This had to be the most one match WM since 13. Punk/Taker was so good. That's the kind of match that can only happen at Wrestlemania. I really wasn't expecting Taker to bring it like he did. I for real jumped up at the first tombstone. At 25. Alone in my room. Marking out to a pro wrestling match. That match was just excellent. Weird seeing Taker choked up. And by FAR the best live entrance music in WM history. They were fucking tight.
Opener was the least of all the Shield matches by quite a bit, although I was happy to see them win. Pleasantly surprised that Mark Henry won, and even more surprised that Ryback got him up TWICE and didn't botch either of them. Happy that Bryan got a win at WM. Big E looked pretty boss. WHC was okay. Not bad, not memorable at all besides the sweet arm bar/ankle lock counter. Fandango winning was nice.
Very disappointed in HHH/Bork. I wasn't expecting a great match or anything, but I was expecting either a wild brawl or brutal beat down and got neither. It was a slow, plodding, pretty boring match. Not even as good as their first match. If HHH had won with the kimura, the would have been so gross. As it was, him winning was completely groan worthy and didn't even make sense with the story they were telling. Their whole thing is that Brock is bigger, better, younger, stronger, and HHH just putting up a fight is a victory. Having HHH win did zero for him, and having Brock come back to lose to HHH/Cena screams of Vince trying to humiliate Brock for leaving (except Brock knows it is a work and is getting paid stupid money for something he doesn't even really care about). I was also really surprised at the absence of blood. I thought for sure someone was going to blade huge. It makes no sense to bring Brock back to have him job to a retired office worker. Brock's supposed to be this unbeatable monster, but he's lost 2 of his last 3 matches. One to a guy who was in the most emotional distress of his life, and the other to a retired guy who has wrestled 6 matches in 3 years. Such a waste. I want to see Bork vs Sheamus.
The main event. The fuck. Crowd died after Punk/Taker, then sat through a super boring HHH/Bork, and then didn't give a fuck until the the 4th Rock Bottom. That might as well have been the Young Bucks throwing super kicks with as many Rock Bottoms and FUs they did. Completely ridiculous. And that they really played up Cena never winning the big one and over coming the odds completely straight with zero turn or anything was unbelievable. JBL actually said that if Cena didn't win, he'd be remembered as a great who never won the big one. Despite having won every big everything and being the top guy for 8 straight years with his only break coming from an injury. They keep talking about him like he's this young kid fighting to get to the top when he IS the top and has been for 8 years. In a row. With no one coming close to taking his spot, even when Punk was champ for over a year. This rematch was also worse than their first one. Two rematches in a row that were worse than the original matches.
I wish WWE would stop running open air stadiums. It kills the sound. Punk/Taker was loud, but would have been insane in a dome or arena. I was really pretty positive about the show after Punk/Taker, even though it had been pretty average and kind of dull. Then the last two matches made me remember why it is stupid to get excited about WWE.
Punk/Taker wasn't the spectacle that the HHH/Taker matches were, but it was worked and laid out 100% better. HHH winning was more offensive to me than Cena winning, but the way Cena won and how it was played up was probably grosser.
