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Post by Edgeman05 on Apr 8, 2009 21:39:44 GMT -5
I was thinking the exact same thing when I was watching Mania. Felt alot like 21.
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Post by T1 on Apr 9, 2009 20:26:44 GMT -5
I see your comparisons and I actually had similar thoughts BUT...
The main events at WrestleMania 21, while not very good, were historically significant. Years from now people will still look back to that night and remember when the Cena & Batista era was ushered in. As well as Edge. It really put their pushes into overdrive and created two( three?) of the biggest superstars in WWE history, like them or not.
On the contrary this year's Mania main events will easily go down as the most forgettable ones in Wrestlemania history thus far. Nobody's career was progressed whatsoever from last night. The Triple Threat served SOME purpose for putting the belt back on Cena, who never should have lost it in the 1st place. But ultimately the main event was pointless and dissapointing.
Comparing the Taker-Orton match to this year's Jericho match is being a little generous to WM25. I loved the way Steamboat and Jericho worked together but that was all of five minutes. Taker-Orton was relatively long and a damn fine match at that.
MITB /= MITB. I didn't see this year's Money in the Bank because I started watching during the Legends match but remember WM21 was the start of the whole concept. It's still widely regarded as the best one I believe and its always hard to top the original. Not to mention 21's MITB is really what set Edge's career back on track and made him a bigger star. It showed that the company saw him as a future main eventer, and he'd get the strap a year later in another historically significant moment.
And I'm not really digging the comparison between Show-Bono and JBL-Rey. Besides the fact that both were pretty boring. But at least the Akebono match was something pretty different that you only really see at Wrestlemania. Predictable and disgusting for seeing Show's ass but you don't see that kind of stuff at a non-Mania event. Hell we've never seen a sumo match like that before or after that match. Stuff like what happened with JBL-Rey is relatively common( see: Kane-Chavo).
Wrestlemania 21 just had a bigger feel. The crowd was way more into that show, it had the Hollywood feel, and it really marked the day that Cena, Edge, and Batista's careers took off. For that it will always be remembered.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2009 20:53:58 GMT -5
21 was my favorite Wrestlemania.
No joke.
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