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I really like this show but it's got to be one of the most filler heavy Manias ever. Thankfully, the last time they did 10+ matches at the show.
 
First PPV I ever ordered, and yet I had to go to bed before the Main Event. Damn school days
 
I'd much prefer 10+ matches rather than sit through terrible filler like musical acts or videos of John Cena meeting Make A Wish kids/the troops.
 
I agree, Kahran. They have fewer matches on WM now but they still run over 3 hours. That time is just being filled with terrible bands and the same videos they've been airing on tv for weeks.

There's a lot of good stuff on WM VII.
 
Kahran Ramsus said:
I'd much prefer 10+ matches rather than sit through terrible filler like musical acts or videos of John Cena meeting Make A Wish kids/the troops.
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Both suck! It's not like they have to do one or the other.
 
Having everybody in a WM match might just be a nostalgia thing for some of us. It's why something like 4, and all the low workrate, is still among my favorite Wrestlemanias. I've probably watched 3-7 more times than any others and I think what some would, fairly, call filler is a big reason for it. Stuff like Volkoff/Sheik-Bees, Muraco-Bravo, Bad News-Duggan, and Earthquake-Valentine take me back.
 
This was a great card IMO. The minor matches are far better than bullshit musical filler. I hate that stuff.
 
I think I mentioned it in last year's rewatch thread but best way to condense this card would be to combine the three most meaningless undercard matches (Santana/Mountie, Tornado/Bravo, and Earthquake/Valentine) into a six man tag. Jimmy Hart's goon squad (The Mountie, Earthquake, and Dino Bravo) Vs The Old Dawgs of '91 WWF (Greg Valentine, Tito Santana, and Kerry Von Erich) and have a 6-7 minute match instead of three two minute matches.

Valentine/Earthquake kind of had a storyline though (Greg Valentine turns on Jimmy Hart. Jimmy Hart siques his biggest wrestler on Valentine) even if they payoff (Valentine gets squashed and becomes a JTTS) sucked.
 
A hilarious sequence; Fuji calls Tenryu and Kitao a certain slur for Japanese people and Trebek repeats it like a comedian who is just letting it hang out there so we see how ridiculous it is. I'm p. sure Trebek is half-asian and it is even more ironic to hear Fuji call them that. Wild.
 
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LOD had a sick match, that's how you put a team over. Take two traditional power guys and have them job to the Doomsday Device in under like three minutes.

damn this Virgil angle is racist as fuck while reflecting how a lot of people thought at the time. Virgil doesn't even get an entrance, he has to follow Piper's orders. WWE was super-willing to go outside the boundaries back in the day. Vince probably knew exactly what he was doing, and this is all before the 'attitude' era. Surreal.
 
I'm kind of glad they dropped the Roddy Piper as Virgil's mentor aspect of the Virgil-DiBiase angle. I can see why they did it but it was just kind of awkward.

Especially since Piper was one of the most racist dirtbag heels of all time.
 
They didn't completely drop it. Piper still celebrates with Virgil at Summerslam when he wins the belt and they team at Survivor Series.
 
Rock solid PPV and probably the first great top-to-bottom 'Mania. I love the match, but I wonder how well Warrior/Savage has aged, especially for younger fans who are just seeing it. Savage wasn't a real beast in terms of move set or insane high spots, but his in-ring stories and selling are amazing. Listening to one of the Place to Be Podcasts (a recent retrospective, I think), I was fairly shocked that one of the contributors didn't care for the match at all. That's fucking nuts to me.
 
Only matches on this show I don't like are Kerry Von Erich/Dino Bravo and Demolition/Tenryu and Kitao. Everything else is either good, serves a purpose, or is too short to really register one way or the other.
 
I think Warrior/Savage still holds up today. Post-match angle included.
 
I've never seen so many women with bad hair and ugly sweaters cry so hard over something not related to their bad hair and ugly sweaters.
 
I know the Blindfold Match is often critically panned but I still find it's an interesting de-construction of the art of working a match. Rick Martel giving Jake an Irish Whip to set up a backdrop, but Jake running past him because he's blind and doesn't know which way to run back to him is brilliant meta comedy. Martel dropping an elbow when Jake has long since left the mat is also good comedy.
 
The hate against that match was moronic, but the negative star cries come from a certain set of people (Useless Moron Scott Keith devotees), so...

Other than the big mistake of exposing that both men could see through the blindfolds at the beginning, it's a fun watch.
 
I've seen a negative stars worthy blindfold match. This isn't it.
 
The Prince of Darkness Blindfold match between James Storm and Chris Harris from TNA where the blindfolds kept coming off was negative stars worthy.
 
I'm shocked at how many people hate the main event. It's one of my favorite Hulkamania matches ever. Me as a kid had never seen Hogan bleed like that and I was convinced he was losing.
 
Venkman said:
Was that also held in a cage?
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It was. The Storm/Harris feud had the distinction of having probably the worst match of that year one month only to put out one of the best matches of the year the very next month.
 
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