Tbh, I rewatched his 2013 segment where he called Cena a 'wiener' and the crowd in Chicago went nuts. The delivery was way more natural and less scripted cartoonish than his Attitude Era rants. Anybody else think his later mic work was underrated?
I keep hearing people say Undertaker's Wrestlemania streak was the greatest thing ever but it actually hurt the product for years. Take the 2009 match with Shawn Michaels - everyone knew Shawn had zero shot of winning so the drama was fake, you know? Then in 2014 when Brock Lesnar finally broke it, it only worked because they spent 20 years making the finish predictable. The streak turned every Mania main event into a guessing game about who was losing next instead of building real tension. Has anyone else noticed how fans ignore that the streak made most of those matches less exciting, not more?
I remember watching him win the US title at Wrestlemania 31 and thinking finally, some edge. But by Summerslam that year against Seth Rollins, he went right back to the same super-Cena formula. The crowd in Brooklyn was booing him out of the building and he just kept hitting the same five moves. If they let him stay a tweener for a full year instead of three months, we could have gotten the best character work of his career. Anyone else think Vince pulled the plug way too early?
I drove three hours to see a small promotion in Cleveland last Saturday night. The wrestling was solid for the most part, nothing fancy but good work. But the main event had a tag team match where the faces were off their game from the start, missing spots and blowing a big dive to the outside. The crowd got restless and started a "boring" chant about five minutes in, which just made the wrestlers look even more nervous. A guy two rows behind me kept screaming for them to "get a real job" and it honestly ruined the whole atmosphere. I paid $25 for that seat and left feeling like I wasted my money on the audience's attitude more than the actual wrestling. Has anyone else had a show ruined by a crowd that just won't give the workers a chance?