Leaderboard

Spoilers - Don't read if you still intend to watch Wrestle Mania. Overall that was a very good showing, but unfortunately a lot of people judge a Pay Per View by the final match and for me that could have been scripted a lot better. I understand why they did it as now the legacy of Roman Reigns is cemented forever. Even if they lay off his push as the leader of the company he will never drop as Lex Luger did because he has a convincing victory over the Dead Man to his record. He's the Guy that will forever be known as the person who retired The Undertaker and is now in a position where he can be justified as the unstoppable force in WWE. The only thing that annoys me is how they've done it. Since he won his Slammy after being injured for a third of the year people recognised what was happening. He was going to be chosen over the other Shield members and Daniel Bryan to be the person to lead the company after John Cena. I wasn't against it as he looked the part and could hold a half decent match but when you have as many fans at live shows revolt on the multiple occassions that they did you have to alter the approach. Making him heel with Heyman as a Manager would have been perfect, but like John Cena they were content on getting him cheered and I think that still harms him. Because of that his weeknesses are highlighted more. He hasn't got Cena's charisma or likeability factor, and he's also showed himself to be absolutely terrible at selling a match. The whole main event was pretty painful to watch. They teased a whole 'new era' bollocks with AJ Styles and the NXT guys last year but when it comes to the big events, the ones that people remember, the ones where everybody around the world takes notice, the inner politics involing Roman Reigns and the part timers always seems to take centre statge. Unfortunately nothing will change any time soon as the script writers did a very good job in ending it so Roman Reigns wouldn't turn heel and hurt his merchandise figures (anybody who goes to a live event will know why him and Cena out sell everybody else), and the fans wouldn't be able to do a WCW revolt by the way The Undertaker left the ring. To focus on more positive the return of The Hardy Boyz was probably one of my favourite Wrestle Mania moments of all time. Everything from how they were announced, to the flow of the match, to the moves they performed, to the stunt Jeff Hardy did to how they got the crowd going at the end was played out magnificent. If you want to bring somebody back from the past that's how you do it. I was plesently surprised how much I liked the Lesnar / Goldberg match. We knew it was going to be short and lack moves but jesus it was as intense as it could have been. Then there was the Shane McMahon/AJ Styles where Shane really did surprise me. AJ Styles can work against anybody. I know he's not got that Roman Empire build but if he was in the ring against an ageing Undertaker I imagine the match would have been of a far better quality. As expected the womens matches and the crusierweight match didn't disappoint. I think all those matches had the right outcomes too. Infact I think every match apart from Roman Reigns and Mojo Rawlley's wins had the correct outcomes. If The Deadman was allowed to go out in to the sunset I would have said this has been one of the best Wrestle Mania's ever. I did have a couple more gripes. The ending to the Randy Orton / Bray Wyatt and the Kevin Owens / Chris Jericho matches could have been a lot better given how good the matches were. I anticipated that they were rushed on time with that. John Cena and Nikki Bella's moment was cringe as hell. I would have liked to have seen Samoa Joe and Finn Balor interfere in the Triple H / Seth Rollins match instead of having a similar finish to the year before too Then there was the kick off show. I have no idea what Dean Ambrose / Baron Corbin was doing on the kick off show. They must have been fuming to make way for Pitbull. The Andre The Giant Battle Royal was a complete waste of time again. Anything that screams problem with decision making the most in WWE it's the attitude of 'let the former football player with celebrity friends win a big match'. I'd give it an 8/10 overall. Better than last year, but not as good as the year when Seth left as The Champion.

Tanksie LFCMadLad Asura ChaaayAFC FourSix VanPanna HappyBlue Romesh DeadlinesMan Batard SirBalon Honey

Rogue one 8.5/10 Best since the originals, the force is strong within this one, I don't practice religion but if I must it'll be Jedi.

After watching the main event I think it became clear why Roman isnt the guy they want him to be, That tombstone botch was hilariously bad and commentators like to bill him as a powerhouse when he doesn't really have any powerhouse traits to be honest. He spams the superman punch wayyyyyy too fuckin much that it's become the most unbearable move in wrestling for me, I'm even more fed up with it than I was when Cena was beating everyone with an AA a few years ago. To be fair though there really wasn't much more he could of done in that match The Undertaker is literally crippled and can barely pull off a choke slam properly anymore so I knew this match would be bad. The things I enjoyed were the first match Shane Mcmahon proving why he's an absolute legend, I know he doesn't wrestle much but every time he has a match it's pure entertainment to see how far he can go without killing himself or his opponent, he's not really technically sound in there but he has enough wrestling/Jui Jitsu knowledge to pull off a good match and obviously AJ styles made him look a million dollars like he does with everyone. Rollins vs HHH was a very good match even though Seth spent most of the match selling the wrong knee which makes me believe the injury was all a work to get the fans behind him and cement his baby face turn. Obviously the best moment of the night was the Hardyz returning, I was pacing around my living room like a loon when I heard their music, It's gonna be interesting to see them on Raw tonight and what they are going to do with them moving forward because I don't know how much of the broken gimmick they can use with all the legal threats from TNA, Unless Vince just says fuck them and let's them use the gimmick anyway.

I have re watched the Hardyz return so many times. I love a good return and that was up up there with some of my favourite Mania moments. AJ is quality and always has some of the best matches, i expect him to feud with Orton down the line for the title.

Useless mate, none of that works unless we get #PrayForStPetersburg trending.

It's alright I'll change my Facebook profile picture to incorporate a Russian flag later on tonight. Perhaps we could light up Big Ben to, problem solved

SirBalon.

what's the 'Premiership'?

The sniper mechanics are fantastic. I love how you aren't able to hold your breath after sprinting. Seems CoD can take notes there.

Anton

Reinstalled Sniper Elite V2 after seeing you guys discussing the new one. It's good fun although it is showing it's age but the core mechanics are still pretty good. Might pick up no. 4 soon.

Berserker and Any O'Brien