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WWE WrestleMania 35 Preview/Predictions
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By Nicholas Jason Lopez
NXT TakeOver: New York (or TakeOver: Brooklyn V?) came, conquered and impressed everyone in all its glory.
300-pound Heavyweight Hanson performed a handspring back elbow and a top rope senton to the floor, Velveteen Dream was the GODDAMN STATUE OF LIBERTY and the main event between Johnny Gargano and Adam Cole delivered more wows than a summer blockbuster.
To be frank – WrestleMania will pale in comparison to its NXT counterpart and that’s to put it nicely, despite the fact that Mania will run more than twice the amount of time and contain more than three times as many matches.
Below are our predictions to shape Mania into a halfway decent show. If you’ve followed the Raw side (without falling asleep), the build has been abysmal while SmackDown has held themselves together better thanks to Kofi Kingston’s journey, but there are still some flaws here and there.
Let’s get to it.
WWE NXT Takeover: New York Preview/Predictions
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By Nicholas Jason Lopez
It has become yearly tradition that NXT trumps the main roster and this time around on professional wrestling’s biggest weekend, it’s set to happen again.
Two nights before WrestleMania graces New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, NXT “takes over” Brooklyn’s Barclays Center (yet again) and if history’s doomed to repeat itself (again), we’re in for a treat.
Compared to WrestleMania’s overbooked 15-match extravaganza, TakeOver’s refined to five simple bouts.
We’ll give our preview and predictions below.
Notes In Observance – ROH Wrestling 9/2/15: Competition With A Lethal Overdose
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By Nicholas Jason Lopez
“Notes In Observance” features random thoughts and analysis on recent shows. Quick results can be found at the bottom of the post.
(Aired 9/2/15)
Competition With A Lethal Overdose
– The Adam Page-Jay Briscoe match continued to sell the ongoing feud between Whitmer and King Corino while also readdressing Page’s recent challenge to Briscoe. Loved Page’s intensity with the hard slap during the moment of Code of Honor attempts. The match never developed into anything contest-wise with the blatant chair DQ, but once we saw it was only a matter of seconds before Mark Briscoe came out with an array of chairs himself, it became obvious they were building to a Briscoes-Decade match and thus, was a good way to get there.
Notes In Observance – ROH Wrestling 7/22/15: 200th Episode Extravaganza
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By Nicholas Jason Lopez
“Notes In Observance” features random thoughts and analysis on recent television shows. Quick results can be found at the bottom of the post.
(Aired 7/22/15)
200th Episode Extravaganza
– With it being the 200th TV episode and go-home show for the Death Before Dishonor iPPV, it made sense for there to be a bold dash of nostalgia and hype, with a fair nod to the past, as matches were shown on TV of past events like The Addiction beating reDRagon for the Tag Team Championships on 4/25/15, Extreme Cage Warfare on 7/26/13, Donovan Dijak-Will Ferrera in the Finals of the Top Prospects Tournament (3/7/15), Tag Wars 2014, Hanson-AJ Styles (11/22/14) and Lance Storm-Mike Bennett (8/4/12).
