Wrestling – My Favorite Type Of Sport

Every year, most types of sports have a huge event that basically sums up the whole year before. For football (the NFL) it’s called the Super Bowl, for soccer it’s called the FIFA World Cup, for basketball (the NBA) it’s called the NBA Finals, and for wrestling (WWE), my favorite sport, it’s called WWE WrestleMania. WWE stands for World Wrestling Entertainment, formerly known as the WWF (World Wrestling Federation).

Wrestling, or WWE in general, is the hardest thing you can actually do in terms of cutting a promo and remembering the storyline you have been put through. While others may say that the main event match of WrestleMania 31 wasn’t exciting, they completely ignore the fact that it was the match that contained the most action and the most outstanding one on the match-card. Now, for WWE, their event is basically like the “Super Bowl of Sports Entertainment”, as some people may put it. The reason I say this, is that most of the things that they do are similar to the Super Bowl. One similarity may include the timing (a reasonable 4, and a half hour period).

Another similarity may be the way that the WWE events are usually held in ginormous arenas and the way that the NFL events are mainly held in the teams stadiums. I’ve been watching wrestling for as long as I can remember, probably for about 13 plus years now. I love watching wrestling so much that I have watched every event and television program that they’ve aired live from 2005 and on. Not to sound like a super fan but it’s true. I don’t know what it is that makes wrestling so fascinating and interesting to me, I guess it’s because my dad has been a huge fan of the WWE for a very long time and when he got me into watching it for the first time. He could explain to me what it was all about and what was going on throughout the whole show. It is also probably because it lets the both of us have a huge connection or bond with each other when it comes to talking about wrestling.

I went to the Levi’s Stadium for the wrestling event, WWE WrestleMania 31 on March 29th, 2015. I got to the stadium and was instantly bombarded with other people asking me about the matches taking place later at the event. I was able to run and find the way to my seats on the second floor. Once I sat down, I took a look around and was amazed at how big the stadium was and how many people were already ready for the start of the event. I'd have to say though, the whole arena was definitely ecstatic and wild like high school seniors after their finals and were ready for the matches to come. The emotions I felt during the matches, especially the last match, were all over the place like a plane flying around in air. I was feeling a bit of anticipation, but I wasn't quite sure of how the entire event would play out. The entire crowd was by far, the loudest crowd I had ever heard. Most of the lighting and effects used were also astonishing and made the whole show a lot more intriguing. The arena to me looked like you were looking at a huge swarm of fish in the ocean but like 10 times bigger. I didn't expect this event to be as good as I thought it would be. It was very interesting and mostly action-packed.

The Main Event match of WrestleMania 31 was the long-awaited match between Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship Title. I had never been so excited for a WWE title match at WrestleMania before but that completely changed on that night for sure. For the main event, “the reigning, defending, undisputed world heavyweight champion”, Brock Lesnar was set to defend the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against “The Big Dog” Roman Reigns. And during the first minute, Lesnar performed a German suplex and an F-5, but to my surprise, did not try to pin Reigns. Lesnar did have a cut on his face, but went on to dominate in the next couple of minutes with dozens of jabs to the face and billions of suplexes (fisherman, German, overhead belly-to-belly, vertical, snap), in which he yelled, "Suplex City!" He went for a second F-5 near the 8-minute mark, but Reigns still kicked out. Lesnar began to take off his MMA gloves, he then slapped Roman and performed another german suplex and then another F-5, but to Lesnar's disbelief, Roman kicked out of the third F-5 at two. A turning point came around the 12-minute mark while both men were outside the ring; Roman decided to throw Brock across the floor to make sure Brock hit the steel stairs, causing him to gush out a lot of blood like if he was just bitten by a shark. Lesnar got back up and jumped into the ring as if there were snakes about to catch him from behind, allowing Roman to use his signature Superman punch move and his finishing move, the spear. Reigns went in for the cover but Brock used the few ounces of power he had left to kick out of the pin attempt just before the 3 second count. While both men were down, another wrestler by the name of Seth Rollins, came sprinting down across the aisle to the ring like the flash with his super speed. He was able to let the referee know that he was going to cash in his Money in the Bank contract (a briefcase containing a contract that allows for the wrestler to compete for a championship title whenever he chooses to), turning the singles match into a triple-threat match. Rollins rolled Reigns out of the ring and proceeded with a Curb Stomp move to Lesnar. Rollins went for another one but Lesnar countered by lifting Rollins in the air getting ready for an F-5, but Reigns hit Lesnar with a spear, which definitely saved Rollins. As Lesnar rolled out of the ring, Rollins hit Reigns with a curb stomp, allowing him to get the pin and win the belt. Post-match, Rollins hurried to the entrance ramp and began to celebrate with the world championship title. Lesnar was outside of the ring down on the ground staring at Rollins with the title that he had been robbed of. Reigns looked as if he was going to start crying in the middle of the ring. He then went backstage and thanked everyone for putting the event together and left the arena.

In the end, I had an amazing time at WWE WrestleMania 31 and I really enjoyed the last match between Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns. I think that the event should have been a little bit longer by adding a couple more matches to the card. Overall, it was the best wrestling event that I have ever been to and I sure hope that I am able to go to another WrestleMania in the near future.