WWE WrestleMania 21 (2005)

On March 31,1985, the Wrestlemania legacy was born at Madison Square Garden in New York City.This sold-out event is the origin of what has become the greatest sports-entertainment franchise in American history. WrestleMania has dazzled millions of fans over the past 20 years by showcasing the greatest WWE Superstars of all time in marquee matches and featuring celebraties from music,sports and entertainment.The Legacy continues with WrestleMania 21, live on Pay Per View Sunday April 3,2005 at 7pmEST.WrestleMania 21"Goes Hollywood" in a big way with this special 4-hour extravaganza, live from Los Angeles' Staples Center .The 3-disc Collectors Edition includes complete 4 hour WrestleMania 21,plus behind-the-scenes interviews and the WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony featuring Hulk Hogan,"Rowdy" Roddy Piper,The Iron Shiek and more.

Worth The Money!!! Great Wrestlemania

Match 1: Rey Mysterio vs. Eddie Guerrero (RIP)
Two friends. Tag Team Champions. Result=Great Match
This match was back and fourth with great performances by both men involved. High flying and entertaining as well as a great opening match
Rey Wins at 12:39
Rating 8.5/10

Match 2: First Ever Money In The Bank Ladder Match: Edge vs. Chris Benoit vs. Kane vs. Christian vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. Chris Jericho witht the winner to recieve a future wwe or world title shot. This match had all different men and different styles. All six men put on a great performance. A very memorable match and way wayyyy above average. Edge wins the match at 15:17
Match Rating 9/10

Match 3: The Undertaker vs. Randy Orton: Well this match was up there with the great Undertaker wrestlemania matches. These two worked well together and the inteference in this match added alot to it. One of Undertakers better wrestlemania matches. Randy orton is great here too. Back and fourth action as well as great reversals and moves by both men. The Undertaker wins and goes 13-0 at Wrestlemania at 14:14
Match Rating 8.5/10

Match 4: Trish Stratus vs. Christy Hemme for the WWE Womens Championship: This match pretty much sucked. A few good moves. This should is good to be watched once. No more than that. Winner and still womesn champ Trish Stratus at 4:11
Match Rating 6/10

Match 5: Shawn Michaels Vs. Kurt Angle: one word CLASSIC!!! this match had MOTY candidate written all over it and it was an amazing match. Both of these men will be in the hall of fame one day. Back and fourth action and and some unexpected offense and moves from both men. This match is one of the greates if not the greatest wrestlemania match of all time and it was almost a half hour long. Kurt Angle wins at 27:25
Match Rating 10/10

Match 6: Akebono vs. The Big Show in a Sumo Match: Skip
Match Rating 0/10

Match 7: John Cena vs. JBL for the WWE Championship: Pretty boring but worth a watch. Winner and new WWE Champion John Cena at 11:26
Match Rating 6.5/10

Match 8: Batista vs. Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship: Finally we have another great match. This was probably of the most anticipated matches in Wrestlemania history. Back and fourth wrestling and great moves by both men. Ric Flair being at ringside also added to the match. This was a great main event but it could have been a little better but not by much. The suspense was there and it really picked up once Triple H started to bleed. Overall Great Match and a great mains event. Batista wins and becomes the new World Heavyweight Champion at 21:34
Match Rating 9/10

Austin appears on Pipers Pit: Great Segment and great entertainment. Definately worth wathcing

Overall Wrestlemania 21 is a great wrestlemania and definately worht your money. Includes the pre event battle royal as well as the hall of fame ceremony. September 6, 2008

WRESTLEMANIA 21

THE REVIEW OF THE ONE MONTH ANNIVERSERY OF MY FIRST REVIEW!!! WRESTLEMANIA
21 WAS A GREAT PAYPERVIEW PROBLY THE BEST ONE OF 2005.

LIST OF MATCHES

REY MYSTERIO VS. THE LATE EDDIE GUERRERO 8/10
WINNER I DO NOT REMEMBER BUT I THINK IT WAS EDDIE GUERRERO.

MONEY IN THE BANK NUMBER ONE
Y2J VS. CHRIS BENOIT VS. SHELTON BENJAMIN
VS. EDGE VS. CHRISTIAN VS. KANE
WINNER EDGE 8/10
NOTE THEY SHOULD OF MADE SOME ONE ELSE WIN.

LEGEND VS. LEGEND KILLER
UNDERTAKER VS. RANDY ORTON
WINNER AND 13-0 UNDERTAKER 10/10

WOMENS TITLE MATCH
TRISH VS. CHRISTY 7/10
WINNER TRISH


SHAWN MICHAELS VS. KURT ANGLE 10/10
WINNER KURT ANGLE
NOTE SHAWN MICHAELS ALWAYS HAS THE BEST MANIA MATCHES.

PIPERS PIT SPEACIAL GUEST STONE COLD 10/10

SUMO MATCH
BIG SHOW VS. AKEBONO 8/10
WINNER AKEBONO

WWE CHAMPIONSHIP
JBL VS. JOHN CENA 9/10
WINNER AND NEW WWE CHAMP JOHN CENA

WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
TRIPLE H VS. BATISTA 10/10
WINNER AND NEW WORLD CHAMP BATISTA

June 3, 2008

A really good card with some memorable matches

This ppv is memorable for alot of reasons to me. The first ever Money in the Bank Match that nearly stole the show. Tag team champions going one on one against each other. And Cena and Batista becoming long term main eventers. Most of the matches delivered and I was entertained for the most part.

Rey Mysterio vs. Eddie Guerrero
Not the best I seen from these two but a clinic was in the works. These two opened up with a pretty good effort that got the crowd opened. Lots of ground base wrestling and a nice finish. 4/5

First Ever Money in the Bank Ladder Match
Chris Jericho vs. Chris Benoit vs. Kane vs. Christian vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. Edge

An excellent match with some nice spots. Non stop action galore. I give credit to all of these guys but Shelton in these kind of matches is just something to see. 5/5

Legend vs. Legend Killer
Undertaker vs. Randy Orton

This was one of my favorite feuds of 05. The match wasn't excellent but these two had some great chemistry and the suspense was there. They would go on to have better matches and finish thier feud in Hell in a Cell. 4/5

Women's Title
Trish Stratus vs. Christy Hemme

I love to see womens matches. But some women have no business in the ring and Christy is one of them. Trish carried her through this but even for a womens match this is not even average. 2.5/5

Inter-Promotional Match
Shawn Michaels vs. Kurt Angle

The biggest reason to see this ppv. You won't see anything close from this point on. A very good wrestling match that had everything except weapons. It went back and forth for some time. Some good finisher counters and the ending worked out great. 5/5

Sumo Match
Big Show vs. Akebono

I saw this match only once and that was on ppv. Seriously, I have no intention on ever seeing it again. I won't even rate this one.

WWE Title
JBL vs. John Cena

All Cena hate aside. This just wasn't a good match. A very poor outing from both of them. JBL dominated for awhile then it became a spot fest. It's rare that a brawl is boring and this match was boring from start to finish. This is a match that I usually skip but watched it again to remind myself how much I can't stand it. 2/5

World Heavyweight title
Triple H vs. Batista

A pretty good main event and Triple H carried The Animal pretty well. The Game took some nasty punishment at times and the blows were pretty sharp. You get the usual outside interference plus it got brutal. A good ending and it was the birth of the Batista era. 4/5

A very good ppv with two must see matches and a couple other good ones. Most of these guys would continue to feud. Cena and JBL's match at Judgement day would soon overshadow this outing. To include Michaels vs. Angle at Venageance and Triple H vs. Batista. I recommend this ppv and the ones after it as well.
May 25, 2008

It was good

The event was good. Considering how much I liked 22 and disliked 20, I expected something in the middle.


Eddie Guerrero vs Rey Mysterio
Classic match. WWE-style booking has been tossed aside for more high-impact style, faintly reminiscent of WCW's cruiserweight division, and becomes something spectacular. (10/10)


Money in the Bank
Edge vs Christian vs Shelton Benjamin vs NO ONE vs Kane vs Chris Jericho
Typical of these numerous man ladder matches, it was a spotfest, but an entertaining one at that. It had more time to spend than the one from Wrestlemania 22. Didn't exceed such things as, say, the Tables Ladders and Chairs matches between the Dudleys, Hardys, and Edge and Christian. (9/10)


Eugene comes out, Muhammed Hassan and Daivari come out to beat him up and complain that they weren't a part of Wrestlemania. Hulk Hogan comes out and beats them up, because Hulk Hogan is American, and they are not. Hassan comes from some crazy Arab country called "Detroit, Michigan" and Daivari is from an even crazier Persian country called "Minneapolis, Minnesota".


The Undertaker vs Randy Orton
Master of the Chinlock, stilted. mechanical. promos, and allegedly using a diva's gymbag as a toilet, Randy Orton against Undertaker. Orton wasn't going to win this match, and anyone who thought otherwise was clearly out of their mind. They put on a boring match saved only by... well, it wasn't saved. (4/10)


WWE Women's Championship
Trish Stratus (C) vs Christy Hemme
I don't remember this one. Which is both a good thing (it wasn't horrible) and a bad thing (it wasn't good). (4/10)


Shawn Michaels vs Kurt Angle
The build-up to this match was amazing. You would almost believe these two legitimately hate each other. And how does a man who hates another man attack him? Put him in a series of headlocks lasting just under 10 minutes nonstop. That's right. Aside from that abortion of restholds put on by Michaels, the match became a classic, and kept us on edge with its ending. (9/10)


Piper's Pit with Stone Cold Steve Austin. What the hell happened here. Apparently Austin was some sort of "rebel" in the WWE, and to sum it all up, Austin gives a stunner to Carlito and Roddy Piper.


Sumo Match
The Big Show vs Akebono
Big Show gets thrown the hell out of the ring and shows us a lot of his bare inner thighs. (3/10)


WWE Championship Match
John Bradshaw Layfield (C) vs John Cena
This was that match which started the infamous Cena period of nearly infinite title reigns and infinite title shots when he didn't have it. It is of my firm and unwaivering opinion that Cena is the worst thing to happen to wrestling since The Great Khali, Gobbledygooker, Katie Vick, Ed Ferrara's "Oklahoma", David Arquette, and Vince Russo after 1999.

This match had December 2 Dismember tendencies... specifically the match between Balls Mahoney and Matt Striker, in which Balls got maybe 4 offensive moves in, while Striker dominates him the entire match, and Balls suddenly wins out of nowhere.

In this same way, not only did JBL DOMINATE Cena virtually the ENTIRE match, but he actually impressed me, a hardened disillusioned smark, with some of the absolute BEST wrestling I've seen Layfield do in his ENTIRE career. This was a glorified squash match with a twist ending which sees Cena randomly catch JBL in a generic stuttering Fireman's Carry (also known as foo, or "FU") and win the title. (3/10)


World Heavyweight Championship
Triple H (C) vs Batista
Motorhead's Lemmy shows he cannot physically learn the lyrics to Triple H's theme music, in a repeat performance of their bombing of HHH's entrance at Wrestlemania X7.

The match, meanwhile, was classic Triple H and that monster heel Batista I came to love in late 2003. It was no classic match or purist dream, or even a brawl. It was a solid power match with heavy emphasis on strength, endurance, and muscles. Great way to drop a title, something Smackdown totally bombed with in the WWE championship match. (8/10)


Seriously... what was with the WWE Championship match? As much as I hate Cena, I have to say that the way they gave him the championship was the equivalent of Mikey Whipwreck winning the ECW Championship. They made Cena out to be the clumsy, trash-talking oaf who can't back up his words, and only won by accident.

Aside from that, and other things, it was a good event. March 5, 2008

Wrestlemania goes Hollywood

THIS EVENT WAS GREAT OVERALL. AUSTIN IN PIPER'S PIT, HHH VS. BATISTA, EDDIE VS. REY, HBK VS. ANGLE, THE FIRST EVER MONEY IN THE BANK LADDER MATCH FEATURING JERICHO, EDGE, SHELTON BENJAMIN, KANE, CHRISTIAN, AND CHRIS BENOIT, TAKER VS. ORTON, CENA VS. JBL, AND A SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY HULK HOGAN. IN MY OPINION, THE PIPER'S PIT SEGMENT WAS THE BEST PART OF THIS WRESTLEMANIA 21. HHH VS. BATISTA WAS A PRETTY GOOD WRESTLING MATCH. AT THIS POINT, BATISTA WAS A BETTER WRESTLER THAN HE IS NOW. EDDIE VS. REY WAS A GOOD WRESTLING MATCH TO KICK OFF THE SHOW. MONEY IN THE BANK TRULY DELIVERED IN LARGE PART DUE TO SOME UNBELIEVEABLE AGILITY DISPLAYED BY SHELTON BENJAMIN. HBK VS. ANGLE WAS A REAL CLASSIC. THE MATCH DID WELL WITH TELLING A STORY IN THE RING ( A SKILL WHICH THE YOUNG GUYS OF TODAY SIMPLY CANNOT DEVELOP OR DO). THE NEVER DIE ATTITUDE OF HBK GOING AGAINST THE INTENSITY OF ANGLE WAS A GOOD FIT. TO SEE PIPER AND AUSTIN IN THE RING TOGETHER WAS TRULY CLASSIC AND THEN TO SEE AUSTIN STUN PIPER WAS GREAT. EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER TO SEE HOGAN IN A MATCH AGAINST A LEGITIMATE OPPONENT, HIS PRESCENCE ALONE TORE THE ROOF OFF THE STAPLES CENTER. ORTON VS. TAKER WAS ALSO NOT A BAD MATCH. TAKER IMPROVES TO 13-0 WITH THE TOMBSTONE PILEDRIVER. ALL IN ALL, A GOOD EVENT FILLED WITH A FEW UNFORGETTABLE WRESTLEMANIA MOMENTS. April 8, 2007

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