Finished the last energy drink I had in the fridge. Gonna be a rough go for a while.
Greetings from my hovel on the shores of the Bow.
Watched night 2 of Wrestlemania 36. What a weird show.
It’s a real feast or famine situation this year at Wrestlemania. 16 total matches (18, but I didn’t watch the preshows). I gave ratings to 14 of them (2 are not really wrestling matches, they are performance art pieces so they can’t *really* be rated as wrestling matches). Of those 14 only 3 matches met or surpassed the 3 star mark for me. Of those 3 only 1 match surpassed the 4 star mark. That’s not a great ratio for Wrestlemania, especially one with this much talent. I’m going to give my star ratings for each of the matches here, so if you don’t care about pro-wrestling I would advise you to stop reading and come back tomorrow where I’ll probably talk about something else. I will think no less of you.
NIGHT 1
Women’s Tag-Team Championship
Kabuki Warriors (Kairi Sane & Asuka) (c) VS Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross
**1/2
King Corbin VS Elias
*
RAW Women’s Championship
Becky Lynch (c) VS Shayna Baszler
**1/2
WWE Intercontinental Championship
Sami Zayn (w/ Shinsuke Nakamura & Cesaro) (c) VS Daniel Bryan (w/ Drew Gulak)
**
Triangle Ladder Match for SmackDown Tag-Team Championship
John Morrison (c) VS Jimmy Use VS Kofi Kingston
***
Kevin Owens VS Seth Rollins
***3/4
WWE Universal Championship
Goldberg (c) VS Braun Strowman
*3/4
The Boneyard
The Undertaker VS AJ Styles
(no rating, but if it had one it’d be ***** because it was the best thing WWE has done in years)
NIGHT2
NXT Women’s Championship
Rhea Ripley (c) VS Charlotte Flair
****1/2
Aleister Black VS Bobby Lashley (w/ Lana)
**
Otis Dozovic VS Dolph Ziggler (w/ Sonya Deville)
**1/4
Last Man Standing Match
Edge VS Randy Orton
ZERO stars (this was one of the worst matches I’ve ever seen)
RAW Tag-Team Championship
The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) (c) VS Austin Theory & Angel Garza (w/ Zelina Vega)
**1/2
Fatal 5 Way Elimination Match for SmackDown Women’s Championship
Bayley (c) VS Sasha Banks VS Lacey Evans VS Tamina VS Naomi
***1/4
Firefly Fun House
Bray Wyatt VS John Cena
(again, not a match, but if you ever wanted to see John Cena in the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks? This was for you. I LOVED this.)
WWE Championship
Brock Lesnar (c) VS Drew McIntyre
*1/2
Ok. That’s it. I promise. No more wrestling talk… until I next want to talk about wrestling. See you tomorrow.
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