We only get 1 PPV a year now, mostly due to time and lack of interest in the current stories, but we will never miss a Wrestlemania as long as I live and WM 24 will be remembered for a few reasons, and hopefully not because 40 people got hurt during the grand finale of pyro. From top to bottom it was a well done show, even the Mayweather/Show “match†was interesting, Mayweather did a much better job of it then I expected and he took the fact that the crowd hated him since it was announced and made them hate him even more and in the end, everyone saved face and I think, Show looked better than he ever has, he did his job and did it well and in this business, that’s rare.
Undertaker is 16-0 at WM and was in a match that started off boring as hell but got really good, the Triple Threat match was ok but the finish was amazing, NO ONE saw that coming.
Ric Flair has officially retired from the ring and swore he will never wrestle again, and in a world where the motto is “Never say Never†I truly believe deep down I will never see Ric Flair wrestle again. His final match versus Shawn Michaels was probably the best match I have seen Flair wrestle in since Ricky Steamboat in the early 1990’s. There was 3 blown “spots†but the fact that most people only saw 1 just proves how great Ric and Shawn are at what they do.
24 minutes is how long a soon to be 60 and soon to be 43 year old man wrestled for. To break that down more, 8-10 minutes is average for a match, 15 minutes is a long match, 20 minutes is a very long match, so imagine what 24 minutes would be like and then add into the factor their ages. Yes, they both have wrestled 60+ minute Iron Man matches in the past, but neither has done that in a very long time. Trust me; those 4 extra minutes are amazing.
The standing ovation Flair got from the 70,000+ as he walked out of the ring and back to the locker room for the final time as a wrestler was amazing and you sure could see it on his face how much it meant to him.
How Do I Feel?:
pleased