WWE WrestleMania XXV (2009)

Widely recognized as one of the most breathtaking matches of all time, the Legend who is 16-0 at WrestleMania takes on the Icon known as Mr. WrestleMania. Undertaker and Shawn Michaels deliver an epic clash for the ages. WM 25 is what i call a classic old Wrestlemania with HBK going against Undertaker, Jeff Hardy v.s Tom Hardy and the match with John Cena was very cool too but HBK v.s The Deadman was easily my favorite both legends going tall to tall for the first time ever in a Wrestlemania and i loved Shawn Michael's entrance as he represented Heaven and Undertaker Hell also their promo was directed very good and it sold the match for me also Triple H vs Randy Orton was pretty cool too.

What can I say about 2009's stinker that hasn't been said before? The 25th Anniversary of Wrestlemania was an insult to the wrestling world, and will go down with the likes of Mania IX as one of the all-time worst Manias. It was abysmal, truly. Of course, aside from the now famous Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels match up.The show started off with the usual matches, such as the Intercontinental Championship and the Money in the Bank Ladder Match. The IC title match was a joke in itself, less than 30 seconds long. The WWE has attempted to mimic last year's Hardcore Championship bout between Kane and Chavo, which was just as short, if not shorter. However, when Kane beat Chavo, it felt much more fresh and unexpected and worked much better then than it did here.The Ladder Match, interesting as usual, always seems to be their get-out-of-jail-free card from Mania 21 on, using it as a way to make each Mania at least somewhat entertaining. But, Mr. McMahon, why is it that the most hyped-up and talked about Wrestlemanias are always the biggest failures in this business. Why is it that we have to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Wrestlemania with a triple threat match between Edge, Big Show, and John Cena (one of the worst main events in history)? Answer me that. How hard is it, exactly, to come up with a decent Wrestlemania. I mean, at least put some effort into an event as big as this.Anyway, let's move on to the rest of the show, starting with the much hyped Chris Jericho vs. WWE Legends match. This match, along with the rest of the matches, was a joke in itself. The match quickly boiled down to generic garbage that was not only boring, but depressing to watch - to realize that the WWE has resorted, simply, to the match cards of their events to make sales. This was an obvious failure of a match and of an event, one Vince must've seen coming.Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels. This one was for the ages, and will go down as, possibly, the greatest match of all-time for the Undertaker, and maybe even for the Show Stopper as well. It was quite the battle, and really helped me through the night, but you've heard enough about this glorious fight, so let's move on.The Hardy vs. Hardy Extreme Rules match was actually quite entertaining, but not even high-flying violence could save this show. They both put on one hell of a show, one which I really enjoyed, but quickly faded away into the rest of the event, which include the two absolutely horrible main events.XXV's main events included the triple threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship, as I stated before, and a one-on-one bout between Randy Orton and Triple H which actually wasn't that bad, but could've been saved for Backlash or even Summerslam, not the 25th Anniversary of Wrestlemania. The two obvious faces came out victorious (Triple H and Cena), something which was not the case at the previous year's show. They need to remember that, every once in a while, people don't like to see Cena walk away with every title and a hand-job. But, rather, see Cena lose for once, and what better place than the grandest stage of them all? Now the rest of the matches, or as I like to call them, "card fillers," were the usual garbage you'd expect. A tag team title match that nobody was excited about, and a Diva Battle Royale, which is always a bad sign seeing as how the Divas in today's WWE just can't pull off a good performance.In conclusion, other than the Undertaker vs. Michaels match, nothing really stuck as special or even useful to the WWE or the event itself, and frankly I can't remember the event that match, and even had to look back at the Wrestlemania History section on WWE.com to see the matches in order to spark some sort of memory.I do not recommend viewing this. You'll get more pleasure out of watching the highlights on YouTube.

Overall Wrestlemania 25 fulfilled my expectations, I didn't expect to see the most historical event in wrestling history or anything, I was just expecting a fairly good, entertaining Wrestlemania, which it was.4,25/5 Money in the bank ladder match: The money in the bank ladder match featured the following superstars; CM Punk, Kofi Kingston, MVP, Shelton Benjamin, Finlay, Kane and Mark Henry. I think the match was a really good Wrestlemania opener match,it included very good high risk moves (especially Shelton's suicide dive), almost no botched moves (except Shelton's sunset flip power bomb attempt to MVP from the ladder)and all the superstars in it made a really good performance. Everything until the ending in the match was spectacular I really enjoyed watching it, but I think CM Punk shouldn't have won for the second time in a row. I was hoping to see Kane or Christian win and get a championship opportunity, but overall a very good match.1/5 25-Diva Battle Royal: I thought this match was pretty much pointless and a waste of time, when I Watched it I didn't even know what was happening in the beginning, a ring full of divas just hitting on each others. There wasn't any high risk moves at all and the ending was literally just stupid. I guess it was supposed to be very funny that "Santina Marella" became the Miss Wrestlemania, but I didn't find it very funny. I think that a "proper" diva should have won.3,75/5 Chris Jericho vs The legends (Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper and Jimmy Snuka): I thought this was a fairly decent match, Ricky Steamboat's performance was AMAZING for someone his age. I think that they should have gotten some other Legend to replace Jimmy Snuka, because as you probably saw his performance wasn't very good and was sloppy (many botched moves and he was only slapping Jericho's chest). Roddy Piper was decent in the match, but was nothing compared to Ricky Steamboat's performance. The thing that made this match decent was the fight with Jericho and Steamboat after the other two legends had been eliminated. Steamboat literally stole the show in this match and saved the match from being terrible.4/5 Matt Hardy vs Jeff Hardy: Overall in my opinion this match was good; because it had a fair amount of hardcore in it and since Jeff and Matt are both "hardcore experts" the quality of the hardcore in the match was really good. Both Matt and Jeff's performances were really good and I didn't see any badly botched moves. Many people were hoping that Jeff Hardy would win and kick Matt's ass and were disappointed that Jeff Hardy lost. I think that the chair Twist of Fate was literally amazing, well done and a good way to end the match.2/5 Intercontinental Championship: JBL vs Rey Mysterio: The entrance and the speech of JBL before the match was literally ridiculous, when he said he will give us the most dominant victory in Wrestlemania history. Rey Mysterio's entrance was nice, respecting Heath Ledger (The Joker). The match itself was a bit stupid and humiliating for JBL that he lost in 21 seconds at Wrestlemania and at HIS LAST MATCH. It's a bit stupid that a guy who's weighs 100 pounds less, is almost 1 foot shorter and is always considered as the ultimate underdog wins a much bigger guy in 21 seconds at Wrestlemania. The 619 itself wasn't very spectacular, it was nearly botched. I was hoping to see at least a 10 minute match and I think that the idea of a 21 second match is boring, because on Wrestlemania 24 there was a 7 seconds ECW championship match.10/5 The Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels: I had very high expectations for this match, two legends, probably the best superstars in WWE history. After I had watched this match I was literally shocked, IT WAS AMAZING. The performances of Shawn and Undertaker were superb. As I was watching the match at a moment. I actually thought that Shawn Michaels could maybe break the streak, but he didn't. Everybody should respect these two men who gave us one of the best fight of all time! After I had seen Kurt Angle vs Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania 22, I thought that a non-hardcore match can't get any better than this, but after seeing this I was definitely wrong. Both of these amazing athletes showed amazing resiliency taking many finishers. Shawn and Taker proved everybody that said they would retire at WM 26 wrong and instead they gave them the fight of their lives. The crowd reaction was amazing, because both superstars had about the same amount of fans. 10 years from now when people will remember Wrestlemania 25, they will remember this match. You rarely see such performing and matches these days. This match definitely should have been the main event. 4/5 World Heavyweight Championship: John Cena vs Edge vs Big Show: It was a good match, but the fact that Big show was in it, made the fans sure that it would be either Cena or Edge who will win. Like Big Show winning the title at the 25th anniversary of Wrestlemania, that would never happen. I think the match could have been longer. Cena showed some real POWER in the end lifting Big Show and Edge. Overall it was a good entertaining match, but could have been better.3/5 WWE Championship: Triple H vs Randy Orton: A disappointment, I was hoping for a much better main event for WM25. Well the match wasn't very bad, there was a lot of good stuff in it too, but it just didn't feel like a good main event and people are getting tired of Triple H and Randy Orton always fighting in the main event. Many people say the ending was bad, well it wasn't a good WM25 last match ending.WM25 overall 8/10

This year the grandest stage of them all (Wrestlemania) went to Houston, Texas where the most classic Wrestlemania in history took place. The opening match was the Money In The Bank Ladder Match which featured Mark Henry,Kane,Christian,CM Punk,Finlay,Shelton Benjamin and MVP, definitely one of the highlights of the night when CM Punk stepped out the winner for the 2nd time. The next match featuring Intercontinental Champion JBL and the No.1 Contender Rey Mysterio,before Mysterio could even warm up JBL leveled Mysterio with a giant boot. Everyone thought it was over, but it wasn't Mysterio got up hit the 619 and splashed JBL to pick up the 21 second win and his first Intercontinental title win. After the shocking victory JBL grabbed a mic. and said the shocking and rare words.......'I QUIT!!!!'.The next contest was an intense contest between former WWE champion Jeff Hardy and his brother and former ECW Champion Matt Hardy which started 3 months earlier at the Royal Rumble. The contest wasted little time in brutal violence as both men quickly took it to the EXTREME....with tables, ladders, chairs (OH MY) both brother punished each other until Matt Hardy hit a twist of fate with Jeff tangled in a steel chair to pick up the win. Next was the 3-on-1 handicap match between Y2J(Chris Jericho) and Jimmy Snuka, Roddy Piper and Ricky Steamboat, the match started with the legends ripping Y2J apart but Piper and Snuka were quickly eliminated for the match then it was Steamboats time to shine. As he hit a huge combination of moves involving a cross body, DDT, missile dropkick and several suplexes. Minutes later Y2J hit a codebreaker and picked up the win.The next contest was 'The Heartbreak Kid' Shawn Michaels looking to end the 16-0 streak of THE UNDERTAKER who at that time had never been able to beat Shawn Michaels one-on-one. Both men entered the ring and pushed each other to the limit Taker' powered out of several submissions and hit Michaels with several blows all over the body Michaels did whatever he could to avoid Taker' but nothing worked. The action intensified as Taker' leaped out of the ring onto his neck giving Michaels some momentum Taker' hit a last ride and a tombstone but Michaels shockingly kicked out,Taker' then caught Michaels in mid - air and hit a 2nd Tombstone for the win.The World title match a triple threat match featuring Edge, John Cena and THE BIG SHOW! All 3 men immediately took each other to the limit with everything in there arsenal but at the end Cena FU'ed both men at once to pick up a huge win and his 2nd World Heavyweight Title. The next and final contest featured a match 5 years in the making with 2 former friends and partners WWE Champion Triple H and the No.1 Contender Randy Orton in a completely personal rivalry. The match started unusually with Orton hitting the RKO and Triple H hitting the Pedigree, Triple H and Orton quickly took each other to the limit. Minutes later Triple H hit Orton with a punt and then a quick Pedigree to win and retain his WWE Championship.