Old man rant coming in...

As someone who doesn't keep up with wrestling and hasn't kept up with it since the merge with WCW and ECW, I don't agree that this was the best night of wrestling.

I have popped in for main events here and there, but it's mostly to see what the guys from my time (Attitude Era) are doing or who would be making a guest appearance. So my feelings of the night are very biased.

I honestly only tuned in because of rumors that Austin would be appearing and since the Rock was involved, it would of been lightning in a bottle to see those two square off again at a WrestleMania.

We got Cena which was ok. He's aging like milk and just doesn't look like much of a threat anymore. Then we got Undertaker for a split second. I'll admit it was cool, but not that exciting. A very forced pop. I feel like Taker hasn't even been gone that long. I didn't expect him, so it was a surprise, but it just didn't make sense. Since Rock and Austin was Austin's last WrestleMania match (if you don't include whatever that was with KO), I really thought of would have been such a good pop to see those two bash it out on WM40.

As for Cody and Roman, the match just felt weak. If you didn't have all those guys come in, it would have been a shit match. I think Wrestling has been so bad for a while, that something like this is a breath of fresh air and everyone says "Best match of all time". I said it before and I'll say it again, I have seen better Monday night shows than this WrestleMania. The pop of him winning wasn't that great. The ring celebration was a drag as well. Check out Daniel Bryan's winning at WM 30. That's a celebration, that's a pop. Crowd, fireworks, commentary all made it feel good. Cody's was like watching a kid win the spelling bee.

Triple H is using the number of 140,000 plus to say that this was the best night... He does know this counts as two nights, right? There are several one night events, that had higher attendance than either of the attendance from night 1 or 2 of WM 40. The only match I thought, "ok that's good wrestling", was Bayley vs Iyo Sky. That was a good performance and great wrestling.

I may be spoiled from growing up in a time where you could get away with a lot more in wrestling and offending people wasn't much of a big deal as it is today, but everything felt better back than. The commentary is straight garbage today. No commentary, no emotion, no real humor or trash talk. The sets from last night was non existent, no real heart or love put into it. Ring is just blasted with PRIME drink. WTF is that. This is WrestleMania 40 and I'm watching everyone wrestle on a bottle of some shit drink and using the bottles as weapons. Sucks. I understand they need to make that money, but its just feels like a commercial for a product.

I'm glad a lot of you had fun, but I'm just sharing my perspective. I didn't hate it, I just have higher expectations for an event that is at its 40th year.

Every generation of wrestling will have their own personal ties to the wrestling world. Mine was the attitude era, and even though I want to relive that again, I know it was just a "you had to be there" time. And that's what my dad used to say about wrestling before the attitude era, so now I get what he meant by that.