It's no secret that this year's Wrestlemania was probably the weakest since WrestleMania 2000, having both just felt like a special episode of RAW and not like the biggest PPV in Wrestling. Actually, the should have renamed this "RematchaMania" since all but two matches were infact rematches, one being the worst Money In The Back with these ridiculous highspots that I already counted on seeing, but not to the point where they were near death like Shelton Benjamin's. The other being Jericho VS the Hall Of Famers, actually everything in this match was going swell, more than swell when Ricky Steamboat got in as a matter of fact, I really got into it when he started hitting his trademark armdrags and the like, but the entire match went down the tube when Flair stepped in and Mickey Rourke accepted Chris Jericho's post-match challenge. I suppose that was a "WrestleMania moment", a very shitty one at that, nothing against Jericho's work ethic but he was built up as being a pretty big deal of a heel, having punched HBK's wife and then tormented these legends and now he gets knocked out like a jobber by an ex-boxer turned actor who looked like he was dressed up as an Undertaker cosplayer?



"Who booked this shit?" is what I kept asking myself, checking dirtsheet sites on any news if Vince Russo had left TNA. I'm not even going to bother talking about the Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal match either, since that was just a botch after a botch, thankfully Santino or rather "Santina" made a piss break match into a comedy match you wanted to see through, which got me thinking about how much back pain Santino must be enduring from these Months of carrying the entire DIVA's division. I was however pleasantly surprised with Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy's match and I don't care for either of them, I also liked that Matt finally got new ring attire. The match itself was something of a spotfest aswell, with the whole "Extreme Rules", but then again it's been these two's bread and butter. Moving on to Rey Mysterio VS JBL, which started off a bit odd what with Rey coming out with a Joker themed ring attire, complete with a green wig. I understood when he dressed up as Flash or even back in the WCW days when he had the Spider Man inspired gear, but Joker from the Batman series isn't exactly a good guy, go figure. Before I could fully take in Rey's attire, the match was pretty much over, basically another WrestleMania squash match with Mysterio winning the Intercontinental Championship from JBL, along with JBL announcing that "he quit", which is funny since a day or two before so did Taz, so that means a seat in the commentator's spot for Smackdown is open. Connect the dots.



Onto the best match of the night: The Undertaker VS Shawn Michaels, I didn't expect anything but a great match from these two, since they always deliver on WrestleMania. However, some of the spots here where pretty brutal looking, especially Taker's suicide dive onto a camera man, unfortunately the camera man didn't really break his fall and Taker did something of a head dive onto the outside mat. The match basically went from a nice steady build up to some pretty awesome spots to finishers being accompanied by epic false finishes. It'll probably be their best match of this year, which might sound a bit silly since it's so early, but then again this is the biggest event WWE has. Which brings us to a match for the marks out there or the loyal Chain Gang soldiers, I've said it before on how Edge isn't anything impressive to watch unless there's tables, ladder and chairs involved, Big Show will probably have a good match a year and John Cena is, well, Cena.



Put all three of them together in a match and you basically get WWE Universe fanatics screaming off the top of their lungs for Cena being Superman during the final minutes of this match. Speaking of Superman, Triple H VS Randy Orton for the no-longer-spinning-bling'd out-WWE Championship was the main event, in all fairness the match did have some pretty nice psychology and some pretty alright spots, but if you weren't screaming "SAME OLD SHIT" over and over at your TV screen or tearing your hair out by now after having spent 50$ for this then you're probably not watching the same PPV. What more is there to say? Triple H wins, killing off all the steam Randy Orton had as he was working towards being possibly one of the greatest heels in WWE history, coming fresh off terrorizing the McMahon family by delivering skull crushing punts to Vince and Shane's head, aswell as RKO'ing Triple H's wife as he struggles with being handcuffed to the ropes, just think of what could have been with giving Orton the strap again. Oh well, I guess we'll have to endure another few Months of this feud not really going anywhere aside from making Triple H look unbeatable whilest they prepare Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase Jr for the same fate.