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Night 2 was so much better than Night 1, and felt like an actual WrestleMania, which has sparked fans openly wanting the show to go back to 1 Night. Oba Femi slays Brock Lesnar, as Lesnar retires? A 6 Man Ladder match that could be looked at as one of the best in recent memory, and a Main Event with CM Punk & Roman Reigns that delivered on every aspect.
Pull up a chair, and grab a drink. Let's get to work.
@WrestleVotes Night 2 was definitely the best of the two shows. Although swimming in sulfuric acid would've been better experience than Night 1
Overall, Wrestlemania 42 was a frustrating watch with some notable highlights to it
Night 2 was better by a large margin in my opinion. Reigns & Punk busted their asses to put on a show. Overall, WM42 probably lands in the middle of all time WM ranks, but it is what it is.
@JDfromNY206 Good match for Jade's standards tbf. Rhea Ripley on Smackdown at least gives their division SOME level of life as it's currently in the grave
Gotta admit. Jade Cargill fucking stepped up. That was the best match she’s had in WWE. The length of the match was spot on too. Rhea Ripley wins the WWE Women’s Championship #WrestleMania
@JDfromNY206 Genuinely stunned by that tbh. I thought for sure he'd hold out until Summerslam so that we'd get the Gunther match.
Tbf, putting Oba Femi over in this manner is a fitting way to go out
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I did not see this coming. I don’t think anyone did, and it took everything in me on to tear up. There will NEVER be another Brock Lesnar. EVER. If this is TRULY IT, what he did for Oba is a moment for the ages #WrestleMania
Genuinely fucking happy for Oba Femi man. 4 months ago he was in the Performance Center. Now on WrestleMania with 50,000 doing his strut with him. This man CAN NOT LOSE HERE #WrestleMania
I can’t help but feel bad for Liv Morgan and Stephanie Vaquer. They already had very little to work with during their build, yet still made it one of the few heated programs headed into WrestleMania.
Only to get to the show and have a sub 7 minute match riddled with interference slop. Both women deserved better.
They sought mainstream coverage and acceptance. Mainstream outlets are burying the show. They do things believing it’ll attract extra casual eyeballs. Casuals on IG, TikTok, Twitter thought the show sucked.
The truth is it’s entertainment for nobody except soulless content creators that attend the event as a show of status. And media partners.
Stephen A has to sit there and pretend to know and care about pro wrestling while his alleged favorite team was playing a playoff game. Remember this when he makes severe, declarative takes on First Take about the NBA playoffs.
It’s a 4 hour ad grab. They’ve even forgone video packages in the name of more ads. They know the audience is a bunch of suckers. You have WWE fans paying $40 to watch this event and defending commercials, you can’t help these people.
WWE has always been about the pomp and circumstance, the pageantry, the theatrics, but it always did its brand of entertainment within the confines of a wrestling promotion. At present, it has never ever felt like less of a wrestling promotion.
I don’t say this because it brings me joy to say, I’m a big fan of numerous talents on the roster. I say it, because it is so blatantly the truth now, and there’s no revoking of access that any company can dangle over me that’ll discourage me from being honest.
Not only is it not actually for the casuals or the hardcores, it’s not even for the wrestlers themselves. I actually feel bad for the talent who still dream of getting their big wrestlemania stage appearance and match. The people on that undercard were background actors. Outside of your top guys, the stars of the show were Hulk Hogan, Wheatley’s American Vodka, RAM Trucks, Minute Maid, and Fanatics.
It’s not going to get better. The people that run this operation are all focused on preserving their backs and making sure the money continues to roll in at the same rate and they’ll do whatever they need to get there, even if it means an extra ad where video packages used to be. Ads where a charming backstage segment used to be.
It’s not for you or me, it’s a ruse. The undercard talent only get to have actual matches on the TVs and the big show hits you over the head that the TV doesn’t actually matter. You’re insulted for caring and paying attention because the TV stories are incongruous with the things that happen on the big show.
In past bad eras of WWE, it was bad wrestling produced by wrestling minds. This is something entirely different. To describe it as a facsimile of wrestling would be too charitable to its proximity to pro wrestling. It is a dystopian, synthetic, cynical, corporatized, vaguely similar recreation of a sports entertainment product and it’s produced by businessmen that’ll free their hands of it and dump it off to the next sucker that’ll buy it the first chance they get.
After all that, they had Randy Orton RKO Pat McAfee, Cody win, and basically start the feud all over again heading into Backlash.
This show felt like a Saturday Night's Main Event more than it did #WrestleMania.
Outside of Gunther/Rollins, Drew/Fatu, this show was fucking terrible.
@JDfromNY206 The WORST Wrestlemania "Night 1" since the 2-night format began. And that's saying something considering that the first one was in the Performance Center with no fans
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