[Stu]

It's that time of the year. The big show gets it's own thread.

Merzedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans Louisiana, April 6th 2014



wwe world heavyweight championship match
'Big' Dave Batista Vs. 'Still' Randy Orton Vs. ?

streak vs. sable's fella
Undertaker Vs. 'The Beast Incarnate' Brock Lesnar

grudge match
'The Man' John Cena Vs. Bray 'True Blood Rulz' Wyatt

winner joins main event title match to make it a super duper three way dance!
'The People's Choice' Daniel Bryan Vs. Gravediggin' Hunter Hearst Helmsley
winner joins main event title match to make it a super duper three way dance!

we blew our shield/wyatt load so this is what they're left with now
The Shield Vs. Kane & The New Age Outlaws

loads of people wrestle in an
Andre The Giant Invitational Battle Royal

'will it be on the pre show?' tag title match
The Usos Vs. Los Matadores Vs. RyBaxle [?] Vs. The Real Americans

put your hands under the bedsheets, gents, it's a
Vickie Guerrero Divas Invitational


ALSO FEATURING!

Menial skit involving I.R.S, Dusty Rhodes and Sgt. Slaughter!

An in depth tutorial on how to use the WWE Network!

A fan revolt OR the beginning of the inevitable Daniel Bryan backlash!

Reallllly confused commentary!

3MB!

Yellow font!

Much, much more!

Youtube video

That's your card for the big night! And that's the curtain jerk post. Backstory, meaningless stats, made up newz, and my useless opinion to follow.

[Ramsay]

[Black Dagger]

RybAXEL... gawd damn it Stu!

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Black Dagger

RybAXEL... gawd damn it Stu!

Anyway yeah. I'm designing an idiots guide to WrestleMania XXX to be all festive about it and generate discussion and stuff. I wanted to go out and buy energy drinks but it's raining so I can't and I'm bored. I watched WrestleMania XXVIII on the Network this morning and really need to space out my wrestling consumption somewhat so I don't explode or something. Fully Loaded 1999 if I come home alone tonight.

I'm going to write this thing in bits though because my attention span is crap and I'm only up as far as 'whoops, we ruined Ryback lol!'.

[MattySlug]

Hopefully will watch it live at a mates place!!

[Brother Leon]

Bryan will get his moment then. It's been booked brilliantly by HHH etc and idiots have not been patient enough for it. I've liked Orton as champion and the corporation story, but it hasn't really got love he deserved due to the obsession of giving Bryan the belt. Would be pretty funny if HHH and Bryan are put into the title match just for HHH to win and troll everyone

[Alf]

Is the Hall of fame gonna be on Sky sports?

[Black Dagger]

Originally Posted by wannashag

Is the Hall of fame gonna be on Sky sports?

Not live unfortunately, I think they are showing an edited version with Jake/Warrior/Lita either tomorrow or later in the week I'd imagine.

I'm watching it live on a stream, so pumped, tears for Jake.

[Black Dagger]

And yeah lol, the whole 'NOT WATCHING EVER AGAIN' when he didn't win it on a C PPV when Mania was the round the corner was the most pathetic complaining I've seen in a long while.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Black Dagger

Not live unfortunately, I think they are showing an edited version with Jake/Warrior/Lita either tomorrow or later in the week I'd imagine.

I'm watching it live on a stream, so pumped, tears for Jake.

Thank you

I found it 6pm on Wednsday Sky Sports 3

[Stu]

I'm as bad at keeping this thread updated as I perceive everyone else to be with keeping the other one going .

Watching the excellent WrestleMania Saturday panel at Axcess right now waiting for red carpet Hall Of Fame build up at 1, mofos. The Network is the bomb diggity. I've been treated to Ziggler going around insulting people, Bad News Barret presenting his ten worst WrestleMania moments, the Usos buying some shirts, Renee Young running into Scott Hall's biggest, gayest fan and Ric Flair being really mean and shirty towards Mick Foley.

It's mostly the total hype fodder thing full of repeat video packages that you would expect but I sorta like that thing building to the big day. I used to leave the 10 minute Box Office preview show on a loop all Sunday when I refreshed newz sites maniacally years ago.

That sit down interviews with The Shield should be played on Raw every week until they combust. For all the promise people are talking up about Roman Reigns it still doesn't seem like the entire crowd are on board with him. And a lot of the crowd if you watch don't seem to know how to react when the groups music hits. I loath having to use the term 'casual fan' but in lieu of anything different there does seem to be large swathes of kids in the crowd who aren't sure how to react yet to the more ill defined, tweenery Shield.

The video package firmly casts them as three intelligent, plugged in human beings though. Even Alex Riley picked up on the fact that even though they spoke almost exclusively in "we're going to step over everyone and own this business" platitudes there was still a sense of humility about them for the fact that they had reached this point in the first place. They're really cool guys and get that fine balance people like Bryan and Punk have failed at at times between looking like guys you would meet at a gig and looking like guys who are still wrestlers that would kick your head in. I'm looking froward to the follow up parts.

I'm also really looking forward to WrestleMania. The build up has in parts been solid in parts subdued. Overshadowed by the Network launch with a lot of it being thrown together far too late. It's all been about Bryan though no matter what other angles seemed to be coming to the fore more over the past year or so. I'm not mental for the guy and am skeptical of where they could go with a title run [Extreme Rules] but the WrestleMania Yes moment is the clear light of day for this show. And I'm assuming even though long term it won't be a good long term strategy or even the guy they want to go with at all they've realized that the show has sold itself as best it can at this point and that you may as well go with the obvious Kodiak moment. If only for awhile.

I mean if Triple H wanted to go on and win the whole thing too that would be fine. Basically though my feeling is this WrestleMania will fall in to the 'surprisingly good' category. 29 and 27 were both some of the worst in recent memory. Provided they nail a decent time format, throw loads of nostalgia at us, and have the handful of big time matches deliver it should all be pretty good. And the Hall Of Fame! I'm as excited for that as anything because I can watch the whole thing on the Network.

It's WrestleMania weekend still, isn't it. I've found myself hopelessly excited as usual. Enjoy it everyone.

[Stu]

And if you read all that here is your reward :

Spoiler:

Youtube video

Total Eurovision. Love Steph's obvious admiration for the business.

SCOTT HALL I'M SO ****ING EXCITED.

[Vicky.]

This is costing me nearly 20 quid

[Stu]

These guys are in the house. If they get Rock, Austin, Michaels, Bret, Hogan, Warrior etc together for some selfie moment I'll wet the walls.

Miz must be lining up to take all their finishers. What a rush that would be!

[Black Dagger]

Stu, I read it all, great read

And that set is orgasmic, hope they go all out with the entrances..

And omfg, that photo. So excited now for the Hall of Fame, got my tissues for Jake, and tonight, can't ****ing wait. I'm even excited for the jobber battle royal.

[Brother Leon]

Says it all when two guys who were my childhood almost in Austin and Rock didn't make me smile as much as seeing JR in that pic. Love that man and miss his commentary.

[Stu]

I'm literally going to cry. That's just so special.

[Black Dagger]

****ing epic

[Black Dagger]

Another selfie, the disgust on Dean's face at the twitter mirror, he hates social media so much

[Stu]

Do all the kliq go derp eventually?

"Look in to the camera Shawn."

"I'm trying!"

[Stu]

Lita is one boring ****. Speech is going on forever. They cut to Hogan clapping and he had this priceless "why are we clapping?" look of confusion.

[Black Dagger]

****ing bawling my eyes out, man.

[Stu]

Yeah that was a trip. Jesus.

Whose idea was it to send out the midgets afterwards.

[Black Dagger]

FFS. If that was supposed to be a 'pick me up' jesus fn christ.

[Stu]

Make-a-sandwich induction.