Episode 8: Pro-Wrestling/Wrestlemania Review

Episode 8: Pro-Wrestling / Wrestlemania Review



Topic:  Pro-Wrestling in Review

Last week we discussed the history and a tutorial of Pro-Wrestling, and more specifically the history of the WWE, and how it go to here.  Well, this last week, we watched some Matched from Wrestlemania 35, and my mom has some thoughts, and I've got some explaining to do.  Spoiler, she liked some of them.

                              

For those interested, WWE offers a 1 Month Free trial for their WWE Network: which host all their Pay-Per-View events, Lots of historical wrestling shows and matches, newer episodes of Raw and Smackdown a few weeks later, and some original material, along with some of my favorite material, behind the scenes.  If you want to review Wrestlemania with us, we recommend visiting WWE.com to learn more about getting access to the WWE Network.


For all matches, under the match title is the time stamp, so you can quickly navigate to each match.


Review:

Rock Vs Stone Cold Steve Austin - Wrestlemania 15

• Mom Stumble across this match. 
• Very Classic Match
• First of Three different meetings
• Very classic Atitude Era match

Kofi vs Daniel Bryan - 23:45min Long
2:09:00 

• Meant to be an underdog story
• Daniel Bryan has made an eco-friendly championship and running everyone down for being not eco-friendly
• Kofi had an amazing few months beforehand but kept getting screwed for title opportunities
• Kofi has been around for 11+ years and this is was his first championship opertunity
• New Day Stable: Power of positivity / Goofy
• Free-bird Tag team Rule

Women's Tag Team – 10:45min Long
1:48:00

• Bayley(San Jose native) and Sasha Banks first ever tag-team champions
• Nia Jax and Tamina are Big Samoan women, want vengeance for last PPV
• Natalya and Beth Phoenix(Retired wrestler) are fighting for honor
• IIconics are friends, pair are somewhat comedic, ala Edge and Christian
• Very busy match
• IIconics swoop in for championship

Seth Rollins vs Brock Lesnar – 7min Long
0:13:00

• Seth won Royal Rumble
• Brock Lesnar is champion, but rarely shows up on TV and rarely defends title
• Fans want championship back on TV regularly
• Paul Heyman is Brock’s mouth Piece

Bobby Lashely vs Finn Balor – 15min Long
4:29:00

• Intercontinental championship is a Work Horse championship, often seen as great matches on way to world championship
• Bobby Lashely is very big. Finn is small
• Finn has alternate character call the Demon where he spray paints his body.
• One of the coolest wrestling entrances

Women's Main Event – 21:30min Long
4:45:00

• Becky Lynch won Royal Rumble, Annual event to decide who will headline Wrestlemania
• Becky Lynch known as “The Man”, similar vein to Stone Cold Steve Austin
• Charlotte placed in match with Ronda Rousy because she’s a better/bigger name
• Becky has to fight to get in to main event, has bad leg in between
• Ronda Rousy just wants to fight Becky as she knows it will be a good main event
• Charlotte win’s Smackdown Women’s championship, making match winner takes all.
• Becky wins with some confusion at finish.