There's no way in hell he should be kicking out of the last ride. Ever.
I definitely don't agree with that. I mean, I understand the sentiment of your point, but Shane's entire in-ring career has centered around getting his ass kicked and refusing to quit. This is the same Shane McMahon that kept fighting after Kurt Angle had to take a second shot at suplexing him through a fucking window. If he had stayed down after the first big move Taker had hit him with, I would have been sorely disappointed.
That being said, I don't disagree with your larger point. The booking of the match definitely didn't make much sense to me.
Shane McMahon is not a wrestler, he's just a regular man coming in against THE UNDERTAKER. There's a difference between refusing to quit, and being physically unable to continue. It made the Undertaker look weak rather than making Shane look strong. Even though the Last Ride isn't his current finisher, it is still a powerful move that real wrestlers rarely got up from, so Shane definitely shouldn't have kicked out. It wasn't believable.
The whole match was stupidly booked. Obviously Undertaker wasn't losing. Undertaker's true last WM match would main event. There wasn't ever any pretense of Shane winning, because otherwise the Authority would have actually given a shit and had someone at ringside, anyone, doing anything to protect their spot in the company. No other McMahons involved at all. So in a one-on-one match of Undertaker vs Shane, it should be no contest, at all. That was the whole point of choosing the Undertaker, since he had no real part in the storyline, aside from later tacking on the retirement stipulation. It was the toughest guy in the company with over 20 WM wins (including 3 against HHH) against a regular middle aged desk dude. The reason he always had to resort to the huge spots was to overcome his obvious deficiencies in fighting real wrestlers, but his high spot had none of that impact, because they made him look competitive beforehand. It was just a spot in a match with no believable stakes. He didn't even need to resort to that many weapons to wear down the Undertaker. It was impossible for me to get invested in that match because there was no suspension of disbelief for the entire situation. It was also hard to buy how serious and brutal the match would be when he brought out his kids in his entrance and sat them at ringside. Here kids, watch me get killed!
Most of the event was booked terribly.
Zack Ryder winning the IC belt. What is a Zack Ryder anyway? They could have finally given Ziggler a deserved WM moment (they're just trolling us at this point), or actually given Zayn some impact on the main roster (I didn't even realize he was on the main roster now?) and have him feud with Owens for the belt. And it was a very run of the mill ladder match to boot. Same old stuff, like a watered down version of last year's identical match.
AJ Styles losing. I don't get that. Otherwise, it was a pretty good match.
The League of Nations beating New Day was pointless. As much as I love Austin/Foley/Michaels, that whole spot was pointless too. Pure nostalgia to boost the show. Still nice to see those guys though.
The Ambrose/Lesnar match was completely underwhelming. They had a few chairs in the ring, then cockteased with a weapon you knew they'd never use in 2016, a very bland match that could have gotten more time. I wanted Lesnar to win, but they could have continued to elevate Ambrose here with this match, but made it a whatever loss. And they could have utilized Brock Lesnar so much better. This should have been a big match, and it didn't deliver.
The women's match. I couldn't stop grinning after that. Well done to all of them for what they've achieved here. The one saving grace of WM32.
I always like battle royals, but I found it weird. Tatanka appearing with zero fanfare, random DDP appearance was fun, Shaq, hyping all of the big guys even worse than usual, some guy I've never heard of winning.
Then the Rock comes out to waste a huge amount of time for no reason (for the second year in a row) that could have been used to give someone else a match. The Rock's appearances do not help the company at all in the long term, only in the immediate short term. The Wyatts have been jobbers for a while, and having the Rock bury them and beat Rowan in record time does not help them. If insurance won't let you wrestle, then don't wrestle. Don't give us this garbage instead. I'm glad Cena is back, but he was also pointlessly tacked in.
That title match was awful. The crowd was on HHH's side, and 100% against Reigns. If Reigns doesn't turn on Raw tomorrow, I just don't know what they're thinking. Stephanie McMahon screaming her head off at ringside in her NASA designed dominatrix gear did not help either.
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