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WM XIX

By Scott Keith on March 13, 2014

Hey Scott,

First of all, I'm loving the random rants of various shows from the WWE Network. Thank you for those.

Secondly, am I crazy or is WrestleMania XIX an incredibly underrated and overlooked Pay-Per-View? It's great from beginning-to-end with matches like Angle vs. Lesnar, Rock vs. Austin III, HBK vs. Jericho, Los Guerreros vs. Team Angle vs. Benoit/Rhyno, an entertaining Hogan vs. Vince trainwreck, and even one of the best Women's matches ever — the Trish-Victoria-Jazz triple threat. It's also a pretty damn historic — maybe the last actual Attitude Era PPV, Austin's last match, the botched Shooting Brock Press, and HHH not putting Booker T over after a thinly-veiled racist storyline (maybe that's not historic after all). On top of all of that, the venue in the big baseball stadium in Seattle and the lighting — from the natural daylight to the actual production setup is also one of the most memorable that I can think of. In terms of quality and spectacle, I think only WrestleMania X-7 was better. Am I just overly nostalgic for WrestleMania XIX, or does it get the shaft for some reason? And, if so, why?

Yeah, it definitely gets the shaft, mostly from WWE because it bombed so badly and they kind of like to pretend that it didn't happen. They actually blamed Seattle for the buyrate, believe it or not. But hell yeah, I was watching it again recently and DAMN is there some great stuff up and down. Michaels-Jericho is AWESOME, Rock-Austin is awesome, Angle-Lesnar is a classic…that's three ****+ matches on the same show! It's well worth a watch, for sure.

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