Mac Watt

Professor Capie

Com 360

3/6/18

Multimedia #2 Video: WrestleMania

WrestleMania, WWE’s grandest stage of them all. It goes by many nicknames: “The Grandest Stage of Them All,” “The Showcase of the Immortals,” “The Show of Shows,” “The Greatest Spectacle in Sports Entertainment,” and “The Super Bowl of Sports Entertainment.” WrestleMania this year was the largest and longest in its history, with its run time of over seven consecutive hours and 14 matches total. Hansen McIlvaine, Sophomore Bradley student, is a new comer to watching sports entertainment and he commented on his first ever WrestleMania, “WrestleMania was very entertaining for me, a non-regular viewer. For a 7 hour plus event, I was into it the whole time. I think the debut of Ronda Rousey really helped draw a non-regular wrestling crowd to watch this event.” AJ Lamb, Senior Bradley student, also experience his first WrestleMania over the weekend and this is what he had to say, “As a person who just started watching WWE over the past month and honestly, a fresh face to the sport, I would say that I will definitely be watching more. I overall enjoyed the night, but it was a bit long for my taste. And there were a few segments that were a little bit drawn out like the (John) Cena in the crowd bits, eventually becoming Undertaker just destroying him within four minutes. Other than that, I really enjoyed myself.”

WrestleMania felt like more a Raw and Smack down super show in my opinion. It had the generic Raw main event with Brock Lesnar beating on someone for 8 minutes and leaving, with that someone being Roman Reigns this time. The only good thing that came out of that match was WWE showing they are transitioning once again from PG to TV-14 with the mass amount of blood that was pouring out of Roman Reigns forehead. The main event was overall, a bore. The reason I think that this years WrestleMania was so bland was for a couple reasons. First being that the Main Event was not wanted at all in the first place. No one wants to see the same main event on the grandest stage of them all to be the same four years in a row. Second being is the match that everyone was excited for, AJ Styles vs Shinsuke Nakamura, was just not good. It was so hyped up to possibly being the worst match on the card. Lastly, The biggest problem with WrestleMania would be that the big matches on the card were overshadowed by the least anticipated to be enjoyable. The bottom two matches, being the debut of Ronda Rousey in a tag team match, and Braun Strowman picking a 10-year-old child out of the crowd, stole the show. No one could have predicted that happening but it ended up to be so. Ronda was surprisingly excellent in the ring from transitioning from snapping arms to making sure she prevents that from happening. Braun choosing a child out of the crowd got the biggest reaction out of Twitter with “#NicholasStrowman” trending worldwide. The match had the biggest reaction as well with the live crowd. The crowd actually went berserk when a 10-year-old became a champion.

While there were plenty of flaws with this year’s WrestleMania, it still was a thoroughly enjoyable night. But let’s hope next years is better, AKA Triple H has the reigns to have full creative control of the event.