrestlemania is THE event in WWE, and this just left me unsatisfied. In other words, it was a let down.

The biggest problem is the talent just isn't there. The writing might be atrocious but the guys at the top of this thing are B-O-R-I-N-G. Seriously ya'll, Mick Foley got a sock and a leaf blower over with the fans. A sock! Who in the WWE could even dream of doing that one day?

It must be said that Attitude Era was also the Golden Era of wrestling. The top of card was ridiculously stacked; Austin, Rock, Angle, Foley, Jericho (back when he actually gave a sh#$%), etc. It was always going to be a tough act to follow and we're dourly seeing it right now.