Post by mikey1974 on Jan 9, 2014 17:13:05 GMT -5
yeah,a strong statement,but hear me out,as i just watched this again yesterday:
a year after the inaugural,history-making WrestleMania,we got the sequel. and despite Vinnie Mac trying to make it seem bigger and better by adding more locations and more celebrities,I feel it was but a shadow of the original.
first off,the card kinda sucked:
George Wells vs Jake The Snake Roberts
Randy Savage vs George The Animal Steele
Paul Orndorff vs Magnificent Muraco
Ricky Stemaboat vs Hercules
Fabulous Moolah vs Velvet McIntyre
Terry and Hoss funk vs Tito Santana and Junkyard dog
Adrian Adonis vs Uncle Elmer
Cpl. Kirchner vs Nikolai Volkoff
that undercard REALLY sucked! it was house card quality matches,rather than the biggest show of the year.only decent matches were the main events for each location. plus the ending of the Bulldogs-Dream Team match was something to behold,as Dynamite Kid get knocked off the ring ropes and falls about 15 feet on the back of his head,cracking his skull open! oh,and they mostly ignore this post-match to talk with Ozzy Osbourne and Kathy Lee Crosby while Mean Gene Okerlund basically pleads for someone to check on Dynamite!
then,the celebrity list. they did more,but that didn't necessarily mean they did better!
Susan St. James (seriously,WTF!? watching her do commentary with Vince is cringeworthy!)
Tommy Lasorda (okay,I can get behind him)
Ricky Schroder (he seemed into it,and happy to be there,so i'm a-okay with him being an obvious fan)
Elvira (made some horrible,completely unrelated to what's going on comments all night)
Robert Conrad (the referee in the Main Event,which was a cage match so he didn't have to do anything)
Clara Peller (the Wendy's "Where's the Beef?" lady from the 80's Wendy's commercials....really,Vince? really?)
Herb - I have no f#$king clue who this was supposed to be. and i grew up in the 80's!!)
Cathy Lee Crosby ( seemed excited,but obviously had no clue what was going on,considering she thought the super-crap women's match was incredible)
Ozzy Osbourne ( they actually asked him how much of an inspiration he was to the bulldog's winning the title. they did!)
G. Gordon Liddy,Cab Calloway,and NBA star Darryl Dawkins were the judges for the boxing match (speaks for itself)
it seems like Vince's logic was,to follow up the biggest wrestling event of it's time,you literally have to go bigger with locations and with celebrities. but not having a solid wrestling foundation underneath may have made it a financial success,but in my opinion a failure from the wrestling standpoint.
a year after the inaugural,history-making WrestleMania,we got the sequel. and despite Vinnie Mac trying to make it seem bigger and better by adding more locations and more celebrities,I feel it was but a shadow of the original.
first off,the card kinda sucked:
George Wells vs Jake The Snake Roberts
Randy Savage vs George The Animal Steele
Paul Orndorff vs Magnificent Muraco
Ricky Stemaboat vs Hercules
Fabulous Moolah vs Velvet McIntyre
Terry and Hoss funk vs Tito Santana and Junkyard dog
Adrian Adonis vs Uncle Elmer
Cpl. Kirchner vs Nikolai Volkoff
that undercard REALLY sucked! it was house card quality matches,rather than the biggest show of the year.only decent matches were the main events for each location. plus the ending of the Bulldogs-Dream Team match was something to behold,as Dynamite Kid get knocked off the ring ropes and falls about 15 feet on the back of his head,cracking his skull open! oh,and they mostly ignore this post-match to talk with Ozzy Osbourne and Kathy Lee Crosby while Mean Gene Okerlund basically pleads for someone to check on Dynamite!
then,the celebrity list. they did more,but that didn't necessarily mean they did better!
Susan St. James (seriously,WTF!? watching her do commentary with Vince is cringeworthy!)
Tommy Lasorda (okay,I can get behind him)
Ricky Schroder (he seemed into it,and happy to be there,so i'm a-okay with him being an obvious fan)
Elvira (made some horrible,completely unrelated to what's going on comments all night)
Robert Conrad (the referee in the Main Event,which was a cage match so he didn't have to do anything)
Clara Peller (the Wendy's "Where's the Beef?" lady from the 80's Wendy's commercials....really,Vince? really?)
Herb - I have no f#$king clue who this was supposed to be. and i grew up in the 80's!!)
Cathy Lee Crosby ( seemed excited,but obviously had no clue what was going on,considering she thought the super-crap women's match was incredible)
Ozzy Osbourne ( they actually asked him how much of an inspiration he was to the bulldog's winning the title. they did!)
G. Gordon Liddy,Cab Calloway,and NBA star Darryl Dawkins were the judges for the boxing match (speaks for itself)
it seems like Vince's logic was,to follow up the biggest wrestling event of it's time,you literally have to go bigger with locations and with celebrities. but not having a solid wrestling foundation underneath may have made it a financial success,but in my opinion a failure from the wrestling standpoint.