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Here are some notes regarding WrestleMania 23 tonight:

* WWE Champion John Cena is scheduled to have the biggest entrance of the night. The entrance will have something of a "Motor City" theme with cars.

* The "Money in the Bank" Ladder Match is scheduled to open WrestleMania tonight unless plans change late. If they decide to go this route, it will be interesting to see who follows up the match as it is expected to "steal the show" so to speak.

* Batista vs. The Undertaker for the World Title is being designed as a "powerhouse brawl." Both are said to be very motivated to put on a great match, even more so when they found out they weren't going on last.

* As reported earlier, John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels for the WWE Title is scheduled to close the show tonight. Every mention of Cena at the Hall of Fame last night drew tons of boos and every mention of Michaels got huge cheers. It will be interesting to see how that translates from a small crowd of 4,000 or so to 75,000 tonight at Ford Field. If Cena is booed out of the building though, no one in WWE will be surprised.

* Shane McMahon was reportedly pushing to open the show doing the same role Vince did at WrestleMania 3 where he introduced Aretha Franklin (Franklin will again be singing "America the Beautiful" tonight). Internally, it was said that Stephanie McMahon was trying to bury the idea to anyone that would listen.

* While it remains to be seen if this will take place or not, a dance contest of some kind may take place involving Eugene, The Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young and the possible one-time return of Slick.

Source: Dave Meltzer @ WrestlingObserver.com

Fuck Cena and fuck WWE. I am done with the WWE product. I LOVED the fact that the entire begining of the main event Cena's knee was tore apart....but magicly he never once again showed the effects.....dude is a shitty wrestler and his run is such a piece of crap. So good bye WWE/WWF it was a great ride but you have now had a paper champ for 20 of 24 months and shitted on HBK.

^^u right about cena man...i really loathe the guy...im no wrestler or anything but fucking brock lesnar had more than 3 moves man hell even goldberg.there are too many good wrestlers on raw that deserve a run man.and since we don get smackdown where i live i cant watch takers reign as champ.

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Originally Posted by Mr.MMA

overall? I'd have given it an 8/10, but since Cena won the headlining bout? It gets a 2/10

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I have to agree, up until Cena won i thought it was a great show, i hate it when shows end with something that pisses me off.
I wouldnt mind if Cena won but showed some skill (heard something about HBK saying he would make Cena look like the greatest wrestler ever) but he was shit as always. You would think wwe would get the hint from all the boos he gets and all the cheers HBK got, who did some awesome things and showed he still has what it takes to be top of the company.

Even if Cena was good i think people would still be booing him by now hes been the champ wayyyy too long its just boring. I really hope Mr Kennedy..........Kennedy will win the title off him (and not lose it a few months after either).

Other than that, the diva match and the Khali match, i thought the rest of the show was great and i was surprised at how good MVP was in his match. Also great to see Taker win the title again. ^O^

wm was good but damn it i hate cena

I haven't seen Smackdown a whole lot lately, but like I said before, I thought Undertaker was only appearing every so often. Since he's the champ now, I would hope that he would be there like just about every week. Not that the title ever changes hands on a non-PPV, but still.. He should be there a lot for storyline purposes.

I'm not a big Cena fan either, but I think he gets a little too much hate. I get tired of him winning a lot and all. But I used to get tired of other guys also, like the Rock. I don't know why so many people liked seeing him say the same tired out catch phrases, show after show. And the Rock wasn't that good of a wrestler either. Add to that, one of the dumbest finishing moves in the WWE. They do need to make things less predicitible, like has been said. When WCW was hot with the NWO, and everything, things were a lot more exciting and unpredictible. I used to really like watching the main events, even though sometimes they would cut them off. Then the WWE stepped it up too, with their attitude era. But the WWE shows can be really boring nowadays.

But anyway, did they end up having that dance contest last night with Slick, Mae Young, Moolah, and Eugene? lol They should have Mae Young and Moolah on more often.

I have to disagree a little with the comment about none of the good looking divas having wrestling skills. Granted, a bunch of them don't, such as Torrie Wilson. But I would say that Mickie James is a good female wrestler, and cute, to boot.

Taker has been on smackdown about the same as batista since winning the rumble.

they need a new era to start batista and cena have been champs for ages, excluding injurys and edge.

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Originally Posted by Alex

Taker has been on smackdown about the same as batista since winning the rumble.

they need a new era to start batista and cena have been champs for ages, excluding injurys and edge.

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when edge was the champ it was great same thing with king booker


the great Khali has beat both the undertaker and kain in less the 5 minuts each wtf

I liked King Booker as champ, but I don't really like Edge much.

The Book shouldn't of lost his title, in a way they had to give it back to Batista. I was watching some old raws the other day, Batista has lost his character skills, he just comes out and talks like he's an average Joe now. Every wrestler should be mad ego fuelled.

I read results for WM as didn't want to spend 15 leaves on something where we all knew Cena would win.

I'm happy the way some matches ended although I wouldn't mind Edge winning either as he has great mic skills and is at least more interesting than most wrestlers on Raw at the mo although its not always good to see the same champs time after time.

Anyway, what I want to know is how did the Hall of Fame go, did they show any clips of it and if so, how did Mr Perfect's induction go down and Jim Ross, etc?

Peace

omg i jeff killed edge yesterday

They had the hall of fame induction separate, you can download it. they all came out together at wrestlemania to give it a wave, Jim Ross seems like a miserable fuck half the time, was there some drama involved or something?

Part of the Hall of Fame ceremony was on TV last Saturday night, on USA channel, at midnight(in the US). I didn't get to see it, but I heard they only showed like three of the people that got inducted, and edited parts of those three out also, cause they only had an hour time slot.

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Originally Posted by hectis

omg i jeff killed egde yesterday

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he cant of died? what is his condition? i thought it would of done serious damage to his back.

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