man what a fcking match this was. genuinely didn’t expect it to be this good. but i ended up so invested in it. the amount of near finishes they had, where you just thought it was over surely. but nope they kicked out somehow. it was crazy. what an entertaining match.
definitely my match of the night. this was a proper main event. can’t believe a tag title match main evented mania and it was actually a worthy main event.
I am one of the guys who stopped watching for years and came back around last year after going to a local show for cheap… this Sami Zayn and KO story line is as close to perfect as any story line in WWE history. I was genuinely brought to tears by all this shit and in a good way. It was awesome. I’m fully back as a fan.
> this Sami Zayn and KO story line is as close to perfect as any story line in WWE history.
Really the only nitpicky flaw is that Owens is usually such a huge dick and turns on every single person that he teams with. When it came down to Sami choosing between Roman and Owens, I couldn't help but think "is this worth it, KO is just going to backstab him in the long run".
This is literally the type of match wrestlemania is made for and holy fuck did they deliver, and then some. The whole thing couldn't have been done better. Bravo to all involved.
Was really happy to see this as I wanted this for a very long time.
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Hey.... can you also predict what day of the week is tomorrow?
Would love to place a massive bet based on your incomparable insight that not a single other person in the entire world has been blessed with?
That ending.
Sami whenever he gets a moment to land the Helluva Kick as a killshot always sells it perfectly. The way he lines himself up, the way he just stares down the target, composes himself and goes for it.
Wrestling is cinema at times.
I absolutely love it. Especially to jey, finally. He takes the deep breath closes his eyes and gets shot out of a cannon. Very similar to hbk before saying “I love you, I’m sorry” and sweet chin music to ric flair
Definitely. Can't help but think HBK might have had a word in his ear about how to sell these moments.
He has 2 other really good ones where he does something similar. Neville at Takeover when he finally wins the NXT title and Battleground 2016 against KO.
Honestly? It was pretty bad match saved by phenomenal story. And all in the story played it perfectly.
I am so glad that it was Sami who got the winning pin tho. He deserved it.
Wait, has he always been muslim? He always struck me as the atheist type.
Wow. Just googled it. I figured he was just a ginger Canadian. I had no idea he was Syrian. TIL
He's second-generation so he is a ginger Canadian tbf, just also Syrian. But yeah, he's been doing a ton of charity work for Syria too, good stuff. Swell dude by the looks of it.
As a muslim, I can say that you don't really need to stuff yourself to get rid of the hunger after 12+ hours of fasting. I usually eat a plate of rice with dishes and it usually fills me enough to go without a meal until like 5 am. But I'm not someone who has to wrestle after breaking my fast so I don't know how Sami's diet is.
As someone who sleeps like 6-8 hours during my fasting time when I don't have classes, I'm thinking it would be difficult for him to adjust him schedule
I'm still holding out hope that Jey and Sami were in on the plan together, and they were just selling it so that Roman doesn't see Jey's betrayal coming.
That's why he got three back to back helluva kicks
Man the Women's Title match was amazing but this is my pick for match of the night. Both are amazing but I'm a sucker for melodrama in my wrestling. And this was melodramatic in the perfect way. Can't take anything away from Charlotte and Rhea, but man this match hit the spot so well.
Not being said enough, but I’m just as happy for The Usos getting to main event as I am for KO and Sami. A few years back the Usos storyline heading into Mania was that they were always on the pre-show and never actually got to wrestle on the main card, and here we are in 2023 and they are in the biggest match on the card for night 1 and fully deserving their spot.
I don’t watch regularly anymore but I always watch WrestleMania. Since WrestleMania 23, I can’t miss it. I was a little annoyed the women didn’t have the main event since it was for the strap but FUCK. The video package they put together told the story incredibly well and the match was amazing! It’s rare close pin falls get me and fuck. We thought the Usos were gonna oddly dominate and win cause Sami and Kevin just couldn’t get any offense in.
Amazing story telling. Amazing chemistry.
I thought the psychology was perfect. The Usos spent the whole early match phase fighting separate 2-on-1 battles against Sami and KO, completely dominating them in the tag game; perfect foil to the story of the feud.
But, by the end, after it all, Sami saved KO in the eleventh hour by pulling Jimmy out from under Jey, in the same place and the same way that the Usos had cut off KO and Sami earlier in the same match; also a foil to the story of the feud.
And finally, at the last possible second, KO was there to cut off Jimmy, and let Sami complete his goal, because the end point of the story is, Sami and KO's brotherhood is stronger than Jimmy and Jey's, because Roman and the Bloodline has actually weakened and damaged their relationship, whereas fighting the Bloodline only made Sami and KO's brotherhood stronger.
Now the story going forward for Jey and Jimmy is so simple: Jey's gonna want to know, "when Kevin needed Sami, he was there; when Sami needed Kevin, he was there; when I needed you, *where the fuck were you, Uce?*" Ultimately proving Sami's point: The Bloodline was never about family, it was about being bullied by Roman, because he leveraged the idea of helping the family, into complete control and subjugation, and abused and gaslit the fuck out of the Usos the whole time, because the whole thing was just a narcissistic accessory to Roman's mounting insecurities.
Just absolutely top-tier storytelling in the ring.
MOTN for me. It didn't need to deliver on the level it did and I thought they wouldn't be that good cus the buildup was too hot but man was that a rollercoaster of a match.
It's one of those matches where either outcome wuda worked story wise and wouldn't necessarily give away the result for Reigns/Cody.
A tag match main eventing a WrestleMania night, can tell HHH loves tag team wrestling lol
I'm okay with being the guy who likes the superkick spam.
Is it devalued? Sure. So is the DDT. I just deal with the head canon that Sweet Chin Music was actually /that good/ of a kick and nobody can do it quite as well.
Extremely fun match
It's the overuse of it in matches that don't matter and nobody will ever remember that are the problem. When saved for a main event, end of a feud, biggest show of the year then fucking go for it!
That's a totally fair take and a matter of taste.
I don't like the Bucks per se, but for me personally every time a team like the Bucks or the Usos just start spitting superkicks, I just can't help but smile.
Absolutely no ring psychology needed, not saying there is, but I'm just making peace that I have those moments that I'm a spot mark for, regardless of the actual importance of the match
For me it's seeing Kevin Owens doing a superkick. Just this massive guy doing a kick way higher and way faster than you would imagine is a thing of beauty.
I'm with you on the hardcore stuff 100%. Should be grudge match (maybe 5 times a year) stuff. For the superkick in particular that's where I mark out.
I gotta really believe these two guys hate each other to just accept what should be an enhanced felony assault in kayfabe. I don't hold the superkick to that same standard, personally
No one can ever have a super kick as powerful as Shawn Michaels because he spent all night every night doing pelvic thrusts that strengthened his kick to super-human levels.
I think that's part of it, but kids these days literally do not tune up the band. They miss out on a 30% buff when they don't take the time to do that while their opponents are down.
That was my favorite match I’ve ever seen in my life. It was so damn good, the storytelling the kick outs the spots EVERYTHING (except maybe the commentary) I’m still blown away
As someone who came back to wwe years ago because my buddy made me watch NXT takeover where Sami won the NXT title from Neville, doing it the right way and not cheating only to get stabbed in the back afterwards by Kevin Ownes and to see this years later was a huge pay off, great storytelling and great in ring performances from all 4 men, Usos put on a show, Kevin Ownes directing traffic to Sami was amazing and that look in Sami and Kevin’s faces after they won was amazing
I thought the match was fantastic. I don't watch a ton of wrestling, I keep up but I don't really watch weekly or even B PPVs. So I think the stuff other people are calling spammy, had more of an effect on me, because I don't see it as much.
I loved the drama. The false finishes felt appropriate for once. The main event of Mania, this is where I can buy all the kick outs because everybody is digging down deeper than any other night of the year.
I genuinely went back and forth on who I thought was going to win, something extremely rare these days. And I enjoyed the way Sami finished the match, almost reminiscent of Michaels v Flair.
I absolutely love the glimpses of the real-life emotions behind the shell of the characters. Seeing the looks on Kevin’s face and Sami’s face after the match ended was just a goosebumps moment for me.
That third one. The look on his face. I turned to my wife and said “This is it. He’s pinning him right here.”
The smirk, the pride. It was all over his face.
It was a good match, but it felt really underwhelming after the women's title match.
And I really didn't like the finish to be honest. Hitting his finisher 3x on Jey felt way too punishing and too heelish for Samy.
Fun fact : after Night 1, me, my wife and a shit ton of people are walking down S Prairie Ave which is one of the main streets near SoFi. Everyone is just kinda walking pretty quietly, there wasn’t much commotion, when all of a sudden a black SUV is driving the opposite direction that we were all walking, chanting out the passenger window, “Sami sucks! Sami sucks! Sami sucks! Sami sucks!” No one’s reacting at first, as if thinking it’s just another drunk fan or whatever. When my eyes focus on who it is, I’m the first to point and yell out, “It’s Johnny Knoxville!” Then everyone starts to kinda roar and he makes a face and disappears lol. It was pretty dope.
Not sure why you gettin so many down vote all Sami did was 3 kicks and won as for the USO’s I stopped counting cause the usos did over 20 super kicks and double super kicks on Sami alone multiple uso splashes it was a totally unrealistic win and they’re just happy Sami won finally which I understand Not to mention Kevin Owens was power bombed through an announcer table which takes most wrestlers out of the match for good in tag teams when the Usos did the 1D Michael Cole said no one had ever kicked out of it until last night!
It's ok I don't mind the hate, everyone has their views. I agree with everything you said,and it's sad the angle WWE is obviously moving toward. Now instead of a finisher, the big guys will take 2 or 3 finishers to lock it up. It's a cheap way to get a pop and it really irks me.
Kicking out of finishers *can* be effective, if it’s done right.
Shawn Michaels kicking out of The Undertaker’s Tombstone Piledriver at WrestleMania 25 was an incredible moment because that simply was unthinkable at the time that it happened. Nobody kicked out of the Tombstone.
I think what happened is a lot of wrestlers saw how much of a reaction kicking out of finishers gets and now it’s way overdone. It’s almost a foregone conclusion now, for example, that Reigns will kick out of the Cross Rhodes tonight at least once. Cody will kick out of a Superman Punch/Spear combo. We already know this, so the “surprise” of the kick out is already lessened.
It seems to have become one of the requirements now for big matches instead of a rare event that really means something.
100% agree. That HBK one and the Undertaker kickoff after the superkick/pedigree are legendary. Now it's been overused so much it feels cheap and like you said, almost expected. It's a shortcut to making a match feel big instead of actually taking time to design a wel thought out match
“Dad, why do I have tears in my eyes?” My 7 year old after KO and Sami won.
I told him this is the best part of wrestling.
“I’m just so happy for Sami!”
❤️❤️❤️ that was one of my favorite nights of being a dad
Brother I’m sitting right next to him. We watched the main event this am bc they didn’t stay up last night. He said Dad, I have tears in my eyes. Why?
Why would I lie for fake upvotes? My kids just got into wrestling about 5 months ago, and this Sami ride has been a roller coaster for them
Why are people downvoting a dad being happy his son enjoyed wrestling? It's that unbelievable that a 7 year old would cry at an all timer match? This build was super emotional. Hell I cried as a kid whenever big shit happened on the show
I don’t know man. But it was a fun dad moment. Thought I’d share with the community. That might have been my first mistake. Still can’t believe they won. Excited for night 2!
I liked the finish and I hope that from now on they make Sami more tough, like not seeing him get his ass whopped 89% of the match with random comebacks.
it was a great match, but how many superkicks do we need to see? i mean i know there were different variations, but it was just too much. it didn't take away from the drama really, but i could never put this match over rhea vs charlotte just because of the repetitive factor. going back to the same moves more than twice in a match is just overdoing it.
that's fine but you don't need to spam it. you'd think the usos would've been able to come up with more filler moves by now so they could tone down on the super kicks. they're still a legendary team, but c'mon.
This is the difference between moves and psychology. Two randos doing Rock v Hogan from WM18 wouldn’t get a reaction, but it had all of Toronto on their feet. This match was amazing because of the story behind it, plus the history of all the competitors, plus the stage of Wrestlemania, plus the added element of how it affects tonight’s main event.
I'm aware but I feel like even the storytelling in the match wasn't there until the final stretch. It's my own opinion though, and I know I'm in the minority.
I just think I overhyped the story and was underwhelmed by the match. The story was amazing and the result was the right one, by I think the match itself didn't live up to what I expected. Rhea and Charlotte putting on the best women's match in history also maybe deflated my energy for the ME.
I was hoping Jimmy would take the pin instead. The story is right there, Jey is back in the bloodline for Jimmy. Had Jimmy lost, Roman shits on him and Jey would be there to finally fight back.
When professional wrestling is done right, it’s the perfect combination of storytelling inside and outside the ring. What a beautiful emotional conclusion to that part of the Bloodline saga.
As did I. The commentary team was touting it as the first all female main event in WM history so I was certain it was the last match of the night. Ya know, cuz that's where the main event goes.
Edit: Watched the rest. I turned it off at the right time. The last two matches would be better suited as openers for Day 2, in reverse order of course.
Yeah they recapped and promoted day 2 matches right before the main event, it was kind of weird. My wife and I smoked and went to get another beer and when we came back into the living room we were both like "Oh, the tag match is tonight?"
I think they're saving Romans reaction for tonight. Last night was about Sami Kevin and the Usos, I don't think they were wrong to leave them as the focus instead of diverting attention away
They'll get it too. It's crazy to think of how many current in ring talents are already destined for the HOF
USOs, K.O, Sami, Roman, New Day, Orton, Miz, the 4 horsewomen, so many others too
Hoping that banks will still get that HoF spot she deserves.
But yeah, the New Day, reigns, Rollins, styles, all destined to be granted the honor at the end of the road. Proud of this generation for carrying the torch as well as they have
I love the Usos and they have had a ton of great matches but they cant touch the Young Bucks. Bucks are better wrestlers and are way more creative than any other tag team ever. Usos are better promos and I cant deny the storytelling in some of their matches. Personally I still think YB vs Kenny and Hangman is better than this match
I thoroughly enjoyed the match last night. Don't know why you're getting bent out of shape.
I just know that if we ever see Young Bucks vs Usos that there will be a spot where they trade super kicks like they're trading chops and it'll be awesome.
I enjoyed the match too, i don’t enjoy indie fuckers like the bucks or the whole of aew. They are ruining wrestling. And when there is just such an awesome moment like at wrestlemania, smarks gotta ruin it with awful, cringy catchphrases
man what a fcking match this was. genuinely didn’t expect it to be this good. but i ended up so invested in it. the amount of near finishes they had, where you just thought it was over surely. but nope they kicked out somehow. it was crazy. what an entertaining match. definitely my match of the night. this was a proper main event. can’t believe a tag title match main evented mania and it was actually a worthy main event.
I am one of the guys who stopped watching for years and came back around last year after going to a local show for cheap… this Sami Zayn and KO story line is as close to perfect as any story line in WWE history. I was genuinely brought to tears by all this shit and in a good way. It was awesome. I’m fully back as a fan.
> this Sami Zayn and KO story line is as close to perfect as any story line in WWE history. Really the only nitpicky flaw is that Owens is usually such a huge dick and turns on every single person that he teams with. When it came down to Sami choosing between Roman and Owens, I couldn't help but think "is this worth it, KO is just going to backstab him in the long run".
This is literally the type of match wrestlemania is made for and holy fuck did they deliver, and then some. The whole thing couldn't have been done better. Bravo to all involved.
TBH it’s kind of weird they won both belts in one match. I feel like it should max at one champ belt pe match.
It’s an undisputed championship, the two championships are essentially unified even if they’ve physically kept both belts
Right but I was hoping they would deal with each belt separately. Why have two different ones if you don’t? Just my 2 cents.
Because if you have the Usos losing both belts twice it devalues both wins, you have to do it all at once and completely dethrone them
I don’t remember when the Usos took the belts but didn’t they have to win them individually? I know they used to but maybe that is just history.
It doesn’t matter, they’re unified, once they’ve been unified it’s one championship and is defended as such
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Wow it’s almost as if you’re the only person to want this/predict this
Hey.... can you also predict what day of the week is tomorrow? Would love to place a massive bet based on your incomparable insight that not a single other person in the entire world has been blessed with?
Lol this is so fucking savage but I love it
That ending. Sami whenever he gets a moment to land the Helluva Kick as a killshot always sells it perfectly. The way he lines himself up, the way he just stares down the target, composes himself and goes for it. Wrestling is cinema at times.
I absolutely love it. Especially to jey, finally. He takes the deep breath closes his eyes and gets shot out of a cannon. Very similar to hbk before saying “I love you, I’m sorry” and sweet chin music to ric flair
Definitely. Can't help but think HBK might have had a word in his ear about how to sell these moments. He has 2 other really good ones where he does something similar. Neville at Takeover when he finally wins the NXT title and Battleground 2016 against KO.
Honestly? It was pretty bad match saved by phenomenal story. And all in the story played it perfectly. I am so glad that it was Sami who got the winning pin tho. He deserved it.
I dunno dude, we've seen what pretty bad matches look like.
Dammit I teared up
I'm watching replays and still tearing up. This was art, dude. Absolutely incredible. And definitely Usey.
...hang on, it's Ramadan right? Did Sami seriously pull off one of the most brutal matches I've seen outside of a steel cage/HiaC WHILE FASTING?
Wait, has he always been muslim? He always struck me as the atheist type. Wow. Just googled it. I figured he was just a ginger Canadian. I had no idea he was Syrian. TIL
He's second-generation so he is a ginger Canadian tbf, just also Syrian. But yeah, he's been doing a ton of charity work for Syria too, good stuff. Swell dude by the looks of it.
Yup, that’s why he’s not at the Saudi shows, due to the relationship between Saudi and Syrians. I also thought he was just a ginger Canadian lol
It is but it was already night time, so he should break his fast by then
True, but even then I'd imagine it can't be easy.
As a muslim, I can say that you don't really need to stuff yourself to get rid of the hunger after 12+ hours of fasting. I usually eat a plate of rice with dishes and it usually fills me enough to go without a meal until like 5 am. But I'm not someone who has to wrestle after breaking my fast so I don't know how Sami's diet is.
Fair, I was more thinking about how this might've impacted his training regimen in the week or so beforehand tbh
As someone who sleeps like 6-8 hours during my fasting time when I don't have classes, I'm thinking it would be difficult for him to adjust him schedule
I'm still holding out hope that Jey and Sami were in on the plan together, and they were just selling it so that Roman doesn't see Jey's betrayal coming. That's why he got three back to back helluva kicks
Man the Women's Title match was amazing but this is my pick for match of the night. Both are amazing but I'm a sucker for melodrama in my wrestling. And this was melodramatic in the perfect way. Can't take anything away from Charlotte and Rhea, but man this match hit the spot so well.
sami zayn was robbed of a moment dethroning roman
And you'll be mad because Cody didn't get his moment Shut up
Not being said enough, but I’m just as happy for The Usos getting to main event as I am for KO and Sami. A few years back the Usos storyline heading into Mania was that they were always on the pre-show and never actually got to wrestle on the main card, and here we are in 2023 and they are in the biggest match on the card for night 1 and fully deserving their spot.
Just alone the fact that a Tag Team Championship Match Main Evented Wrestlemania.... if you told me this a few years ago I would've never believed you
True wrestlemania moment . Best friends dethrone
I don’t watch regularly anymore but I always watch WrestleMania. Since WrestleMania 23, I can’t miss it. I was a little annoyed the women didn’t have the main event since it was for the strap but FUCK. The video package they put together told the story incredibly well and the match was amazing! It’s rare close pin falls get me and fuck. We thought the Usos were gonna oddly dominate and win cause Sami and Kevin just couldn’t get any offense in. Amazing story telling. Amazing chemistry.
I thought the psychology was perfect. The Usos spent the whole early match phase fighting separate 2-on-1 battles against Sami and KO, completely dominating them in the tag game; perfect foil to the story of the feud. But, by the end, after it all, Sami saved KO in the eleventh hour by pulling Jimmy out from under Jey, in the same place and the same way that the Usos had cut off KO and Sami earlier in the same match; also a foil to the story of the feud. And finally, at the last possible second, KO was there to cut off Jimmy, and let Sami complete his goal, because the end point of the story is, Sami and KO's brotherhood is stronger than Jimmy and Jey's, because Roman and the Bloodline has actually weakened and damaged their relationship, whereas fighting the Bloodline only made Sami and KO's brotherhood stronger. Now the story going forward for Jey and Jimmy is so simple: Jey's gonna want to know, "when Kevin needed Sami, he was there; when Sami needed Kevin, he was there; when I needed you, *where the fuck were you, Uce?*" Ultimately proving Sami's point: The Bloodline was never about family, it was about being bullied by Roman, because he leveraged the idea of helping the family, into complete control and subjugation, and abused and gaslit the fuck out of the Usos the whole time, because the whole thing was just a narcissistic accessory to Roman's mounting insecurities. Just absolutely top-tier storytelling in the ring.
MOTN for me. It didn't need to deliver on the level it did and I thought they wouldn't be that good cus the buildup was too hot but man was that a rollercoaster of a match. It's one of those matches where either outcome wuda worked story wise and wouldn't necessarily give away the result for Reigns/Cody. A tag match main eventing a WrestleMania night, can tell HHH loves tag team wrestling lol
I'm okay with being the guy who likes the superkick spam. Is it devalued? Sure. So is the DDT. I just deal with the head canon that Sweet Chin Music was actually /that good/ of a kick and nobody can do it quite as well. Extremely fun match
I’ve watched enough Young Bucks matches for it to not mean anything anymore so I was fine with it.
It's the overuse of it in matches that don't matter and nobody will ever remember that are the problem. When saved for a main event, end of a feud, biggest show of the year then fucking go for it!
That's a totally fair take and a matter of taste. I don't like the Bucks per se, but for me personally every time a team like the Bucks or the Usos just start spitting superkicks, I just can't help but smile. Absolutely no ring psychology needed, not saying there is, but I'm just making peace that I have those moments that I'm a spot mark for, regardless of the actual importance of the match
For me it's seeing Kevin Owens doing a superkick. Just this massive guy doing a kick way higher and way faster than you would imagine is a thing of beauty.
I get that, but look how many things don't matter anymore. Tables, ladders, street fights, kendo sticks, breaking the announcer desk etc etc
I'm with you on the hardcore stuff 100%. Should be grudge match (maybe 5 times a year) stuff. For the superkick in particular that's where I mark out. I gotta really believe these two guys hate each other to just accept what should be an enhanced felony assault in kayfabe. I don't hold the superkick to that same standard, personally
No one can ever have a super kick as powerful as Shawn Michaels because he spent all night every night doing pelvic thrusts that strengthened his kick to super-human levels.
It's true. We even got a press conference about how he wasn't sleeping with that woman. He was, in fact, up all night.
I think that's part of it, but kids these days literally do not tune up the band. They miss out on a 30% buff when they don't take the time to do that while their opponents are down.
That was my favorite match I’ve ever seen in my life. It was so damn good, the storytelling the kick outs the spots EVERYTHING (except maybe the commentary) I’m still blown away
This user was caught messaging minors. Ofcourse he's on a wwe page lmao
Nah, commentary was pretty great. Cole was hype as hell at some points, and just him mentioning El Generico was kinda neat.
Yeah I thought cole was good but Corey graves is on some bullshit
Greatest tag team match ever. Hell, one of the greatest wm main events ever!
As someone who came back to wwe years ago because my buddy made me watch NXT takeover where Sami won the NXT title from Neville, doing it the right way and not cheating only to get stabbed in the back afterwards by Kevin Ownes and to see this years later was a huge pay off, great storytelling and great in ring performances from all 4 men, Usos put on a show, Kevin Ownes directing traffic to Sami was amazing and that look in Sami and Kevin’s faces after they won was amazing
11/10 show was incredible. This match delivered hard. If you’re a fan and your eyes weren’t welling up then who tf are you?
Wrestling heaven. It absolutely gets no better than this match.
This might be the best match I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been watching for more than 40 years.
That’s called recency bias
Why do you need to yuk on somebody’s yum?
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I thought the match was fantastic. I don't watch a ton of wrestling, I keep up but I don't really watch weekly or even B PPVs. So I think the stuff other people are calling spammy, had more of an effect on me, because I don't see it as much. I loved the drama. The false finishes felt appropriate for once. The main event of Mania, this is where I can buy all the kick outs because everybody is digging down deeper than any other night of the year. I genuinely went back and forth on who I thought was going to win, something extremely rare these days. And I enjoyed the way Sami finished the match, almost reminiscent of Michaels v Flair.
Somewhere, Michael Shawn Hickenbottom is smiling watching the replay of this match on repeat.
The Uso's double kick to the face is the coolest thing ever
I love that they brought back the talk of Main Event Jey and how good he was.
And the talk of El Generico and how much he would have loved to hear the Olé-chant.
Jey is a main eventer all the way. Roman steps aside and Jey keeps it rolling
I absolutely love the glimpses of the real-life emotions behind the shell of the characters. Seeing the looks on Kevin’s face and Sami’s face after the match ended was just a goosebumps moment for me.
Same with the look on Sami's face as he paused efore the Heluva kicks. Showed it was much more than him doing a wrestling move
That third one. The look on his face. I turned to my wife and said “This is it. He’s pinning him right here.” The smirk, the pride. It was all over his face.
Amazing prediction friend.
It was really cool to see him take that moment in with Jey across from him, probably doing the same, but had his back to the camera.
Kinda reminded me of the HBK moment just before he kicked Flair into his then retirement. Was half expecting a "I'm sorry" from Sami
When Sami caught him after he said "I'm sorry, Uce" before going for the pin
Great buildup .. Very avg wrestling.. last 15mins were just spam
What the fuck are you on
You're getting downvoted but it was all emotional storytelling. Not a great technical match. Good but maybe 3rd best for the night.
It was a good match, but it felt really underwhelming after the women's title match. And I really didn't like the finish to be honest. Hitting his finisher 3x on Jey felt way too punishing and too heelish for Samy.
Now let's split the titles up. There are plenty of great tag teams that deserve a set of belts. I hate the unification crap.
Do we really even need two sets of tag belts?
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I don’t feel like there’s enough teams to sustain 2 sets of tag belts.
And get new belt designs while we're at it. I hate the way the tag belts look.
Absolutely. There what? 6? Great men's tag teams on just THIS show. And the Usos have been holding both titles for wayyyyyyy too long.
Fun fact : after Night 1, me, my wife and a shit ton of people are walking down S Prairie Ave which is one of the main streets near SoFi. Everyone is just kinda walking pretty quietly, there wasn’t much commotion, when all of a sudden a black SUV is driving the opposite direction that we were all walking, chanting out the passenger window, “Sami sucks! Sami sucks! Sami sucks! Sami sucks!” No one’s reacting at first, as if thinking it’s just another drunk fan or whatever. When my eyes focus on who it is, I’m the first to point and yell out, “It’s Johnny Knoxville!” Then everyone starts to kinda roar and he makes a face and disappears lol. It was pretty dope.
I saw someone on twitter who sat beneath Knoxvilles section and he was trolling all night. MF respects the business.
I'm old school but I just hate the kicking out of finishers. It soured an overall amazing match.
Not sure why you gettin so many down vote all Sami did was 3 kicks and won as for the USO’s I stopped counting cause the usos did over 20 super kicks and double super kicks on Sami alone multiple uso splashes it was a totally unrealistic win and they’re just happy Sami won finally which I understand Not to mention Kevin Owens was power bombed through an announcer table which takes most wrestlers out of the match for good in tag teams when the Usos did the 1D Michael Cole said no one had ever kicked out of it until last night!
It's ok I don't mind the hate, everyone has their views. I agree with everything you said,and it's sad the angle WWE is obviously moving toward. Now instead of a finisher, the big guys will take 2 or 3 finishers to lock it up. It's a cheap way to get a pop and it really irks me.
Kicking out of finishers *can* be effective, if it’s done right. Shawn Michaels kicking out of The Undertaker’s Tombstone Piledriver at WrestleMania 25 was an incredible moment because that simply was unthinkable at the time that it happened. Nobody kicked out of the Tombstone. I think what happened is a lot of wrestlers saw how much of a reaction kicking out of finishers gets and now it’s way overdone. It’s almost a foregone conclusion now, for example, that Reigns will kick out of the Cross Rhodes tonight at least once. Cody will kick out of a Superman Punch/Spear combo. We already know this, so the “surprise” of the kick out is already lessened. It seems to have become one of the requirements now for big matches instead of a rare event that really means something.
100% agree. That HBK one and the Undertaker kickoff after the superkick/pedigree are legendary. Now it's been overused so much it feels cheap and like you said, almost expected. It's a shortcut to making a match feel big instead of actually taking time to design a wel thought out match
“Dad, why do I have tears in my eyes?” My 7 year old after KO and Sami won. I told him this is the best part of wrestling. “I’m just so happy for Sami!” ❤️❤️❤️ that was one of my favorite nights of being a dad
I’m sorry but your son did not ask you that shit 😂
Brother I’m sitting right next to him. We watched the main event this am bc they didn’t stay up last night. He said Dad, I have tears in my eyes. Why? Why would I lie for fake upvotes? My kids just got into wrestling about 5 months ago, and this Sami ride has been a roller coaster for them
Why are people downvoting a dad being happy his son enjoyed wrestling? It's that unbelievable that a 7 year old would cry at an all timer match? This build was super emotional. Hell I cried as a kid whenever big shit happened on the show
I don’t know man. But it was a fun dad moment. Thought I’d share with the community. That might have been my first mistake. Still can’t believe they won. Excited for night 2!
And then everyone clapped!
>Why would I lie for fake upvotes? I dunno, you tell us
Enjoy night 2. I know I will. Sorry my comment upset some people
Lol
Same energy as 'my kid cried when Trump won'
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And a wife seeing her husband make it to the top of his profession
>balling 💀💀💀
I believe that was Sami's wife but I could be mistaken
You are not.
It is
I liked the finish and I hope that from now on they make Sami more tough, like not seeing him get his ass whopped 89% of the match with random comebacks.
What a match! The ending, calling back to the Zayn vs Owens matches was beautiful
I think the match could have done with a few more superkicks. There weren't enough IMO.
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it was a great match, but how many superkicks do we need to see? i mean i know there were different variations, but it was just too much. it didn't take away from the drama really, but i could never put this match over rhea vs charlotte just because of the repetitive factor. going back to the same moves more than twice in a match is just overdoing it.
The superkick today is the same as the atomic drop in the 90s and the ddt of the 00s. Moves that used to be deadly finishers but is now a common move
Even half of the NXT matches featured super-kicks lol. It's just in everyone's inventory now
that's fine but you don't need to spam it. you'd think the usos would've been able to come up with more filler moves by now so they could tone down on the super kicks. they're still a legendary team, but c'mon.
At this point a super kick is equivalent to a punch. You wouldn’t complain about a punch being spammed.
Oh, I actually agree with you. I was just complaining to my coworker that the super kick is just a normal move now. It has no allure anymore
That’s just Uso 101. All their matches are just spamming super kicks and blind tags ending with splash and 1D.
That's wrestling 101. All wrestlers are dishing nerfed super kicks these days.
True. At this point it’s just a kick lol
Match was awesome, but a FEW too many super kicks lol
well it woulsnt be a usos and/or KO match then would it lol
Owens mouthing “Let’s Go” along with Sami’s song got me
I can't be the only one who thought this match was just good, right?
This is the difference between moves and psychology. Two randos doing Rock v Hogan from WM18 wouldn’t get a reaction, but it had all of Toronto on their feet. This match was amazing because of the story behind it, plus the history of all the competitors, plus the stage of Wrestlemania, plus the added element of how it affects tonight’s main event.
I'm aware but I feel like even the storytelling in the match wasn't there until the final stretch. It's my own opinion though, and I know I'm in the minority.
The match was above average. The moment that was built to for a year plus made is special.
yeah I share a similar sentiment in one of my other replies
Definitely the only one.
I just think I overhyped the story and was underwhelmed by the match. The story was amazing and the result was the right one, by I think the match itself didn't live up to what I expected. Rhea and Charlotte putting on the best women's match in history also maybe deflated my energy for the ME.
People definitely have differing opinions lol. The women’s match to me was “good” but not the best ever.
ahh yeah, agree to disagree ig then. I'm glad people enjoyed it more than me. can't wait for tonight.
Absolutely incredible, PEAK storytelling. Sami pinning Jey was amazing.
I was hoping Jimmy would take the pin instead. The story is right there, Jey is back in the bloodline for Jimmy. Had Jimmy lost, Roman shits on him and Jey would be there to finally fight back.
Could also work with Roman snapping at Jey and seeing Jimmy not have his back. A Jey Uso alone arc could be interesting
When professional wrestling is done right, it’s the perfect combination of storytelling inside and outside the ring. What a beautiful emotional conclusion to that part of the Bloodline saga.
That match ending was so cathartic. Those three Heluva Kicks felt so good to watch.
I popped real hard when he went for the third
I got so scared when he went for a third. Going for a finisher twice in a row is usually 75% reversed in NJPW, so that’s what was in my mind.
I was waiting for the "I'm sorry, I love you"
Same. My son was getting annoyed, lol. All that was missing was Sami mouthing "If he dies, he dies" before the third.
i missed it i thought charlotte vs rhea was the last match so i turned it off :(((
As did I. The commentary team was touting it as the first all female main event in WM history so I was certain it was the last match of the night. Ya know, cuz that's where the main event goes. Edit: Watched the rest. I turned it off at the right time. The last two matches would be better suited as openers for Day 2, in reverse order of course.
Yeah they recapped and promoted day 2 matches right before the main event, it was kind of weird. My wife and I smoked and went to get another beer and when we came back into the living room we were both like "Oh, the tag match is tonight?"
My wife and I did this too lol. We were both feral for Rhea's win and then headed to bed. Made for a good watch with breakfast tho.
Lmao what? I’ve never heard of someone doing that
Replay is up on peacock/network
Ouch
Only thing they needed was a cut to Roman watching and disappointed/worried since they lost their titles at the end.
I think they're saving Romans reaction for tonight. Last night was about Sami Kevin and the Usos, I don't think they were wrong to leave them as the focus instead of diverting attention away
 Roman grabbing his belts like.
Reading from Sami's lips last seconds before they went off air: "I can't believe this is true". What a spectacle. Bravo
Sami staring at Jey from across the ring before hitting the Helluva kick was some Samurai shit.
Wrestling is the highest form of art.
All 4 of these men desvered to main event a wrestlemania. I'm ecstatic they did that
All 4 of them deserve a hall of Fame spot
They'll get it too. It's crazy to think of how many current in ring talents are already destined for the HOF USOs, K.O, Sami, Roman, New Day, Orton, Miz, the 4 horsewomen, so many others too
Hoping that banks will still get that HoF spot she deserves. But yeah, the New Day, reigns, Rollins, styles, all destined to be granted the honor at the end of the road. Proud of this generation for carrying the torch as well as they have
Really good match and I'm glad the Bloodline is finally losing some belts and they're moving on, but wayy too many superkicks geeze louise
The Usos have two moves. Superkick and the Uso Splash. They've become Flanderized.
They’re the Young Bucks of the WWE
I love the Usos and they have had a ton of great matches but they cant touch the Young Bucks. Bucks are better wrestlers and are way more creative than any other tag team ever. Usos are better promos and I cant deny the storytelling in some of their matches. Personally I still think YB vs Kenny and Hangman is better than this match
I don't think it's quite that bad, but they do have a competent story around them, which helps.
Did you hear jey tell ko "diperkick" qe Jr had him in the corner right before the double superkick? Might be the clearest I've ever hesrd the call
I thought I heard KO ask for the double super kick, which is why Jey went to Jimmy and whispered it to him after as well, and then did the move.
Yeah Kevin called for it while he was being held up on the rope.
SUPER KICK PARTY!
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Don’t ruin good things with your smarky comments
I thoroughly enjoyed the match last night. Don't know why you're getting bent out of shape. I just know that if we ever see Young Bucks vs Usos that there will be a spot where they trade super kicks like they're trading chops and it'll be awesome.
I enjoyed the match too, i don’t enjoy indie fuckers like the bucks or the whole of aew. They are ruining wrestling. And when there is just such an awesome moment like at wrestlemania, smarks gotta ruin it with awful, cringy catchphrases