WrestleMania XL Kickoff Press Conference Discussion Thread

[Brandon Blaze]

Honestly, the WWE doesn't care it's different sadly. They do count it as all the same, cause they always talked about when he passed someone.

 

[BSE]

Yep. Separate records. He’s not even close to hogan. Let alone Bruno.

I guess he has to keep it another 2 years then

 

[Smart Marx]

Fans forced them to fix the problem they made to start with, guess if they wanna take that as a win.

I do to be honest. It’s not very often fans can speak loud enough that a brand like this that as big as it is will reverse course this quickly and listen. I think it’s a win for everyone involved.

 

[Roy Mustang]

Right destination but dumb as fuck way to get there imo caused by their own mess. Seth looks like a joke btw as champion

 

[Comrade Khan]

Seth does look like a clown for now, it's true

 

[Jacob Fox]

Can we stop talking about the record? That Roman can’t break anyways because he didn’t win the actual WWE championship until two years into his universal reign. The universal title he already has the record of. He can’t break the other one unless he holds the belt another like four years. Let’s stop talking about it please.

Well I was already typing when you posted that

 

[Smart Marx]

Honestly, the WWE doesn't care it's different sadly. They do count it as all the same, cause they always talked about when he passed someone.

I don’t think they-care either because they’ve done this before but I also don’t think they’re gonna ruin this magic in a bottle to artificially get to those stupid records.

 

[Toilet]

Like I said earlier, it does make Cody look a little weird for that one line he said on Friday about not challenging him at wrestlemania, but I could give two shits. Just call it psychological warfare and got Roman’s hope up that he was going to get to face his cousin, or whatever.

i really thought when cody came out he was gonna say something like, "you promised we'd take him down and here you are being buddy buddy and this is all bullshit."

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

I don’t think they-care either because they’ve done this before but I also don’t think they’re gonna ruin this magic in a bottle to artificially get to those stupid records.

It's all a World Championship to them, doesn't matter if it's WWE or Universal or WHC.

 

[BSE]

WWE’s bad booking forced the biggest star in the world to become a heel.

You don’t pass on Roman vs babyface Rock (with the crowd 100% behind Rock)

Yet they can’t even go in that direction because of timing/bad booking

 

[Storm Trooper]

this could have been on smackdown or raw for example. but i digress. Im happy for my cody bros

From a business standpoint this was right where it needs to be. Unless you can figure out how to have the Smackdown before the Super Bowl in the same city as the event every year. The only reason they were in Vegas was the Super Bowl.

Honestly, the WWE doesn't care it's different sadly. They do count it as all the same, cause they always talked about when he passed someone.

They look at all of their World Titles as a WWE World Title reign.

 

[Smart Marx]

I honestly think they heard and listened and pivoted as early as Monday night. Because I honestly think all that stuff with Drew was clearly them setting up the Seth direction for after this conference.

 

[Dale]

So if it is a tag match they go with at Mania.

Everyone gets the main event
Rock gets his payday from his TKO deal
Cody beats Roman to win the title, finishes his story
Rock can then be pissed at Roman for letting his family down, build to that match again whether it be at SummerSlam or Mania again next year.
I guess it helps to lighten the workload on both Rock & Seth for different reasons.

I think I might like this

 

[Everdark]

Seth does look like a clown for now, it's true

It was either Seth or Cody who was going to look like a clown tonight, making it Seth was probably the right choice.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

I don’t think they-care either because they’ve done this before but I also don’t think they’re gonna ruin this magic in a bottle to artificially get to those stupid records.

Oh 100% don't think they have him lose after any stupid Bruno reign, or even the Hogan one. Last year I was sure Cody was losing, because of 1000 days being to good to pass up, but this year is Cody's time.