Now, you're hearing from the commentary that Wrestlemania 36 is available for PPV pre-order which WWE hasn't acknowledged on television regarding buying their shows on PPV like ever.
I just got a notification from the folks over at Fite TV that you can buy the show on their platform which is huge for Fite TV. Did I do that? Hell Nah because I got the network duh?
The Undertaker Sends Styles An Ultimatum.
The show started off with the most real I've seen from the Deadman since the Big Evil/American Badass days. He tells Styles that for a small man named Allen Jones, he sure does have a big mouth.Taker also mentioned that AJ can't last with the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Booker T, Edge and many of the goats of the business.
He proceeded to insult Styles' clash and says that his wife does the faith breaker better than he ever did. The phenom ends the promo telling his Wrestlemania opponent that he'll rest in peace.
While this promo had obvious inspirations from Taker's more real like characters like his biker days from the early 2000s, it didn't fully kill his deadman persona.
WWE hit the sweet spot with this fantastic promo. Definitely one of Undertaker's best promo work in ages.
After that, Becky Lynch showed up to the stage area and introduced the match she won her RAW women's championship from before she was choked out by Shayna Baszler.
In other words, another old match in the Wrestlemania 35 main event between Lynch, Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair for both the red and the blue women's belts.
That match gave me the motivation to read my Wrestlemania 35 aka my first Wrestlemania review and I said regarding the main event match that I liked it and I still feel this way. It's not amazing but not terrible as some fans believe.
That promo from Becky about if Shayna loses then she'll be put in Ronda's shadow was so good. Becky has been on fire with her promos, especially in this feud.
Aleister Black vs Local Jobber.
The Street Profits And Kevin Owens vs Andrade, Angel Garza And Seth Rollins.
Garza and Andrade's business associate Zelina Vega, said that Andrade "broke his ribs" and isn't medically clear to wrestle so she instead brought up NXT's Austin Theory in to replace Andrade and that wouldn't be the last time Austin teams up with Angel Garza because he's going to be in the RAW tag team title match. The match itself was aight.
Montez Ford took an awful looking suicide dive barely touching Austin Theory. Maybe Austin took Zack Sabre Jr's advice and moved from a dive?
The babyface team wins with a stunner from Kevin Owens to Garza but was then led to a stomp from Seth Rollins.
Owens cut a promo basically saying that Seth Rollins' claim of the performance centre being built out of Rollins' hard work proves Owens right which is that Rollins is delusional and tells Rollins that he'll burn Seth down.
I love when the good guy recognizes the bad guy's weakness. A rare thing to see from WWE. Great stuff from Owens.
Edge, in a passionate promo, says that he makes Randy Orton better because he knows without him, Randy Orton is just there and he will take Randy Orton down at Wrestlemania.
What a great transition. First a great promo from Kevin Owens and now another superb mic work from Edge. The final NXT women’s championship build before Wrestlemania comes from a seek kick from Charlotte to Rhea Ripley outside the performance centre. Meh.
Asuka vs Kayden Carter.
Kayden Carter has an opportunity to not only defeat Asuka but also win the number one contenders ladder match spot via a battle royal this coming Wednesday. Did she do that?That battle royal match is in a few days so I obviously do not know if that will happen (spoilers, it wouldn't) but she definitely didn't fulfil the first task which is defeating Asuka. I do not know a lick of Japanese but I’m assuming that Asuka’s promo was great also.
Another old match of the evening comes from Brock's second WWE Title defence since he quickly defeated Kofi Kingston on the premiere episode of Friday Night Smackdown.
That title match happened at Survivor Series 2019 against Rey Mysterio which was a good match I must say. Speaking of Brock Lesnar, the final segment for this week's Monday Night RAW before Wrestlemania was a promo courtesy of Brock's advocate, Paul Heyman.
Heyman verbally put over Drew McIntyre from being special but The Rock, Hulk Hogan, UFC's Randy Couture, The Undertaker were all special and Brock Lesnar decimated all of them and the same will happen for Drew McIntyre at Wrestlemania. What do you expect from Paul Heyman? A great promo that is.
So, to recap for all of you slow mofos.
Like: Every single promo of the night.
Didn't like: Nothing really.
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