#Wrestlemania 22 card full#

It culminated with a fake Kane, apparently from KaneвЂ™s past, beating Kane at Vengeance. It tied in somehow to KaneвЂ™s See No Evil movie, but it was still pretty bad. face feud where KaneвЂ™s voice would play throughout the arena as somehow not only could we hear his thoughts but they were wired around the arena. Kane and Show would lose the tag titles to the Spirit Squad of all people and Kane would begin to go insane. Both teams would be split up within a month though as the heels argued over who cost them the match here, leading to the Backlash opener which the newly face Carlito would win with a Backstabber. This was little more than a glorified squash and thatвЂ™s just fine for an opener. It wasnвЂ™t a classic but it wasnвЂ™t supposed to be. Backstabber to Kane but Carlito walks into a chokeslam. Masters manages to get the Masterlock on Kane but Show kicks him in the face to break it.

Kane comes in and a huge backdrop takes down Carlito.Д¬arlito gets a boot up and that more or less ends his offense. Off to Masters now but like idiots they try a double suplex and get launched for their troubles. Somehow the challengers got the buckle off and Carlito dropkicks ShowвЂ™s knee to send ShowвЂ™s head into the buckle. Kane throws out a clothesline to both but lands between them resulting in a massive THUD on the floor but is up first. Show launches Carlito onto Masters on the floor. The Puerto Rican tries a wristlock and is promptly lifted up into the air and crotched with ease. Show slams him and steps on the chest of Masters who tags out to Carlito. Big chop in the corner makes people say WOO even though itвЂ™s a different kind of chop than Flair threw. ThatвЂ™s kind of pathetic when you think about it. This is the first time in seven years that the titles have been defended at Mania in a traditional tag match. How in the world is Kane the lightweight on a team? Kane and Show come out together and weigh over 800lbs. Carlito and Masters were two young guys that werenвЂ™t quite thrown together to face them here. This was around the time that the two giants were just crushing everyone in their paths with reckless abandon. This is one of the weaker Manias as far as cards go if you didnвЂ™t get that. Wrestlemania is supposed to have a freaking ROCK song with it, not a bad pop song.ДЄ video runs us through the main matches and I have to think of the stupid Rey main event tour. The theme song here is Big Time which is a bad pop song. I donвЂ™t remember much of this buildup as it was three years ago but the packages help a lot. The recap videos are something that WWE has always done very well. Since I remember it fairly well, IвЂ™ll be able to throw in some post show stuff leading up to Backlash.ДЄfter America the Beautiful itвЂ™s the standard history package to start with I Dare You by Shinedown playing which is a very good song here.

The card looks somewhere between good and better than good so letвЂ™s get to it.ДЄn added factor to this show is that I went to the follow up Raw exclusive PPV, Backlash, the next month. Jeff Hardy was about four months away from his comeback. He was drafted to ECW a few months later and after that did little to anything of note until his release and arrival in TNA. This is also Kurt AngleвЂ™s more or less swan song in WWE as far as major angles go. The wrestling is good but at the same time nothing jumps off the page at you. This show is much like 19: itвЂ™s solid, but easily forgettable for some reason.

#Wrestlemania 22 card full#

Cena is the dominant world champion, Orton was his evil self, TakerвЂ™s Streak is at full power and Shawn is his Christian self. WeвЂ™re now fully into what I guess you would call the modern era of both the company and Mania. Location: Allstate Arena, Chicago, IllinoisД¬ommentators: Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, Tazz