Starting off with a Pre show four way tag team match for the tag titles didn't get the reaction the higher ups hoped for seeing that most of the teams that are supposed to be good guys are being booed and the champions that are bad guys being being cheered. This match was accompanied by a huge battle royal in memory of the legendary Andre The Giant, to be honest even I didn't care who won this one because the match was pushed to the pre show instead of being the main event (typical really)
The actual event started off strong featuring a huge ladder match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship, this match had almost all of the mid-card roster and a few stars like Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler and Dean Ambrose. The match ended with Bryan grabbing the title and becoming a grand slam champion. As awesome as it was to watch a sea of humanity chant for Daniel Bryan, its sad that due to injury and lack of faith from the boss that we'll never see Bryan in the main event picture like last years wrestlemania, even though that was the fans want (badly).
The next match on the card was Randy Orton vs Seth Rollings in grudge match. This contest was perfectly built up and it didn't disappoint, Orton played the anti hero role well and Rollings timing was perfect and he worked the crowd well as a villain. The ending couldn't have been done any better with Rollings being flipped in the air and then being hit by Ortons RKO finish to win. This match was almost like a proving for Seth Rollings, having the ability to keep up with a seasoned performer like Orton revealed how good Rollings actually is.
Triple H vs Sting was the match that most of the fans came to see, the match as a whole was great it was just the damn commentary. The amounts Michael Cole stated that Sting had never seen a crowd the size of Wrestlmania was down right irritating and JBL constantly saying "we won the Monday night wars" was genuinely making me want to punch him. It was extremely awesome to see DX and The NWO in the same ring as Triple H and Sting stared each other down after H picked up the victory official "Killing the last soldier of WCW", all in all seeing Sting in a promotion that isn't TNA was enough to put a smile on my face.
The next contest was a tag team Divas match between the Bella Twins and Paige and AJ Lee, with all of the pressure on the main roster Divas since the women of the developmental show NXT have been performing them. The match as a whole was a good showing with the finish of Nikki Bella tapping out to AJ Lee's black widow submission hold. Sadly due to all the flack the WWE Divas have been getting lately the match wasn't really promoted well and the crowd didn't get involved enough to have the impact the match intended.
After the Hall of Fame ceremony and a poor performance from Skylar Grey, Travis Barker and Kid Ink we had the United States title match. John Cena and Rusev a match that WWE wanted to work so badly but still didn't have the desired effect, to start Rusev's character is a walking insult to Eastern European culture (even if Russia is being a dick to everyone) which is disappointing due to the amazing talent that Rusev has. John Cena got nothing but boos and "Cena sucks!" chants even though he was supposed to be the American hero who will bring the US. title back home, this just goes to show how much John Cena's character has descended just to sell WWE merchandise; remember Cena is just doing his job its the higher ups that make the decisions. Even though Cena won the match its self was just a rehash of their match last month at WWE Fastlane.
To everyone's surprise the event had a really entertaining segment with Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, The Rock and UFC womens champion Ronda Rousey. The segement began with Stephanie and Triple H gloating about themselves then The Rock came down to the ring and did his classic insults and trash talking, Stephanie slaps Rock but because he won't hit her, instead he finds Ronda in the crowd and she challenges Stephanie and owns her completely.
The match between The Undertaker and Bray Wyatt couldn't have been done better, with the fact that Wyatt had his ankle in a cast up till he told to make his entrance an still performed flawlessly is down right amazing. Sadly the match's atmosphere was completely different to what it usually is, due to The Undertaker being undefeated there was always that unnerving risk that he'll defeated, and because he lost to Brock Lesnar at last years Wrestlemania that match edge was gone.
Reigns did get one chance to mount come back of sorts and in the process piss off the fans even more. Once again its not Roman Reigns' fault its that Vince wants make him the next John Cena and the fans don't want another John Cena they want something new. Luckily the main event was saved last minute by the most unlikely of superstars; none other than Seth Rollings ran down to the ring cashed in his money in the bank contract and make the singles match into a three way fight and pinned the unconsciousness Roman Reigns whilst Lesnar recouped from Reigns spearing him.
To put it simply Seth Rollings has been playing the bad guy persona to perfection for almost a year, his earlier match with Randy Orton proved he can run with the veterans, so having him snatch the biggest championship in WWE from the two top guys was a genius way to end the show and save the main event in the process other wise it would have fell flat on its face. This was the first good decision made by the WWE higher ups since last years Wrestlemania.
The next contest was a tag team Divas match between the Bella Twins and Paige and AJ Lee, with all of the pressure on the main roster Divas since the women of the developmental show NXT have been performing them. The match as a whole was a good showing with the finish of Nikki Bella tapping out to AJ Lee's black widow submission hold. Sadly due to all the flack the WWE Divas have been getting lately the match wasn't really promoted well and the crowd didn't get involved enough to have the impact the match intended.
After the Hall of Fame ceremony and a poor performance from Skylar Grey, Travis Barker and Kid Ink we had the United States title match. John Cena and Rusev a match that WWE wanted to work so badly but still didn't have the desired effect, to start Rusev's character is a walking insult to Eastern European culture (even if Russia is being a dick to everyone) which is disappointing due to the amazing talent that Rusev has. John Cena got nothing but boos and "Cena sucks!" chants even though he was supposed to be the American hero who will bring the US. title back home, this just goes to show how much John Cena's character has descended just to sell WWE merchandise; remember Cena is just doing his job its the higher ups that make the decisions. Even though Cena won the match its self was just a rehash of their match last month at WWE Fastlane.
To everyone's surprise the event had a really entertaining segment with Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, The Rock and UFC womens champion Ronda Rousey. The segement began with Stephanie and Triple H gloating about themselves then The Rock came down to the ring and did his classic insults and trash talking, Stephanie slaps Rock but because he won't hit her, instead he finds Ronda in the crowd and she challenges Stephanie and owns her completely.
The WWE Heavyweight title match was literally how everyone predicted how it was going to be, Brock Lesnar beating down Roman Reigns. With Lesnar owning most of the main event, Reigns didn't look like an underdog but more of a punching bag, all of the fans were counting how many time Lesnar suplexed Reigns and the crowd still didn't get behind Reigns no matter how much Vince McMahon demands them to.
To put it simply Seth Rollings has been playing the bad guy persona to perfection for almost a year, his earlier match with Randy Orton proved he can run with the veterans, so having him snatch the biggest championship in WWE from the two top guys was a genius way to end the show and save the main event in the process other wise it would have fell flat on its face. This was the first good decision made by the WWE higher ups since last years Wrestlemania.
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