He doesn’t regret telling Vince to grow up back in December. Post match, Masters and Carlito argued about the loss.īackstage, Coach interviews Shawn Michaels. Congrats to Big Show for winning his first match at WrestleMania for the impressive record of 1-6. The purpose of the match was to mix the vets with the younger guys, but the vets going over isn’t going to make the younger guys look that good. It was mostly a case of cheering everybody. Not like they booed Kane and Show, though. It was interesting to hear the cheers for Carlito since he was a heel. It went around 7 minutes.Īnalysis: *1/4 Just a basic tag that was pretty good for an opener in terms of getting the crowd excited because the crowd was really hot for everything in it. Kane hits Carlito with a chokeslam for the three count. Masters hits Carlito by mistake after a jump off the top. They double team Kane, whip in, Kane boots Masters and a punch to Carlito. Show goes to chokeslam Carlito, Masters takes out his knee. Double knee backbreaker by Carlito on Kane. Show boots him in the face to break it as the crowd boos. He puts Carlito down again, clothesline attempt by Kane, but Masters has the Masterlock on him. Kane in, backdrop to Carlito, slam to Masters. Crowd is hot for everything, which is great. Tag into Masters, they go for a double suplex, but Show counters and suplexes both at once. Ref gets distracted, they Show goes face first into the exposed turnbuckle and then they nail him with a double flapjack. Kane comes off the top with a punch/clothesline onto both heels on the floor. Press slam on Masters, then one on Carlito although out to the floor onto Masters. Show picks him up and crotches him on the top ropes, then boots Masters down. Carlito gets tagged in to a big pop surprisingly. Show tags in, hits the “shhh chop” a couple times.
Masters and Kane start out with Masters getting a shoulderblock, then Kane hits a dropkick after another exchange. The challengers are making their WrestleMania debuts. Tag Team Titles (Raw): Big Show & Kane vs. There’s a ramp in the aisle for those wondering. Carlito and Masters come out first individually. As Carlito comes out for the first match, JR is sitting with Lawler to call the Raw matches and he throws it to Cole and Tazz to call the Smackdown matches. They are stars.įirst voice we hear is Jim Ross welcoming us to the show as they pan the crowd to show that it’s a true sellout. Sometimes we take the production team for granted. Then the song changes as they go into videos for the big matches in the order of Undertaker/Henry, McMahon/Michaels, Mysterio/Angle/Orton and Cena/HHH is last. Then they play a video package highlighting WrestleMania moments through the years. They show a wide shot of the crowd as they welcome Michelle Williams from Destiny’s Child (and Chicago) to sing America the Beautiful. I have added some things and formatted it to make it look like all the others as well. If you’re an old school TJR reader you may have already read this. What you’ll see below is my live recap from 2006.
A lot of the key players that were set up to have bigger roles the year prior were in those spots when WrestleMania made its return to Chicago.