Sunday, April 3, 2022

WrestleMania 38 | Night One Review-ish

WrestleMania Night One is in the books, the anticipation was in the air, especially with around 70,000 fans in attendance, there was no kick off show match, the Premium Live Event began with the SmackDown Tag Team Championship Match, where the Usos successfully defended their titles against Shinsuke Nakamura and Rick Boogs, who suffered an unfortunate injury as he attempted to pick up Jimmy and Jey, here's to a speedy recovery for Boogs.

Drew McIntyre vs. Happy Corbin was next, the key moments of the match was McIntyre kicking out of the end of days, the first person to kick out of the move, he went on to pick up the win after hitting the Claymore to Corbin.

Miz and Logan Paul defeated Rey & Dominik Mysterio, the tag match was better than people thought it was going to be, credit to Logan for putting on a excellent performance, Dominik also, it will be interesting to see what happens next with Logan and Miz, who hit the Skull Crushing Finale on the celebrity while they were celebrating their victory. an awesome moment, excuse the pun.

Stephanie McMahon thanked the crowd in attendance, and introduced Gable Steveson, who will be making his debut on RAW.

Becky Lynch made her grand entrance on stage via a car, Bianca via a marching band, who played her theme music, the champion and challenger attempted to hit their finish moves to try and pick up a quick win, Becky had a close near fall, the crowd were really into this one, in the closing stages, Bianca escaped Becky's version of the Rock Bottom, leading to her hitting the KOD for the 1,2,3 to become the NEW RAW Women's Champion. Congratulations to the EST.

This where business really picked up, it was now time to see who Seth Rollins opponent was, while he was in the ring, we saw fireworks, the lights went out, we also heard the words: Wrestling has more than one Royal Family, which was met with a fantastic reaction, his entrance was amazing, there was a tease of the Pedigree, Cody hit the Cody Cutter on Seth, a tremendous move, eventually Seth hit the Pedigree on Cody leading to a very close near fall, the American Nightmare hit multiple CrossRhodes for the win.

The Hall of Fame class of 2022 were introduced on stage, the total attendance of Night One was 77,899.

It was time for the second women's championship match of the night, Charlotte vs. Ronda Rousey, going in to the match, the two tried to one up each other, trying to get the advantage, it was an even contest, Rousey hit the Pipers Pit into the Ankle Lock, Flair reversed the move, the referee botched the three count while Flair had her foot on the bottom rope following the Piper's Pit, in the closing stages, Rousey tried to revive the referee and was kicked in the face, leading to a loss as Charlotte remained SmackDown Women''s Champion.
 
The main event was the Kevin Owens show. KO once again insulted the state of Texas, the glass shattered and Austin's music hit, who walked out with his ring gear on, he saluted the fans, went backstage and re appeared on a ATV. Owens challenged Austin to a No Holds Barred Match, which The Texas Rattlesnake accepted, the Hall of Famer competing in the ring for the first time in nineteen years was a historic occasion, they battled all over the arena, Austin took some bumps, which was great to see, he eventually hit Owens with the Stunner for the win, followed by another one after the match, adding insult to injury on Owen's afterwards also in true Stone Cold fashion, he said it was good to be back in Dallas, Texas and that's the bottom line, cause Stone Cold said so! he went on to continue the celebrations, this was a great way to close out Night One.