The Best Wrestlemania?

[cricman]

X Simple because it had 2 of the Best Matches ever in Bret/Owen and HBK/Razor

 

[Jono]

Wrestlemania 12 for the hilarity of Ultimate Warrior squashing Triple H

 

[Xuhaib]

Wrestlemania 12 for the hilarity of Ultimate Warrior squashing Triple H

Probably still keeps him awake all night.

 

[GIMH]

Thought I'd dig this given that we are a week away from the big dance.

Main motivation is that this year's has the potential to the best since X-Seven, as of yet there's not a match I'm not looking forwards to. Reckon we have a few contributors to the wrestling thread that haven't appeared in here as well so interested in hearing their views.

And what about those who voted last year, still by the same opinion? Would be shocked if anyone thought that last year's was the best ever but you never know.

TBF, although the card this year is properly stacked, I doubt it actually will better X-Seven. 19 has a better card and match quality than X-Seven but X-Seven is the ultimate blowoff, the end of the aittude era and basically the official end to the Monday Night Wars. Hard to see it ever being topped for the sheer feel of it IMO, and also I re-watched it a few months ago and the main event still stands up today.

 

[Jono]

Wrestlemania 12 for the hilarity of Ultimate Warrior squashing Triple H

Hahaha I didn't realise this was an old thread, and came in here to post the exact same thing I posted last year..

YES! **** you Triple H.

 

[GIMH]

He referenced that match in a promo the other week. Didn't mention Warrior but mentioned getting annhilated at his first Mania.

 

[Jono]

Yeah I saw you guys write about it in the wrestling thread.

Good for him to take it in his stride.

But even the staunchest Triple H lover has to admit looking back at it, its quite ironic and funny

Warrior... what a man. No matter how much of a right wing nut he's become... I still remember how much I marked out for him at Mania 6.

 

[GIMH]

Warrior getting straight up out of the pedigree...crazy times

Legally called Warrior these days, total nutjob.

Quality at WM 6, and also at 5 and 7 tbf. His matches with Hogan, Rick Rude (Mania 5, Summerslam 89&90) and Savage (WM 7 & Summerslam 92) were top notch. Pretty poor worker the rest of the time I suppose but I loved him as a kid

 

[Jono]

Yeah he just had an awesome gimmick (along with Hogan obviously) that a kid would just love. The music, the name, the face paint, the streamers on his arms... and of course he was roided up like hell.

His feud with Rick Rude was so awesome. Rude was amazing in that feud.

@ The IC belt painted on his tights

 

[sledger]

Has to be X-7 for mine, though I am torn between it and XX, which are the two best events I have seen that I can think of. XX was probably only one or two matches away from topping X-7 though for mine. Had XX not had two really pointless tag team matches on the card and used Booker T, RVD and given them an actual program, and had the Christian/Jericho match been given a little more time and put higher up the card, and if Brock/Goldberg had not been utterly **** and either of them actually bothered to sell anything, then it would have topped X-7 imo, just. Everything else on the card was as perfect as you could have hoped for.

 

[Jono]

Brock vs. Goldberg

To be honest, the crowd in that match made WMXX that much better.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah, agree completely. The match has so match rewatch value purely because of the crowd. Though I believe on some versions of the DVD the crowd are edited out

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Acidently voted for 10, ghey.


EDIT: Ten is my second fav so it doens't hurt I guess.

 

[GotSpin]

Thought I'd dig this given that we are a week away from the big dance.

Main motivation is that this year's has the potential to the best since X-Seven, as of yet there's not a match I'm not looking forwards to. Reckon we have a few contributors to the wrestling thread that haven't appeared in here as well so interested in hearing their views.

And what about those who voted last year, still by the same opinion? Would be shocked if anyone thought that last year's was the best ever but you never know.

TBF, although the card this year is properly stacked, I doubt it actually will better X-Seven. 19 has a better card and match quality than X-Seven but X-Seven is the ultimate blowoff, the end of the aittude era and basically the official end to the Monday Night Wars. Hard to see it ever being topped for the sheer feel of it IMO, and also I re-watched it a few months ago and the main event still stands up today.

Yeah well said. X-7 will always be my favourite WM by so long. Everything in the card was fantastic and it was one of those PPVs that had every single match as entertaining. Of course, the highlight for me was Stone Cold v Rock. I still remember trying to defend austin at school the next day!

As for WM this year, I could buy it and watch but I simply have no interest in Cena v Batista and HHH v Orton. I've tried to get back into wrestling but I feel suffocated with those four guys always consuming TV time.

 

[GIMH]

HHH V Orton was last year mate - they are both wrestling in the midcard. Your other main events are Edge V Jericho and Taker V Shawn

 

[GotSpin]

My bad. I just always have this feeling that its going to be HHH v Orton again. Who the hell is that pasty Sheamus guy.

To be fair, I'm pretty critical of all the main eventers right now so who knows, maybe it will be a really good WM. All I know is that GIMH will mark out irrespective

 

[GotSpin]

HHH V Orton was last year mate - they are both wrestling in the midcard. Your other main events are Edge V Jericho and Taker V Shawn

Yeah I just realised. TBH, I'm actually not a massive fan of edge. I enjoyed him a while ago but not anymore, though Jericho is still awesome. Taker v HBK should be a good match. What i do wonder is when the writers decided to let Taker go on his WM streak. Was it after like 5 wins that they realised he was on a good streak or was it planned.

 

[GIMH]

My bad. I just always have this feeling that its going to be HHH v Orton again. Who the hell is that pasty Sheamus guy.

To be fair, I'm pretty critical of all the main eventers right now so who knows, maybe it will be a really good WM. All I know is that GIMH will mark out irrespective

Haha I probably will, I certainly have high hopes for it. TBH whenever I watch a live PPV I get into it hugely. Usually watch it again the next day and make a more rational judgement of it. But marking out is what mania is all about

Yeah I just realised. TBH, I'm actually not a massive fan of edge. I enjoyed him a while ago but not anymore, though Jericho is still awesome. Taker v HBK should be a good match. What i do wonder is when the writers decided to let Taker go on his WM streak. Was it after like 5 wins that they realised he was on a good streak or was it planned.

Ah, I can answer this one. It was first mentioned a couple of weeks before WM X-7 - I don't think they ever really realised before then, so it was 'accidental' booking so to speak. And apparently the initial plan was for Triple H to end the streak - it hadn't been made a big deal of but would have been a big win fior Triple H nonetheless. After making a fuss of it that year they then started booking it as the streak. Does that make sense?

 

[GotSpin]

Haha I probably will, I certainly have high hopes for it. TBH whenever I watch a live PPV I get into it hugely. Usually watch it again the next day and make a more rational judgement of it. But marking out is what mania is all about



Ah, I can answer this one. It was first mentioned a couple of weeks before WM X-7 - I don't think they ever really realised before then, so it was 'accidental' booking so to speak. And apparently the initial plan was for Triple H to end the streak - it hadn't been made a big deal of but would have been a big win fior Triple H nonetheless. After making a fuss of it that year they then started booking it as the streak. Does that make sense?

Oh yeah true. Can't beat live PPVs. My friends and I used to get 3 or 4 a year live when we were into it. It was so annoying that PPVs were on a monday here.

Question. How long have u been watching wraslin?


Ahh ok. So it was at first a coincidence and then they realised he was on a streak and advertised it as such.

 

[GIMH]

I started watching wrestling in 1991 but I've had my periods out of the game - not because I got alienated to it thoguh, but more just to do with life. When I settled down with my ex and had kids and that, wrestling just fell by the wayside, so the sort of 06-08 period is not one I'm too hot on and the couple of years before that I only watched intermittently. 87-94 and 97-02 have been the periods I've watched most (watched all the old tapes as a kid), though because of an incentive scheme in work I can get heaps of free DVDs basically, so I'm ordering up the old 'tagged classics' PPVs, collection is becoming quite monstrous and it's great watching events I haven't seen for years - I mentioned that I watched Mania 19 last week because I picked that up, I hadn't really watched it since it happened and there were parts I didn't mention at all.

Went off on one a bit there, soz

PPVs are silly o'clock for us here so it always means taking a day's holiday, can't say I mind for Mania though, sooooo hyped

When did you start watching?