Road to Wrestlemania...20 years in the making!

If this was 1987 we would be on the verge of Wrestlmania III, A spectacle like no other at this time. Oddly enough by today's standers is wasn't quite the show that it is today, staring out with a tag team match where no music, no ring entrance, just the Can Am connection, vs Ace and Muraco. The Silverdome packed beond belief, Vince even having to bring in projection screens so the cheap seats could see what was going on, heck if it wasn't for overcast they wouldn't even have worked but Vince took the risk. that opening match was quick and to the point, it brought the fans to their feet, I wonder if Bob Orton Jr ever thought twenty years later he would have a son who would be appearing at Wrestlemania.

Lets face it though, twenty years ago they had better announcers, better managers and you cant go wrong with the Fink either... they even had a great quick interview with the IC champ macho man, who at the time that title meant something. Even their tag teams matched and worked as a tandom. Their storylines were built up over the course of months, not just one month of only pushing the main event.

Twenty years later one of the only things that is still there is the king's music will be playing, this time it will be for Jerry Lawler intead of Harley Race and Ricky Steamboat, this time there as an agent. The Name has changed, and the players have also. It appears that we might be on the verge of a new generation in pro wrestling, the growth of new Young wrestlers as well as the second and third generations living to filling their fathers footsteps are what's going to fuel this sport for years to come. names like Orton, Neigthart, Hart, Smith, who knows maybe even Hogan are coming up the ranks with big legacies to live up to. Along with new names like Dykstra, Nitro, Cena. Is the WWE about to start a new chapter in pro wrestling. the attitude era has come and gone, the federation years are just memories and hall of fame moments.

This Wrestlemania being billed as the biggest of all time Pushing Hair Vs Hair, however no one cares... We have to face it no one cares about Lashly he looks the part but can't talk to save his life and he's decent in the ring with power moves...in the past this guy would be a bad guy with Bobby Heenan as a manager, but the lack of managers in the wwe could be detrimental to long term careers for Lashly... and as for Umaga, we have to face it, the big Samoan wrestler will always work, we don't know why but it always will.

As for Cena vs Michaels, I'm interested to see where this one will go, michaels is still one hell of a worker, and Cena i believe is under rated by the smart marks out there...

The highlight of the last couple Wrestlemanias was the money in the bank ladder match. the past two years this was like an xdivision match at its finest and it was great, this year i'm not sure if it can live up with all the oddball cast of people. I am not sure why booker is in this match, or edge for that matter, but its always nice to see Jeff, CM Punk and maybe even orton... no prediction here other then if its half as good as the previous two, then this will be great.

ECW at Wrestlemania...I'm from the days of the bingo halls, the blood flying and having to watch out cause Sabu would jump over my row and land in the one behind me battling the Dudleys.. the watered down New ECW missed the boat on where they could have gone, but they are making a decent efforts as of late. This new breed is likeable, they got unique looks and decent gimmicks, this is not your dads ECW, this is Your ECW

womans title match... Ashley does not deserve to be there, i don't care how many CC's of of gel is pumped into her chest, she doesn't deserve to be there yet. Not trying to take anything away from her as a person, she is beautiful, and I'm sure a great person, however I don't think she is ready for Wrestlemania, then again I could be wrong

Kane Vs Khali, heck every card needs a match were you can go get some food and come back and not have to care about what you missed, then again that's what this years womans match is for. I hope this can be a massive match, but i guess we will see exactly what to expect from this one

Undertaker vs Batista, this should be interesting, i truly hope they keep the streak alive, give him the belt one more time the Undertaker deserves

and one last match MVP, Vs Chris Benoit, this young athlete has potential, but i'm not sure if he deserves to be here either, he hasn't have a stand out match yet.

I guess when you look at the cards, today's athletes have a lot to live up to, they are not the Hart foundation, they are not Hulk Hogan or Andre the Giant. Half of the guys from Wrestlemania III could be or are in the hall of fame. I find it hard to believe that any of the matches on this years card could even match up to the quality of The dragon vs Macho man match, or ever live up to Andre vs Hogan... we have to face it, no one cares about hair, lets just hope the WWE realizes this and delivers. Again the newer fans might not agree with any of this, they might like everything new about WWE, and older fans might be hyper critical. We all have to realize that more so then the work, sometimes there's no way for any newer wrestler to ever live up to a childhood memeory. We have to give todays generation room to breath, and grow and see where it takes us.... Welcome to the Road to Wrestlemania, the grand daddy of them all