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I know that it’s been 10 days since WrestleMania 27 aired live on pay-per-view to millions of homes, but, i only got the chance to do my opinion and review of it now.
This is the latest PPV that i had ordered, the last one being the WWE Royal Rumble in early January of this year. Now, i could just go on a whole long rant about how bad it was (which i will get to later) but, it had some good bits, and i’d rather this be a proper review rather than an idiotic one.
WrestleMania 27 (WMXXVII) took place on the 4th (3rd in USA) of April, 2011, live from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia to a crowd of 71,617 standing and sitting. Prior to WMXXVII their was the Hall of Fame induction ceremony, however we haven’t received the showing of it here yet in Australia.
The show had a total of 8 matches (2 dark matches, also) to fill the spectacle that was supposedly supposed to be the self titled by the WWE, “The Grand Daddy of the ALL!”.
The show as usually had a large amount of commentators. Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, Josh Mathews, Jim Ross, Booker T and the Spanish announce team of Carlos Cabrera and Hugo Savinovich
The show started off with the signing of “America the Beautiful” by some artist that i and the other people watching it with me have never heard of. As usual though, WrestleMania always starts off with a song and a sort of little tribute to the men and woman of the armed forced of the United States.
However, after that, the show properly begun with (which i found weird) the second most important championship belt in all of professional wrestling the “World Heavyweight Championship“. Putting the currently champion at the time, Edge – going up against Alberto Del Rio.
The thing that mostly sucked about this match and not that it was bad, because it wasn’t. The fact is, for a world heavyweight championship match, it finished really quick. And, it was the first match of the card! Let alone the match only went for eleven minutes. Nevertheless, in saying that it was a bad match would be very bad lie, obviously.
The match was great, fast-paced, technical and at one point i even believed myself that Alberto Del Rio was going to win the world title, however, he must have pissed someone off in the back, this match was quick pretty much a squash. And, it kind of makes it sad that it seems that the Royal Rumble is pointless right now.
Next up was a match between the legendary Rey Mysterio going up against Cody Rhodes (Dusty Rhode’s Son, Goldust’s brother) in a one-on-one match. This match was easily the second greatest match of the night, which isn’t difficult at all to determine.
After that was, A really-really-really pointless six-man tag team match. Kane, Big Show, Santino Marella, and Kofi Kingston defeated The Corre (Wade Barrett, Ezekiel Jackson, Justin Gabriel, and Heath Slater), this horrible match lasted only under 2 minutes. What a pointless match, and the thing is, this match with the talents of Heath/Kofi/Justin could have really been a good match if only they gave it way more time than it originally had.
The next match featured Randy Orton facing off against CM Punk. CM Punk had the upper hand most of this match when he was focusing on Orton’s injured knee. CM Punk locked Orton in the Anaconda Vise, a Figure Four-Leg Lock on the ring post, and some other good submissions. The ending came when Randy Orton went for the punt to the skull, but his injured knee stopped him. Cm Punk signaled the GTS, but Orton went for a RKO. Punk dodged and went to the top rope. He went for a crossbody, but Orton hit the RKO for the win.
Following Orton vs. Punk was the first main event between two commentators. Jim Ross is on commentary from now on. This match featured Michael Cole against Jerry “The King” Lawler. The special referee for this match was none other than “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. This match started off with Lawler trying to get Cole out of his cole mine, but he couldn’t. Eventually, Lawler got Cole out of his cole mine and started pounding on him. One highlight was when Cole locked in the An-Cole Lock. The ending came when Lawler forced Cole to tap out to the ankle lock. After Lawler won, the RAW GM reversed the decision because Stone Cold was a bias referee. He reversed the decision that way Cole wins is DQ. After the match, Stone Cold stunned Booker T and Josh Matthews.
The next main event was a No Holds Barred match between two icons in the WWE. These icons are known as The Undertaker and Triple H. The beginning of this match started off with Taker and HHH going at it on the outside. They destroyed Michael Cole’s cole mine in the process. Triple H had the advantage in the match after giving a spinebuster to Undertaker through the Spanish announce table. This match went back and forth. Undertaker couldn’t keep HHH down after a Chokeslam, Last Ride, and even a Tombstone Piledriver. After that, HHH answered back with three pedigrees and Undertaker’s Tombstone Piledriver. That was not enough to hold down The Phenom. The ending came when Triple H grabbed a steel chair and hit Taker a couple of times. HHH then grabbed a sledgehammer, but Undertaker locked Hell’s Gate on HHH. He tried to fight out of it, but HHH tapped out. The Undertaker’s streak has continued to 19-0.
The next match was a six person mixed tag team match. One side featured John Morrison, Trish Stratus, and Snooki competing against Dolph Ziggler and LayCool (Michelle McCool & Layla). One highlight happened in this match. That was when Morrison hit Starship Pain on Ziggler who was on the outside of the ring. The ending came when Snooki hit a cartwheel splash on McCool to get the win for her team.
The last match of the night was for the WWE Championship. It featured John Cena facing off against current champion, The Miz. Alex Riley accompanied The Miz to his match. The match started off with Miz getting the upper hand, but Cena fought back.
Very slow match, until Cena hit the Five Knuckle Shuffle on The Miz. Of course, this happened after his shoulder blocks. Cena went for the fireman’s carry drop he calls the Attitude Adjustment, but Miz countered into a DDT. There was a lot of back and forth action until The Miz hit the Skull Crushing Finale. That couldn’t keep Cena down because Cena then answered back with the Attitude Adjustment. That didn’t keep Miz down either.
The ending came when both men were counted out. That means The Miz is still the WWE Champion. After that The Rock came out, but the GM hit. The Rocks says it doesn’t matter what the GM says. The Rock basically makes this a No DQ match. The match restarts and The Rock hits Rock Bottom on Cena. The Miz covers him for the win.
The Miz is still the WWE Champion. After that match, The Rock lays Miz out with The People’s Elbow. Wrestlemania 27 goes off air with The Rock posing for the fans.
And that’s pretty much it, the show was alright, it wasn’t great and it wasn’t anything special. Infact, it definitely felt much more like a 4-hour RAW rather than a wrestlemania. That’s for sure! 2.5/5