They could have cut 10 minute off this, and given it to the women so they could actually have time to sell.

Undertaker vs. Shane McMahon [Hell in a Cell]
Triangle Chokes were weird and terrible. Should have guessed from Shane’s training montages that this would be fake MMA early. So much laughably bad matwork here. So many audibly called spots. Taker completely gassed out five minutes in. Like AJ-Jericho, Taker had to behave like an idiot to put over the idea of Shane outsmarting him.

This improved once they started throwing monitors at each other’s heads and going through tables. People on Twitter were joking that you’ll ge get to see this match again at Mania 50, and that feels disappointingly possible. Shane’s dive was amazing in its own way. Really happy he didn’t kill himself, even if he killed kayfabe. I was laughing out loud at the finish in disbelief. Wow.

Whatever Batista would have decided to wear for metrosexual ref gear would have made that so much better.

Four heels gone over in a row now.

 

That means the babyface is winning the big one. Oh wait.

That match made me want to leave and go home.

 

And I am home.

I love at-wits-end Matt.

So are we going to have a WrestleMania were Zack Ryder got the biggest pop for winning?

The Arquette/DDP/Jarrett triple threat cage match was way better, just saying.

Why does Shane's shirt look like he ate BBQ during the match? At least get blood on it.

Did they seriously give that match 30 minutes?

Lame as shit. Lame as shit

Fantastic commentary from JBL post-match. Why can't they be like this all the time?

Did they seriously give that match 30 minutes?

 

No, they gave it nearly 50.

Matt, can we coin the phrase "gif wrestling" and get it over?

WM is in Texas. I wish they had just shown Kerry vs Dino Bravo from WM VII 8 times instead.

 

Matt, can we coin the phrase "gif wrestling" and get it over?

No, because then we'd have to use that match to explain it and once they finish giving Shane his WM III cart ride to the back, I'm never going to think about it again.

Can we all just stop and think about the magnitude of Shane's return, his seemingly possible promise to end The Authority once and for all, all of the hype and replays and media and promotion that went into his return, all of the MMA training videos and retrospectives and talking heads putting him over as a badass, giving him Undertaker at Wrestlemania in Hell in a Cell, having Taker sell the shit out of all of his MMA moves and highspots, then having Shane perform literally the biggest, most dangerous looking, most insane bump in WWE's history, and then having him pull himself up and say "bring it" before valiantly dying, and then getting carried out to an appreciative standing ovation...

 

...and then just imagine if they put that kind of effort into ONE OF THEIR ACTUAL WRESTLERS instead of a 40 something non-wrestling businessman who will be gone in a week.

This was a one-move match, but man, what a move!

I am legitimately afraid to look at my twitter feed because I know many casual wrestling fans from other interests, that are otherwise good people in day to day life and I don't want to lose respect for any of them right now.

I've never been happier to hear Lita's dulcet tones.

The pre-show panel laughing and dancing to the Flo Rida song of death immediately after that match was like something out of Benny Hill.

Have to love this company basically promising change and then not delivering. They suck

The way things have gone tonight, I'm putting my money on the smallest guy in the battle royal and feel pretty good about my chances.

Or DDP, that works too

I'm pulling for Corbin now that he's in this.

Mark Henry walking to the ring outworked that whole Taker match.

Have to love this company basically promising change and then not delivering. They suck

 

I think that's why they completely ignored the stip during that whole thing, and just made it about the passion of the Shane.