WrestleMania Rate the last 5 WM's best to worst

[Jacob Fox]

The thing is about 32, other than the fact half the roster was hurt, it had some good points but was overshadowed by a bunch of meh. Women's Triple Threat, the IC ladder match and AJ vs Y2J were good and overall Wrestlemania quality. Then most of the rest were bleh. New Day vs League of Nations, Brock and Dean being a disappointment, Shane vs Taker was lackluster until the ending, The Battle Royale was ok, The Rock and Cena almost buried the Wyatts, and as we already know, the Main Event was a shit show.

The bad stuff definitely overshadowed the good stuff. I'd also say that the although the good stuff was good, there wasn't anything that happened that was so exceptional that I felt like I was watching WrestleMania. Yeah, the women's match was good, but it wasn't great. It had the benefit of being the best match on a pretty lousy and long card. Also, that long ass preshow, which I just HAD to watch.

I think if Ambrose and Lesnar had lived up to my expectations, I wouldn't have been so bent out of shape about the show as a whole. I could deal with the lousy main event if there is a match I really want to see that lives up to expectations. For example, WrestleMania 13 (which I attended) had a main event I couldn't care less about, Undertaker vs Sid Vicious. However, it also had a match between two of my favorites, Bret Hart and Steve Austin which completely lived up to its potential. So I left the show in a good mood. WrestleMania 32 didn't have that.

It also had a great WrestleMania the previous year to live up to. And it didn't.

 

[Jacob Fox]

32: People can be seriously so idiotic about this show, they pretend its like Wrestlemania 27 bad when it actually wasn't. Ladder Match ****, Womens Triple Threat ****1/4, Brock Vs Ambrose ***, Trip Vs Reigns *, Jericho Vs Styles ***1/2, Taker Vs Shane **. It was a perfectly good show, it wasn't amazing and it wasn't as good as the two years previous but stop pretending like it was Wrestlemania 27 because when you've lived through Wrestlemania 27 and 29 live like I did then its a wonder you didn't hang yourself.

I'm sort of confused why having a different opinion makes someone idiotic? A person cannot force themselves to like something that they don't like and I think this was the worst WrestleMania ever. We're just being honest how we feel about the show. I don't think that makes me an idiot anymore than it would make you one for liking it. I would never insult you for liking it nor insult you for disliking something else.

 

[MGS32]

I'm sort of confused why having a different opinion makes someone idiotic? A person cannot force themselves to like something that they don't like and I think this was the worst WrestleMania ever. We're just being honest how we feel about the show. I don't think that makes me an idiot anymore than it would make you one for liking it. I would never insult you for liking it nor insult you for disliking something else.

Its idiotic in the sense of a lot of the hate surrounding the show is hyperbole built from Roman Reigns in the main event and a poor main event, maybe idiotic wasn't the right choice of words but its by far the worst show, its pretty much universally agreed that Mania 9 is the worst. I do think that saying Mania 32 is the worst is hyperbole because there are mania's without one above average match but Mania 32 had at least 3.

 

[Jacob Fox]

Its idiotic in the sense of a lot of the hate surrounding the show is hyperbole built from Roman Reigns in the main event and a poor main event, maybe idiotic wasn't the right choice of words but its by far the worst show, its pretty much universally agreed that Mania 9 is the worst. I do think that saying Mania 32 is the worst is hyperbole because there are mania's without one above average match but Mania 32 had at least 3.

I liked WrestleMania 9. Regardless of that, universal agreement means nothing. If someone lets their independent opinions be influenced by the opinions of others simply because the other opinion has near universal agreement, than that person is a sheep. I have much more respect for someone who doesn't let the opinions of others affect their opinion in that way.

I am surprised that you'd give weight to near universal agreement since your original post said you thought that the hatred for WrestleMania 32 was idiotic, but there is near universal agreement that it was horrible. You can't have it both ways.

And no, my dislike for WrestleMania 32 is not just because of hating Roman Reigns. Like I mentioned in my previous post, I can deal with a shitty main event if the undercard was good. But the undercard wasn't good. It was lousy. It was long. And there wasn't much of anything in the show that made it any better.

I don't use hyperbole when I say I feel it's the worst. I'm not the kind of person who watches a show or a match and arbitrarily call it the best or worst. If I say it, it's because I've weighed all of the other options and that is my opinion. But I recognize the fact that people like different things and that's all that happened here.

 

[MGS32]

I liked WrestleMania 9. Regardless of that, universal agreement means nothing. If someone lets their independent opinions be influenced by the opinions of others simply because the other opinion has near universal agreement, than that person is a sheep. I have much more respect for someone who doesn't let the opinions of others affect their opinion in that way.

I am surprised that you'd give weight to near universal agreement since your original post said you thought that the hatred for WrestleMania 32 was idiotic, but there is near universal agreement that it was horrible. You can't have it both ways.

And no, my dislike for WrestleMania 32 is not just because of hating Roman Reigns. Like I mentioned in my previous post, I can deal with a shitty main event if the undercard was good. But the undercard wasn't good. It was lousy. It was long. And there wasn't much of anything in the show that made it any better.

I don't use hyperbole when I say I feel it's the worst. I'm not the kind of person who watches a show or a match and arbitrarily call it the best or worst. If I say it, it's because I've weighed all of the other options and that is my opinion. But I recognize the fact that people like different things and that's all that happened here.

I never once directed any of my comments towards you.

The general opinion on Wrestlemania 32 is extremely mixed actually. Maybe not in this thread but in general its a really mixed bag. My opinion on Wrestlemania 9 is nothing to do with what anyone else thinks, it was one of the first shows I watched on the Network because I'd never seen it before and I absolutely hated it. I've shown in the past that my opinions aren't exactly agreed upon by everyone, for example this year alone two big MOTY's for most people I did not like (That being DIY Vs Revival Brooklyn and Zayn Vs Nakamura) so no my Wrestlemania 9 opinion isn't based on anyone else's opinion.

 

[RedDwarfTechy]

I only watched 30 and 31 so.

30
31

The streak ending was awesome.

From what I've heard 32 is the worst thing you could do to yourself so I gave that a miss

 

[WholeFN'Moe]

I'm sort of confused why having a different opinion makes someone idiotic? A person cannot force themselves to like something that they don't like and I think this was the worst WrestleMania ever. We're just being honest how we feel about the show. I don't think that makes me an idiot anymore than it would make you one for liking it. I would never insult you for liking it nor insult you for disliking something else.

I'm totally with you man... on both points.

When I go back there is only 1 match on the card that is remotely good or makes any sense & that's Jericho Vs Styles.

.....The Rock Vs Rowan? ...Like could they not have come up with ANYTHING better? Makes zero sense.

Dean Vs Lesnar was horrible and completely plain when it could have been an awesome hardcore fight to the death but all anybody was concentrating on in that company that night was make it look like Roman is supposed to be in the main event without the fans trying to kill him.

The Taker match was completely ridiculous from the second they booked it in my opinion and they solely relied off of that spot with Shane jumping onto the very obvious cardboard boxes with a sheet over it.... but it's supposed to make it a cool spot just because they have Cole yelling "OMG OMG THE MAN IS CRAZY"

Anything that Cole thinks is cool, automatically makes me want to hate it.

 

[WholeFN'Moe]

I never once directed any of my comments towards you.

The general opinion on Wrestlemania 32 is extremely mixed actually.

That's like saying Cena & Roman get "mixed reactions"

...Yet all I hear is booing

 

[Jacob Fox]

I never once directed any of my comments towards you.

The general opinion on Wrestlemania 32 is extremely mixed actually. Maybe not in this thread but in general its a really mixed bag. My opinion on Wrestlemania 9 is nothing to do with what anyone else thinks, it was one of the first shows I watched on the Network because I'd never seen it before and I absolutely hated it. I've shown in the past that my opinions aren't exactly agreed upon by everyone, for example this year alone two big MOTY's for most people I did not like (That being DIY Vs Revival Brooklyn and Zayn Vs Nakamura) so no my Wrestlemania 9 opinion isn't based on anyone else's opinion.

I didn't say you directed anything at me. I was simply using myself as an example. Trust me, if I thought you were insulting me, I'd just ignore you.

Wikipedia says that the opinion on WrestleMania 32 is mixed, but that's Wikipedia. I've read many, many reviews and talked to many, many people on many sites and I have only seen a few people with anything good to say about it. So no, I'm not basing my statement off of what I've read on this forum. I'm basing it off a lot of research since the show aired. I think very few people actually understand how much time I spend reading and discussing wrestling, but my viewpoint is certainly not based off this website or this thread alone.

I didn't even mention your opinion on WrestleMania 9. My point was simply the perspective that near universal agreement means nothing when all we are doing here is discussing individual opinions. You brought it up, I just pointed out it was irrelevant. I think I know you well enough by now to know that you don't base your opinions on what other people think. It's something I respect about you actually. However, you do seem to get surprised a lot when people disagree with those opinions. So, being a psychologist, it's my nature to challenge that kind of thinking.

I don't get bent out of shape based on what people like or don't like. However, I do like to question how people think because it teaches me more about that person.

 

[Mr. Roman Empire]

31
28
30
29
32

 

[Gman003]

I like how the list has been put in many differing orders. Shows that everyone likes something different.

So I've made it half way through 29 and I really don't mind this one yet either. I'm surprised at how many first timers there was here.

So far without seeing wm 30, but assuming it's probably pretty good, my list looks like it will shape up as follows:
28
30
31
29
32

31 and 29 are pretty close though for me. 31 was my very first taste of wrestling in a decade and at the time I wasn't too fond of it in the beginning. It picked up after the first match, but it was just so hard for me because I had literally only remembered a couple people on the whole card. Orton Lesnar sting and triple H (plus the nwo/dx)

I have come to like the outdoor events since watching 28 and 29, but hearing that 28 was only the 3rd outdoor wm made it seem so special, then they has 2 more in 3 years kind of nullifying the specialty. It still looks cool if done in the right time zone, but 4 in 7 years makes it... not as special. 24 28 29 31.

 

[Gman003]

So far without seeing wm 30, but assuming it's probably pretty good, my list looks like it will shape up as follows:
28
30
31
29
32.

So after watching 28 29 and 30 (I dedicated alot of my weekend to doing so) I have to re arrange my list a bit.

I'd have to put them in order of how they happened.
28
29
30
31
32.

29 30 and 31 are close though, I just feel like it got slightly less good each time. Not too bad though overall. I still enjoyed them.

 

[WholeFN'Moe]

29 30 and 31 are close though... Not too bad though overall. I still enjoyed them.

What about 32?

 

[Gman003]

It was decent. Overall not as strong as the others though.