Heading into last night’s Wrestlemania, WWE fans had pretty low expectations after seeing a card built out to a pretty underwhelming response. And boy were we all wrong. WWE once again proved that sometimes, they know exactly what they are doing and delivered an absolute classic. Let’s take a look at what went down.
Rollins Steals the Show.. and the WWE World Heavyweight Title
The main event of the night was the match that had drawn the most scorn from fans. The WWE Universe strongly believed that Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar couldn’t tell a story or deliver anything better than a mediocre match. And then they were proven to be totally wrong.
Reigns makes his way out through the crowd first too a ton of boos and some legit hostility in the crowd. You could see 2-3 people get thrown to the side by security after trying to get in Reigns face.
Next out is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion and man does Lesnar get some loud cheers from the crowd. It feels like Reigns is the heel and Lesnar is the face in this match. The crowd continues to boo as Lillian Garcia introduces Roman Reigns, but she’s interrupted by Paul Heyman who wants to introduce Brock Lesnar himself, and does so to incredibly loud cheers.
As unexcited as most people were for this match, this really does have a big fight feel. For all of the knocks against how green he is, Reigns definitely has a presence.
And away we go as Reigns tries to attack Lesnar but Lesnar bear-hugs Reigns and then suplexes Reigns who gets right up and walks straight into an F-5! Just like that Reigns is down in the middle of the ring!
Lesnar doesn’t even go for the pin as he realizes he’s been cut by Reigns and instead he wants to destroy the youngster. Reigns struggles to his feet and Lesnar knees him in the ribs in the face and begins to beat Reigns down in the corner and then the Beast tosses Reigns across the ring.
Lesnar goes for another supple but Reigns fights back and delivers blows to Lesnar and then tries to clothesline him but Lesnar just bumps his chest like he was hit with a pillow. Reigns goes for another clothesline and Lesnar ducks it and suplexes him. But for some weird reason Reigns is smiling through the beating as Lesnar yells at him “SUPLEX CITY BITCH!”
Reigns tries to fight and hits a few big right hands, but all it does is make Lesnar mad as he suplexes Reigns for the fifth time but again Reigns is just smiling like a dope about it.
Lesnar just stalks Reigns around the ring and hits the sixth suplex of the match in less than fives minutes.
Lesnar picks Reigns up and tosses him on the ropes before unloading knees to Reigns upper body. Lesnar hits the ropes and knocks Reigns off of the apron with a massive forearm to the jaw. Instead of smiling now Reigns has a glazed look in his eyes like he has no idea where he is.
Lesnar tries to attack Reigns but the kid catches Lesnar with multiple huge knees to the face and kicks to the chest and Lesnar looks shaken!
Nope.
Lesnar grabs Reigns leg and delivers a MASSIVE clothesline off of the apron and out of the ring. And now Lesnar is outside of the ring looking angry. Reigns has landed some hard shots (as evidenced by the bleeding lip and forehead that Lesnar has) but the Champ is absolutely dominating this match.
Lesnar with another suplex and it literally is so hard that Reigns goes flying out of the ring entirely. Reigns is trying to make his way to his feet and back into the ring but Lesnar doesn’t want to wait and he belly-to-belly suplexes Reigns over the top rope as the crowd chants “EIGHT!” for the number of times Lesnar has hit Reigns with a suplex.
Lesnar picks Reigns up and hits a massive F-5 for the 1…2…REIGNS KICKS OUT!
Reigns definitely showing heart, but the crowd isn’t very happy about it. And neither is Lesnar who is now taking the gloves off literally and is going to inflict even more pain on Reigns. Lesnar picks Reigns up and slaps him straight across the face and for some reason Reigns is talking smack as he takes another slap to the face. And another.
Reigns is actually laughing and encouraging Lesnar to keep slapping him and all this does is piss Lesnar off as he picks Reigns up and hits his 9th and then 10th suplex of the match. Lesnar picks Reigns up for another F-5 and somehow Reigns kicks out AGAIN!
That’s three F-5’s and 10 suplexes and somehow Reigns hasn’t been pinned. Lesnar looks shocked and Heyman is screaming that Reigns is disrespecting him by kicking out.
Lesnar throws Reigns out of the ring and he wants to inflict even more pain on the challenger. Lesnar picks Reigns up and tries to throw him into the post but Reigns reverses and busts Lesnar wide open on impact! Lesnar is bleeding a ton and Reigns rolls back into the ring. WOW!
The Champs is wobbling and Heyman is trying to tell him to shake it off but Lesnar is covered in blood and he is totally losing it but somehow rolls in at 9. Lesnar is clearly shaken up and this is the opening Reigns has been waiting for.
Reigns realizes that Lesnar is shaken up and he hits a massive Superman Punch and Lesnar is wobbling. Reigns hits another Superman Punch but Lesnar refuses to drop to the mat!
Reigns goes for a third but Lesnar catches him and goes for a suplex but Reigns headbutts him and hits A THIRD SUPERMAN PUNCH!
REIGNS HITS THE CORNER AND HITS LESNAR WITH A SPEAR BUT LESNAR JUST POPS BACK UP AND EATS ANOTHER SPEAR!
REIGNS GOES FOR THE PIN 1…2….BROCK KICKS OUT!!! WOW!
Reigns now the one in shock as he can’t believe that Lesnar just kicked out of three Superman Punches and two Spears!
Reigns hits the corner again as Lesnar wobbles to his feet and goes for a Superman Punch but Lesnar catches him in mid-air and hits a FOURTH F-5!
SETH ROLLINS MUSIC HITS AND HE’S GOING TO CASH-IN RIGHT NOW!!! HOLY CRAP THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!! A WRESTLEMANIA CASH-IN AND THIS IS NOW A TRIPLE THREAT MATCH!!!
Rollins knocks Reigns out of the ring and Cyrb Stomps Lesnar! He checks to make sure Reigns is still out and goes for another Curb Stomp but Lesnar catches him and goes for an F-5 BUT REIGNS SPEARS LESNAR OUT OF THE RING!
ROLLINS FOLLOWS BY CURB STOMPING REIGNS FOR THE 1-2-3!!
YOU’RE NEW WWE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION… SETH ROLLINS!!!!
UNBELIEVEABLE! WHAT A FINISH! WHAT A MANIA! HOLY CRAP THAT WAS INCREDIBLE!
ROLLINS IS CHAMP!
ROLLINS IS CHAMP!
ROLLLLLLLINS ISSSSSSS CHAMMMMMMMMP!