[quote name='guyver2077']chavo quits? thats what he said on wwe.com
did they show that on raw?[/QUOTE]
Yep. Good to see that damn near everybody except for Chris Benoit and Trevor Murdoch have used Eddie's death in a storyline.
So, I watched 'mania (bits and pieces): my brief thoughts on what I did see while waiting for the goddamn plumber to show up.
Edge/Foley was a fantastic match. Edge is not the kind of primadonna who gives up or phones in matches (I'm lookin' at you, Kane) because they aren't in the main event. Easily one of the best hardcore matches of the past year, due in part to the infrequency of them. The relative lack of them also made everything in the match more brutal and meaningful in a relative sense. I wish Edge could go back to the top of the card; in an ironic twist, his infiedlity soared him into the upper card as someone who you thought could *never* be a good guy again, while it seems that, between him, Cena, and HHH, HHH or Edge seem ready to turn good, while not turning Cena bad would be idiotic of monumental proportions (look what it did for The Rock). Edge is the franchise of the WWE, bar none.
What was up with the crowd loving Mickie James and booing Trish? Is there any longevity to this (i.e., will more crowds embrace Mickie, or is this just a Chicago thing)? An excellent women's match, and having two very solid women wrestlers is a great start. Unfortunately, once you get to the fourth best women's wrestler, you get Candace Michelle (#3 being Victoria). They need to bring in a Molly Holly, or Jazz, or someone who knows the
how to wrestle. They have an opportunity to build a women's division, and the crowd's treatment seemed to indicate that they will take it seriously, if only they can eliminate those who clearly aren't wrestlers.
I'd like to think Boogeyman will be gone by the end of the year, if only because he can't wrestle to save his life (which is the only saving grace of Eugene).
SD! title match was short and sweet. I like Rey winning, but I'll sour on it quickly if he loses the title immediately (meaning that they really did intend on him being a transitional champion).
Cena could be the #1 bad guy on Raw right now, but you already knew that. If they're building to that, then his title win makes sense. Since it seems that they are desperate to get the crowd to cheer him (watch any segment w/ Cena, and they show pro-Cena fans 7-1 over anti-Cena fans, and there's no way the crowd is that split, especially in Chicago where he was easily hated by 65%+ of the crowd), I don't know what they're thinking. Those people who hate him aren't going to "respect" him (which it seems is the WWE's goal, to turn him into a Bret Hart/Benoit kind of good guy).
The Raw title match entrances: remember them for the future. When you want to recall a moment of gross overproduction and sheer stupidity, remember those entrances. They're worse than a James Cameron film in terms of "way too
ing much work that ends up backfiring because its
ing ludicrous." The only upside to the entrances was seeing CM Punk's face at Wrestlemania (he was the gangster in the blue coat hanging on the passenger side of the car as it drove towards the ring). A very small upside, and my guess would be the only taste of WrestleMania he'll ever get.
A decent show from what I watched. Be sure to cling to a copy of this show, as the "
You Cena" chants will surely be edited.
Why is WWE so dumb, why do they want to kill the tag team division so badly? The midcard is already overloaded on Raw, so why not bring back 3MW with this Armando guy as their manager? TENT! CAMP! GAY!
