Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News!
I’m Oli Davis, and I’ll be replying to as many comments on this video as I can.
I don’t know about you, but I watched this year’s Wrestlemania while chopping onions
for my spaghetti bolognese dinner.
I love spaghetti.
Unfortunately, this means I mostly missed the part where John Cena proposed to Nikki
Bella and the Undertaker seemingly retiring after the main event because my eyes were
flooded with tears.
Wrestlemania 33 was - and it pains me to say this given the annoying levels of punnage
- a rollercoaster of emotion.
Capped by The Undertaker seemingly retiring from professional wrestling, removing his
gloves, coat and hat, and leaving them in the ring while he made the very long exit
up the ramp.
At one point, even making a rare break of character, leaning over the barricade to kiss
his real-life wife Michelle McCool.
The symbolic retiring act was still in effect over 30 minutes later, with a producer tweeting
Undertaker’s gear remained in the ring long after Wrestlemania had finished.
At one point it seemed as though his kayfabe Brother of Destruction Kane was about to join
him, but really, it was just a part Wrestlemania’s elaborate stage catching fire as Taker made
his exit.
The other major surprise that we all figured out weeks ago was the shock WWE return of
Matt and Jeff Hardy, where they defeated Galanderson, Sheamaro and Enzo & Big Cass to become the
new Raw tag team champions.
That means the Hardys have been tag team champions in North America’s top 3 promotions in just
a month long period - vacating the TNA titles on March 3rd, holding the ROH tag championships
from March 4th to April 1st, and winning the WWE belts on April 2nd.
It also marks The Hardys’ first ever win as a team at Wrestlemania, stats fans.
Matt’s wife Reby Sky tweeted this image of their son King Maxell in celebration.
Because he’s a Hardy, I’m just going to assume he did a Swanton Bomb through a table
shortly after that photo was taken.
Matt and Jeff’s WWE return came after weeks of reports they were heading back to Vince
McMahon.
The surprise was nearly spoiled even more when a fan spotted a black car at the Hardy
Boyz’ tailgate party the morning of Wrestlemania with a sign reading ‘WWE official vehicle’.
Real covert there, guys.
At least Jeff tried to throw people off the scent.
According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, the aptly nicknamed Charismatic Enigma
told hotel staff he was going to sleep for the rest of the day as he was really beat
up from his ROH match.
He later snuck out at the last-minute to get to Wrestlemania.
It’s still unclear whether Matt and Jeff will adopt their Broken gimmick in WWE, though,
as the characters are still locked in an ownership battle with Impact Wrestling’s parent company
Anthem Sports and Entertainment.
The Hardys returned at Wrestlemania with their Team Xtreme theme, signalling they’ll revert
to their old gimmick, but in the pre- and post-match interviews posted to WWE’s YouTube
channel, Matt frequently referenced his Broken character, with every other word being either
obsolete, delete, delightful or wonderful.
The told WWE’s SnapChat account: “The Club’s tag team title reign is now OBSOLETE
because The Hardys have DELETED it, yeeeeaaaas huuuh!”
Matt and Jeff are being advertised for a ‘Hardy Homecoming’ segment on tonight’s post-Mania
episode of Raw, so we’ll hopefully see what direction their characters are taking.
Shelton Benjamin might also be making his WWE return soon, and the latest WrestleSketch
is up, revealing how Goldberg prepared for his Wrestlemania 33 match.
Click the videos to the left and press subscribe.
I’ve been Oli Davis, I’m off to chop some more onions while thinking about The Undertaker,
and that was wrestling.