WRESTLEMANIA 38 OFFICIAL DISCUSSION THREAD

We are finally here! April 2-3, 2022… Escape from the real world and enjoy some wrestling.

NIGHT ONE:

  • The KO Show: Kevin Owens with special guest Stone Cold Steve Austin
  • SmackDown Women’s Championship: Charlotte Flair (champions) vs. Ronda Rousey
  • Raw Women’s Championship: Becky Lynch (champions) vs. Bianca Belair
  • Edge vs. AJ Styles
  • Seth Rollins vs. unnamed opponent (picked by Mr. McMahon)
  • Dominik Mysterio & Rey Mysterio vs. The Miz & Logan Paul
  • SmackDown Tag Team Championships: The Usos (champions) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Rick Boogs
  • Drew McIntyre vs. Happy Corbin
  • New Day (King Woods and Kofi Kingston) vs. Sheamus and Ridge Holland

NIGHT TWO:

  • World title unification match: Universal champion Roman Reigns vs. WWE Champion Brock Lesnar
  • Raw Tag Team Championships: RK-Bro (Matt Riddle & Randy Orton) (champions) vs. The Street Profits vs. Alpha Academy
  • Bobby Lashley vs. Omos
  • Sami Zayn vs. Johnny Knoxville
  • Austin Theory vs. Pat McAfee
  • Women’s Tag Team Championships: Carmella & Queen Zelina (champions) vs. Naomi & Sasha Banks vs. Liv Morgan & Rhea Ripley vs. Natalya & Shayna Baszler

Is the two-hour pre-show really necessary? That was just a whole lot of NOTHING!

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The place is packed. WWE will still throw out a fake attendance number. But the building looks honestly sold out. Every section not blocked by the stage is full.

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Showtime!

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Garbage start to mania. Bland tag match and how is this Corbin/Drew match not a squash?

Isn’t Drew the guy that beat Brock in three minutes lol. The crowd is silent

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Glad I’m watching Impact’s Multiverse of Matches instead lol

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I’m here. I don’t know how it’s coming across on TV but the place is LOUD.

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They seem loud. But there’s 65 000 people, so I’d hope they would be.

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Crowd sure sounded like they were behind Drew and got into the End Of Days kick out to me :man_shrugging:t4: I thought this match over-delivered but agree the tag was a boring start.

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I have to be somewhere else in an hour and just want to see Cody debut so maybe I’m just impatient lol. Just don’t think that match needed to be that long.

And here come the commercials and video packages upon video packages zzzzz

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I’m watching, and trying to have an open mind…

  • Everything is so, so, so overproduced. It’s like they have access to all the latest production toys and tools, and they vomit them all over everything.

  • They are trying SO hard to make it feel like WWE is part of pop culture… but it’s not. It feels like they have big sponsors, but are still on the fringe. No matter how hard they try, no matter how many celebs they have featured. They want to be Disney or Marvel, but they’re not.

  • So many commercials.

  • They have their fans. They seem passionate… I hope they’re enjoying it. This just isn’t the company I used to love so much.

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Logan Paul is already better than Dominik and Miz.

It’s a lot more fun live. Less commercials. No camera cuts. Big spectacle.

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Oh, for sure. I have no doubt. And that’s always the difference between going to a PPV vs. going to TV.
A lot of WWE TV would just cut the action abruptly for breaks and commercials - and there is no flow for an audience. Especially in the days when they’d tape Tuesday and not be live. At least most PPVs I’ve been to have a consistent flow, and no breaks in the action.

I’m glad you’re having fun!!

I wasn’t going to watch but decided to give it a chance.

Fell asleep after 15 min. That never happens to me. Bianca’s entrance just tapped me out. This just drags for me. I’ll try to catch Cody tomorrow.

Lynch vs Bianca is great so far.
As somebody who doesn’t watch week to week, this definitely feels like it should have been a main event on one of the nights, especially given the fact both have previously closed Mania’s as winners before.

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… didn’t they show this random Sasha video during the Rumble too?

Bianca wins, huge moment… cut to a video about Bianca being the greatest for absolutely no reason.

WRESTLING HAS MORE THAN ONE ROYAL FAMILY…

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Oh my… Well, he’s certainly pushing a vision of himself.

Glad to see Cody seemingly got to come in as is, totally AEW Cody, we’ll see how it goes though lol

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