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Originally Posted by Maple Leafs
The booking of the main event was just bizarre.
You've spent two months selling the entire show around the Rock's involvement in the main event, so you have to know that the crowd won't be into anything until he shows up. Nobody cares about the action, nobody buys the fake finish. Fine.
But then when he does show up, you get 30 seconds and then an immediate payoff? No tension, no suspense, just a quick sneak attack? It's as if the writers really don't understand what makes a crowd work.
Not to mention that they apparently just used the main event of Wrestlemania to set up a feud for the next PPV. Strange.
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Ya, I definitely would have preferred Rock being out there the entire main event and being a general nuisance throughout (he was basically booked as part of the main event after all, and I agree that the match really didn't even "start" until he was out there), but I guarantee that if they did that everybody would be complaining that the Rock hogged the main event spotlight and that he wouldn't even let Miz/Cena have their match first.
And is the first time a heel retained in the final match at Mania? I think HHH might have done it once, I can't remember. I think Miz may have officially joined the "list of main eventers everybody thinks is the problem" group after this push. He's certainly the least talented of that group, so I think his shelf life is going to be a lot shorter than the others. Not sure it's time to put those fossils Cena (33 years old) and Orton (31 years old) out to pasture just yet. Taker and HHH are old and about to retire, but Edge says he wants to go another 5 years (I wonder if Miz will last that long), and Punk and Del Rio are also both in their early 30s (and as a bonus, are not yet overexposed - despite the desires by many to blow the whole load with those guys now.). And it only takes the right guy a year or two to be a mega-star, as we've seen over and over again. There will be main eventers in 2012 and 2013 we haven't heard of yet.
I really did think HHH was going to win with that tombstone, and I'm amazed and shocked he was able to make me think that. That match was the first on the show to really feel like wrestlemania. And I do have a guess that 'Taker wants to lose to somebody at Mania before he retires, and I don't think it's going to be an up-and-coming guy, but an established star that 'Taker respects (and I look forward to that match, because that will REALLY piss people off.)
Sweet Jesus did Cole/Lawler take a long time. It kind of looked like Austin was getting bored on the 18th "put Lawler's leg on the rope and stomp it" spot. That could have been a fun 5 minutes, if it had been trimmed down.