Ramblemania Rewind 35 – WWE Wrestlemania 35 (2019)

Date: April 7, 2019
Venue: MetLife Stadium – East Rutherford, New Jersey
Attendance: 68,000–70,000

For what it’s worth, this was a rather significant and newsworthy Wrestlemania.

For the first time in its 34 year history, three of WWE’s top female wrestles would headline a Wrestlemania main event. It was here that saw Kofi Kingston become the first black man to be crowned WWE World Heavyweight Champion… some would argue Rock, but Rock’s only part-Black – he’d more accurately be the first person of color to win said title. It was on this show where Kurt Angle and Dave Bautista would have their final wrestling matches… neither of which were high notes to end a career on, but that’s another story entirely. It was on this show…’s pre-show where Curt Hawkins – man who lost more matches than he’s had matches – would team with partner Zack Ryder to win the RAW Tag-Team Titles. The team they beat for those titles? The Revival… as in FUCK THE REVIVAL. Or FTR for short.

A fairly significant show with some fairly significant stuff… and the only takeaway I got from this show is that it was too goddamned long.

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Ramblemania Rewind 34 – WWE Wrestlemania 34 (2018)

Date: April 8, 2018
Venue: Mercedes-Benz Superdome – New Orleans, Louisiana
Attendance: 78,133

So you remember when I started the Ramblemania 32 post a couple days ago with “This show. This Fucking Show?”

I meant for that to open this show… let’s try that again… once more with feeling….

This show.

THIS. FUCKING. SHOW.

Not bothering with an intro to this pile of shit. Let’s go.

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Ramblemania Rewind 33 – WWE Wrestlemania Sun (2017)

Date: April 2nd, 2017
Venue: Camping World Stadium – Orlando, Florida
Attendance: 64,900

I forgot about the roller coaster set that they had for this show… to sort of live up to that “Ultimate Thrill Ride” tagline that was used to promote this – the thirty-third edition of the Showcase Of The Immortals, the Show Of Shows, the Grandest Stage of them all… I still maintain that they need to bring back the ring carts. I always thought those brought in a nice bit of class to the proceedings and hey, I’m a sucker for them ring carts.

Sadly, I’m not quite sure ring carts could have saved this show… but does it really need saving? I don’t know about that, but it could’ve used more ring carts. They had money, they can afford them… cheap bastards.

Anyway, on with the show…

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Quick Reshuffles And A Brief Break

So videos are once again going to be reshuffled this week.

Unfortunately, a family emergency came up (all is well, thankfully) and needed some attention. Not only that, but I had specific games intended for review that ended up… not working out, so I needed to come up with something else. Therefore, expect a video or two this weekend. And then there’ll be a brief pause of uploads until April 5th so I can catch up on some stuff. Though if I can bang out a couple quick Sacha home movies in the interim, I’ll probably get that out there. (I need to do more of these anyway.)

There’s actually more in the works than I’m letting and I might leak a few of those ideas on this weekend’s DTM-Cast – which is the Q&A episode – but needless to say that I’m working on more than getting some current content onto this space.

Things are a bit of a mess around here – try and act surprised – but hopefully, things will be up and about soon.

Ramblemania Rewind 32 – WWE Wrestlemania Star (32) (2016)

Date: April 3, 2016
Venue: AT&T Stadium – Arlington, Texas
Attendance: 80,709

So… here we are again… again.

This show.

This. Fucking Show.

I remember absolutely hating this show back in the day. So much so that I held off writing the Ramblemania post for a whole year. By that point, I mostly forgotten about the show save for the major bits and I had to rewatch it again… and all of a sudden, I remember why I held off watching the show… but I got my notes down at least… and then in rewatching this show, I sort of realized that I’m misremembering things slightly.

Wrestlemania 34 was the show that was on my permanent shitlist and don’t you folks worry, we’ll get to that shitshow soon enough. Wrestlemania 32, on the other hand, was the show that I recall being way too fucking long and being a total blank afterwards, saving for the fact that it was another attempt at the coronation of Roman Reigns and on top of that, it’s headlined by McSon-In-Law himself! Oh joy!

Yeah, so this is going to be fun…

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Ramblemania Rewind 31 – WWE Wrestlemania Play Button (2015)

Date: March 29th, 2015
Venue: Levi’s Stadium – Santa Clara, California
Attendance: 67,000

Wrestlemania 30 was supposed to be headlined by a one-on-one match featuring reigning WWE World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton defending his title against the returning Dave Batista… and then the fans revolted and the show ended with fan favorite Daniel Bryan Danielson inserted into the match and winning the title to send the crowd home happy… which they needed to do because they just ended the Undertaker streak that people were invested in… and the guy who ended up breaking the streak was the guy who probably needed it the least.

Wrestlemania 31, on the other hand, was headlined by a one-on-one match featuring reigning and defending WWE World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar defending his title against WWE’s next chosen one, Roman Reigns. And this match was supposed to be the coronation of Reigns as the top star in the company, much in the same vein as Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, The Rock, and more recently, John Cena… except fans didn’t care for Reigns and actually resented WWE for pushing this guy down people’s throats. The show ended in a direction that wasn’t entirely expected… but was a pleasant surprise nonetheless.

So here we are… another outdoor setting and smack in the middle of daylight, which makes for an awesome visual in general, but not necessarily the best entrances.

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