The more things change, the more things stay the same. This was ever apparent at Wrestlemania 32, The Showcase of the Immortals became the showcase of the 90's, as 17 wrestlers that were active during The Attitude Era appeared on the show.
The WWE wasn't completely to blame for having to rely on retired and part-time talent, there was a wave of injuries that plagued their roster heading into the Granddaddy of them all.
The biggest names on the dl were John Cena, Randy Orton, and Seth Rollins, who was WWE World Champion when he got put on the shelf. This put WWE into panic mode and the fans weren't,and still aren't sold on Roman Reigns. In his place as champion, the WWE went with the obvious choice for World Champion, Triple H.
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| This kid is going places |
Today, I'll be jumping in the WABAC Machine, going back eight years to 2008, the WWE World Champion at the time was Randy Orton, with John Cena nipping at his heels and Triple H muscling his way into the title feud.
RAW-March 17th, 2008
Coming from my hometown of Lafayette, LA. The main event of the night was John Cena and Randy Orton tagging together against the rest of the Raw roster. This match was devised by Triple H, with the added stipulation of if either man walkout on the other, then that man will be booted from the main of Wrestlemania 24.
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| An IWC nightmare |
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| Send out the jobbers |
Being pitted against more than ten men is quite a handicap, oh what am I saying, this is Orton and Cena, their rockets were strapped snugly on their asses.
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| This is the most personality he's ever shown |
That yellow-toothed, foot fetishist, baby killing Snitsky starts things off and gets the heat on Cena, but it's all for not, as Santino tags himself in.
The Canadian-Italian misses a salute drop and gets rolled up for the 1-2-3, but Trevor Murdoch gets the heat back for the midcarders with clubbering an a clobbering on Cena.
Cena figures he's sold enough and gets Murdoch in the STF(U), his tag partner, Lance Cade, tries to make the save, but gets stopped by Orton.
Cade eats an RKO and follows his partner by being eliminated. Umaga takes out CENTON with a double clothesline right before the commercial break. The Samoan Bulldog still had some monster left in his booking, but it was more monster of the week.
We're to assume that Umaga tagged in Super Crazy, who was eliminated by Orton during the commercial break. JBL Pearl Harbors Orton and works him over till he tags in Jim Duggan, who gets a bigger crowd reaction that Orton's entrance.
Duggan gets in a few punches and tags in Cody Rhodes, who tags in Snitsky? Sorry, that's actual Val Venis.
Venis tags in Carlito, who tags Hardcore Holly, who tags in one of The Highlanders, who gets eliminated by a flying fameasser.
David Hart Smith, who now wrestles as "British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith Jr., gets five-knuckle shuffled and an AA. I'd like to point out that Smith's real name is Harry Smith and that he was born in Canada, but I guess "The Canadian Bulldog" Harry Smith doesn't have the same ring to it.
Cody Rhodes gets back in the match to take a RKAA, leading to a schmoz breaking out. JBL and Umaga stay on the apron while everyone left in the match beat down on Cena and Orton.
Everyone lines up to take a chairshot from Cena, except for Brian Kendrick, he just sneaks out of the ring and heads to the back.
Orton ducks a chairshot from JBL, hitting Umaga instead, but he's a Samoan, so it has no effect on, if only they'd give this gimmick trait to Roman Reigns and The Usos.
Umaga spikes Orton and then turns his attention to JBL, who boots it to the back with Umaga trailing him. With Orton and Cena both down, it's time to play the game, and that game is steal all the heat.
This feud would continue past Wrestlemania 24, adding JBL to the mix at Backlash, but we know what JBL is.
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