Night one of WrestleMania 41 delivered some serious twists. CM Punk, Rollins, and Roman tore the house down in the main event—but Paul Heyman had other plans. Jey Uso shocks Gunther, Tiffany Stratton retains, and Jacob Fatu makes a big statement. Full match breakdowns and analysis right here!
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00:00this is taped i could have taken that out and now you don't understand it if you're just
00:08watching this clip wrestlemania 41 is uh halfway through as the wwe was uh back in las vegas for
00:16the first time since wrestlemania 9 which uh famously went really well this show um i said
00:23coming in like i i i guess i didn't really talk about it all that much i wasn't like i didn't
00:28have a regular wrestlemania feel for this one necessarily now part of that is just my own
00:32life i got stuff going on this weekend it's easter weekend so it's a little bit tough um with a
00:37couple of certain things and you're mainly just like stressed that uh people are gonna want to
00:40spend time with you it's like man i really just i gotta watch jacob fatu in la night i'm sorry but
00:46um it didn't really have that same whatever and then you start the show and it's a big entrance
00:52and it's a big intro and we got all these things happening it's okay we're back um so i i wasn't
00:59like oh my god wrestlemania is here i'm kind of that way tonight now and part of that is i get to
01:03watch it live here in a little bit but um either way i i thought the build for wrestlemania was again
01:09good not great and that kind of seems like the theme from everything we talked about it on the
01:12nxt breakdown and now talking about it again here that this this show just overall before we get fully
01:17into it felt good not great and that was kind of a lot of the matches here um so we get jay usso
01:22defeating guntha to win the world heavyweight championship in 16 minutes and 30 seconds the
01:28intro was very good i thought that they did do a good job of kind of showing jay as like he's taking
01:35this seriously like he's not just burning himself out doing all the eating and everything like that
01:39like he is coming out and he is being very serious and being very stoic about the opportunity that
01:44has been presented to him right now or that he has earned sorry as the world heavyweight champion
01:49so he he was taking in all the crowd adulation and everything like that and it was a great one
01:53with the flags and everything to start it off i thought it was really really good gunther down to
01:58basic i i don't ever want to see like an orchestra or anything i just want what we had a uh ow uh
02:05in this case a virtual curtain opens he walks through it he doesn't break stride or change
02:11his pace at all until he gets to the ring and it is um ass kicking time and then once this one got going
02:17it was it was a quick reminder that um sometimes it's tough to make a uh dome show for lack of a
02:25better term sound loud and so like it did have a bit of a the crowd is dead feel to it and you always
02:32when you're coming into these shows it's a it takes a little bit of adjusting to okay that this
02:37is this is a little bit different than other wrestling shows that i've seen i do feel like
02:41this one it could have got to one more level like it never really felt like jay was super in danger
02:48like that there was never a oh my god like jay is getting his ass kicked how is he going to fight
02:52back from it it like there were times where gunther was ahead and there were times jay was ahead but
02:55there never had that feel of like oh no our favorite is about to lose or anything like that and
03:02and so i thought that when the finish does finally come like you didn't have that oh my god he did
03:06it it was just like a you you still had a oh my god he did it but more from the story leading up to
03:12it than how the match was necessarily presented if that makes sense so again i thought it was a good
03:16match i do think that with how they structured it in that way maybe you don't get the oh holy shit he
03:22has pulled it off but you do kind of now feel like it wasn't jay just stole one here jay was on level
03:28with gunther the whole time you do the slapping back and forth and the the blows and the chests
03:33and all that stuff and jay is hanging with him that whole time and so i thought that was an
03:39interesting story to kind of tell with everything along there and then i thought it was very fitting
03:44that jay gets the win using the sleeper how many times in wrestling do we see oh he's using his
03:49opponent's finisher and oh they've kicked out at two now they're pissed and for jay to actually win
03:54it with the move that choked out his brother and all of that oh it was good that i i thought that
03:58was a very very nice touch on this jimmy comes out he holds the belt presents it to jay and you could
04:04hear that they uh they said there was about 61 000 fans in attendance at uh wrestlemania there's about
04:0940 of them that was expecting jimmy to just wallop jay usa with that belt but they get that nice happy
04:16moment um they were talking about rikishi i i do wish that rikishi would have been ringside um or close-ish
04:22enough to ringside that he could have celebrated there that would have been a very very cool moment
04:26but it was still really great to see that and now jay uso is the uh he's the world champion really
04:33really cool and really happy for uh that that performer and interested to see now uh what direction
04:38we go with the world heavyweight championship tag team titles on the line and we have new world tag
04:43team champions as the new day defeat the war raiders this was another one this was a very very good
04:49match i thought i thought both teams really delivered um ivar coming out and doing that like
04:53double seated cross body into the video board on the ring like god damn that must have hurt and just
05:00a quick whatever when i see the video apron on that side i just it makes me think of titus o'neill
05:05because like when he comes down and does like the eat shit thing and um slides at the greatest royal
05:12rumble it was apron there so he could just he'd do right underneath it if there's a video board there
05:18like he actually actually kind of got a little fucked up on that because he's going headlong into
05:23it now if there's a video thing there you would expect a human being would maybe you know arm up
05:27to block themselves a little bit but i don't know how much control he had in that particular moment
05:31anyway not important um i did like a lot of the spots here i thought again the war raiders come across
05:36as just like a real ass kicking tag team i was thinking though like they give these guys a long run
05:42a long-ass run they've been champs since december they've had a lot of tv time and it has been a
05:48little stop and start because of some injury situations and stuff like that but they've had
05:51vignettes to get themselves over they have some had some really big moves and everything like that
05:55i do i do wonder what else you could do to get these guys a little bit more over because it does
06:01feel like there's another level that you can get to with them but it's also not for lack of trying
06:06so i i do wonder like is is a real singles run for a couple of these guys now something that you
06:11could try with like doing um i don't know we used to do the draft right after wrestlemania
06:16um now they kind of do it in october but that was when you had two networks now i'm sure if
06:21netflix was like now we kind of wanted in april usa network we kind of just have to deal with it
06:25but if you did a brand split do you split these guys apart because i just i feel like there is
06:31well we've kind of maxed what we can have is and they're a great tag team this isn't like don't hear
06:36what i'm not saying i love these guys as a tag team and i i just i kind of feel like there is
06:41more that they could both accomplish and another excuse me another level of i guess for lack of
06:46a better term stardom that you can get out of these guys and i just don't know what they haven't
06:51done to to not get aside from like having them all of a sudden start feuding with the rock i don't
06:57know what you i don't know what more you can do with them but um new day they needed this win
07:02it makes the most sense to have it um if you want to just roll this one back these two teams i
07:07think work really really well together uh jade cargill gets the win over naomi at 9 20 uh jade
07:12cargill is obviously a very impressive human uh naomi the the new entrance and everything like
07:18that everything in this feud was great i thought that they built this up really well the match um
07:24i don't know if you're ever going to get a technical masterpiece out of um jade cargill i don't
07:29think that uh 30 years from now we're going to be putting this match in the hall of fame for
07:33the immortals category but this was a good match it it gave naomi enough that this wasn't just a
07:38squash match or anything like that you get to show off the incredible athleticism that naomi has and
07:44just again how how well rounded she has become as a performer not just as a character but in ring
07:50there is it's been really fun to see the growth of of naomi over the years and jade cargill is a
07:57beast like that move where naomi is diving at her and she catches her and just holds her in the
08:02suplex and then hits the jackhammer out of that i don't think i could confidently do that with that
08:06sumo doll that's behind me and that thing's like eight pounds not even eight pounds that's an
08:10exaggeration that'd be a really heavy doll that's like an eighth of a pound um jade cargill did that
08:16with a human and that's where the oh wrestling's fake it's like yeah she knew she was diving at her
08:21um but it's not like there's a rope attached to the trust or anything like that and she could just
08:27dive in and okay hold it and you get to know she she's doing that with a person like at some point
08:32i'm sure there's a way you can dive that makes it easier to be caught and then suplexed but it is i
08:39would assume quite difficult to slow yourself down mid-air and allow yourself to be caught in that way
08:45so just incredible athleticism and jade ends up getting a big win here and now you're just hoping
08:50she can stay healthy and we can really build some momentum around a very very fun character jacob fatu is
08:56the new united states champion in his victory over la night yeah uh the finish comes at 10 40 this
09:02was good this was really really good and this was the first time the crowd really started to get
09:07into some stuff on this particular show um you have the the springboard moonsault that jacob fatu
09:13does and la night turns it into the the bft that was excellent and fatu rolling over to the ropes and
09:21then getting the cover i i wish the the announcers would have played into that a little bit more like
09:25we play into the this guy is a psychopath and likes to just um kill things part of his character which
09:31very important part of his character but i i wish that there would have been a little bit more of
09:35hey that was really smart him rolling like that and and doing that thing um because that that is
09:41um it's something i think you would have done with different characters and maybe we leave it at that
09:46but i do think that that is something that like the cerebral aspect of the jacob fatu character he's not
09:51just running out there and screaming and throwing his ass into things he he is a smart smart guy as
09:56well um so just a little thing there but then he ends up getting the the victory that this was great
10:01the crowd was into it haku comes out and celebrates with him after you just you love to see it um so
10:06that was that was great um the it's what it needed to be again la night your mileage may vary on his
10:13in-ring performances but he is he is finding his stride again i think in-ring it's getting a whole lot
10:20better too character wise it's obviously great the one thing like he drives up in the the very nice
10:25car and they park on the stage i kind of wish we would have got more of a video with that they did
10:30it with charlotte later with i think it was rolls royce you can tell i mean this may shock you i don't
10:34got a ton of experience with those cars i mean like i know but for for la night i thought like he
10:41comes out in the car and it looks cool and then he rolls the window down and it's la night and
10:45timed it up perfectly very very good but i thought like show that car ripping down the
10:50vegas strip you know i mean ai is great i can make that uh just show that car ripping around
10:55las vegas um just a couple of sites and then it pulls in to um to wrestlemania and does that i thought
11:02just a little thing otherwise it's just like a it's a car it's neat um but just you know one other
11:08note on that this one surprised me a little bit el grande americano with the win over ray phoenix at
11:13755 um i think that they probably want the big unveiling to be with ray mysterio jr and so maybe
11:20you don't give that to ray phoenix in this particular spot after they make the the quick
11:24switch on saturday afternoon but this match was great i think that it showcased a lot of what you
11:29wanted to with ray phoenix um the the 450 fucking moonsault that um the grande americano hit was
11:37damn impressive this match was a whole lot of fun and if they want to do this thing like i there are
11:44aspects of this that are entertaining there are parts of it that are really fucking stupid and i
11:49did kind of wish that again this is on me right this is my own projecting i thought chad gable going
11:54down to get the secrets of lucha libre to mexico which is this sentence is going to sound so fucking
12:00stupid in hindsight but i thought chad gable going to find about the secrets of lucha libre in mexico was
12:06going to be more serious than it was and just saying that i'm realizing that's a me problem not
12:10a vent problem but i did think that that this would be a good way to introduce a new character
12:16or something along those lines or we're gonna buy one of their promotions this could be a way to do
12:21something with that right now maybe they didn't know that was going to happen at the time although
12:24i can't imagine they just woke up on friday i was like hey hey you want a promotion but i i i wanted
12:30this to be a little bit more serious that being said if you just want to do for the next year
12:35chad gable putting on lucha matches with lucha guys fuck around is it entertaining so i guess
12:42i guess i kind of got to live with it here a little bit as he gets the win at 755 um then we get uh for
12:48the wwe women's championship tiffany stratton defeating charlotte flair at 1905 i saw a lot of
12:54hate for this match um did you see the one clip where um tiffany goes up for the moonsault and guys like
13:00finally just put this match out of its misery i was saying coming in that i thought these two would
13:04benefit from having just an absolute blow away match this was not that um and honestly like i
13:10it was it the worst it might have been the worst match on the show on the card actually now we're
13:17going through it for for what it kind of needed to be and i think what you would have the expectations
13:21of again um jade and naomi may not be your style like jacob fought to la night uh like i said your
13:26mileage can vary on that one as well but this one wasn't exactly that show-stealing performance but it
13:30also wasn't jimmy and jay from a couple years ago or anything like that was that last that was last
13:36year um either way it wasn't those guys from a couple or from last wrestlemania this was a again
13:42it was a good match it wasn't a great match you give tiffany stratton the really big entrance she
13:47gets her face busted up a little bit so you can play up the kind of the the muscle barbie thing
13:51a little bit charlotte looked good um it just it didn't it didn't find that next gear for me
13:58that i was kind of hoping that it would at 1905 but tiffany stratton retains and i think
14:03ultimately that's the right move and then we get to the main event the triple threat match
14:07seth rollins defeats roman reigns and cm punk at 32 55 um so again full disclosure i'm watching
14:15i'm recording this on sunday i watched this this morning um and so you you see the the cards come up
14:20for those three guys and um i just hit the mouse on netflix and say oh my god we still have an hour
14:28and it's like well so it's a 15 minute match with entrances but um you kind of knew that this one was
14:34going to be a bit of a marathon type of a one i thought every entrance was good like with um seth
14:39coming out he gets the fire um the the the flamethrower uh i almost called it a fire torch uh he gets
14:46the flamethrower lights the stage on fire and then comes out we get a uh wardrobe change um we just
14:52watched um the rupaul's drag race season finale uh everyone loves a costume reveal but i again i
15:00thought it was good and it it fits with him right like he in his in this character's mind he is fighting
15:05for the soul of professional wrestling and so he is the the angel coming in to to save it
15:10maybe a bit of uh symbolism on this particular weekend but still i thought a great entrance roman
15:18it he is alone but is he alone because he has all the family members on his video screens and stuff
15:25like that so i thought that was great and then the cm punk where he is um repeating some of his
15:30classic promos and everything like that and we get the old kill switch engage theme and everything
15:34there i thought every entrance was perfect hit the mark that it needed to i thought the match was
15:38great i thought the like the spot where okay our every time rollins and roman were going to kind of
15:45work together roman breaks that up immediately it's like no we're not doing this no we're not doing
15:49this and you do wonder like just to really overthink things from a character standpoint if seth
15:54is looking at this and it's like man i you don't you don't know this but i got your guy like we
16:00can we you can have everyone together if you want i got like i got your dude let's be together on
16:07this let's do this here and it just he couldn't he wouldn't he wouldn't he wouldn't and every time
16:13roman breaks that up and then he punches seth and power bombs them both himself through the table
16:17and that spot where every one of them hits their finisher and all three of them are down on the mat
16:22like this was just oh it was such a great match it was so so good and then you get the drama
16:28with paul hayman grabbing the chair and he gives it to cm punk and as he's standing up like
16:33we all kind of saw where this was going right i i said out loud in my living room um oh he's gonna
16:40grab the chair away the way he was standing up and then he goes and punches him in the dick
16:44and down he goes and roman gets a couple of chair shots in and then it's so smart the the setup there
16:50that roman just can't resist right the seth's back is there this is the chair shot that has now broken
16:55his heart twice in the last decade and it is paul hayman his wise man pointing it to him what
17:00there's nothing in roman's mind other than i am going to whoop that ass with this chair and he even
17:08pushes hayman to behind him to give him the clearer shot to boom and you just hear the no mercy ping go
17:15off um as paul hayman does the damn thing and immediately seth's mood changes he takes the chair
17:23and just wham and he ends up getting the win and it's kind of what we talked about with um like
17:30again not unique to this but like paul hayman with seth rollins now i think that seth has done some
17:36very good work in this and now to have paul hayman on this side i do really think that the sky's the
17:41limit and i i said before i thought that this would be a really good way of introducing some new young
17:48talent in i know they tried that before with seth and what was it theory and
17:53buddy matthews for sure did he have someone else i think i'm putting theory into a different one
17:59that i'm supposed to be either way we've seen seth as kind of the messiah before but i do think like
18:04having seth and uh jeff cobb i think would be great in this particular faction as a paul hayman guy
18:11and just as the muscle behind seth rollins i think that would be a fantastic fit for him seeing a
18:17couple people suggesting uh drew mcintyre and having it be not a two-man power trip but like
18:23a sean diesel sort of a dynamic i think that would be a lot of fun as well so there's a lot of different
18:27ways you can go with this i think it could be great i do see depending on if they keep them on
18:32the same shows or whatever but this is this would be a very good heel challenge for jay uso as the
18:38world heavyweight champion and when you think about it the motivation is there with seth like i was so
18:42focused on roman the whole time your ass helped him out too you know so that there's a lot of
18:46different ways i think you can go with this one but i i thought it was great i i feel like that that
18:51was a very very good match um uh like just some of the spots in there like the the spear into the
18:58the pedigree was fantastic uh that the entrances and everything you just you felt a certain way
19:05when hayman shows him his watch shows punk his watch and like hey it's clobbering time um and gives
19:10him the kiss on the head it's like man that was cool that that part was really cool so overall that
19:15match you end on like it's not the high that you're thinking you're going to because the bad
19:19guy wins but you ended on like a very impactful note and now we're getting ready for what should
19:24be a very fun night too
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