[Razor King]

Originally Posted by Hohenheim of Light

How is the Mania X match anything like the 3SOH?

And yeah, SS isn't good.

It's not, but both fall in the same genre of wrestling, with only the backdrop being different.

[Arnold Tricky]

Originally Posted by jomo17

Wild Wednesday offer: year review of 1993 and 1994 (tagged classic) and 1995/96 also tagged classic. Gonna be a pass from me. ..

Me too, gonna pick up Extreme Rules instead.

[Matt_Yoda]

2005 PPV Main Events

Quick Thoughts: Cena/JBL was yay, Dave/HHH was yay, Dave/JBL was meh, Hogan/HBK was a sick joke, Cena/Angle was meh and Dave/Eddie was alright.

John Cena vs. JBL (WWE Heavyweight Championship- I Quit Match)
WWE Judgment Day 2005

-Extremely good match and a star making performance from Cena and JBL's performance was gold. Solid brawling and they worked at a good pace with lots of blood and plenty of big spots. It really picks up at the end where Cena starts barraging JBL with brutal spots that should probably kill a person. The finish was understandable but it fell kind of flat. Great match, lackluster finish for my taste.

Batista vs. Triple H (World Heavyweight Championship- Hell in a Cell Match)
WWE Vengeance 2005

-Great HIAC and feud ender between these guys. Lot of brtual spots and good use of the cell, even through all of that they made sure that the story they were trying to tell got across. I was really impressed at how they didn't need a barrage of weapons, instead using a few key ones and getting those spots over. Lots of blood from HHH and the finish was well done, made even sweeter by the extra segment where Triple H proclaimed Big Dave as the man.

Batista vs. JBL (World Heavyweight Championship)
WWE Great American Bash 2005

-A solid brawl here. The match for the most part plodded a lot but they managed to make up for it with some big spots. However, between the referee stuff and OJ interfering it really put down the effort and the DQ finish was a copout, but they needed to set the rematch so I guess it accomplished what it needed to. In all, a solid if unforgettable title match.

Hulk Hogan vs. Shawn Michaels (Icon vs. Icon match)
WWE Summerslam 2005

-The buildup was excellent but the match itself was mostly pandering and Shawn's overselling really hurt the "big fight" atmosphere of this match, not to mention it got a lot of time. This should've been booked more in the way of Flair/Michaels; Hogan did get the crowd back into it by the end of the match. It's really hard to rate this.

John Cena vs. Kurt Angle (WWE Heavyweight Championship)
WWE Unforgiven 2005

-This was a solid title match that was going along fine until the shenanigans started. They basically did the same thing with JBL/Batista from GAB. A screwy finish that keeps the belt on Cena while giving Angle the W. They hit their typical offense and whatnot and build up to their finishers then the ref bump followed with the Bischoff stuff really bought this down.

Batista vs. Eddie Guerrero (World Heavyweight Championship)
WWE No Mercy 2005

-Eddie's last PPV match... Overall this was a solid title match between these guys. The chemistry was there, the storytelling was there but the result meant a lackluster match. The first half is really slow and just when they're about to knock it into a new gear, the ref bump. They tried to pick it up with spots after all that nonsense but whatever, the finish was pretty good. A solid straight up match between these two without all the other crap would've been light years better.

[Yeah1993]

Watching the Booker T/Goldust v Jericho/Christian tags, and fuck my ass they are great. I'm not thinking too deep, but I can't think of any tag series in WWE history I'd rather watch except for Rockers v Brainbusters. Goldust was pretty much as good as anyone in the company in 2002. For real.

[The Beast Incarnate]

Whilst watching many many WWE Championship matches, I started pondering to myself ; Who is the most unlikely pairing with great chemistry of all time ? There are a few IMO : Brock/Big Show certainly comes to mind with that epic , EPIC stretcher match that is easily Show's best match ever (**** 1/4 IMO , still need to rewatch it) , the superplex match , and the few short PPV big 4 matches that these two have had. Just a WEIRD pairing.

Another pair would have to be Cena and Umaga, I mean what the fuck ? I absolutely ADORE their 07 PPV duo of matches (need to rewatch both but both **** + from where I sit, and the LMS is my MOTY), and they had another few pretty great Raw matches on top of that. Another strange 07 pairing I GUESS would be Batista and the Undertaker, but Taker is pretty awesome in his own right so I guess it's not that unlikely.

Thoughts ?

[Yeah1993]

IDK I think Cena and Umaga are basically a perfect pairing. Honestly I pretty much don't give a flying shit about Cena unless he's fighting his way upwards, and Umaga's a giant asskicker who dominates his opponents and actually give Cena a chance to work from the bottom. The match kind of writes itself.

Kane and Albert had matches that were way better than they had any right to be. It's not as if they had just one miracle match either, it was a series of really fun shit.

[jawbreaker]

I feel like I'm one of two people in the world who doesn't really care about Cena/Umaga. I don't think it's bad by any means, just not spectacular.

[Big Z]

Originally Posted by jawbreaker

I feel like I'm one of two people in the world who doesn't really care about Cena/Umaga. I don't think it's bad by any means, just not spectacular.

3 people . Me, you and Craig .

[Jack Evans 187]

Originally Posted by JoeRulz

Five stars all the way, it was a rollercoaster of a match.

It's hard for me to give matches from that era the full boat, idk why. Guess it's just that I prefer the new style of wrestling and what I grew up watching.

[Sgt. Pepper]

I liked cena/umaga. ****1/2
I miss umaga. He wouldve been an awesome WWE champ. He was ferocious. Why did they release him in the first place?