Author: dtm666

Going to be at a birthday party and am hoping to make it to a friend’s place to watch tonight’s PPV masterpiece of low expectations and championship bouts overshadowed by “dream” matches that do not interest me in the slightest. Will probably record a vlog discussing some initial thoughts on the show later tonight and upload around the same time. I reckon it’ll be long and serve as a substitute for whatever Ramblemania entry that might result from this.

“Why does he have to be inducted twice? Is it because he didn’t remember the first time? Or did he have his tits done or something? Did that I say that out loud?”

From this blog, posted 13 months ago and regarding last year’s HHH/Taker abomination;

“Triple H has to be pissing himself right now. At this point, his potential big comeback to face off against Undertaker (also making the big comeback 2-21-11) with special ref Shawn Michaels means NOTHING. The reaction is basically going to be:

“Yeah, okay, those guys are coming back. That’s nice. Career vs. Streak, Inferno Death Match. Nice. Nice. But THE ROCK’S COMING BACK!!!!

“I mean… seriously, who gives a shit at this point? They’re gonna have a match… so what? They had a match ten years ago, who cares? THE ROCK’S COMING BACK!”

A year later, HHH/Taker is having a match in a cage (this time WITH HBK as ref). Rock is dueling with Cena… so what? Who cares? SHEAMUS AND DANIEL BRYAN ARE WRESTLING FOR THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP AT WRESTLEMANIA! YES! YES! YES!

(2014 Update: And then the match happened… all eighteen seconds of it. There was no more Yes. Could there be a repeat at Wrestlemania XXX?)

So I was reading Justin Henry’s 20 Worst Wrestlemania Matches Ever list and I came across this tidbit he wrote on the Wrestlemania XV Hell In A Cell match between the Undertaker and the Big Boss Man (RIP), which saw the latter participant hanged. Here’s the blurb in question:

Yes, not only was a man hanged, but Michael Cole on commentary expressed his shock and disgust about it. Then four seconds later, he changed tone and said, “Well folks, coming up next–“, as if he had just forgotten that a man was vertically asphyxiated before his very eyes. See kids, Cole’s been a dumbass for a loooong time. Oh, and the match was probably the worst Hell in a Cell ever, with about as much ultraviolence as a game of Parcheesi.

Now I have to disagree with this assessment; while this is not one of the better efforts within the Hell In A Cell structure, it is far from the “worst.” People seem to forget that Kennel From Hell match between Al Snow and The Big Boss Man, which not only featured the Hell In A Cell structure, but that cell also surrounded the classic blue barred cage and supposedly vicious dogs that didn’t care about the match and took a piss instead. No, really. That’s what happened.

Aside from that, however, the match itself wasn’t anything special, but there was a hanging. It’s more than what we get from Hell In A Cell matches these days… which is probably why I’m not as excited about the HHH/Taker snorefest in a cell match as everyone else is. It’s pretty much going to be the same sloppy, slow-motion mess of a match that we got last year, except within a cage and Hunter’s BFF HBK as the special ref. It’s going to take something more than juice to really get me excited about this match, because at the moment, I honestly don’t give a rat’s ass about either one of these guys in this match.