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Apologies, had to post this here as couldn't find the "Fake Sports" category but whose watching Mania 34 this weekend?! This year for the first time I'm going to watch it live at a bar in town rather than at home in my pants. It's going to be a late night on Sunday doesn't finish til 4am, maybe even 5. Popped my Mania cherry in 1990 watching the Ultimate Warrior triumph over the immortal Hulk Hogan and have been hooked on and off since. Something great about watching this shit specifically live, guess it's the knowledge that anything could go wrong (very) at any moment in front of 80,000 people. For any lapsed fans out there, you can watch it live on the WWE network on your phone, console, smart TV etc. It's a tenner a month but sign up as new user, you get a free month, watch the Mains then cancel. Weird one is wrestling but as far as fake athletics go, Wrestlemania is a great viewing spectacle. https://youtu.be/RSbyk0VReyo |
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richardiox 10,097 posts
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What's the card? -
richardiox 10,097 posts
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Registered 17 years agoPretty stacked card actually. -
richardiox 10,097 posts
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Registered 17 years agoCruiserweight championship
Cedric Alexander vs Mustafa Ali
US championship
Bobby Roode vs Jinder Mahal vs Randy Orton
Raw Women’s championship
Alexa Bliss vs Nia Jax
The Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Raw Tag-team championship
The Bar vs Braun Strowman and ???
Intercontinental championship
Seth Rollins vs Finn Balor vs The Miz
Women’s Battle Royal
Smackdown Tag-team championship
The Usos vs The New Day vs The Bludgeon Brothers
Smackdown Women’s championship
Charlotte Flair vs Asuka
Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan vs Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn
Universal championship
Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns
Ronda Rousey and Kurt Angle vs Triple H and Stephanie McMahon
WWE championship
Shinsuke Nakamura vs AJ Styles
John Cena vs The Undertaker (yet to be confirmed) -
Rhaegyr 5,499 posts
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Registered 10 years agoA few of us used to get together at a mates' house and watch the thing with loads of beer and snacks - had a blast. Couldn't beat it for over the top entertainment with a huge dose of nostalgia.
Not watched for the last few years though - the guys we grew up with are long gone now and there doesn't seem to be much to get excited about in regards to the new generation of wrestlers. Think the last time we got together was Rock/Cena as the ME. -
DFawkes 32,785 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI don't like the frequency of PPVs nowadays. They don't feel special anymore. Wrestlemania is still awesome though, like a season finale where you get to see how the stories they've been building up to finally resolve .gif)
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Rhaegyr 5,499 posts
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Registered 10 years agoDFawkes wrote:
Heh, if only
I don't like the frequency of PPVs nowadays. They don't feel special anymore. Wrestlemania is still awesome though, like a season finale where you get to see how the stories they've been building up to finally resolve -
richardiox 10,097 posts
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Registered 17 years agoRhaegyr wrote:
It's improved loads in the last three years or so. They basically hired the twenty best independent wrestlers from around the world and raided the other feds (New Japan and TNA) and now have a roster of great "new generation" guys but also a few golden oldies... Orton, Cena, Taker, Lesnar etc
A few of us used to get together at a mates' house and watch the thing with loads of beer and snacks - had a blast. Couldn't beat it for over the top entertainment with a huge dose of nostalgia.
Not watched for the last few years though - the guys we grew up with are long gone now and there doesn't seem to be much to get excited about in regards to the new generation of wrestlers. Think the last time we got together was Rock/Cena as the ME.
Not to mention the women's division which has gone from being a joke to really good. They had a first ever women's royal rumble this year and have just been signed Ronda Rousey and a load of ex UFC women.
Great primer podcast for anyone wanting to jump back in and watch it for free on the WWE network :
https://www.how2wrestling.com/articles/the-ultimate-guide-to-wrestlemania-34-2018 -
captbirdseye 11,190 posts
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disusedgenius 10,677 posts
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Registered 14 years agorichardiox wrote:
...which is true, yet last year's Wrestlemania was complete balls.
It's improved loads in the last three years or so.
However pretty much every NXT: Takeover has been excellent, so I guess it evens out. -
richardiox 10,097 posts
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mothercruncher 19,474 posts
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Registered 15 years agoSomewhere on the Internet there’s a Ven Diagram with “spandex” on one side and “fake tan” on the other.
At the intersection is a picture of MrTom birching his inappropriate boner back to its respectful flaccid state. -
disusedgenius 10,677 posts
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Registered 14 years agomothercruncher wrote:
*coughs*
Somewhere on the Internet there’s a Ven Diagram with “spandex” on one side and “fake tan” on the other.
I believe you meant a "Rob Van Damagram"? -
Baihu1983 14,378 posts
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Registered 10 years ago5+ hours is just too long for a show -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIs Shawn Michaels still around? -
the_milkybar_kid 8,474 posts
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Registered 7 years agoWill watch Triple H vs Kurt Angle. The rest I can take it or leave it. -
Is the undertaker still in it then? I thought he retired? -
disusedgenius 10,677 posts
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Registered 14 years agoNot officially. The current working theory is that he'll come back as Biker Taker and it was just the old gimmick that retired. -
pk1980 1,231 posts
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Registered 5 years agoThey are teasing it. Expected it to be biker version appearing.
Imagine he needs to ride a bike to the ring as he would struggle to walk it. -
Rusty_M 7,172 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI can't watch it live, so I'll need to avoid Twitter all week. -
Rusty_M 7,172 posts
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Registered 14 years agocaptbirdseye wrote:
He's gonna get these hands.
I think Mr Tom is going to be Strowmans mystery partner. -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoJust been reading through this wiki. SO many memories of my childhood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undertaker
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richardiox 10,097 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI was watching live on Sky Sports the night undertaker debuted, Survivor Series 1990. Was ten and remember being pretty scared of him. -
simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoI'm hyped for this and WWE is probably having the best few years its had in well over a decade but seven hours is bound to be a punishing slog at times.
Watching the Kevin Owen 365 documentary there were good matches I'd forgotten had even happened in the midst of the new WWE formula of making the biggest shows mammoth endurance events.
Takeover distilling excellence and trimming the excess will probably be show of the weekend again. But man, so much to look forward to -
Good point. Hope and assume you don't watch any films from Hollywood. And didn't realize the wrestlers were forced into it.
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