Wrestlemania 27

[Jizz Machine]

Anyone followed it last night? I watched a majority of it, and it was a disappointment overall. This was the first Wm I watched in quite a few years and it was nothing compared to the attitude era. The headline of the show was definitely Taker vs. HHH. Huge bumps from both sides and countless near falls.

Main event was a flop. Even The Rock came in at the end couldn't revive it. It was a decent WM at best.

 

[FunSugarDaddy]

I haven't watched wrestling since Andre the Giant was alive..but I would have thought with the recent popularity of the UFC and other MMA sports that wrestling would be close to dead by now.

 

[mercyshooter]

Too bad! HHH has to die trying! HHH is done! He can now retire!

 

[Big Dog Striker]

..but I would have thought with the recent popularity of the UFC and other MMA sports that wrestling would be close to dead by now.

WWE still remains profitable despite losing some market share to MMA. Net income of $ 53 Million in 2010, good for its shareholders. Big international following. Looking forward to the entertaining match of John Cena vs. " The Rock " in Wrestlemania 28.

 

[mercyshooter]

WWE knows how to create new and unexpected results of the matches. I really thought that's it for undertaker. But that was "holy cow"!!!!!! 3 pedigrees and one tombstone piledriver!!!!! Other wrestlers/superstars would give up!

 

[gpchillin]

I know they are great athletes but still its so totally fake and scripted I can see how a 6 year old would think its cool but anyone who wears big boy pants and into WWE is kinda sad. Even when I was a kid I thought it was lame.

 

[FunSugarDaddy]

Where I do appreciate WWE is in the athletic aspect of the show.

I read a book by Tom Billington (aka the Dynamite Kid) who I use to watch when I was a kid.

We lived in the prairies and he was part of Stampede Wrestling. As he pointed out, those flips and how you land the damage to your body aren't at all fake. He's confinded to a wheel chair and his cousin Davey Boy Smith is deceased, largely due steriod use, so they're proof that it's a tough, tough business, even if the outcome of a match is supposedly is predetermined. (it's not predetermined that you're going to land wrong, or accidently knee a guy as you landing off the ropes)

 

[Big Dog Striker]

Enjoyed watching the electrifying British Bulldogs tag team as a kid. And of course, the D-Generation X wrestling stable. A powerful group of fund managers and Taipans in Wall Street, the Gordon Gekko types, named themselves after the latter afterwards.

 

[planetsmurf]

i used to be a huge wwe fan but then i just got sick of the reptitive soap opera drama that kept be re-hashed over and over again.(the one with torrie wilson dad comes to mine, like 2 months of just shitty acting and even worse story line) the guys i was a fan of watching are no longer in the wwe:

chris benoit - murder/suicide
kurt angle-TNA
chris jericho- on leave
paul london- no idea
RVD-might be in TNA

these type of guys can sell matches but maybe not story lines other then angle and jericho.

 

[Big Dog Striker]

For me, the biggest reason to watch the WWE before = Stacy Keibler.

 

[mercyshooter]

they also have lovely divas man!

 

[Big Dog Striker]

they also have lovely divas man!

Yups! Those lovely WWE Divas are entertaining. Not bad, they do make at least $ 250,000 a year on exclusive contract with the WWE.

The WWE should bring back The ROCK way sooner than the John Cena match especially after the huge success of the Fast Five franchise.

 

[J.O. Henson]

face it, it's soap opera for men. you can draw parallels all over teh place with wrestling. but still mindless entertainment to just sit and veg to.

 

[mercyshooter]

Yups! Those lovely WWE Divas are entertaining. Not bad, they do make at least $ 250,000 a year on exclusive contract with the WWE.

The WWE should bring back The ROCK way sooner than the John Cena match especially after the huge success of the Fast Five franchise.

Wrestlemania 28: Rock vs. Cena for the championship!

 

[AA_Train]

I too thought that this would be the Undertaker's last match but I guess both he and the company want him to continue wrestling. I guess HHH will now work behind the scenes with the rest of the McMahon family. Obviously this streak will have to end at some point but to be honest, it would be unsatisfying to me as a fan if someone like John Cena ended the streak. IMO, Cena is the most overrated wrestler in the history of the business. When he comes on, I tune out. if Shawn Michaels or HHH had beaten the streak, I would have been OK with that. Kane is probably the one who should do it (3rd time being the charm). I do miss the Attitude days. The matches and personalities are a shadow of what they used to be. I still believe that the Hell in a Cell match between Mankind and Undertaker at the King of the Ring in 1998 was and still is the greatest match in the history of the business and will never be equaled.

 

[InTheBum]

Anyone followed it last night? I watched a majority of it, and it was a disappointment overall. This was the first Wm I watched in quite a few years and it was nothing compared to the attitude era. The headline of the show was definitely Taker vs. HHH. Huge bumps from both sides and countless near falls.

Main event was a flop. Even The Rock came in at the end couldn't revive it. It was a decent WM at best.

Wrestling is just too lame and gay for words to describe.

 

[louie1]

Is the Rock actually going to wrestle? I thought he was just doing commentary.

 

[Big Dog Striker]

The WWE had great success in penetrating the international market, worth emulating by the UFC as they try to expand internationally especially in China and India. They do have that big fight happening in Brazil as well. And of course, UFC's new cash cow, Canada.

 

[niteowl]

I still watch the occasional Monday Night Raw and you still see people in tears when someone like Edge and Shawn Michaels retires from the buisness or someone like Christian lose the title.