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This is that shit that will grab the yearly Mania watcher/lapsed fan and get them to sit through the next 3 hours. Oh yeah. For sure. Definitely.

And he wrestles like one, too!

As ever, it's a free hype show for the paid content afterwards.

If the 4/3/2022 date is correct, maybe they're reevaluating whether to put Mania on the same weekend as the Final Four. They've done it plenty of times before, but never with an extra night directly against the Saturday night games. Hell, if they really want to impress, they can do night one at the new baseball stadium and night two at Jerryworld.

My hunch is if that results in thousands of empty seats in the upper deck on each night instead of one big sellout, they won't do it.

It was around 3:40 not counting the no-wrestling-included pre-show, and counting the 40-minute rain delay. It was pretty clearly supposed to be just 3 hours.

That was excellent, I'd like to watch it again. I'd also like to hear what Michael Cole said again, but there's no rewind function.

Whoops, we lost the plot for a minute there. Thank God that wasn't the finish.

Like Bunny proved earlier, being a hardcore fan gives you a huge edge in great adaptability and instincts, etc. I realize it's definitely not a full WrestleMania crowd, but the on camera folks were clearly standing up and losing their shit multiple times earlier, and the fake noise has been drowned out quite a few times too.

I love how the truck realized right at the end of that standing SSP replay that she really didn't hit it. Those 450 knees looked crazy though. Great transition.

The multiple rope slingshot suplex!!!

What a fickle crowd. They've shown the ability to get loud, all the logic suggested there would be a bunch of pent-up heat, and it's not an insane marathon at the end of a show-filled weekend. But lots of perfectly good stuff just isn't working tonight.

The fake "OHHHHH!" is really grating in this match for some reason.

Were Shatner and Liger even at the pre-tape event?

Never mind.

Now if you're like me, you're thinking, why the hell did I get two vaccines if I still have to sit through Shane McMahon matches? But seriously folks...

What a perfect time to make a nice snack, watch a rerun of your favorite sitcom, watch a better wrestling match, go for a drive, check your email, do your taxes... Maybe all of the above if Shane is really feeling it.

Well this is pretty straightforward stuff, but Omos certainly has presence.

This is dying on the vine. Refractory period, I guess.

Oh my God look at these fucking grandpas. That's all we get of Bayley, isn't it? Damn shame.

"You don't know how that feeling will feel until you feel it." "We have been this size since the day we started wrestling." Far fucking out, man... Big E was on his game, though.

We're always talking about the need for unscripted promos, right? McIntyre almost froze up there. This has a classic Sting quality to it, by which I mean he openly admits he doesn't know how to express himself.

And we start in a weather delay. We'll take you back to the studios for a special presentation of This Week In Baseball after this commercial time out...

Just because you make fun of your own bad writing does not mean you can go on writing badly and expect me to enjoy it. This is fucking terrible, as the kids say.

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