The wait is over as WWE presents the biggest show of the year, WrestleMania XXX,live from New Orleans…and I will be covering its every move right here on PW Update.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I am watching this on the WWE Network and it’s a very real possibility the feed will continually mess up. If that happens I’ll inform you and I apologize in advance for recap quality due to said issues.
Running over an hour past the announced end time and featuring longer speeches than I think many watching at home expected, the first live Hall Of Fameceremony on the WWE Network was at times wonderful, funny, and heartbreaking…and at other times absolutely insane. In the interest of time I’m just going to go speech by speech, summarize their points, and give my thoughts on them but trust me guys…this needed to be seen to be believed so do yourself a favor and check it out when you have the chance. I doubt WWE will ever let a HOF ceremony get this out of hand ever again.
Former Diva Amy “Lita” Dumas has been announced as the latest member of the 2014 WWE Hall Of Fame class. This announcement was made last night during RAW,which you can check out below.
Lita first jumped onto the scene in ECW as Miss Congeniality, the manager of goofball tag team Danny Doring & Amish Roadkill. Shen then moved onto WWE in 2000 and after an uneventful stint managing midcarder Essa Rios, she joined up with The Hardy Boyz, the hottest tag team in the WWE at the time, forming the “Team Xtreme” stable. In addition to compete against the other Divas, Lita was known for mixing it up with the men as well, interfering in a host of Hardy Boyz’ matches. During this time she began dating Matt Hardy and this was eventually mixed in with the storylines including of a creepy love “triangle” with Hardy and Kane who had impregnated her against her will (and people miss this fucking era, I swear to god).
Unfortunately her real-life relationship with Hardy turned ugly when it was discovered that she was seeing Adam “Edge” Copeland behind his back. This nasty breakup was also inserted into storylines as she soon joined forces with Edge, acting as “The Rated R Superstar”‘s manager during his multiple WWE Championship runs. She retired from full-time competition in 2006 and has made appearances here and there since then, including RAW 1000back in August of 2012 when she led a charge of legends in an onslaught against Heath Slater.
Lita was definitely the coolest Diva during my teenage wrestling fandom years, and her unique style was one that I tried desperately to find in a girlfriend to no luck. She was also one of the few Divas my female friends even knew about or liked, given that she wasn’t as blonde or generic as the others around that time. Being that I’m a guy and I never think about these things I underestimated her impact on the wrestling world, but if you look at the current scene you can see her influence in a lot of the women wrestlers that are currently plying their trade. A worthy induction indeed, even if she was unfortunately part of the most embarrassing era in pro wrestling history.
Lita will be inducted alongside The Ultimate Warrior and Jake Roberts on April 5th in New Orleans, the night before Wrestlemania XXX.
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During RAWlast night the full non-30 Years of Wrestlemania roster was revealed for 2KGames’ upcoming release WWE2K14.Check it out below in list form, courtesy of WWE.com.
AJ Lee
Aksana
Brodus Clay
Christian
Cody Rhodes
Damien Sandow
David Otunga
Dean Ambrose
Drew McIntyre
Eddie Guerrero
Heath Slater
Jack Swagger
Jinder Mahal
Justin Gabriel
Kaitlyn
Kane
Kofi Kingston
Layla
Lita
Mark Henry
Mr. McMahon
Natalya
R-Truth
Roman Reigns
Santino Marella
Seth Rollins
Sheamus
Sin Cara
Stephanie McMahon
Tensai
The Great Khali
Titus O’Neil
Wade Barrett
Zack Ryder
And for completionists sake, here’s the part of the roster that was already revealed during Summerslamweekend, made up mostly of folks included in the 30 Years to Wrestlemania Mode(and others).
Alberto Del Rio
Andre the Giant
Antonio Cesaro
Batista
Big John Studd
Big Show
Big Show (retro)
Bret Hart
Brock Lesnar
Brock Lesnar (retro)
Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho (retro)
CM Punk
Daniel Bryan
Darren Young
Diesel
Dolph Ziggler
Edge
Goldberg
Hulk Hogan
Hollywood Hulk Hogan
JBL
John Cena
John Cena (retro)
Kane (retro)
King Kong Bundy
Mick Foley
Randy Orton
Randy Savage
Razor Ramon
Rey Mysterio
Ric Flair
Ric Flair (retro)
Ricky Steamboat
Ryback
Sgt. Slaughter
Shawn Michaels
Shawn Michaels (retro)
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Ted DiBiase
The Miz
The Rock
The Rock (retro)
Triple H
Triple H (retro)
Ultimate Warrior
Undertaker
Undertaker (retro)
Yokozuna
I’m excited that The Shield are in the game but outside of that the roster reveal from last night did nothing for me; it would have been weird if the people announced weren’t in the game (except for David Otunga, who I assume they’re putting in the game because they already have the character model from the previous iteration). Now let’s just hope the game itself doesn’t suck.
WWE2K14releases everywhere on October 29th. Pre-order your copy (PS3 or XBox360) by clicking the Amazon link below.
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