WRESTLEMANIA 27

My thoughts on this years WWE super show.


First off we get the usual "America The Beautiful" song which was done this year by someone called Kerri Hilson, I had no idea who this was and to be honest i thought it sounded bloody awful.What the hell is it with these singers who make their voice go up and down about ten times on every bloody word,it sounds shit so stop it.Anyway,after about 10 seconds i hit the mute buton untill it was over.

Next we got the host of the show The Rock come done to the ring,he did a promo while working in all his usual bits and catchphrases.It was fun and the crowd was well into it,chanting along with pretty much everything The Rock told them to.Maybe it was a tad over long but it got the crowd worked up at the start of the biggest show of the year.

The first match of the night was Edge v Del Rio for the world heavyweight title. I don't really understand the reason for putting on this match first,with the two top titles on the line tonight i would have expected one to be on halfway through and the other to close the event.Anyway the work from both was very good,the crowd seemed to be into it but saldy it only got around 11-12 mins.Edge won in the end which came as a real surprise as i think most people thought Del Rio was going over in this match.Edge,with the help of Christian smashed up Del Rio's car afterwards which was time they should have used in the match and not for this.Seems very strange that they build up Del Rio for weeks then have him lose at Mania.Not sure where they are going now with these two but i think a re-match will happen soon with Del Rio winning the belt.Over all i would give this match 3.5 out of 5.0, I enjoyed it,just wish it had gone longer.

Cody Rhodes v Rey Mysterio was up next, I had high hope for this match and was expecting this to be a candidate for match of the night, sadly it wasn't, it was a good match but something just didn't seem quite right and i'm not sure what it was.Both worked hard in the match and there were some great spots to enjoy and it was the correct choice to have Cody go over Rey,it won't hurt Rey's career to lose but it eill help Cody big time to get a win over Rey at Mania.I think i had my expectations set way to high for this match going in but it was still a good 3.5 out of 5.0.

There was some skit backstage involving Snoop Dog watch some of the WWE superstars do some singing auditions or some such crap,i used this time to take a pee break.

Next match on the card featured The Corre v Kane, The Big Show, Santino Marella and Kofi Kingston,this match,and i use that term very losely here was over before it really got started.It lasted about two or three mins at most and to add insult they even had the good guys go over The Corre.There was no excuse to have this crap on the card when you consider some of the talent that never even got a match.Not really worth a rating.

There was a bit backstage involving The Rock talking to Eve, Mae Young turned up but luckily she never did anything and Eve led her away pretty quickly. The Rock turned around only to come face to face with Austin,they had a few words and a bit of a stare down which was pretty cool to see.If at least half of the non wrestling bits had been as much fun as that then it would have been ok,sadly most of them were dire.

The next match up was Randy Orton v CM Punk,again i had high hopes for this match but it failed to deliver like it should have.Here we have to very talented guys but it just seemed slow.I didn't dislike the match but again i think my expectations were set way to high.Both guys worked well and the finish saw Orton catching Punk with an RKO in mid air as Punk came of the top rope,a great spot but sadly its been done to many times now and has lost its wow factor.I really did not know who was going to win this match so that helped it a bit.Over all i would give it 3.0 out of 5.0.

We got another backstage skit involving The Rock, Gean Oakland and Pee Wee Herman which was,like the rest,bloody awful.This was followed by the usual parade of HOF inductees.Shawn Michaels came out last to his own music,it says something when this bit was more Wrestlemania than some of the matches on the event.

Up next we get Lawler v Cole with Austin as the special ref,i doubt anyone watching was expecting this to go down as a classic Mania match but a very obvious "boring" chant from the crowd pretty much said it all.I don't blame any of the participants for this,i blame the bookers,this match should have been a quick five min filler with Lawler kicking the crap out of Cole,making him look like a moron and then finishing him off with one of his trademark punches.After that Lawler would have left the ring and Austing should have done his usual beer drinking and while Cole was lying spark out on the mat Austin would pour beer all over him to bring him round then give him a stunner to finish it off.To have Cole spend most of the overlong match on top of the veteran Lawler was just stupid.The sad thing is now we have to continue to hear Cole go on and on just like before Mania,some people can generate heat and do it well,Vickie Guerrero springs to mind here,but Cole is just totally annoying in this role and often ruines parts of raw with the bullshit he comes out with.Sadly we now have to listen to more of it instead of it being over and done with as it should have been after this match.Overall i give it 2.0 out of 5.0.

The Next match up is HHH v The Undertaker,another match i was really looking forward to and for the first time in this years Mania i actually got what i hoped for.It wasn't the nest match ever but compared to a lot of what had gone before in this show it seemed great.They both worked hard to keep things moving along but in the end there were to many spots where nothing really happend.This actually felt like a Wrestlemania match though and was pretty brutal for the WWE recently with some decent violence and a wicked chair to the head shot which they haven't done for a long time now and even the Sledghammer made an appearance.HHH hit Undi with three pedigrees but even with those and the chair shots Undi was not going to stay down,HHH was even yelling at him to stay down as well,this was all good and by this point Undo could barely stand and for a brief second you actually thought HHH may have a shot at ending the streak.The ending came when Undo maganed to get the Hell's Gate on HHH and after what seemed like forever HHH finally tapped and the streak was kept intact.After the match Undi was carried out of the arena and it is possible he was actually hurt,but personally i just think he was selling the beating very well,something Cena and a couple of others could learn a lot from.Overall this diddn't match the awesome Undi v Michaels matches from the previous two Mania's but it was a solid outing from both men,i would give this match 4.0 out of 5.0.

Up next we get Snooki, Trish Stratus and John Morrison v Laycool and Dolph Ziggler. I'm not exactly sure why this was on the card as it lasted about four or five mins and the two main wrestlers never actually got involved.This would have been so much better as a singles match between Ziggler and Morrison.The good guys won as expected and no offense to any of the performers but this should have been a raw thing and not a Mania match.

Finally we got to the main event where Cena gose up against The Miz for the WWE Championship.We all knew that The Rock was going to be involved at some point and because of that this match was so dissapointing.The fans never seemed interested during the match, it seemed rushed and overall this had to rank as one of the very worst Mania main events ever.Whats worse is that after only a few mins the actualy match ended on a double countout.Of course everyone knew by then that The Rock was on his way and indeed he was,he said that the match would re-start and a few seconds after that he gave the rock bottom to Cena and The Miz got the pin.Nothing about this entire thing felt like a Mania main event as it was really about The Rock more than the title and if it had been one of the other supercards then maybe it would have been ok,but to have it like this on the biggest event of the year was just stupid and the people behind it should be ashamed of themselves.The match gets a 2.5 out of 5.0 as it was just to short.

As a Wrestlemania this was a poor event and not worth the money pure and simple,there were some fun spots,a couple of decent matches and one good match but there were so many good performers that were missing and to many crappy skits which spoilt the flow. I doubt i am not the only one who is feeling very let down by the event as a whole,and i also boubt Vince will take any notice of any complaints.I would rate the event a sad little 4.5 out of 10, I have seen worse WWE super shows but most of the standard monthly ones are better than this was.