| BasilZero said: I'm glad I was proven wrong - aside from the AJ Styles vs Logan Paul match which I didnt really pay attention for the most part (just the entrance and ending) - good night so far, much better track record compared to last night. |
To be honest, it kind of feels like they only had enough good stuff for a great one night show and just put some filler on night one.
Women's tag match was a good old school tag match which was elevated by everyone playing their parts perfectly and the excitement of Becky's return. Happy to have her back. Wish that Bayley had a role on Mania though.
Wonder how they'll react to Cody and Cena. Kind of feel like Cena may be the face.
They need to chill with product placement XD
That is a decidedly mixed reaction. Yeah, the fans have gone for Cena.
Well that was... interesting? The fans were definitely more pro Cena throughout the match, but there were some Cody fans pulling him. The ending was just... kind of meh. I think that building the finish around Travis scott was maybe not the way to go. I think most people were expecting something more afterwards. The Rock, we knew Stone Cold was in the building. It didn't feel like that should have been the money shot.
This kind of feels like a bit of a worst case scenario. Fans don't get to celebrate Cena's last mania and breaking the record but they also don't hate him enough for the moment to work as a heel. I dunno, it just felt weird and slightly deflating.
And judged on its own merits, well the match kind of sucked. Cena was working at a deliberately slow pace, either to try and prevent the crowd from getting into it, or to make sure he didn't get injured. But whether it was the plan to give the fans a mediocre matchup or it just kind of happened, the end result is a mediocre matchup.
Bunch of people were saying that Jey Uso vs Gunther should have main evented and hindsight being 20-20... yeah, that probably would have been a better call. Even if this made sense from a story perspective it's hard to argue this match was worthy of main eventing mania.
So night 2 is an inverse of night one. Instead of a mediocre undercard getting elevated by a fantastic main event there was a great undercard and a main event that missed the mark. And, those things happen. It's a bit rare that just about everything clicks.
Interested to see how Mr. Levesque handles this. Since he took over, it felt like everything was just falling into place and the audience was in the palm of his hands. And now maybe he'll have to adjust, which is something Vince was really not great at in his later years.
Edit: And thinking about it more... how did this make any sense? The whole thing with the Rock was so that John Cena could acquire the services of Travis Scott? So he could slowly walk to the ring and break up a pinfall?
Maybe it's just because I've always been a HHH fan, but this kind of feels like the Rock fucked up the main event. If the Rock was not going to be involved at any point past elimination chamber, the whole angle makes no sense.
Last edited by JWeinCom - on 20 April 2025
