Hello, you're here with t and Matthew and we are the Bing Zhang Zoom
Podcast. Can you dig it? So recently we had one of the grandest
events of all time in the form of WrestleMania. That's right, WrestleMania thirty
nine just passed and we have the results. So first off, the first
match was a match between the returning invisible individual, the doctor of Thugonomics,
mister you can't see me himself, John Cena. He returned to face an
up and coming Austin Theory. Now I use the term I didn't see him.
Oh yeah, I mean he was there, but he only saw the
bands on his arm and the hat he's running into the ring and the Georgs.
But no, he fought Austin Theory, who was the United States Champion,
and he fought him for the United States Championship, and in a turn
of events that maybe was unexpected, Austin Theory beat John Cena the Little Ring
one, two three. So John Cena's out of there. Austin Theory now
has some cloud as if he didn't before. He's a two time United States
champion, but he still needed some type of push to bring him to the
next level. Now on the flip side of things, John Cena because of
his match at WrestleMania, He's wrestled at least once every year since he came
into the w W, which is crazy to think about. That was over
twenty years ago now, So John Cena is the man for that. Uh.
I'm not his biggest fan performance wise, but he's he's all right,
and he's well known. He's got he got the business known, you know,
across other platforms. All right, exactly. I was gonna say,
peace bigger, that's one of my favorite all right, so m moving on
to the next match. It was the Man's the Man's and his name Man
John say, he's flights in every match, right, Yeah. Uh,
it's the Men's wrestle Media Showcase. This match stole WrestleMania Night one, and
if you're unfamiliar, WrestleMania now is a two night deal Saturday and Sunday,
So WrestleMania Night one this was one of the highlights, and it was not
necessarily expected to be one of the highlights because it was just thrown together last
minute. It was the Street Profits versus the Viking Raiders versus the Alpha Academy
versus Braunstroman and Ricochet with your winners being the Street Profits. Match was excellent.
Go back and watch it. There's nothing I can say that's gonna give
it. It's just due. Next match, seth Rollins versus Logan Paul.
The Paul brothers have seemingly been all over entertainment in the fighting world and everything,
and Logan Paul is officially signed to the WWE, which is a good
thing because he actually can go. It's not like they're bringing in a celebrity
that can't do anything. I mean, he's had a little bit of boxing
experience, as we've talked about on here before. Not to get confused with
his brother Jake Paul, but he was also he was a champion wrestler in
high school. And if anything, his personality and the way he presents himself,
you know, I mean, he's set up to be a hill character,
you know what I mean. He's his personality matches WWE more than it
matches the World Boxing Federation, absolutely. But after weeks and weeks of using
one of his finishes, which is the the this right hand that he apparently
has h like titanium and or something like that, well, he was defeated
by Seth Freaking Violence Us, much to many people's delight, me for one,
because I'm not the biggest Logan Paul fan, but I respect what he
brings to the table as a heal to me. Have Becky Lynch, Tris
Stratus and Leader two legends and Becky Lynch a sure fire Hall of Famer versus
Damage Control. They beat them matches, cool night one, very entertaining Rayterio.
Yeah, who beat who in that one? Um? It was Becky
Lynch, Trip Stratus and Leader that defeated Damage Control. Now onto a match
that a lot of people wanted to see, um and weren't sure if he
would get it because Ray Masterial had been refusing to fight his son, his
Ray Masterial versus Dominic. Dominic Mysterio had you know, talked a lot of
stuff about his dad, about him not being a good father, not being
there, and wishing that Eddie was his real Eddie Guerrero was his real dad.
And if you go back in history, you see there's a whole lot
of backstory to that whole Eddie Guerrero versus Ray Masterial feud. So I'm sure
that kind of stung, and you know, he's just doing things to antagonize
his dad. His dad finally said, you know what you wanted, I'm
gonna give it to you. I'm gonna I whoopire behind that WrestleMania, and
that is exactly what happened. Ray Masterio defeated Dominic, even at one point
pulling his belt off and spanking his son in the middle of the ring.
So that had to be embarrassing. But WrestleMania, it's the culmination of all
these feuds. SmackDown Women's Championship match. It was Rayre Ripley versus Charlotte Flair.
Charlotte Flair coming in as the champion. Yes you heard that last name
right, Flair as in Ric Flair, as in Ric Flair's daughter, Charlotte
Flair as the champion coming in to defend her title against Raya Ripley and Rare
Ripley defeated Charlotte Flair clean, clean, middle of the ring, just overpowered
her, got the finish. We had a surprise match. Um Snoop Dogg
and miss were the hosts of WrestleMania and oh, I thought you I thought
you were gonna say that was the surprise match. Snoop Dogg versus Miss Oh
No Snoop Dogg's done everything else in the world. Why not you right right?
Well, on Night one, Pat McAfee came back and defeated the Miss
and then impromptu match. It was just set up. I guess Miss was
the Whoopee cushion, the punching bag for anybody returning. Um, we'll get
more into that later and a little bit into what you said later. Then
we had the final match, the main event for WrestleMania Night one, which
was the w W Undisputed Tag Team Champions, the usso's Jimmy and j Usso
versus Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane. And if you've been keeping up, you
know the bloodline story. You know how Sam Muzane became part of the blood
line. You know how Kevin Owens and Sam Musane had it on again,
off again friendship slash what we call it, yeah, friend of me,
yeah, friend of me ship. And so the end result is what everybody
wanted to see, or not everybody, because some people are blood line big
blood line fans. But Kevin Owens and sam Y Zane became the undisputed WWE
Tag Team Champions. After the Ussos have held those titles for the longest amount
of time, longer than any other tag team in w W history. That
was the culmination of WrestleMania Night one. WrestleMania Night two started off with the
Beast brock Lesner versus Omas. He stands out believe seven foot four, he's
four hundred and twelve pounds, big big fella. Toss brock Lessner around like
he was nothing, Like he was a child. That doesn't happen, and
ultimately brock Lessner took all that, came back and F five, the big
Man got him up for it. I didn't know if he was gonna be
able to. You know, he got big show up. But that was
a long, long time ago. He's had many many matches UFC fights since
then. I'm sure plethora injuries. But he found his way back, got
him up. F five done. Women's WrestleMania Showcase match. That was cool,
but you know, nothing really to speak up there. Don't even remember
the victor. The Intercontinental Championship match, Gunther the Intercontindal Champion versus Shamous and
Drew McIntyre. Crazy hard hitting match. If you if that's the style of
match that you like, you like to see, as he would say it,
big meaty men slapping meat. This is your style of match. I
think I think that's a different website. But yes, then, well in
this match you had Gunther, the Intercontinal champion retained his title against Jamis and
Drew McIntire definitely didn't think it was gonna go that way. The Raw Women's
champion, Bianca Belair fought against Oscar Great match. Didn't know which way it
was gonna go, but Bianca Belair pulled it off. At the end of
the day her entrance, she came in with the Divas of Compton, and
the story goes one of the little girls in the Divas of Compton who helped
her, who helped Bianca during her entrance. Her mom had passed away earlier
that day, yet she still showed up for WrestleMania, still came out there
with a smile on her face and danced and so gud through that girl.
I really hope that that's a made up story if her mom died that day.
But she's like, yeah, I still gotta go to work. That's
a that's kind of messed up. I gotta say, well, she was
definitely she was definitely there for the motivation factor, you know, for the
president's factor and to be seen. And she definitely put her her best foot
forward. Good for her, you know, doing if it, If it
helped her, then good for her. You know, precisely I agree with
that one. And Snoop. Snoop in a roundabout way, found himself in
a match with the Miss. Yes, first I left, I dropped the
lead too early. I'm sorry. Yeah, well he had this nice,
big, shiny goal about that he was given a while ago. Uh,
one of the similar to the one that I have sitting here on the desk,
but his is all gold. So basically what happened was Shane McMahon made
his return to WWE, and you know, crowd goes wild and Snoop is
like, hey, look I'm the host. I have power and privilege to
do this and that, so I can make a match. So he makes
the match between Shane McMahon and the Miss. So Shane gets all hype,
you know, doing what he does and ends up tearing his squad didn't match.
Referees come in, they look at him, they're checking on him,
and Snoop is just like, wait, hold on a second, I just
booked this match. You made my man mess up his quad. So they
get Shane out of the ring and Snoop proceeds to take Shane's place, lands
a punch on the mids, miss falls down, and then Snoop proceeds to
do a one star people's elbows and gets the pin for the winds. I
know it's an old joke. I know it's something that people said before,
But Snoop Dogg he's finished the game. He's just doing side missions now.
Just everything he's doing it is just like, hell, yeah, I could
go do this. Russell Many, Yeah, why not? No for real?
Seriously, Helena Cell Edge versus Finn Balord. This was the demon Finnbalor.
This was the Finn Balord that won the Universal Championship. Finn Balor,
Massive Talent Edge, Massive Talent Edge, forty plus years old in his late
forties, still doing it at a high level, came back after breaking his
neck. You know, Finn Balor was injured. His shoulder was bad.
He had to relinquish the Universal Championship, which he never got back, but
still great performer. He an edge Or in a heated rivalry between Edges group
that he made the judgment day you two Edge placed the guitar. Also,
um but no Edge defeated Finn Balor. One high point in the match as
threw a ladder at Finnbalor's head and I thought the match was gonna be over
because Finn Balor had a gash pretty much taken up his whole skull on the
top of his head from the middle running all the way down to about his
headline, and uh yeah, it was looking bad. But the match is
called hell in the Cell and they just explained why. That explains why um
but yes, Edge defeated Finn Balor in that match. Then you had the
main event, the undisputed w W Universal Championship on the line. Roman reigned
the champion defending against Cody Rhodes. Everybody wanted to see Cody Rhodes finished the
story, right, you know. He They both talked about that families in
wrestling, how the Rhodes family in wrestling, and you have the the Samoan
lineage in professional wrestling, which is what the bloodline represents, what Roman rains
represents. He's the head of the table, he's the champion. He's been
the champion for nine hundred plus days at this point, and if he beats
Cordy Rhodes and holds it for another couple of months, he becomes the champion
for a thousand days. Cordy Rhodes put up a good fight, a great
fight, but there were too many variables. Roman Rains had Paul Haman at
his side and he also had Solo Sakoa at his side, and that was
too much for Cody Rhodes to get the victory. Roman Reigns defeats Cordy Rhodes
at WrestleMania and that closed the show WrestleMania. This WrestleMania, in my opinion,
was one of the best WrestleManias ever. All the matches, bar and
maybe the snoop and the women's random thrown together match, everything else was on
point. This WrestleMania is like nine point five nine to a nine point five
for me. Definitely worth seeing and it's a rewatchable WrestleMania because the matches were
just insane. So I gotta ask. I've been hearing mostly negative responses to
this WrestleMania, people saying that they didn't like it. What would you say
to persuade those people over to your side, to say that it is one
of the best. I'd say to look at it from the standpoint of your
interest. So your investment in this WrestleMania proves why it was one of the
best WrestleManias. There was so much invested in it. And this is not
like you know, it's not like a franchise that you know, it's not
like Batman or Superman or something that is established and it's in the comics what
happens, and you want to see it play out in live action. You
know these characters, these wrestlers, and you want to see them perform.
And a lot of people just wanted to see the story get finished. A
lot of people just wanted to see Cody Rhodes defeat Roman Reigns and they felt
like by him getting shorted, it will never be you know, the fire
will never be this hot again for Cody Rhodes, and I smod I agree
with that. However, it was it was perfect, although the villain one
it was absolutely like it was near flawless. And I mean, you can
go back and look at some WrestleManias and you know, say, okay,
but all the WrestleManias had their weak matches. All the WrestleMania had their concession
stand popcorn point matches. This WrestleMania was that was kept to a minimum,
a minimum. All of the matches were good, if not great, And
that's that's pretty difficult to do when you counter and all the when you factor
in all the nerves that people have and so on. So I would just
say, look at your investment. Look how much that you were invested in
it. That already brings it up to a certain level. And then the
outcomes in some of the matches, how the stories finally got ended, you
know, after the dominic mysterial thing and so on, like the entrances,
the how big the stage was, how many people were there, the two
nights, the whole thing. It really embodied what WrestleMania is supposed to be
in my opinion, And so that's what I would say, should bring you
along. It keeps the story going. If Batman locks the Joker up,
you know in in issue number one, locks him up, gets out of
there, or kills him to where he can never be an issue again,
do we have the main antagonist for Batman anymore? Exactly? And I think
those are wise words. Those are wise words. Keep the storyline going,
and on that note that brings us to a close. Thank you guys for
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