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WWE WrestleMania XL - Night One Discussion Thread (Spoilers)

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WWE WrestleMania XL - Night One Discussion Thread (Spoilers) - Lemmy.zip

Here we are folks. Night one of the biggest show of the year! Tonight, WWE brings us night one of WrestleMania XL live from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! Our card for tonight includes: Tag Team Match Andrade & Rey Mysterio vs. Dominik Mysterio & Santos Escobar Six Man Tag Team Match Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill & Naomi vs. Damage CTRL (Asuka, Dakota Kai & Kairi Sane) WWE RAW Tag Team Title / WWE SmackDown Tag Team Title Six-Pack Ladder Match The Judgment Day (Damian Priest & Finn Balor) © vs. Austin Theory & Grayson Waller vs. Awesome Truth (R-Truth & The Miz) vs. #DIY (Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa) vs. The New Day (Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods) vs. New Catch Republic (Pete Dunne & Tyler Bate) Singles Match Jey Uso vs. Jimmy Uso WWE Intercontinental Title Match Gunther © vs. Sami Zayn WWE Women’s World Title Match Rhea Ripley © vs. Becky Lynch Tag Team Match Cody Rhodes & Seth Rollins vs. The Bloodline (Roman Reigns & The Rock) and more! The show will start tonight at 7ET/4PT live on peacock.

HelloThere Apr 6, 2024

Have they really booked matches which are Latino tag team vs Latino tag team, and 3 black women vs 3 Japanese women?

GeekFTW Apr 6, 2024

kessleragain Apr 6, 2024

Wife subbed to Peacock last night to watch some trash tv, so I guess I might check this out. Don’t think I’ve seen one since maybe 2018 or 2019.

GeekFTW Apr 6, 2024

I’m interested in Jimmy/Jey, Rhea/Becky and the main event, but def in a ‘skip to 3 mins before the end of each match while waiting for OBS to open and hit record’ kinda way.

kessleragain Apr 6, 2024

Jimmy and Jey should be good from hearing about the story that’s been brewing for a long time. I expect I’ll like Rhea and Becky. Mostly I’m looking forward to seeing Asuka, Kairi, and Naomi. I’ll be really impressed if the main event draws me in since it’s not normally my kind of thing.

GeekFTW Apr 6, 2024

Yeah I’m in ‘eh I just wanna know what happens’ mode lol

Neon_Carnivore Apr 6, 2024

I’ll probably just wait until tomorrow to watch so I can just get to the matches. I don’t need to see 15-25 minutes of ads and video packages in between each match. I hope to be proven wrong, but I ain’t holding my breath.

To quote my SLF during last year’s 'mania.

“For a show called Wrestlemania, there’s not a lot of actual wrestling.”

GeekFTW Apr 6, 2024

“For a show called Wrestlemania, there’s not a lot of actual wrestling.”

Ain’t that the truth.

JelloBrains Apr 6, 2024

You still won’t necessarily get away from the ads, for NXT it seemed every match had a sponsor, Fallout TV Series, Knuckles TV Series, and some others with graphics on the wall and floor. They didn’t hype it up or talk a lot about it though so it wasn’t horribly done, but UFC-style ads are coming sadly.

JelloBrains Apr 6, 2024

I’m just gonna toss my NXT Stand & Deliver comment here… WWE saw us thinking AEW/ROH had too many titles and decided to join the party, like why does NXT need a secondary women’s title? They introduced the WWE NXT Women’s North American Championship. Main roster, it might could work they have a lot more tv hours to work with, NXT has 2 hours, like why?

GeekFTW Apr 6, 2024

(Considered making a discussion thread but wasn’t sure if it would be used, so do feel free to use this one for it too)

ugh they did? I’m in the same boat thought wise. I don’t watch NXT since they did NXT 2: Rainbow Boogaloo a long while back but is the NXT women’s roster anywhere near deep enough for a midcard title?

JelloBrains Apr 6, 2024

I don’t watch NXT a lot, but probably more than Rampage, and while they have a lot of women on the roster, I don’t see how it can support two singles and a tag title on a 2 hours per week, they don’t even have monthly PLE’s.

GeekFTW Apr 6, 2024

Oy >.< I miss when titles meant something more than ‘please pay extra attention to this wrestler’.

JelloBrains Apr 6, 2024

Prime Logo’s on the turnbuckles, Dude Wipes logos on the ring posts, Giant Prime Enegery logo on the mat… the replay presented by Snickers… the ads are taking over…

I can’t believe they opened with Rhea and Becky, They are doing great and will take some great wrestling to follow up with.

Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

Makes sense, if your not the main event the opener is the best spot

GeekFTW Apr 7, 2024

Exactly. We’re a ways away from ye-ol-jobbers opening the show, that opening slot has become almost as prestigious as the main event over the years.

Also: good damn match!

Travon333 Apr 6, 2024

😂😂😂😂 I love R-Truth

GeekFTW Apr 7, 2024

Truth is the best.

Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

If Logan retains, that trio is going to be insufferable on Smackdown

JelloBrains Apr 7, 2024

Expect to suffer, because I just don’t see them taking it off of him yet.

GoodandPlenty Apr 7, 2024

Yep. Seems like they’re still working towards Knight being the one. If he beats AJ tomorrow, that’s a good sign, if you’re a Knight fan that is.

Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

I truly didn’t want Judgement Day to retain thanks to them being dicks to Truth so this is a double feel good decision

GeekFTW Apr 7, 2024

Same, I popped hard.

Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

Also shoutout to JD, he’s great at what he does. I’m always happy to watch him eat shit

JelloBrains Apr 7, 2024

Those crazy spots always scare me a little, but JD really does great at being the ragdoll of the group, I wasn’t sure I liked him joining but they proved me wrong with him.

Arnold Booker | WWE, AEW, TNA Apr 7, 2024

@Brain @Travon333 JD has so much more potential than we've seen yet. At NXT he was always a top contender. On the main roster he's a clown. I'm disappointed, but he's a professional.

Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

He’s good even at that though. He just gets shit on by everybody and gets his karma really quick. Love seeing him get clowned on after being a jackass

GoodandPlenty Apr 7, 2024

He took one of the best bumps of the match and he wasn’t even a participant!

Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

Dom really teamed up with the neighborhood thugs against his Dad

Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

A hope Rey doesn’t think he’s not getting turned on tonight

JelloBrains Apr 7, 2024

The real question is how many turn on him, my money is on Carlito.

dumbass Apr 7, 2024

Everytime I see a Lucha style match with super talented wrestlers, I’m just in awe at how they can do it, always something memorable in those matches for me.

GeekFTW Apr 7, 2024

Lucha was never my favourite type of wrestling, but growing up with WWF, WCW and ECW I can never argue that Luchadores have always been some of my favourites.

dumbass Apr 7, 2024

The greatest rapper in the world… Lil Wayne

May God that had me rolling with laughter, he’s not the worst by a long shot and up there in thebranks, but greatest in the world?

GoodandPlenty Apr 7, 2024

The greatest rapper in the world…that we could get to hype up Jey on the way out. Works for me!

dumbass Apr 7, 2024

To be fair tho they could have gotten a lot worse, thankfully MGK does pop punk now, thankfully they didn’t let him play guitar.

Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

Jimmy is such a hater man

dumbass Apr 7, 2024

Me screaming a Jey:

GoodandPlenty Apr 7, 2024

Wow. This has flown by so far. Assuming this match is 15-20 with intros and Sami/Gunther is 30ish, the main could feasibly go for an hour!

JelloBrains Apr 7, 2024

I know it’s a tag match and will have Bloodline interference but I’d be concerned about The Rock trying to go that long, depends on how long he’s known he was wrestling and how long he’s been training for it I guess.

GoodandPlenty Apr 7, 2024

Smoke and mirrors should help to cover some of Rock’s cardio but I tend to agree that I’m wary of him holding up for 30+

Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

Happy for Jade, wonder how they’re going to use her. She still has a few things to cleanup

dumbass Apr 7, 2024

The Miz out there making a Snickers ad that doesn’t annoy me lol, mAyBe YoU nEeD a SnIcKeRs!

Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

Is Gunther going to ruin another family?

GoodandPlenty Apr 7, 2024

I may be the only one, but I legit feel like Gable is somehow costing Sami this match.

dumbass Apr 7, 2024

You got this Sami!

*checks who his opponent is*

You don’t got this Sami!

JelloBrains Apr 7, 2024

I have been wondering about that too, the story looked like it was going to be Chad’s to me, then they injected Sami into it, I really wonder if Chad is turning on him.

dumbass Apr 7, 2024

Chad knows he can’t beat Gunther, but he could beat Sami, so it would be best for Chad to get the title on Sami so he has an actual chance of winning.

GoodandPlenty Apr 7, 2024

In retrospect, this makes perfect sense and I won’t be shocked at all if Chad turns on Sami this Monday to set that up.

dumbass Apr 7, 2024

I kinda want it to be a slow turn, Sami being over the moon with his win and unintentionally rubbing it in that he beat Gunther, then finally Chad snaps and viciously turns on him, like beats the living crap out of Sami.

dumbass Apr 7, 2024

You got this Sami!

*checks who his opponent is*

You don’t got this Sami!

GeekFTW Apr 7, 2024

A STORY HAS BEEN FINISHED!

JelloBrains Apr 7, 2024

That is the first match I completely disagree with the winner of. I absolutely do not believe Sami was the right choice to take down Gunther’s long-ass reign, it should have gone to somebody up and coming, who I don’t know, but not an established upper card star.

GoodandPlenty Apr 7, 2024

I feel the same way with the caveat that I can’t think of anyone in the short term that fits that bill and Gunther should also be moving up the card. Great match regardless, but I was rooting for Gunther to retain as well.

JelloBrains Apr 7, 2024

Rocky is so jealous of Roman he had a replica belt made to carry out lol.

GeekFTW Apr 7, 2024

I love it lol. He’s gonna guaranteed keep carrying it around like an actual title to make himself feel bigger than Roman.

kessleragain Apr 7, 2024

This Rock entrance sure is something.

Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

The Rock is comically large

GeekFTW Apr 7, 2024

I forget which game it was like…maybe within the last 10y, but was a wrestling game that came out and all the wrestlers were 90s Rob Liefeld Captain America-esque no matter who they were, and when I see Rock all i think of is the wrestlers in that game.

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Travon333 Apr 7, 2024

Probably WWE All Stars. He really is a throwback though. I’m sure guys are still juicing but for the most part all that bulky muscle is useless.

Crazy to think him and Billy Gunn were like average sized guys once upon a time