December 21, 201014 yr Author comment_5460835 This was pretty good, better than I remembered for sure, but it's just the last few minutes.
January 17, 201510 yr comment_5649746 Last few minutes of some not-bad action. Though I'm really growing tired of WWF heels hitting their finisher and then walking around posing instead of going for the pin. Diesel should know better, considering Sid was victimized by doing the same thing to him. Diesel had already given notice and was decisively beaten here--kudos to Nash for doing business.
February 20, 201510 yr comment_5655158 Agree that Diesel being cool kind of works for his character but damn does he look like an idiot posing around for a minute plus besides taking the pin.
October 17, 20177 yr comment_5817017 Not bad, nothing approaching good from what we see. Diesel wasting time before the pins just looks stupid.
December 16, 20204 yr comment_5934127 I'm not entirely sure why I loved this so much when I first saw this, but I think it might have something to do with me finding finishers being kicked out of the ultimate sign of a good match when I was young in my fandom. This is a solid enough outing by both men, with Diesel being much easier to digest when he's working as smug and arrogant heel. The Undertaker shows that he's actually able to sell and moves around a lot faster than what we are used to pre-1996. Big Sexy does the honours for 'Taker after two of his Jackknife Powerbombs aren't able to get the job done. ★★½
March 17, 20223 yr comment_5977581 On 10/17/2017 at 5:46 PM, tim said: Not bad, nothing approaching good from what we see. Diesel wasting time before the pins just looks stupid. On 2/20/2015 at 3:35 PM, soup23 said: Agree that Diesel being cool kind of works for his character but damn does he look like an idiot posing around for a minute plus besides taking the pin. In my blog review (Kwang The Blog), I noted the same thing and why it bothers me even more with Diesel/Nash than other heels. As a face, Nash was cool and cocky, but he was also quite often presented as being smart, or at least smarter, than monsters from the past. Even compared to fellow "monster" babyfaces like Hogan and Warrior, Nash wasn't this over-the-top id-gone-wild who was so emotionally-charged that he'd get lost in the heat of battle (see Hogan at WrestleMania IV for a great example). Diesel was well-established as not just being a 7-foot brawler, but also of having learned a few things in his matches with Bret Hart and his love/hate relationship with HBK. By this point, Diesel was Diesel in name only as he was 99% transformed into the Kevin Nash character in WCW (note, even in his pre-match interview, he basically spoils the finish of the main event by challenging Shawn for the Championship and not "the winner"). And because Nash was no idiot, him not taking the win and then celebrating comes off as not just stupid, but not in line with his character. For Sid or Kama or whoever, sure, because they're dolts...but for Nash, it just doesn't quite work. What I would've liked to have seen is for Nash to only hit one Jacknife and then maybe go after Bearer or the urn instead of just gloating.
November 23, 20231 yr comment_6014367 Up to this point in his career, this is Taker's best WM match. It helps that Diesel is a more capable worker than Taker's previous big men foes, and there are some great character flourishes here as Diesel fully leans into his natural, charismatic arrogance. **3/4
November 28, 2024Nov 28 comment_6026069 So the idea that Wrestlemania is the place where finishers go to die came before the self-aggrandizing epics of later Manias. Interesting. Kind of a nothing deal, not bad, not good.
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