After the recap played, he was already in the ring.  AT WRESTLEMANIA!  I know they don’t care about this, but he got a jobber entrance in a world title match AT WRESTLEMANIA.  That’s HILARIOUS.

And he……Sucked.  The match was REALLY sloppy and Fandnago only had one big move, a guillotine legdrop, which he used three times in less than ten minutes.  The ending looked to be botched but Fandango won with a small package.

Well…….No, but it was after the match.  Henry beat Ryback clean in about eight minutes.  It was basically a squash.  Odd indeed.

now done with their first match at Wrestlemania and they are…….Still undefeated.  Big SHow got mad at not getting a tag and didn’t save Orton.  He knocked his partners out post match.

We finally got something instead of stupid highlight packages on the pre-show.Miz won with the Figure Four in a very short match.  It’s not like Barrett had been doing anything with the title anyway.

This is our day.  Today is the day that the entire wrestling year builds to.  In just over twelve hours, the entire wrestling words focuses on one show only.  To think that this was started nearly thirty years ago now is mind boggling, especially when you consider how small things started out.  Wrestlemania has gone from a glorified house show with Mr. T. in the main event to a show that averages over 70,000 people in recent years and a million people paying money to watch a pay per view.  It’s the biggest event of the year and I spend all year looking forward to it.

Anyone else excited?

Since I’m out of matches to talk about.Overall this year’s show doesn’t have the spark to it that last year’s did.  it’s really just kind of there for the most part and that doesn’t make for the most interesting show in the world.  The matches will likely be good with the six man being a highlight and probably the tag titles being the weak point.  The show is going to do INSANE business given what they’ve got out there and with how hot the company is at house shows right now.  Wrestlemania is now the show for the common fan so a card like this works very well for that purpose.

The main problem here though is this feels like it’s just there to set up Mania 30 next year for the really big blowout.  That’s fine for people who are going (like me), but for fans going tomorrow it’s going to be a bit of a letdown.  That being said, it’s definitely going to be entertaining as every match would have to completely bomb for it not to work.  It’s going to be WAY better than #27, not as good as #26 or #28 and probably better than #25, which isn’t bad by comparison.

The show is going to be good but not great, and sometimes that’s as good as you’re going to be able to get.  I’m looking forward to it of course.  It’s Wrestlemania.  How can you not be fired up for it?

Then there’s this.A year ago I was as fired up for a match as I’ve ever been because of Cena vs. Rock.  I didn’t know if it was going to be good or bad, but I needed to see it one way or another.  That being said, the feeling isn’t there this year.  I’m not saying I don’t want to see the match because I do and there’s no way this won’t be good.  The problem is there’s nothing separating this match from last year’s version.  Yeah it’s for the title, and maybe 10% of the promos have been about said title.  It’s not adding anything and is the definition of a prop to set up this match.

All that being said, I’m fine with the match happening again.  These complaints of the match being stale or played out are pretty ridiculous considering we’ve seen them fight ONCE in a a year and that match drew more money than any other match ever.  Again, we haven’t seen them fight in over a year and that match was an instant classic.  But somehow this match is stale because….it just is right?  Anyway the match itself should be fine.

As for the big question about it: no, I don’t see Cena doing the turn.  I see this being more like Wrestlemania 8 where Roddy Piper picked up the bell, looked at it, and sat it down instead if giving into the demons.  Granted he lost about ten seconds later but at least he had a clean conscience.  The main thing to remember abotu Cena becoming the villain is there’s no one ready to take his place on top of the company.  Cena is way too big of a cash cow for WWE and in his own words:

“”I just don’t see me getting there in order to please a very small group of 30-year-olds.”

That’s what it boils down to.  A lot of fans REALLY like John Cena.  He appeals to kids, he appeals to women, he appeals to families.  Cena is built up as a role model and he’s done that for years.  Yeah, the turn would be shocking.  Then three months would go by and where would we be then?  We would have a small group of 30-year-olds cheering for him and a bunch of people not buying his merchandise.  WWE is too smart to cater to such a small group of fans and at the end of the day, the right move is for Cena to stay where he is, at least until someone new is ready.

As for the match, I can’t imagine Rock keeping the title.  I just can’t.  Rock can’t be world champion long term because of his movie schedule, so you can’t expect him to keep the title even longer.  Also Cena has earned a big win as he hasn’t been champion in a LONG time.  Think about it.  Since Money in the Bank 2011, Cena has been world champion for 34 days, and 20 of those were spent as co champion with Punk.  His last title reign that went longer than three months?  The year long one which ended in 2007.  It’s been a very long time since Cena had an extended reign as world champion and it’s his time again.  Cena wins, as he should.

I’ll try to have something to say about this but it’s not going to be easy.For twenty two years now, the Undertaker has never lost at Wrestlemania.  For the last few years now, an attempt at breaking the Streak has been almost as important if not more important than the world title matches.  Breaking the Streak is something people have tried to do for years and CM Punk is the latest in line to make a run at it.  There are two ways to go after Taker at Wrestlemania: as a matter of honor or as a personal matter.

Punk has taken the latter and that means the match is going to suffer as a result.  At the end of the day, while Punk has played up the idea of insulting the memory of Paul Bearer as well as the idea of getting Undertaker disqualified, I haven’t been sucked into the feud.  Punk looks incredibly bored by this whole thing and it seems that he’s out to  just tick Undertaker off rather than actually have a good program to set up the match.  People have been stealing the urn from Undertaker for years now and Hogan already threw the ashes inside of it into Taker’s eyes to beat him back in 1991.  It’s kind of hard to get into a feud like that when you’ve seen HHH and Shawn tear the house down with Taker four years in a row now you know?

As for the match, it’s Undertaker at Wrestlemania.  Undertaker wins.  He just does.

If there’s a potential show stealer out there, this is it.Shield has been as dominant as any new group of people I’ve seen in years.  They came in and have instantly been treated like a killing machine.  Look at the names they’ve taken out: Ryback, Rock, Cena, Bryan, Kane, and now they have a shot at Orton, Sheamus and Big Show.  The questions to this match are will Shield stay undefeated and who, if anyone, is going to turn on their partners.  At the end of the day, it’s really hard to buy Orton, Big Show and Sheamus as working together well enough to do something Cena couldn’t accomplish.  The KO punch is certainly a wildcard though as it’s knocked out Reigns and Rollins before.

The thing about Shield though is they can only do these six man matches against dream teams for so long.  They’ve done two already before this show and you can only buy them as unbeatable for so long.  Either that or we’re going to run out of combinations to fight them in big matches.  My guess is either way, soon after this we get an amicable separation by Shield to go after some singles gold, perhaps feuding with Cena in singles PPV matches over the summer.  It’s clear Reigns is going to be a big deal and the other two are going to be well pushed also, but the question is when and against whom.

As for the match, I’ll take Shield to win with Orton turning on his partners.  Over the last few weeks he’s been playing the peacemaker between the big guys, which makes him the least likely suspect, which makes him the most potential heel out of the bunch.  Like it or not, that’s WWE logic for you and odds are it’s how things are going to go.  Big Show regularly changes from face to heel every three months or so and Sheamus is still very over as a good guy, so that really just leaves Orton.  I’m not sure if it happens during or after the match, but I definitely think it happens and Shield gets the win before breaking up on good terms.