WrestleMania Wrestlemania 2 - Thoughts & opinions sought for mailbag segment on podcast

[Wrasslemaniac]

I'm looking for some thoughts, opinions, etc on Wrestlemania 2 for the next episode of the Wrasslemania Podcast (which reviews all Wrestlemanias).

What did you think about WM2 overall?
What did you think about the multiple city idea? Did it work?
Was it "celeb overload"?
What do you think about the card?
What did you like most/least about it?
If you had to rate it out of 10 (for our 10 count rating part), what rating would you give it?


any comments are greatly appreciated and will be read out in our next episode, coming soon

 

[Jacob Fox]

You know, I think I mostly enjoyed WrestleMania 2 because this was around the time I started watching Wrestling. I recall seeing something on television when King Kong Bundy attacked Hulk Hogan and I was pretty curious to know what happened next. But honestly, if I wasn't 10 years old at the time, I wouldn't have enjoyed it.

But if you're still looking for answers, I'm more than happy to assist.

Overall it was a pretty lousy show. But again, it was one of my first exposures to wrestling so it seemed really neat to me.

The multiple city thing didn't work. I recall being really confused about it as a kid. This ties into the next question about celebrity overload. There was too much going on at once. And not enough of it was wrestling. Even as a new and very young wrestling fan, I had zero interest in the celebrities. Well, I did like Elvira but anyone with sense likes Elvira.

The card was really weak. Even in retrospect, knowing as much as I did about the wrestlers, it was weak. Including all those NFL guys in the battle royal was pretty crappy. Ad the cage match between Bundy and Hogan was awful. If it wasn't for Bobby Heenan, the whole thing would have been a waste.

The thing I liked most about it was Bobby Heenan. That man worked hard even when given crap to work with. He tried harder than anyone to sell that main event cage match.

The thing I liked least was Roddy Piper losing to Mr. T. Especially because Roddy Piper was a Golden Gloves boxing champion and Mr. T had no real boxing experience. So having Piper make a mistake and bodyslam T was stupid.

I would give it a two for Bobby Heenan and Andre the Giant and Elvira. Didn't care about anything else.

 

[Wrasslemaniac]

Thanks for your comment jacob, you can now hear the episode it features in on soundcloud: