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shane or taker had a couple of good moments, the ladder match was excellent, the women's match was good like you lot say til the end. I think they should have charlotte in a hell in the cell match against sasha and becky. is it just me the of the best the bits was the cheerleaders before the rock came out.

I know I have unrealistic expectations of a wrestlemania but that's meant to be there biggest show of the year, they should have been doing way more. Would it have hurt to make ambrose win, why did Jericho need the win? Why couldn't the rock sacrifice just one movie to actually wrestle a match? how can anyone expect Shane to win without outside interference? It just doesn't make sense, thinking it logically a person like Shane will not survive inside the cell, why couldn't they just make out a storyline where he "hires" someone to take out taker in the match. doing it all by himself? No chance!!!

it would have better to use the rock in the hell in the cell match.

the rock only got over with the fans early in his career when he turned heel then he became entertaining and one of the top wrestlers in wwe. I think if reigns did that and ditch the shield stuff then he might get over with the fans.

Crap mania overall although i didn't properly watch it as i had one eye on Tori Lee and the stream was slow as fuck last night, the worst part of Mania was Cena returning, the best part was seeing Shaq O' Neil in the battle royal but even that was average, i give Mania a 3/10

I am late getting into this had a lot on with work and just finished up watching this show.
Fuck me can I have those 4 hours of life my back? such a piss poor show on so many levels that I dont even know where to start. I firstly say the wrestlers sacrificed many bumps tonight and for that I do appreciate but the overall booking and direction of this company is vast becoming a joke that there is no believability whatsoever. I thought the first match was the only one that comes close to the least criticism and even then thats not saying much, so we had jericho over styles? no sasha pay off with another interference? (which was one of best matches on the card I may add) wyatts buried once more? reigns wins? thank fuck NXT is around is all I can say right now.

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My thoughts exactly.

An absolute blunder of a pay per view which underlined how clueless the creative are.

Stephanie looked hot though

Ok, I'm late getting to this but I only watched WM this afternoon, and have not long got back from work. My take on Wrestlemania 32 with the pro and con moments from the four and a half hours or so:

Pros

- Intercontinental title ladder match. A very entertaining contest from some of the WWE's lower card and NXT performers. They outshone many of their senior peers in the company with plenty of crashes, bangs and wallops, everything you'd expect from a multi performer ladder match. Sami Zayn looks real talent. The ending was great - a very good bump/push for Zack Ryder winning the title. WWE did something different this time and made a genuinely pleasing change of title holder - something that was severely lacking from the car crash that was Fastlane.

- Baron Corbin's push in winning the Battle Royale. Eliminating the big guys (Shaq O' Neil and Big Show) early on allowed that to be a lot more interesting than even the Royal Rumble was in January. It gave Corbin and the Social Outcasts a decent set. Echoing the sentiments of my colleagues, some excellent talent emerging from NXT.

- The triple threat women's championship match, for the most part (see below for a con), was very entertaining. Thank goodness WWE now has more than just one woman who can wrestle. Sasha, Charlotte and Becky are tremendous talent, and it's about time WWE's women are allowed to show off their ring skills instead of just being models and sideline lackies.

- Stephanie McMahon's outfit. Christ, I almost creamed my pants when I saw her boobs and legs in that Game of Thrones style decor!

Cons - (sorry, there's more of these than pros)

- Ric Flair's interference in the women's triple threat. Jesus, I wish that guy would keep out of the matches. He's had his time, I'm tired of him constantly helping Charlotte win and retain the title. Let the current ring talent perform. That women's triple threat was really good, it deserved a clean ending.

- The Rock and John Cena. Absolutely pointless and shameful waste of over half an hour in which the Wyatt Family get buried yet again. This was the biggest let down of the entire night for me. We have to keep having Rock come back and do his monologues that bury current performers. It's so tiring.

- Jericho beating Styles??!! Why?! Ruined a decent match and AJ Styles deserved a WM win.

- Roman Reigns. Lacklustre performance (and that's being kind). I'm already annoyed with the WWE for making him look bad with the pathetic promos they've written for him. The poor guy gets booed out of every arena now because of it. But then they have him win the title. A far better ending would have been for Reigns to lose but do so gallantly, in a similar way to then heel Austin did to Bret at WM all those years ago, when he passed out in a pool of blood after refusing to submit to the Sharpshooter. The fans might have began to respect him a lot more. Not happy with HHH burying talent and giving himself the title so many times, but a steadfast performance by Reigns would have been more important than the end outcome. It would have gained him respect from the fans and put the heat on the Authority - they are supposed to be the heels afterall.

- Undertaker / Shane weren't as exciting as I was hoping. A Hell in a Cell could have had more. In the Shane storyline I still think this has way more to run though. I still think this proposed takeover could be the main angle of this year. We might find out more in tonight's RAW. Can't see Taker carrying on much longer though, he looks knackered now in every match. I'm actually frightened he might get seriously ill during these matches these days.

Overall I think the direction is lacking at these PPVs these days. They seem to miss so many opportunities and make themselves look a bad company. I'm pleased they're promoting talent with a strong NXT roster, and I'm pleased that there were some title changes which didn't happen at the pointless Fastlane. But the way they close matches is so misguided at times and there's a lot of wasted minutes on these shows. Definitely need improvement in the promos and time filling departments.

Christ RR was getting abuse on raw they couldnt turn mics down there

So are they now pushing Natalya against Charlotte in family thing now ?

why give Zac Ryder the IC belt only to take it off him the day after and why MIZ ?

Return of Cesaro Good and Good Choice of No1 Contender AJ Styles but why him i mean he has only been in since royal rumble and he is already no 1 contender

hmmm the nxt people coming into main roster not really who we were expecting Appollo crews a titus oneil wanna be

liked Enzo and cass and having them wind up the dudleys was good

Have to say Wasnt the post WM raw of years in fact was almost as bad as the WM itself

They should have had Reigns lose, but reform The Shield with Ambrose and go capture the tag titles.
Shane O Mac did the WWE proud. Taker ensuring he moved just in the nick of time before the elbow drop, bet he was shitting himself more than Shane was, lol

A fun Wrestlemania, overall, but AJ losing, The Wyats cementing themselves as jobbers & Shag O'Neil being totally useless in the ring... kinda spoilt it for me.

Ambrose!!!!! If Brock had raised Ambrose's hand at the end in a show of respect, that would have been perfect & well deserved.

The Social Outcasts were hilarious during the Battle Royal
Count me among their fans.

I enjoyed the women's match, but Banks should have won & Bailey shoulda made her debut, challenging her for the title.