WrestleMania 31

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Before all the moaners turn up, that was a bloody good show.

owen10ozzy wrote:

Shot 21 LCFC wrote:Say what you want about Roman Reigns but his last 2 PPV matches are MOTY contenders.

Can't buy into that....I actually don't get the big deal with his performance at Mania; for me if you took Brock out of that it wouldn't be getting anywhere near the chatter it's getting. The man made that match not Roman Reigns. Reigns played his part well, but nothing more than that. At times it was dangerously close to being a Cena style performance albeit with some more intensity, which even Cena had during his earlier days. In fact as I remember rightly during the 'comeback' stage the man didn't sell any of the beating he took whilst running about the ring delivering Superman Punch after Superman punch...1 of just 3 moves he hit all evening.

Spot on, Reigns had a minor role in how that match went down, I think what he did do he done well to be fait but it was all about Brock Lesnar plus I'm pretty sure that if Brock didn't bust himself open no-one would have bought into the big Reigns comeback, I enjoyed the brutality of the match but it was down to one man, there isn't a great deal of difference in height and weight between Lesnar and Reigns but you could never imagine Lesnar ever being dominated like that, with Roman Reigns it was expected IMO

As for his other alleged MotY contender with Daniel Bryan, again, he played his role well but that match was all about Daniel Bryan putting him over in the lame duck hope that fans would accept it, who has Bryan not helped look a million bucks in the last two years, thats what he does.

Reigns needs to have a high profile fued with the likes of Bray Wyatt and Rusev and he needs to look brilliant in them, when he does that I think he'll start getting credit/respect

http://prowrestlingvortex.com/2015/03/31/lesnars-wrestlemania-bleeding-hard-way-or-blade/

I'm not entirely convinced Lesnar dosn't consider nutting the ring post a form of blading, he's done it more than once now

owen10ozzy wrote:

Shot 21 LCFC wrote:Say what you want about Roman Reigns but his last 2 PPV matches are MOTY contenders.

Can't buy into that....I actually don't get the big deal with his performance at Mania; for me if you took Brock out of that it wouldn't be getting anywhere near the chatter it's getting. The man made that match not Roman Reigns. Reigns played his part well, but nothing more than that. At times it was dangerously close to being a Cena style performance albeit with some more intensity, which even Cena had during his earlier days. In fact as I remember rightly during the 'comeback' stage the man didn't sell any of the beating he took whilst running about the ring delivering Superman Punch after Superman punch...1 of just 3 moves he hit all evening.

I can't agree with that comment about the comeback Owen, Reigns was in the fight of his life and had a sudden opening, he was wildly throwing punches with his man staggered, common sense dictates he would have got a burst of adrenaline to find the will to push through, that was actually one of my favourite parts of the match, it felt like a boxing or mma fight where a guy senses his opening and goes for the kill

Do you think his comeback would have looked so realistic without the blood? I really don't,  he hardly touched Lesnar then all of a sudden Lesnar looked like a complete mess, I'm not sure that people would have bought into that minus the blood

I'd say the blood came from a hardway spot although like DrG I wouldn't put it last it being intentional, the gash he was sporting on RAW looked thicker than a simple blade job, it might well be but IMO he intentionally nutted the ring post

I think it was intentional, he's used the ring post as a hard way to blade before, like when he was brawling with Cena.

The blood 'enhanced' the realism of Reigns' comeback but I don't think it was detrimental, it still would have been believable without the blood for me. The fact that Reigns kicked out of everything Lesnar threw at him and kept smiling after each beatdown sold itself as Reigns being pretty tough. Taking 3 Superman punches to knock Lesnar off his feet was the moment I believed Reigns had a fighting chance, not the moment when Lesnar got busted open. Sure it was a cool graphic and visually it seemed that Reigns had given Lesnar a beating but he got busted open by running into the ring post, it would have benefited Reigns more so if Lesnar got busted open after Reigns grounding and pounding him.

Heyman's line on Raw of Lesnar almost respecting Reigns done more for Reigns than Lesnar bleeding at Wrestlemania did.

SCSA thought he has bled the hardway but I kinda thought there was too much blood too quickly for the cut to have been from the ringpost impact. Link below also shows the ref handing Reigns something just before the ringpost spot.

http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2015/0331/592015/was-brock-lesnar-allowed-to-blade-at-wrestlemania-31/

Read that Ronda Rousey was at wrestlemania.
The Rock invited her into the ring and they beat up HHH & Steph.

Be interesting to see if she does swith to WWE in the future.
She is just dominating MMA.

Rousey is smokin.

Bridges seem to be building in terms of links between WWE and UFC. Dana White must have given the green light for Rousey to appear at Mania, just weeks after Lesnar was cageside whilst still contracted to WWE.

CM Punk return imminent.

I think definitely Dana White knew she'd be on the show. But, I'd not read too much into it.

I kind of think that Ronda can do what she likes. As one of UFC's biggest draws, what is Dana White going to do? Plus, how does UFC lose from this. It has cross-promotion for them when one of their stars is one of the biggest pops at WWE's biggest show of the year. If people think that Ronda may be hanging up her MMA gloves, then I think more people may pay to see what could be one of her last fights.

Rousey has done films and it is clear that she is looking at her career when she is done with UFC or it with her.

Rousey did tweet that it wasn't the last she'd do. She's been a guest many times.

She could beat me up any day of the week. I'd love every second

She is very attractive, but my word she was a cow on the TUF season she coached.

Prefer Miesha Tate.

Would be good to se her in WWE.
Future Divas champ.

Interesting she asked Roddy Piper if she could use the Rowdy in her name.

Also read she is part of the Four Horsewoman, a take on the four horseman.
She asked Flair & Arn Anderson if it was cool.

Haha there is a Suplex City song on the Heyman Hustle YouTube channel. Check it out its hilarious.