Author: Nathan Paoletta

Finally making Tim Rodriguez ‘s belt happen. Yeeeeeah.

We are 31 members away from a round 300! That would be awesome. I’d love to do something special when (NOT IF) we hit that number.

What would be cool?

I posted publicly, but headsup to my FAVORITE WRESTLING FANS – to celebrate Wrestlemania Day I’m offering all the WWWRPG stuff from my store at 20% off. Use code WM31 at checkout. This includes the shirts and posters if anyone has been thinking about picking something up eventually…

Big thanks to YOU who have made this community one of my favorite places on the internet. Looking forward to growing and doing even better by NEXT Wrestlemania!

http://ndpdesign.com/online-store/?category=World+Wide+Wrestling

Ok, it took a really long time this year but I have accepted what’s going on and am finally starting to get excited for Wrestlemania.

The Card

WWE World Heavyweight Title Match:

-Brock Lesnar (c) with Paul Heyman vs. Roman Reigns

WWE United States Title Match:

-Rusev (c) vs. John Cena

Ladder Match for the WWE Intercontinental Title:

Dolph Ziggler vs. R-Truth vs. Dean Ambrose vs. Luke Harper vs. Stardust vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Bad News Barrett (c)

-Sting vs. Triple H

-AJ Lee and Paige vs. The Bella Twins

-Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton

-Bray Wyatt vs. The Undertaker

Pre-show:

Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal:

Konnor, Viktor, Kane, Big Show, Darren Young, Titus O’Neil, Jack Swagger, The Miz, Ryback, Curtis Axel, Fandango, Adam Rose, Zack Ryder, Erick Rowan, Sin Cara, Damien Sandow, Goldust, Mark Henry, Heath Slater, a NXT Superstar TBD (HIDEO ITAMI!!!!), others TBA

Fatal 4 Way for the WWE Tag Team Titles:

-The Usos vs. Los Matadores vs. Big E and Kofi Kingston vs. Cesaro and Tyson Kidd

What are YOU excited about this year? I know the overall build has been underwhelming and there’s a lot to shit on, but I’d like to stay posi for this one, please-and-thank-you.

All this time I’ve been using Jeff Hardy as the example of the Wasted but I’m watching some ECW and, obviously, I should start including Sandman.

The Alexa Bliss-Sasha Banks match from last nights NXT wasn’t really a great match (especially by NXT standards), but there’s an interesting game-relevant aspect to it. The crowds basically dead (I imagine it was taped near the end of their marathon taping cycle), and there are enough weird things in the beginning that I’m pretty sure Bliss was messing up moves.

But near the middle of the match she just hauls off and slaps Sasha and the crowd pops, and got more vocal in general; then Bliss hit a f*cking Canadian Destroyer out of the corner and the crowd really popped and was hot for the finish (which was the BO$$ retaining, obviously).

Sasha did good heel work throughout and the match was really about building up Bliss as a more credible contender, in my eyes, but it was neat to basically see her ace a couple rolls mid-match to bring in the dead crowd.

Oh, and the Finn Balor-Kevin Owens match was really goddam good, too.

Brock Lesnar just aced the mother of all +Real rolls!

(He’s signed a new multi-year contract with WWE!)

My enthusiasm level for Wrestlemania just notched up at least, oh, 2 notches.

From the “it’s new to me” file… (I’ve heard of this entrance but not actually seen it on video)

In case you’re ever worried that your wrestler’s entrance is too over the top…don’t.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJeX4EVd9Q

I’m definitely going to need to watch this as research for non-American WWWRPG material.

Took me a second to dig, the actual video is available here (scroll to the bottom of the page) and you need to make an account with this site to access it: http://wrestletalk.tv/bwc/on_demand.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKwAViu9cws

Hey Chicago nerds! (Isaac Sher , are any of the rest of you in the area even?)

I’ll be watching Wrestlemania next weekend as per my contractual wrestling-fan-with-the-WWE Network obligation. I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised. Anyway, anyone in the Chicago area is welcome to come over and make an event of it, if you want!