Red Mosquito

numbers wrote:Overall, I really enjoyed the show. The last few matches sucked, but there was a lot of great stuff before that. The Goldberg/Lesnar was actually better than I thought it would be.

AndySlash wrote:

numbers wrote:Overall, I really enjoyed the show. The last few matches sucked, but there was a lot of great stuff before that. The Goldberg/Lesnar was actually better than I thought it would be.

i agree with this. back half of the show from the pitbull performance on was a bit of a struggle to get through save the brief, unexpected high of the goldberg/lesnar match. props to whomever put that match together. wasn't a classic by any means, but it was a good, fun five minutes. i'm sure both taker and reigns wish they could have had a better match, but the sendoff afterward was certainly memorable. now that it's over for him, i really hope we see taker start to open up more and appear on documentaries and the like. i don't know if that will happen or not, but it would be great to finally get his insight on a lot of things from the last 25+ years.

another good thing about this mania was the lack of extra-curricular garbage like legend spots and backstage comedy. save for the music this was a straight up wrestling show, and it was kind of nice.

Mecca wrote:

AndySlash wrote:

numbers wrote:Overall, I really enjoyed the show. The last few matches sucked, but there was a lot of great stuff before that. The Goldberg/Lesnar was actually better than I thought it would be.

i agree with this. back half of the show from the pitbull performance on was a bit of a struggle to get through save the brief, unexpected high of the goldberg/lesnar match. props to whomever put that match together. wasn't a classic by any means, but it was a good, fun five minutes. i'm sure both taker and reigns wish they could have had a better match, but the sendoff afterward was certainly memorable. now that it's over for him, i really hope we see taker start to open up more and appear on documentaries and the like. i don't know if that will happen or not, but it would be great to finally get his insight on a lot of things from the last 25+ years.

another good thing about this mania was the lack of extra-curricular garbage like legend spots and backstage comedy. save for the music this was a straight up wrestling show, and it was kind of nice.

They worked you into a shoot; Goldberg and the Hardys WERE the legends spots

numbers wrote:It appears WWE just want Matt and Jeff to be the plain old "Hardy Boyz" and not the Broken Hardys.

numbers wrote:TNA has tried to claim IP on the Broken gimmick, but Matt is basically telling them to FO as it was all his idea and he self-funded the majority of the stuff they did with it. Matt is still using some of the mannerisms, but I just feel like if they were really going with it Matt would have gotten a promo last night.

MattA75 wrote:

numbers wrote:TNA has tried to claim IP on the Broken gimmick, but Matt is basically telling them to FO as it was all his idea and he self-funded the majority of the stuff they did with it. Matt is still using some of the mannerisms, but I just feel like if they were really going with it Matt would have gotten a promo last night.

WWE isn't about to get into a fight over a gimmick they had no hand in creating

the closest thing they came to referencing it was Cole saying something like "things are gonna get broken!"

Spoiler: show

BurtReynolds wrote:I think it would be cool if they worked back into it. Start out as regular Hardy's then break them again.