I guess I just don't have a clue how you define greatness in the wrestling world. As far as I'm concerned, Undertaker has been great by any measuring stick.
Agreed. That gimmick only succeeded because the Undertaker was great enough to make it work. That gimmick would have buried anyone else's career. He moved like nobody else his size can, did a lot of big impressive moves, had many all time great matches, he had the presence, the look. It's a shame his last WM match was so bad, and it looks like this year's will be equally bad. Hopefully he has one more match in him next year in his home town against someone good so he can go out on a high.
And Fast Lane sucked huge balls.
The Rollins/Ziggler tag match had a super lame finish, with Big Show laying out Ziggler to job, and Rollins doing nothing. Orton was like the icing on the shit sandwich. What a waste of talent. It was like an encore of everything that was wrong with the Rumble. They haven't learned a thing.
The Goldust/Stardust match was another lame one. The ref missing a proper 3 count is your finish? Lame. Rematch at Wrestlemania.
The tag title match was ok. Good outcome, some good moves. Nothing we haven't seen 100 times this year though.
The HHH/Sting promo stunk. 5 minutes of promos rehashing HHH talking and Sting doing nothing, followed by 15 minutes of HHH talking and Sting doing nothing. And then more pointing at the WM sign. Lame as shit setup for a match everyone knew was happening anyway.
The Divas match was another lame one. Paige loses to a rollup pin with a hand full of tights that wasn't actually a hand full of tights. Rematch at Wrestlemania.
Ambrose vs Barret? Lame! A lame DQ for something that is never enforced or an issue. Rematch at Wrestlemania? Probably.
Obviously the Undertaker wasn't coming out, so that cocktease intro was obviously going to be Wyatt. Lame Wyatt promo setting up the match I was hoping wouldn't happen. That match is going to stink. What a waste of Undertaker's one match a year.
The Rusev match was ok, and the finish was great, except it means Cena is obviously winning the obligatory rematch at Wrestlemania. Lame. Rusev beating Cena should have been the WM match, not Rusev losing his streak to Cena.
Reigns / Bryan was an ok match, but Bryan was so aggressive and dominant for the whole match that it was obvious Reigns was going to win. We knew that going in though. But it actually did nothing to help Reigns look strong for facing Brock.
There was a point near the end where both guys were on the ground being counted, and Bryan had his leg over Reigns, so if they intended to get Bryan into the title match as a triple threat, I guess that would be their backdoor, because often that would be considered a pin.
On paper this looked like an ok PPV, with lots of potentially good matches, but they screwjobbed everything. Lame/10.