WrestleMania 35: Results and Match Ratings

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HOOWEE – this is it! It’s finally here. After an insane week of independent wrestling in the greater New York City area, it’s time for WrestleMania 35, LIVE from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. LFG, baby!

Kickoff Show

Cruiserweight Championship: Tony Nese def. Buddy Murphy– Here we go. The Cruiserweights are kicking off the show! Nice seamless athleticism from these guys. Nese hits a picture perfect 450. Murphy delivers some serious knee strikes. Nese gets the win after a nice Running Nese. Rating: 7/10. Excellent fun bout to get the kickoff show going, and a nice moment for Nese.

WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal: Carmella wins – People gon’ be P-I-S-S-E-D that Asuka lost on the pre-show of ‘Mania, but I thought this was a fun little battle royal. Glad Kairi Sane and Ember Moon got some shine. I actually would’ve been okay with Sarah Logan winning, but they pulled the old okie doke and had Carmella hiding the whole time. Rating: 5/10. *shrugs*

Raw Tag Team Championship: Hawkins & Ryder def. The Revival – THE STREAK IS OVER! THE STREAK IS OVER! THE STREAK IS OVER! Rating: 7/10. This was actually a very good match.

Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal: Braun Strowman wins – Parts of this were actually entertaining, and I was actually amused by the SNL guys. Still, this was by far the worst Andre they’ve had yet and felt like nothing more than filler. Rating: 4/10.

WrestleMania 35 Results

Universal Championship: Seth Rollins def. Brock Lesnar – Wow, we’re startin’ hot here, y’all. After a weird introduction from Hulk Hogan, Lesnar gives the F5 to Rollins on the outside and we’re just battling all over the place. Can’t say I saw this one coming, but it’s one way to start on a high note. Rollins gets his ass kicked for several minutes, then takes advantage of the ref going down by delivering a low blow. Three curb stomps later and we have a new champ. Rating: 5/10. The match was ‘meh,’ but that outcome’s all that mattered. What a finish. New champ.

A.J. Styles def. Randy Orton – Two proven guys going at it. Man, when Orton’s good, Orton is good. Loved the teasing of the RKO and Styles avoiding it. Orton hits the RKO, but Styles kicks out. Styles hits the Phenomenal Forearm for the 1-2-3. Rating: 8/10. This one was good. Go out of your way to watch it.

Smackdown Tag Team Championship: The Usos def. The Bar, Aleister Black & Ricochet, and Shinsuke Nakamura & Rusev – Glad Black got his full entrance – it’s one of the best in the business. This one was nuts. Just an outright spring from the jump. Cesaro out there spinning Ricochet while Sheamus clubbed four dudes for about five solid minutes. Ricochet hitting his finish, but the teams jump

*Hall of Fame break*

Falls Count Anywhere: Shane McMahon def. The Miz – Time for George Mizanin to go into business for himself. This one was big time personal. Shane decks Miz with a camera and then goes for the elbow drop, but George stands in his way. Shane hops off the turnbuckle, and George gets into the ring and puts up his dukes, like “SQUARE UP BITCH!” Unfortunately for George, Shane decks him and George practically dies in the corner of the ring.

This shit is fire – Miz comes in guns a blazin’. They fight outside to a part of what looks like the set. Miz throws Shane off a platform, and it looks like Shane decks the back of his head on the rail. Miz grabs a chair and bashes Shane’s foot against the rail with it.

They fight up to the row of commentators and this has gone completely off the rails. Miz is just beating the pure dog shit out of Shane. He punches Shane, who falls over a rail…then proceeds to bounce off the roof of a golf cart and hit flat concrete. Miz hits a Skull Crushing Finale on some scaffold, but Shane kicks out. They keep climbing. Miz suplexes Shane off a camera platform, but because Shane lands on top of him, it’s a pin fall. Shane wins. Rating: 8.5/10. That was beautiful, beautiful art.

WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship: The IIconics def. Bayley & Sasha Banks, Nia Jax & Tamina, and Beth Phoenix & Natalya – Cool moment as Bret Hart came out and joined Natalya and Beth at the ramp. Paige is a guest on commentary. I missed the beginning of this one because the timer went off and I had to tend to the pizza. When I came back, there was some nice team-on-team action between Boss n’ Hug and Divas of Doom. Tamina breaks up a pinfall, and Nia Jax joins in to get in some power moves and take control of the match.

Nia and Tamina each go up top to tease a double big splash. Beth or Natalya…one of the two…push Nia off the top and she falls to the outside. Bayley hits an elbow drop. Her and Sasha gang up on Beth. Natalya comes in to break it up, delivering a powerbomb on Sasha. This one’s all over the place (in a good way).

Beth hits the Glam Slam on Bayley off the top rope, but Peyton Royce sneaks in, pulls Beth off of her and covers Bayley for the win. Wow – new champs. Rating: 7.5/10. Fun stuff, genuinely happy for Peyton Royce and Billie Kay.

WWE Championship: Kofi Kingston def. Daniel Bryan – Here we go. #KofiMania has hit its pinnacle. Big E has a gift for Kofi after the match. We start off with some nice mat wrestling as the fans chant “KofiMania.” The locker room is surrounding a television in the back. I’m tellin’ ya – if Kofi loses, this is a hell of a setup. Love Bryan trying to keep Kofi on the ground. It’s a slow pace as Bryan methodically beats down Kofi.

I mean, this is a damn genius grappling clinic.

Missed a few minutes of this because my WWE Network started acting up – sick kick exchange between these two. Rowan gets involved, but Xavier and Big E drop his big ass. Kofi goes for Trouble In Paradise, but Bryan ducks and hits Kofi with the knee, but Kofi KICKS OUT. Bryan locks in the LeBell Lock, but Kofi battles out and then mounts Bryan and punches the shit out of him. Trouble In Paradise. 1-2-3. Holy shit. Rating: 9.5/10. This is what professional wrestling is all about, people.

United States Championship: Samoa Joe def. Rey Mysterio – I was going HARD to bat for my boy Joe, talkin’ about how he was going to break Mysterio IN HALF. Lo and behold, Joe squashed that ass, choked him out in just a couple of minutes (if that) and got the hell out of there STILL the United States Champion. Rating: 6/10.

Roman Reigns def. Drew McIntyre – Thought this was a fine physical hoss battle. Pretty basic stuff, but you can’t help but love the feel-good moment of Roman getting the win. I loved McIntyre screaming “I broke The Shield. I broke your brothers” at Roman. Reigns hits the Spear and gets the win. Rating: 6/10. Solid bout. Cool moment.

John Cena interrupts Elias – AS THE DOCTOR OF THUGANOMICS. Cena raps and hits Elias with the FU. Amazing stuff.

No Holds Barred: Triple H def. Batista – Wow. These entrances are something else. This is going to be a war. Starting off hot, we go right to the outside. Triple H hits Batista with a toolbox – that was a nice homage to the Hell in a Cell match these guys had in 2005. Triple H proceeds to whip Batista with a fucking chain, clamp his fingers in a pair of pliers and stomp on it, and then literally pull his nose ring out with the pliers. Is this a death match? Did I miss that?

Batista finally gets some offense in, but this one’s gonna be bowling shoe ugly, folks. Nasty back body drop as Triple H tosses Batista from one table to the other, but it doesn’t break. Both men make it to their feet, when Triple H tells Dave to suck it and spears his ass through the German announce table.

Triple H pulls out the sledgehammer, but Batista spears him before he can use it. Legit thought that was it, but Triple H kicks out. Batista hits the Batista Bomb, but Triple H kicks out. Triple H hits a powerbomb onto the steel steps that made a sick ass thud, and follows that up with the Pedigree, but BATISTA KICKS OUT!

Batista drops a sick DDT onto the steel stairs. Ric Flair shows up and hands Triple H the sledgehammer. He goes over to taunt Batista, and I absolutely love Batista screaming back at him, “WATCH THIS YOU SON OF A BITCH.” He turns around and BOOM – Superman sledgehammer shot followed by another Pedigree and the 1-2-3. Rating: 6.5/10. Slow and methodical

Baron Corbin def. Kurt Angle – Man, I told y’all. This wasn’t going to be 16 straight feel-good moments and this was a prime spot to put Corbin over and create a new shit ass heel. The match wasn’t half bad, but that moonsault spot scared the shit out of me. Corbin gets the win with the End of Days. Rating: 5/10. Good moment as Kurt says thank you and rides off into the sunset.

Intercontinental Championship: Finn Balor def. Bobby Lashley – This match was all about the entrance of The Demon, and that’s all it needed to be. Just a quick palate cleanser and we’re on to the main event. Rating: 5/10.

Winner Take All Women’s Championship(s): Becky Lynch def. Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey – Y’all, Ronda’s taking the big bumps tonight. Becky dropkicking Rousey off of the apron onto the top of her head was sick. Flair hits Rousey with a series of chops until Rousey yells, “YOU CHOP LIKE A BITCH,” and then Flair proceeds to slap Rousey so hard, it may have jarred some teeth loose.

Rousey goes for a double armbar, but Flair and Lynch team up to get her up for a series of powerbombs. They hit her with enough she finally lets go, hot damn. Flair throws Lynch out of the ring and pins Rousey for a two count.

Lynch hits the Disarm Her, but Rousey gets to the ropes. She so strong, y’all – she just picks Lynch up. Calls her a bitch and charges the corner, but Lynch moves, hops up on the top turnbuckle and hooks the Disarm Her again in the corner. Flair delivers a Kevin Nash big boot and breaks it up. Then, we get some Spanish Fly action. This is quality triple threat wrestling.

Flair gets the Figure Eight on Rousey, but Lynch breaks it up. Now, The Man’s done brought out a flippin’ table. She sets it up in the ring, but that backfires as Flair hits her from behind.

Rousey breaks up the fun, and yells “TABLES ARE FOR BITCHES!” Flair hits a double spear, but all we get are a couple of near-falls out of it.

Rousey and Lynch throw Flair through a table and she’s out. Lynch and Rousey exchange blows, but when Rousey tries to get Lynch up for Piper’s Pit, she has trouble (sellin’ the leg, baby), and Lynch reverses it into a crucifix pin and wins. Rating: 8/10. Was the finish botched? Or, is Rousey not going away after all? I don’t know. We’ll find out. I’m just going to enjoy the moment and the visual of Lynch with both the titles and the fireworks going off to close the show. This was an all-time great WrestleMania.

Overall: 9/10. I legitimately don’t understand how you get a show this damn good on a build that was so boring. This is the best WrestleMania since 2006, and could very well be top 3-5 all time. Insane.

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