I applaud the creation of this thread. I was thinking of reviving my list thread to do some WM stuff but didn't wanna bring up 2 or 3 year old thread.
I think first on the list should be Brock vs. Roman from 31.
My thoughts on it in spoilers because of spoilers if you don't remember specifics. I just watched Brock/Roman yesterday.
Spoiler:
I was kind of underwhelmed by it. It had been > a year since I last saw it but now I just see a bunch of domination and the thing that irked me on first viewing...Roman smiling to Brock's offense. The ending is, of course, awesome and I'd argue in the top three best finishes to a Mania ever with 20 and 30.
I had also forgotten that this is where Brock coined the phrase, "suplex city, *****", so I marked a kid when I heard that.
Stars for fun: ****1/4. Originally had this as ****1/2
Personal favorite recommendation:
Bryan vs. HHH - 30
Shinsuke vs. Sami - Takeover: Dallas
Mick vs. Edge - 22
AJ vs. Shinsuke - WK 10 if you're feeling adventurous and want a preview of that match
Comments from the initial introductions: WWE is in love with showing people's cell phones filming the show. Which is surreal when you think about it-- they are making a show of using their state of the art cameras to make us watch it through some dipstick's iPhone.
Also, it sucks that the network tells you the run time on these matches.
Macho w/ Sherry vs The Ultimate Warrior from WM7(?). Career ending match.
Monsoon and Heenan on the mics, Liz hiding in the stands "with the Humanoids!" per The Brain.
Now THIS is a match I can get behind. And I found it with the search function, so it autoloads to the start on the WM show without leaking the run time of the individual match.
Hogan's scraps from the WM5 main event and the WM6 main event meet for the title of Scrap Champion.
I've said it before on this forum. Bobby calling that is the greatest thing ever. "Is that the Ultimate Warrior? Why isn't that buffoon running? Why isn't he running at 150 miles per hour like that insane lunatic usually does?."
Such a depressing match knowing all of them are dead, and now all the commentators are too.
His music didn't age well even within his own career. The Sherri version was decent, then dropping her and having him sing about himself was a nice touch right at first I guess, but it was a cocky midcard heel theme that should not have possibly carried on for multiple decades.
What are the best matches of the past year that I should watch going into this Wrestlemania? I haven't really watch much at all since last year's Mania. Must be on WWE Network
