Sunday, April 5, 2020

WWE WrestleMania 36 TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE NIGHT Part 2


FIEND-Cena recap leads to an FF VII hype video. SD women's title hype. NXT Women's title hype shows off the original stadium setting, which feels like forever ago. MONTEZ CUTS A PROMO! Elias-Corbin recap starts off a whole night 1 recap. HEY THERE CATS AND KITTENS - Nattie vs. Liv Morgan is up! They awkwardly clinch for a bit and talk smack. Liv lands a hip attack, but misses the second with Nattie working heel telling the ref to shut up.


Discus lariat on the apron. Nattie glam slams her for 2. Liv gets a small package for 2 and then gets a step-up enzuiguri. They go back and forth on a victory roll, but Liv crosses the legs and wins. This was a match. Otis-Dolph recap. Sonya and Dolph have a stupidly-written conversation about how they hurt Mandy Rose. Nice, long Orton-Edge video tells their tale. Another WWE Backstage Skype chat with Booker still using his 2002 webcam while Christian's is at least from 2006.


Long Drew video showcases his time in 3MB. Thank God they did that Drew-Brock angle in front of people - at least they've got the look of Drew being THE GUY on the rise. UNAUTHORIZED USERS BEWARE AND BE FOREWARNED! Steph starts WM off talking about how ONCE AGAIN, THE WWE SUPERSTARS ARE UNITED TO PUTTING SMILES ON FACES! We get the same too full of itself intro from last night too. Ugh. Charlotte-Rhea starts off with Charlotte looking to the non-crowd. An overly-wordy video package hypes this up before Rhea's out. By about 10:10, Rhea will finally get around to stomping her foot for her intro.

"THIS IS OUR NXT CHAMPION!"  Charlotte says to no one. Well maybe she's talking to the voices in Orton's head as she chops Rhea and runs down all her title wins. Rhea hits her finish and Charlotte just kicks out in three minutes. Rhea tosses her from the apron to the floor hard. Rhea goes for an apron yakuza kick, but Charlotte dragon screws her on the rope. Charlotte works the knee for a few centuries.

Charlotte yammers on to no one constantly. Rhea screams a lot and gets a missile dropkick for 2. Rhea gets the standing cloverleaf, but Charlotte escapes. Cradle exchange after a figure 4 attempt. High crab by Charlotte, but THE NIGHTMARE escapes THE QUEEN. Charlotte eats a corner flurry before a Charlotte moonsault meets boots, but a Charlotte spear gets 2. Charlotte gets the figure 8 and wins!? Well this about killed Rhea dead. Big Show Show trailer. Who is the market for this kind of show in 2020? NIGHT ONE RECAP


Aleister Black comes out looking badass. Lashley, who looks tremendous in his early '40s, comes out in new long tights that hide his body. Lashley eats an apron yakuza kick - so at least that spot hits at some point here. Powerslam gets 2 for Lashley. Spear attempt eats a knee and 2. Moonsault off the second rope hits after missing early. Not sure why you'd do that FOR NO FANS, but whatever. Lashley gets him up for the Yokosuka cutter, but Lana says no, and she wants a spear - so he goes for that and eats a Black Mass. Lana is a poor strategist - if the spear failed BEFORE, why would it succeed now when he has a deadlier move he can bust out during it?


Sasha is asked about wanting to be SD Womens champ for the first time ever. Truth's title loss is recapped. Gronk is asked about Mojo taking the 24/7 Title from him. He wants to win it at the "end of the tonight " 2K20 dream match video airs. Mandy-Otis recap.

JBL acts as Vince talking about fake news while talking about Otis being setup and burying Otis for being fat and wanting Mandy. JBL rants more about fake news before a long 205 Live chinlock by Dolph. Otis goes for the worm, but Sonya distracts him and Dolph dick kicks him. Mandy's theme hits and she ballshots Dolph before Otis hits the worm and the elbow gets the win! Edge vs Orton is up, and a little early. So glad Edge and Corbin can't wrestle right now - I can't imagine Edge in a Corbinlock for 10 minutes.


Edge is out and looks intense. Orton sneaks up with an RKO in a head to toe hoodie/pants combo disguised as a camera guy. Another RKO hits for 9. Camera to the face of Edge. Orton tells Edge to stay down under his breath. They brawl in the gym area - so it's a less crazy version of the Ciampa-Gargano brawl. More gym brawling leads to Edge swinging into him into a seated senton onto a chair. More random brawling. Did Jeff Jarrett lay this out? Does the Performance Center have a metal pipe district like WWE's venues do? (to the tune of the Itchy and Scratchy theme) they walk and brawl, they walk and walk and brawl - it's the Edgy and Orton Show.


THE FIGHT IN THE MAIN OFFICE AREA. They fight on a giant table and Edge elbows him. Now they're in the Additional Storage Facility! NONONONONONO! Orton is sometimes great in little ways and that was one of them. Orton stomps the hand after what feels like 80 minutes of non-action. If this was happening in Impact, they'd start hitting each other with giant bags full of Orbit gum that they used as shipping filler instead of packing peanuts. Edge hits an elbow off a high thing onto Orton through a table ala New Jack, only he's 46 and super banged-up. They fight near a truck, because of course there's a truck somewhere here. Draping DDT on the truck bed.






Edge sends him down and Edge climbs an NXT production truck. Edge almost eats a punt, but spears him on top of the semi while Orton cries. Spear gets 9, so Orton lands an RKO off the second one. Story-wise, this should only end with Edge RKOing him and hitting a conchairto - so of course they do a match in an area where that can't happen. Hey, Orton gets chairs! FINISH IS NEAR! Orton sets up a conchairto. Edge gets the standing triangle and then turns it into an RNC.


Edge tells the ref to not fucking dare keep counting, so he just...stops. Edge, with a tear in his eye, looks up at the heavens to his mother upon his return to the ring and ends it with a conchairto. There was a good five minute story told in this match. The problem was the match was 40 minutes long. Even HHH in 2003 would tell them to trim that down a shade.




Mojo and the 24/7 geeks fight before Gronk dives on everyone and pins Mojo. Okay. Raw tag title match is up with Austin Theory making his WM debut in a title match that couldn't possibly mean less. Dawkins bowls over Theory. THEORY CATCHES MONTEZ ON A DIVE! Doesn't do much good as the heels lose - but man did Montez look like a star here. Bianca comes out to save her husband Montez from an attack by attacking Zelina - and then they tell the tale of them being married so this makes sense.

Titus is in Gronk's perch and is the new host of WM. SD Womens five way is up. NOW THIS is a nothing match. Sasha's out and Cole talks about it being Boss Time! Tamina's out for her annual match to remind everyone she exists, and she looks bad with all the weight and bad knees. Naomi's intro looks badass even in the PC. The GLOW WHIP is fantastic - that needs to be DLC in Bloodstaiined. This is in fact NOT A FATAL FIVE WAY - it's a five way elimination match. Oh Jesus. Everyone hits their finish to Tamina to take her out seven years into this. "SO IT'S COME DOWN TO THIS!" doesn't feel like the call you make when FOUR OUT OF FIVE PEOPLE ARE STILL IN THE MATCH.


Naomi gets a double sunset flip for 2, but taps to the crossface from Sasha. Lacey KOs Sasha, but makes sure to do her signature pin before covering here in this ELIMINATION MATCH WITH SASHA'S FRIEND. Lacey hits the stupid handspring bronco buster after missing it before and goes up for the moonsault. Marine salute and a Merosault hits for 2.5. Sasha hits a backstabber on Lacey and Bayley hits whatever her Not the Stroke finish is to win. Bayley rants at everyone saying they can't touch her.


Boy is a BIG MATCH JOHN intro weird with no fans. Cena goes to the funhouse and teleports to be insults by the Vince puppet. We get Bray recreating Kurt Angle's promo against Cena in '02 before he throws on some throwback gear. He misses a punch and then Bray sings Nikki's theme.


Then things go to an SNME parody with Bray teaming with Johnny Largemeat as a knock on Hogan. Dr. of Thuganomics Cena is out and they're in the ring. Cena raps about Husky Harris and the puppet show and says Bray's been a disappointment and has blown every chance to succeed he's been given. Cena tosses DEEZ NUTZ at him and throws shots in the corner to a teleporting Bray since Cena probably can't bump or do much legally.



We get some throwback Wyatt Family stuff. Swamp cult leader Bray hits a corner charge and dances with Cena before Cena escapes. We get a clip show within the match as Bray says to fix it as we see Cena not finishing him six years ago and then NWO Monday Nitro clips air as Bray plays the role of Bischoff. Cena plays the role of Hollywood Hogan while Vince's puppet says THIS IS SUCH GOOD SHIT. Then THE FIEND mandible claws him and regular Bray counts the pin.






Titus is gobsmacked by all this. After that tonal whiplash, IT'S TIME FOR THE MAIN EVENT WWE TITLE MATCH! Drew claymores him, but Paul warns him on the second and he Germans Drew. Just pure deadlift German by Brock. No effort. JESUS. F5 HITS FOR 1. Another F5 leads to a 2. Brock should've watched his own ESPN marathon and go for an arm triangle. Claymore hits as he avoids an F5. THIRD CLAYMORE. KNEELING CLAYMORE HITS AND DREW WINS THE TITLE. Okay, this was basically the 2016 Brock-Goldberg match - only with less hype.







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