The night opens with the World Heavyweight title on the line between Seth Rollins facing Drew McIntyre.
For the first 2 matches, CM Punk is at ringside with the Commentary team.
*Match 1 — Seth Rollins Defending the World Heavyweight Title. Everyone knew that Drew had turned into a right royal heel and would stop at night to win the title. Seth is coming in injured, thanks to the tag match with Cody from night 1. Drew wins the title, once Seth is outside the ring, Seth turns to look at Drew and tell him that he deserves it. Drew is more concerned about rubbing CM’s nose in it that he might be champion now if Drew had not taken him out. (5 minutes 45 seconds Drew held the belt) Punk dropped Drew on the announcer’s Table. Out of nowhere, Damien Priest comes to the ring to cash in his contract. With an assist from Punk, Damien is the new World Heavyweight champion
*MATCH 2 — 6-man Philadelphia Street Fight between Final Testament facing Street Profits/Bobby Lashley. Bubba Ray is the guest ref but in the end, Bubba pulled out the glasses he used to wear when he wrestled. It was pretty good, bringing a bit of humour. It was great to finally see Bobby/Street Profits finally get the upper hand with a win.
*MATCH 3 — L.A. Knight facing A.J Styles. This will get malicious, to say the least, there is no love loss between the two. Styles has felt all along that Knight stole his place in line so to speak when it came to who would challenge for major titles. You could see that the Ref gave them both leeway but pulled it back in when needed. Thanks to the patterned B.F.T by Knight, L.A. takes the win. (I was glad on this one, I don’t think it will end the fued but good to see Knight finally get one up on him.)
*MATCH 4 — Kevin Owens/Randy Orton/Logan Paul — Sami met Kevin just as he was ready to walk into gorilla, telling him to go get it. We all know that a pair of brass knuckles would play a part. (I can’t stand Paul, and I also have no clue why they have the belt on him, In my opinion, Logan has just had everything handed to him, I will admit that he has adjusted well but the attitude of being better than everyone else (heel) is getting old. The brass knuckles thing is getting old, just once I would love to see him win a match with no help) Logan Paul keeps the belt a little longer.
*MATCH 5 — The Women’s Smackdown title on the line has Bayley facing Iyo Skye. This will be a hell of a fight but it’s time for some packback after everything that Damage Control has done to her. It was back and forth for the whole match, Iyo got too full of herself at times, trying to rub things in Bayley’s face that she would always be better than her. Things that Bayley tried, Iyo had scouted, having an answer for things. Bayley in the end would stand tall, taking the belt from Iyo.
*MATCH 6 — MAIN EVENT — Cody Rhodes facing Roman Reigns for the Undisputed World Title. It was with bloodline rules, which means, what Roman can do, so can Cody. Roman walked to the ring with Paul Heyman carrying the Undisputed Title. (If you have not seen Paul Heyman’s Hall of Fame Induction speech, go look it up. In my book, it was one of the best next to the Undertaker back in 2022. )
Charles Robinson is the Ref for the match, Charles was known as “Little Nature” when he worked with Rick Flair
Pinfall or submission must happen inside the ring.
At one point Cody pulled a table out, and Roman put it back away, telling Cody that we were going to do this the right way.
Roman had the balls to try a Cody Crossrhodes to pin Cody but it was a screaming failure. (What an insult to Cody)
The first to show up to help Roman was Jimmy Uso, Jey won’t be far behind. Here comes Jay, who spears Jimmy off the Ramp into tables.
Samantha, you better move because here comes Cody with a wicked spear on Roman.
Cody had Roman after two Crossroads, just to do the third one, out of nowhere, here is Solo Sokia with a spike. Roman dragged Roman over Cody but Cody kicked out. Again
Solo showing his frustration when out of nowhere, John Cena’s music starts. (Hubby spotted John’s bald spot on the back of his head)If you remember Solo took out John a year ago at Wrestlemania 39. John put Solo through the Spanish announcement table. Just as John was turning around, the Rock’s music started. John facing off against the Rock is giving Cody/Roman a chance to rest. Just as Rock is screaming at Cody to get up, you hear “The Shield” music. Roman takes Seth out, who is dressed in full Shield gear. The boys used to enter from the crowd, that is where the Rock was looking but Seth came in from behind.
Rock is screaming at Cody to get up but then you hear a gong, it’s the Undertaker, and Rock looks like he has seen a ghost. As fast as he was there he was gone, Rock has rolled outside the ring (I saw post footage to see what happened).
3 Cody crossroads in a row with Charles Robinson counting 1,2,3 for the win. You could see the grin on Charles’s face as he handed Cody the belt for the first time.
Joining Cody/Brandy in the ring to start celebrating were L.A. Knight, Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, John Cena, and Jey Uso. Randy Orton also comes out to celebrate. CM Punk has joined the celebration. Kevin Owens went to get Cody’s Mom and other family members.
Cody asks for Bruce Prichard and Triple H to come out, joining him in the ring.
It was very important to Cody for Michael Cole to call this match. He went over to Cole at ringside, and gave him a huge hug, Not sure what they said to each other but you could hear Cody say that “We went all the way together”. Cole told him that he loved him, and Cody returned the sentiment, shaking hands with Cory, “Thanks Cody” and Pat congratulated him.
As Kevin is helping Seth off to the Medical, they stop at the ring, and Cody leads out through the ropes to accept Seth’s handshake. Cody thanks him for all he did.
This was the best Wrestlemania in my view for a heap of reasons. It’s going to be interesting to see how things start building for the next PLE which is in Lyon, France at Backlash
Thanks for everything
Cricket
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