Here we are folks. Night one of the biggest show of the year!
Tonight, WWE brings us night one of WrestleMania XL live from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! Our card for tonight includes:
Tag Team Match
Andrade & Rey Mysterio vs. Dominik Mysterio & Santos Escobar
Six Man Tag Team Match
Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill & Naomi vs. Damage CTRL (Asuka, Dakota Kai & Kairi Sane)
WWE RAW Tag Team Title / WWE SmackDown Tag Team Title Six-Pack Ladder Match
The Judgment Day (Damian Priest & Finn Balor) © vs. Austin Theory & Grayson Waller vs. Awesome Truth (R-Truth & The Miz) vs. #DIY (Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa) vs. The New Day (Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods) vs. New Catch Republic (Pete Dunne & Tyler Bate)
Singles Match
Jey Uso vs. Jimmy Uso
WWE Intercontinental Title Match
Gunther © vs. Sami Zayn
WWE Women’s World Title Match
Rhea Ripley © vs. Becky Lynch
Tag Team Match
Cody Rhodes & Seth Rollins vs. The Bloodline (Roman Reigns & The Rock)
and more!
The show will start tonight at 7ET/4PT live on peacock.
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Have they really booked matches which are Latino tag team vs Latino tag team, and 3 black women vs 3 Japanese women?
I’ll probably just wait until tomorrow to watch so I can just get to the matches. I don’t need to see 15-25 minutes of ads and video packages in between each match. I hope to be proven wrong, but I ain’t holding my breath.
To quote my SLF during last year’s 'mania.
“For a show called Wrestlemania, there’s not a lot of actual wrestling.”
“For a show called Wrestlemania, there’s not a lot of actual wrestling.”
Ain’t that the truth.
You still won’t necessarily get away from the ads, for NXT it seemed every match had a sponsor, Fallout TV Series, Knuckles TV Series, and some others with graphics on the wall and floor. They didn’t hype it up or talk a lot about it though so it wasn’t horribly done, but UFC-style ads are coming sadly.
The greatest rapper in the world… Lil Wayne
May God that had me rolling with laughter, he’s not the worst by a long shot and up there in the ranks, but greatest in the world?
The greatest rapper in the world…that we could get to hype up Jey on the way out. Works for me!
To be fair tho they could have gotten a lot worse, thankfully MGK does pop punk now, and thank fuck they didn’t let him play guitar.
I expected the Dr. of Thuganomics
I would give just about anything for the Dr. Of Thuganomics to come back, thick gold chain that vanilla ice style cut dropping rhymes on people left right and centre.
I’m just gonna toss my NXT Stand & Deliver comment here… WWE saw us thinking AEW/ROH had too many titles and decided to join the add more titles party, like why does NXT need a secondary women’s title? They introduced the WWE NXT Women’s North American Championship. Main roster, it might could work they have a lot more tv hours to work with, NXT has 2 hours, like why?
(Considered making a discussion thread but wasn’t sure if it would be used, so do feel free to use this one for it too)
ugh they did? I’m in the same boat thought wise. I don’t watch NXT since they did NXT 2: Rainbow Boogaloo a long while back but is the NXT women’s roster anywhere near deep enough for a midcard title?
I don’t watch NXT a lot, but probably more than Rampage, and while they have a lot of women on the roster, I don’t see how it can support two singles and a tag title on 2 hours per week, they don’t even have monthly PLE’s.
Oy >.< I miss when titles meant something more than ‘please pay extra attention to this wrestler’.
If Logan retains, that trio is going to be insufferable on Smackdown
Expect to suffer, because I just don’t see them taking it off of him yet.
Yep. Seems like they’re still working towards Knight being the one. If he beats AJ tomorrow, that’s a good sign, if you’re a Knight fan that is.
Also shoutout to JD, he’s great at what he does. I’m always happy to watch him eat shit
Those crazy spots always scare me a little, but JD really does great at being the ragdoll of the group, I wasn’t sure I liked him joining but they proved me wrong with him.
@Brain @Travon333 JD has so much more potential than we’ve seen yet. At NXT he was always a top contender. On the main roster he’s a clown. I’m disappointed, but he’s a professional.
He’s good even at that though. He just gets shit on by everybody and gets his karma really quick. Love seeing him get clowned on after being a jackass
He took one of the best bumps of the match and he wasn’t even a participant!
I truly didn’t want Judgement Day to retain thanks to them being dicks to Truth so this is a double feel good decision
Same, I popped hard.
Happy for Jade, wonder how they’re going to use her. She still has a few things to cleanup
Wow. This has flown by so far. Assuming this match is 15-20 with intros and Sami/Gunther is 30ish, the main could feasibly go for an hour!
I know it’s a tag match and will have Bloodline interference but I’d be concerned about The Rock trying to go that long, depends on how long he’s known he was wrestling and how long he’s been training for it I guess.
Smoke and mirrors should help to cover some of Rock’s cardio but I tend to agree that I’m wary of him holding up for 30+
I may be the only one, but I legit feel like Gable is somehow costing Sami this match.
I have been wondering about that too, the story looked like it was going to be Chad’s to me, then they injected Sami into it, I really wonder if Chad is turning on him.
Chad knows he can’t beat Gunther, but he could beat Sami, so it would be best for Chad to get the title on Sami so he has an actual chance of winning.
In retrospect, this makes perfect sense and I won’t be shocked at all if Chad turns on Sami this Monday to set that up.
I kinda want it to be a slow turn, Sami being over the moon with his win and unintentionally rubbing it in that he beat Gunther, then finally Chad snaps and viciously turns on him, like beats the living crap out of Sami.
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You got this Sami!
*checks who his opponent is*
You don’t got this Sami!
Edit: I was wrong.
HE DID HAVE IT! MY BOY HAD IT!
A STORY HAS BEEN FINISHED!
Dom really teamed up with the neighborhood thugs against his Dad
A hope Rey doesn’t think he’s not getting turned on tonight
The real question is how many turn on him, my money is on Carlito.
Rocky is so jealous of Roman he had a replica belt made to carry out lol.
I love it lol. He’s gonna guaranteed keep carrying it around like an actual title to make himself feel bigger than Roman.
That is the first match I completely disagree with the winner of. I absolutely do not believe Sami was the right choice to take down Gunther’s long-ass reign, it should have gone to somebody up and coming, who I don’t know, but not an established upper card star.
I feel the same way with the caveat that I can’t think of anyone in the short term that fits that bill and Gunther should also be moving up the card. Great match regardless, but I was rooting for Gunther to retain as well.
