I don't think he was the right choice for two reasons: 1. This felt like a collection of famous rivals. Rock and Cena, Rollins and Roman, Cena and Solo, Cody and Roman, Rock and Aus.....Undertaker? They were never big rivals. 2. This felt like a passing the torch moment from all THE guys that are still able to wrestle. Undertaker was never THE guy. Everyone else was.
@@djdepressionhe was the right choice as undertaker was always seen as the leader of the locker room and when ever anyone was getting out of control he would put them in their place so he showed up to punish the rock for being out of control.
You want someone else to come out to confront the Rock. You know how he got complaints about all his swearing? You get Stevie Richards on the Phone, and right after Rock take out Cena you hear the alarm *Warning! Warning!* Right to Censor's leader takes out the Final Boss for his foul mouth. Mania SAVED!
From a history and character standpoint, Austin was the better choice to go face-to-face with The Rock. But I think as far as the match flow goes, Undertaker worked better. I mean gong hits, the lights go out, gong, the lights come back on, chokeslam, gong, lights go out and everyone is out of the ring except for Roman, Rollins and Cody for that great storyline chair spot with Roman having to decide who to hit. He hits Rollins, Cody blocks the spear, 3x Cross Rhodes and pin. If it was Austin, it would've been the glass breaking, Austin comes down the long ramp either walking or driving an ATV to get to the ring faster, he gets in the ring, he and The Rock exchange punches, eventually Austin hits the Stunner, Rock falls out of the ring, Austin follows Rock out of the ring and he continues to beat up Rock, which distracts from the chair spot with Roman and Rollins, and distracts from the finish. Using Taker gives you the chance to do what you need to do and move on. Keeps the fans' focus on the ring where it needed to be.
Austin in a hoodie could probably have been snuck in fairly easily. Glass shatters looks at ramp, Austin sneaks up from behind, Stunner, middle fingers, leave. Austin's done sneak attacks before.
I think Undertaker was the better choice only because The Undertaker can show up and leave. without having to have lasting consequence in terms of story.
I think if it had been Undertakers face on that truck there would not have even been a question as to if he was the right choice or not. Plus it’s Wrestlemania it’s practically his show, I’ll never be disappointed seeing him. Still would’ve been cool to have Austin and I understand why people would’ve wanted him but at least Undertaker had threads with Roman too.
Austin would've been the most obvious and an amazing pop. HHH, Taker, Foley, or any of the Attitude main characters is a great choice. The absolute best choice for story, pop, emotions and surprise, in my opinion, would've been Dustin Rhodes with half Goldust make up (and an AEW T-shirt as a compromise from WWE). But Hell needs to freeze over twice for that.
Undertaker has history with the bloodline. Yokozuna in the early-mid 90s, The Rock and Rikishi in the late 90s, Roman in the late 2010s. Probably more, in top of the whole “conscience of the WWE” thing, facing Dusty in his first WWE match. Taker makes sense.
Undertaker had history with the Bloodline. Yokozuna, Rock, Rikishi, Roman...hell. Yokozuna had 10 or so other guys kick Undertaker's ass and shoved him in a coffin.
Jack Perry's gimmick is "I got choked out by the old guy on the other channel". Even if you see it another way "I was assaulted by the old guy on the other show and didn't defend myself" How the hell can he use this to get over.
Maybe by not sticking to his irl story and drifting away from the specifics. Like use the opportunity to make "cry me a river" a catchphrase and become a austin-esque heel/tweener rebellious agent of chaos or something. Idk.
@BBoy4040 Why does anyone care that Jack Perry didn't retaliate? Would it have been better if he did fight back and started an actual brawl? He probably didn't see it as something worth fighting for, there's nothing really wrong with that.
@LooneyTunesBackInActionWasGood because it made him look weak. I feel like like I could beat him up and you shouldn't feel like that about wrestlers. They are meant to be don't mess with me tough guys even if they're not and seeing that he isn't ruins the illusion of that. People aren't going to belive him kicking out of the stronger moves when he couldn't even get out of a headlock
@@LooneyTunesBackInActionWasGood Someone is violently shoving you and putting you in a face lock in front of 15-20 people, you fight back. That's just what you do. The other guy is right, it just makes him look weak in real life, not just in kayfabe, and calling him a "scapegoat" when he was basically a scapegoat for nothing just blows the whole thing over.
Just imagine...The Rock just Rock Bottoms John Cena and stands in the middle of the ring...the crowd goes silent all throughout the arena "TURN IT UP" booms....it's Scotty 2 Hotty to the rescue of Cody! He's tired from all those years dealing with Rikishi and his Bloodline! He does the Wurm on The Rock!
I literally thought that was the whole point of it being Taker, almost like that was the point all along because that nickname for Rock is amazingly stupid.
Tony Khan isn’t going to capitalize on the popularity of Jack Perry because A: He’s still pissed about having to dump his old boyfriend (CM Punk) B: Tony is an idiot when it comes to striking while the iron is hot and C: Tony Khan is seemingly allergic to making money off of backstage incidents that would make fantastic storylines and one match
Im so glad I found this channel. I haven't heard from these dudes since the machinama days. That "steve here....and larson" took me back, I half expected a "number 10"
From a story perspective. Final Boss Rock would've squared up to a returning Austin and may have actually beat him because they've always been close to equals. A Dead Man returning to the Grandest Stage on the other hand? Rock's face sold the shock and disbelief that allowed Taker the chance to Chokeslam him. I mean, back in the day, Rock wasn't even the final boss of the show he helped name. It was always Taker.
Hot take: Undertakers Streak is actually not good. No Hogan, No Rock, No Austin, No Warrior, No Savage. Past prime flair, HBK, Cena. Before prime Orton, Edge. Most of his wins are against mid carders.
From my limited exposure to ECW storylines, I'd probably argue that the Mick Foley storyline was possibly one of the best stories they ever told. The most extreme of men no longer wanted to be extreme because of the damage his body has suffered is quite a compelling story for a promotion like ECW.
I don't know if people are forgetting this after a near decade, but it wasn't just the spectacle or the story significance that made Seth cashing in at Mania the best of all time, it was the fact he was _saving Wrestlemania_ while doing it. People did not want Brock or Roman to win and the main event was gearing up to leave everyone with a sour taste from Mania again, then Seth's music hit and it electrified the audience and now people have a pretty good opinion of Wrestlemania 31 in retrospect. I doubt too many people call it great, but I guarantee if they just had a normal Roman vs Brock match where Roman won the title clean everyone's rating of that Mania would be 2 stars lower.
@@AussieDragoon Honestly, I think most WWE Fans don't even know who Bob Backlund is which is sad considering he was the face of the company for 5 years before the Hulkamania Era and was a huge workhorse.
ECW Hardcore TV was what I’ve heard referred to as a “magazine” style show. Like it was a bunch of highlights with one or two full matches per episode. It made you sort of have to actively follow it. I got in in late 97 so the zani-ness of Raven and Sandman and Dreamer was gone and it felt more wrestling centric at that point. The WWF invasion with RVD and Sabu and interchangeables vs Team ECW was in full swing. Title chases meant more. It was less soap opera Jerry Springer bs by the time 98 rolled around.
I think Triple H made the most sense because The Rock’s Final Boss character is reminiscent of Vince in the sense that he’s making the calls, telling Triple H at the Press Conference to fix his show. It’d had been very poetic for H to come in and attack Rock, cementing that it’s HIS show now, same way he’s taken WWE into the new era without Vince.
Tribal war. War games in Samoa. Fatus (USOs, Solo, Jacob, Zilla) vs Roman (anoa’i) reigns, lance anaoi, tama tonga, tanga loa, hikuleo Rock as Tribal Ref
Storyline wise, Taker was the WWE’s final boss since ‘91. Made sense for him to take out the ‘false final boss’, the Rock. If he came out in gear and announcers called him “the conscience of the WWE” the story would have been more clear and people wouldn’t be talking Austin as much. As it was laid out, Austin would have been better
Here’s my wrestling hot take: I think it’s dumb that okada uses a tombstone piledriver to set up the rainmaker, like he doesn’t even try to pin the guy
I wanna give my hot take and I hope you guys can see it, I feel so bad for NJPW, once was the epitome of wrestling in the world now a mere joke of a company, they’ve became the 2010’s TNA of the wrestling world where any mediocre wrestler who fail goes there, it’s over saturated by mediocrity, failed to produce one single local mega star since Okada, all their top stars left, and now their top prized is won by Moxley and played in a weekly show in the US .. I mean where was the show that gave us WK 8,9,10?
I bet Austin already regrets not doing it lol. The pop for Undertaker was insane the crowd’s brains broke. Austin screwing over Rock one last time would make way more sense.
Taker was the locker room leader who kept wrestlers in line as a shoot, and as a work, Rock was way out of pocket. As was Roman. So Taker shows up looking like Marky Mark at the end of Departed and settles it. I like it a lot.
I wanted Triple H to come out and menace The Rock with the sledgehammer, Rock starts backtracking up the ramp... * GLASS BREAKS* *NUCLEAR REACTION* *I change my pants* Life would have been great. Still, Taker popped me.
I have a question. I’ve seen interviews where Jesse Ventura states that Hulk Hogan squashed any chance of a union by leaking news to Vince. If this had not happened and the workers got the union, what do you think wrestling would look like today? Would ECW have happened at all?
Considering how his last appearance went down Id say that the most sensible person for that spot was Brock Lesnar. Bloodline ties, the Cody endorsement etc, Brock would have been perfect. Honestly makes me think Taker replaced Brock NOT Austin. The Austin rumor could have been leaked intentionally by WWE to throw off the scent that they had Brock figured into Mania. Thats my hot take
I'm glad they didn't do Austin because if he was there it would kinda of necessitated a beer bash celebration and I don't think that would have worked as well to end the show.
I agree. I was already against moxley winning the belt because he wasn't signed on top of it feels like new Japan is already bending the knee aew. I'm even more against it if moxley is barely their & only defends it on one new Japan show , forbidden door than wrestle kingdom. I'm on the side of they should've kept the belt on naito longer & have them build someone up like a new musketeer to take it off naito.
I think Stone Cold made more sense based on the fact that the last mania in Philly was Rock vs Stone Cold and they probably have the greatest rivalry in wrestling history.
But how does that add to Roman's story arc considering Austin praise him in the documentary lol. Plus the end story beat of Seth betrayal ultimately being the downfall of Roman tide as champion would be overshadowed.
Hot Take: AEW actually borrows more from ECW than WCW. The way AEW books and uses international talents. They just have random wrestlers show up and try to have great matches. At times, little to zero character building outside the main event.
Taker was absolutely perfect for that spot. He's long been the "final boss" of WWE and honestly, it's WrestleMania. Undertaker doesn't need a reason to show up at WrestleMania. It's his yard, and he has history with the entire Samoan family. "Austin would've been a great pop," as if Taker's pop wasn't NUCLEAR. No one was expecting it, and it made it that much more special.
Yeah and it going dark and then him appearing and everyone screaming “ohhhhhhhhhhhh” when it went dark was all perfect . Stone cold wouldn’t have been as fun I don’t think. Definitely would have been fun but not as fun
My hot take is without Rhea, Judgement day is nothing. With her injured for who knows how long, I don’t think judgment day is gonna last, people might be happy with Damien as champ but they’re soon gonna get sick of the boring promos, boring matches and all the interferences. I’d be surprised if Damien makes it after backlash.
Surely the one that wouldve made the most sense would be Brock. Rival with Roman and last seen putting over Cody - obviously the reason why it didn't happen is clear
Honestly a hot take but a real one is AEW and NJPW is showing why working with other companies is bad…they relationship is like if you a guy and you have a friend and every time you get a GF and bring them around they take them at some point you gotta say maybe I shouldn’t bring my girl around them
Tommy was the Jock. Raven was the loser. Beulah was the fat girl who had a crush on Tommy. No matter how many times he tried he could never beat Raven. And then if you look at when Jerry Lawler invaded after Tommy finally beat Raven. That look on his face looks like he was actually going to murder him before RVD and Sabu tackled him.
FACTS! I’ve been saying the same thing. Brock had beef with Roman (going all the way back to 2015 with their on again/off again rivalry) and the Bloodline. Plus, Brock shook Cody’s hand at the conclusion of their feud last year so it would make sense for him to assist Cody in that spot after Cody had earned his respect
i really don’t like that taker won’t come out in full gimmick like i get that he has peeled the curtain back but he should’ve came back in the trench coat and the hat man
idea: Jon Moxley is IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, he got attacked by Ren Narita, one of Jack Perry's pals in House of Torture. bringing that NJPW feud to AEW could be how Jack Perry returns to AEW, and we'd get some wild interactions of New Elite and House of Torture.
Hey, look, I'm on the thumbnail. I made it, Ma. 😂😂
I also believe Undertaker was the right choice due to him being the True Final Boss.
I don't think he was the right choice for two reasons:
1. This felt like a collection of famous rivals. Rock and Cena, Rollins and Roman, Cena and Solo, Cody and Roman, Rock and Aus.....Undertaker? They were never big rivals.
2. This felt like a passing the torch moment from all THE guys that are still able to wrestle. Undertaker was never THE guy. Everyone else was.
Should’ve been The Hurricane
You finished the story
@@djdepressionhe was the right choice as undertaker was always seen as the leader of the locker room and when ever anyone was getting out of control he would put them in their place so he showed up to punish the rock for being out of control.
You want someone else to come out to confront the Rock. You know how he got complaints about all his swearing? You get Stevie Richards on the Phone, and right after Rock take out Cena you hear the alarm *Warning! Warning!* Right to Censor's leader takes out the Final Boss for his foul mouth. Mania SAVED!
Undertaker is the spirit of Wrestlemania! He brought balance to the match.
From a history and character standpoint, Austin was the better choice to go face-to-face with The Rock. But I think as far as the match flow goes, Undertaker worked better. I mean gong hits, the lights go out, gong, the lights come back on, chokeslam, gong, lights go out and everyone is out of the ring except for Roman, Rollins and Cody for that great storyline chair spot with Roman having to decide who to hit. He hits Rollins, Cody blocks the spear, 3x Cross Rhodes and pin.
If it was Austin, it would've been the glass breaking, Austin comes down the long ramp either walking or driving an ATV to get to the ring faster, he gets in the ring, he and The Rock exchange punches, eventually Austin hits the Stunner, Rock falls out of the ring, Austin follows Rock out of the ring and he continues to beat up Rock, which distracts from the chair spot with Roman and Rollins, and distracts from the finish.
Using Taker gives you the chance to do what you need to do and move on. Keeps the fans' focus on the ring where it needed to be.
Austin in a hoodie could probably have been snuck in fairly easily. Glass shatters looks at ramp, Austin sneaks up from behind, Stunner, middle fingers, leave. Austin's done sneak attacks before.
@@Carlitonsp1 For Mania though he's "BMF" walking down to the ring.
Never really bought the idea that because they feuded 21 years ago that stone cold needed to come out
But hear me out. Austin and rock are in a stalemate punch fest. Then the Gong hits.
@@BorrowedMemories😮😮😮😮 Do you mean.... 🗣️DOUBLE CHOKESLAM‼️‼️‼️‼️⁉️
4:04 The Hurricane. Still would’ve chokeslammed Rock like taker did too 😂
I was just about to comment this 😂
Hurricane helms would have been hilarious… imagine the crowd reacting to “stand back!! There’s a hurricane coming through!” 😂
I think Undertaker was the better choice only because The Undertaker can show up and leave. without having to have lasting consequence in terms of story.
Why couldn’t Stone Cold do the exact same thing? Stone Cold isn’t sticking around for Raw either.
@@jtizzle124 he meant in the match he could vanish after hitting his spots and left cody finish the story on his own
I think if it had been Undertakers face on that truck there would not have even been a question as to if he was the right choice or not. Plus it’s Wrestlemania it’s practically his show, I’ll never be disappointed seeing him. Still would’ve been cool to have Austin and I understand why people would’ve wanted him but at least Undertaker had threads with Roman too.
Austin would've been the most obvious and an amazing pop.
HHH, Taker, Foley, or any of the Attitude main characters is a great choice.
The absolute best choice for story, pop, emotions and surprise, in my opinion, would've been Dustin Rhodes with half Goldust make up (and an AEW T-shirt as a compromise from WWE). But Hell needs to freeze over twice for that.
Undertaker has history with the bloodline. Yokozuna in the early-mid 90s, The Rock and Rikishi in the late 90s, Roman in the late 2010s. Probably more, in top of the whole “conscience of the WWE” thing, facing Dusty in his first WWE match. Taker makes sense.
Undertaker had history with the Bloodline. Yokozuna, Rock, Rikishi, Roman...hell. Yokozuna had 10 or so other guys kick Undertaker's ass and shoved him in a coffin.
They could have had Vin Diesel come out. Or David Arquette...maybe DDP...the forgotten people's champion.
Jack Perry's gimmick is "I got choked out by the old guy on the other channel". Even if you see it another way "I was assaulted by the old guy on the other show and didn't defend myself" How the hell can he use this to get over.
Maybe by not sticking to his irl story and drifting away from the specifics. Like use the opportunity to make "cry me a river" a catchphrase and become a austin-esque heel/tweener rebellious agent of chaos or something. Idk.
I mean the problem with that is AEW airing the footage. We ALL saw Jack do absolutely nothing.
@BBoy4040 Why does anyone care that Jack Perry didn't retaliate? Would it have been better if he did fight back and started an actual brawl? He probably didn't see it as something worth fighting for, there's nothing really wrong with that.
@LooneyTunesBackInActionWasGood because it made him look weak. I feel like like I could beat him up and you shouldn't feel like that about wrestlers. They are meant to be don't mess with me tough guys even if they're not and seeing that he isn't ruins the illusion of that. People aren't going to belive him kicking out of the stronger moves when he couldn't even get out of a headlock
@@LooneyTunesBackInActionWasGood Someone is violently shoving you and putting you in a face lock in front of 15-20 people, you fight back. That's just what you do. The other guy is right, it just makes him look weak in real life, not just in kayfabe, and calling him a "scapegoat" when he was basically a scapegoat for nothing just blows the whole thing over.
Just imagine...The Rock just Rock Bottoms John Cena and stands in the middle of the ring...the crowd goes silent all throughout the arena "TURN IT UP" booms....it's Scotty 2 Hotty to the rescue of Cody! He's tired from all those years dealing with Rikishi and his Bloodline! He does the Wurm on The Rock!
4:03 Vince would have been the worst. not even a question 😂
Kinda bought into it when I realised undertaker was the “final boss” of wrestlemania
I literally thought that was the whole point of it being Taker, almost like that was the point all along because that nickname for Rock is amazingly stupid.
Tony Khan isn’t going to capitalize on the popularity of Jack Perry because
A: He’s still pissed about having to dump his old boyfriend (CM Punk)
B: Tony is an idiot when it comes to striking while the iron is hot and
C: Tony Khan is seemingly allergic to making money off of backstage incidents that would make fantastic storylines and one match
Im so glad I found this channel. I haven't heard from these dudes since the machinama days. That "steve here....and larson" took me back, I half expected a "number 10"
From a story perspective. Final Boss Rock would've squared up to a returning Austin and may have actually beat him because they've always been close to equals. A Dead Man returning to the Grandest Stage on the other hand? Rock's face sold the shock and disbelief that allowed Taker the chance to Chokeslam him. I mean, back in the day, Rock wasn't even the final boss of the show he helped name. It was always Taker.
Hot take: Undertakers Streak is actually not good. No Hogan, No Rock, No Austin, No Warrior, No Savage. Past prime flair, HBK, Cena. Before prime Orton, Edge. Most of his wins are against mid carders.
"maybe just show cheeks" is the best out of context review of ECW of all time
Can we talk about how Repo Man’s Theme already starting uniquely. With “Repo Repo Repo Man”.
Heel Cena catch phrase = Can you see me now?!
From my limited exposure to ECW storylines, I'd probably argue that the Mick Foley storyline was possibly one of the best stories they ever told. The most extreme of men no longer wanted to be extreme because of the damage his body has suffered is quite a compelling story for a promotion like ECW.
I don't know if people are forgetting this after a near decade, but it wasn't just the spectacle or the story significance that made Seth cashing in at Mania the best of all time, it was the fact he was _saving Wrestlemania_ while doing it. People did not want Brock or Roman to win and the main event was gearing up to leave everyone with a sour taste from Mania again, then Seth's music hit and it electrified the audience and now people have a pretty good opinion of Wrestlemania 31 in retrospect. I doubt too many people call it great, but I guarantee if they just had a normal Roman vs Brock match where Roman won the title clean everyone's rating of that Mania would be 2 stars lower.
Imagine the pop.... "Stand back! There's a Hurricane coming through!"
They should have had Bob Backlund come out in the Undertaker spot.
With his no theme, the crowd would have EXPLODED!
@@AussieDragoon Honestly, I think most WWE Fans don't even know who Bob Backlund is which is sad considering he was the face of the company for 5 years before the Hulkamania Era and was a huge workhorse.
Stone Cold, Taker, or Foley all would have worked. The glass shattering would have been cool but the gong was just as good.
ECW Hardcore TV was what I’ve heard referred to as a “magazine” style show. Like it was a bunch of highlights with one or two full matches per episode. It made you sort of have to actively follow it. I got in in late 97 so the zani-ness of Raven and Sandman and Dreamer was gone and it felt more wrestling centric at that point. The WWF invasion with RVD and Sabu and interchangeables vs Team ECW was in full swing. Title chases meant more. It was less soap opera Jerry Springer bs by the time 98 rolled around.
4:02 Heavy Metal would be the funniest
I think Triple H made the most sense because The Rock’s Final Boss character is reminiscent of Vince in the sense that he’s making the calls, telling Triple H at the Press Conference to fix his show. It’d had been very poetic for H to come in and attack Rock, cementing that it’s HIS show now, same way he’s taken WWE into the new era without Vince.
"Who would have been the worst?" Jinder Mahal.
Imagine the pop for Repo Man because people would mistake his glass shatter intro for Austin's
Tribal war. War games in Samoa.
Fatus (USOs, Solo, Jacob, Zilla) vs Roman (anoa’i) reigns, lance anaoi, tama tonga, tanga loa, hikuleo
Rock as Tribal Ref
4:10 what if Eugene showed up to defeat his former friend the rock? That would have been true storytelling
The person that would have made no sense to interfere in the main event was Kane. I think he was rumored to be at Mania
"Bomb ticker" is crazy 💀
fantasy heel cena final year is SO much more interesting than what they'll actually do
Larson's mic was just picking up everything from the desk vibrations.
Storyline wise, Taker was the WWE’s final boss since ‘91. Made sense for him to take out the ‘false final boss’, the Rock. If he came out in gear and announcers called him “the conscience of the WWE” the story would have been more clear and people wouldn’t be talking Austin as much. As it was laid out, Austin would have been better
"Maybe... just show cheeks." So, Ruthless Aggression?
4:04 Santino 😂 wouldn't have made sense but would have been hilarious
Here’s my wrestling hot take: I think it’s dumb that okada uses a tombstone piledriver to set up the rainmaker, like he doesn’t even try to pin the guy
"I don't view Mox as an outsider."
That's fair. I don't view Mox as a pro wrestler.
Hot Take: The Shield theme should be retired until a full reunion happens
I wanna give my hot take and I hope you guys can see it,
I feel so bad for NJPW, once was the epitome of wrestling in the world now a mere joke of a company, they’ve became the 2010’s TNA of the wrestling world where any mediocre wrestler who fail goes there, it’s over saturated by mediocrity, failed to produce one single local mega star since Okada, all their top stars left, and now their top prized is won by Moxley and played in a weekly show in the US .. I mean where was the show that gave us WK 8,9,10?
I bet Austin already regrets not doing it lol. The pop for Undertaker was insane the crowd’s brains broke. Austin screwing over Rock one last time would make way more sense.
4:05 Jinder 😂
STAND BACK!! THERE’S A HURRICANE COMING THROUGH!!
Taker was the locker room leader who kept wrestlers in line as a shoot, and as a work, Rock was way out of pocket. As was Roman. So Taker shows up looking like Marky Mark at the end of Departed and settles it. I like it a lot.
Jack Perry's return to AEW should be a run out to Cult of Personality
I wanted Triple H to come out and menace The Rock with the sledgehammer, Rock starts backtracking up the ramp...
* GLASS BREAKS*
*NUCLEAR REACTION*
*I change my pants*
Life would have been great. Still, Taker popped me.
Ngl those Jack Perry shirts go hard
Double J should have came out. New Gen version.
I have a question. I’ve seen interviews where Jesse Ventura states that Hulk Hogan squashed any chance of a union by leaking news to Vince. If this had not happened and the workers got the union, what do you think wrestling would look like today? Would ECW have happened at all?
Considering how his last appearance went down Id say that the most sensible person for that spot was Brock Lesnar. Bloodline ties, the Cody endorsement etc, Brock would have been perfect. Honestly makes me think Taker replaced Brock NOT Austin. The Austin rumor could have been leaked intentionally by WWE to throw off the scent that they had Brock figured into Mania. Thats my hot take
I'm glad they didn't do Austin because if he was there it would kinda of necessitated a beer bash celebration and I don't think that would have worked as well to end the show.
I agree. I was already against moxley winning the belt because he wasn't signed on top of it feels like new Japan is already bending the knee aew. I'm even more against it if moxley is barely their & only defends it on one new Japan show , forbidden door than wrestle kingdom. I'm on the side of they should've kept the belt on naito longer & have them build someone up like a new musketeer to take it off naito.
HHH might have made more sense but him vs the Rock even as a power struggle is going to go a looooong way
Even more obvious choice for big man that makes zero sense to show up: Sid
Ecw's characters were more straight forward. The matches were longer. But long term lacked for the most part
I assumed the undertaker was a final boss rock Vs the final boss of wrestlemania
Stone cold would have been amazing but taker works imo
NJPW hotshotting their title would be interesting.
Ron Simmons coulda came out and hit rock with a picture of the rock instead of the gong coulda heard DAAAAMNNNN
Stone cold would’ve been great, but what wrestler out of any, all time, would you call the true final boss of WWE?
I think Stone Cold made more sense based on the fact that the last mania in Philly was Rock vs Stone Cold and they probably have the greatest rivalry in wrestling history.
But how does that add to Roman's story arc considering Austin praise him in the documentary lol. Plus the end story beat of Seth betrayal ultimately being the downfall of Roman tide as champion would be overshadowed.
Rock and Stone Cold had their last match in Seattle at 19
15:50 Cena x Rock = The Hollywood Boyz!
I maintain that it could've been Mick Foley too.
Hot Take: AEW actually borrows more from ECW than WCW. The way AEW books and uses international talents. They just have random wrestlers show up and try to have great matches. At times, little to zero character building outside the main event.
To make up for Mox winning the IWGP Championship, have Naito win the AEW belt
Rikishi coming out would've been kind of based.
Taker was absolutely perfect for that spot. He's long been the "final boss" of WWE and honestly, it's WrestleMania. Undertaker doesn't need a reason to show up at WrestleMania. It's his yard, and he has history with the entire Samoan family. "Austin would've been a great pop," as if Taker's pop wasn't NUCLEAR. No one was expecting it, and it made it that much more special.
Yeah and it going dark and then him appearing and everyone screaming “ohhhhhhhhhhhh” when it went dark was all perfect . Stone cold wouldn’t have been as fun I don’t think. Definitely would have been fun but not as fun
My hot take is without Rhea, Judgement day is nothing. With her injured for who knows how long, I don’t think judgment day is gonna last, people might be happy with Damien as champ but they’re soon gonna get sick of the boring promos, boring matches and all the interferences. I’d be surprised if Damien makes it after backlash.
Steve....alone in bed 👀👀 watching ExTrEmE ChampIoNsHiP WResTlInG
The Undertaker also made a lot of sense since The Undertaker is the True Final Boss (or Superboss).
Anyone who says stone cold over taker with the history taker has fighting that family is hilarious and not fully educated on WWF lore
Wasn't repo mans gong him laughing?
Yes. The evil laugh like the villain that ties people up to the railroad tracks.
@@claybaxter3202 exactly
I'm in favor of Mox holding the IWGP Title because of the story potential for feud with Shota.
Hogan would 100% show up to make sure Roman wouldn’t beat his 3rd place record
Surely the one that wouldve made the most sense would be Brock. Rival with Roman and last seen putting over Cody - obviously the reason why it didn't happen is clear
The worst person to interfere in the main event, that they could have gone with is Goldberg.
Honestly a hot take but a real one is AEW and NJPW is showing why working with other companies is bad…they relationship is like if you a guy and you have a friend and every time you get a GF and bring them around they take them at some point you gotta say maybe I shouldn’t bring my girl around them
middy mundaine monday haha
Tommy was the Jock. Raven was the loser. Beulah was the fat girl who had a crush on Tommy. No matter how many times he tried he could never beat Raven. And then if you look at when Jerry Lawler invaded after Tommy finally beat Raven. That look on his face looks like he was actually going to murder him before RVD and Sabu tackled him.
Brock Lesnar would've made a lot of sense too and everyone would've went crazy in the crowd even though i get why it didnt happen
The person who would have made the most sense is neither Stone Cold or Undertaker. Brock would have made the most sense.
FACTS! I’ve been saying the same thing. Brock had beef with Roman (going all the way back to 2015 with their on again/off again rivalry) and the Bloodline. Plus, Brock shook Cody’s hand at the conclusion of their feud last year so it would make sense for him to assist Cody in that spot after Cody had earned his respect
If WCW was still around there be no TNA no ROH & no AEW.
Shane McMahon instead of Taker. Comes out and blows out his quads in the ring
i really don’t like that taker won’t come out in full gimmick like i get that he has peeled the curtain back but he should’ve came back in the trench coat and the hat man
Taker said he was only given the spot hours before it happened.
Jungle boy is gonna be the one to take the tnt title off edge
HHH would have been awful. Authority 2.0 would have had IWC in uproar. Taker turning up as the true Final Boss
Jimmywangyang and the party bus would be rather out of place
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Moxley was in NJPW before AEW even existed. Windy City Riot was a good show, you should check it out, especially if you're gonna report on parts of it
One day, someone will react to my hot take. 😂
idea: Jon Moxley is IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, he got attacked by Ren Narita, one of Jack Perry's pals in House of Torture. bringing that NJPW feud to AEW could be how Jack Perry returns to AEW, and we'd get some wild interactions of New Elite and House of Torture.
Jack is great.
Ren is great
But fuck House of Torture, keep them off TV
We really need AEW to focus on AEW titles only for at least a year
Taker > everyone
Austin was the right choice
But we could have gotten both and that would have been amazing
John cena is the new tribal chief
It should have been surfer sandman instead of undertaker! Lol Or of course arn Anderson with a Glock