WWE WrestleMania 31

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Written By: Mark Armstrong

Genre: Wrestling
Produced By: WWE
Format: Pay-Per-View
Date: March 29 2015
Location: Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, California, USA
Attendance: 76,976

Projections going into WrestleMania 31 were very low. A build-up characterised by an extremely negative reaction to the Royal Rumble match, a subdued crowd for the Fast Lane show that set the stage for the top WM matches, and weak or inconsequential activity on TV over the last five weeks, meant that whilst most were looking forward to Mania because, well, it's WrestleMania, expectations were not anything more than "there should be some good matches". Fortunately, like in New Orleans last year, WWE pulled off some surprises and all matches were either as expected or better, resulting in this year's WrestleMania being one of the most enjoyable cards in its 31-year history.

The Kick-Off show this year featured two matches, the first being Cesaro and Tyson Kidd defending the WWE Tag Team Titles against The New Day, Los Matadores and The Usos. Jey Uso was attacked early on by Cesaro and never returned, due to a real-life injury presumably. The match was a little slow to get going, as were the crowd to respond. But the fans did raise their voices as it went on and would be vibrant all night from that point, and the bout energised too with a large collection of nifty moves, stunts and spots. In the end, a Jimmy Uso splash on Big E. seemed to give the ex-Champs the gold despite being one man down, but instead Cesaro made a late tag and got the winning pin, allowing him and Kidd to retain the titles. A pretty good tag bout, then, but a step down from the same bout before Mania 30 due to the more choreographed feel to proceedings. Still a nice start though.

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