Now I personally think that this match was freaking awesome. I may not have liked the whole match but I lied the ending with JBL going for a clothesline from hell but Benoit catches him and locks in a crossface very similar to the year before with Kurt angle locking in an ankle lock on Shawn Michaels as he went for a superkick.Īnyway JBL rolled through and uses the ropes to get the win giving himself some heel heat while retaining the title. I feel like Benoit tried to make it good by going for the crossface early and had JBL break out of it to make him look strong. Sadly not Benoits best wrestlemania match. Yeah so a lot of guys took some wicked bumps in that match but flair tops them all even if he did risk his life doing so. Rob van damn hitting a five star frog splash off the top of the ladder into Finley Matt hardy hitting Finley with a side effect off a ladder. Rod van damn dropkicking a steel chair into bobbly lashleys back while on a ladder.
Bobby lashley getting poerbombed off a ladder by three men. Matt hardy legdroppjng off a ladder into Bobby lashley. Of course this wasn't the only great spot of this match. How many 57 year olds do you know who can do that? I haven't got a clue any 40 year olds who would do that but flair risked his life and risked shattering his spine for the entertainment of the fans. You gotta give credit to Every man in the match but you wanna know who I think was the iron man of the match despite losing? Ric flair.įlair was 57 when this match took place and he got suplexed off the top of a ladder and carried on. This money in the bank ladder match was incredible. The match ends after Kane chokeslams carlito. So did chris masters but he stood more of a chance and even got Kane in a master lock at one point in the match.
I'm not dissing Carlitos ring ability but in this match he just stands out like a sore thumb as throughout the match he was the main subject of getting squashed. So they were challenged by a big muscly dude and. This was a time where big show and Kane were tearing up raw as tag team champions because they were a couple of big lads. Kane and big show vs chris masters and CarlitoĪ meh opener. Now some of these matches weren't bad but it just feels kinda weird that it could be reguarded as the biggest extreme rules ppv ever but that feels like I'm insulting the ppv when I'm not because this wrestlemania was awesome and I won't lie and say that some of these extreme type matches helped that.Īnyway let's run through the card and talk about some of these matches. Then we saw the hardcore match between edge and mick foley and leaving it there would be average for wrestlemania as we ofton now have an extreme rules or hardcore type match but then we got a casket match and a no holds barred match between Michaels and McMahon. The money in the bank ladder match makes sense as a ladder match happens almost every year now. In my opinion wrestlemania 22 should be know as extreme o mania since it saw 4 no Extreme based matches.