WWE WrestleMania X-Seven (2001)

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This was honestly one of the better Wrestlemania events in a long time.Match 1: Chris Jericho (c) vs William Regal for the Intercontinental Championship - This feud was one of the more entertaining feuds in 2001. This match was an impressive opener for WWE's secondary championship. Jericho had all the momentum in this particular match and it all really carried him to retaining the title. Decent match.Match 2: Tazz & The APA vs The Right to Censor - Just a time filler. The concept of making sure everyone gets time at the biggest event of all time is a nice concept, but this would have been more a Sunday Night Heat match. Tazz & The APA take the win.Match 3: Raven (c) vs Kane vs Big Show in a Triple Threat Hardcore match for the Hardcore Championship - One of the more extreme matches of the night. Raven does all he can to retain (you hear this a lot in Heyman's commentary). The match is a solid falls count anywhere war for the Hardcore title. Big Show and Kane dominate Raven and each other the entire time. In the end Kane throws both men off the stage to win the title.Match 4: Test (c) vs Eddie Guerrero for the European Championship - The European Championship is always booked a little higher than the Intercontinental Championship at Wrestlemania for some reason, but this was actually a very good title match for the mid-card. Test fends off attacks from Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko most of the match, while maintaning to defend against Guerrero. In the end the distractions pay off when Guerrero hits Test with the belt to begin his second run as European Champion.Match 5: Kurt Angle vs Chris Benoit - Next to the main event this was a match of the night candidate. Benoit and Angle look to lock on every single submission in the universe. The two have this epic battle that is Wrestlemania worthy. Angle and Benoit both come out as heels in this feud, even though most side over with Benoit. The match turns out very well. In the end Angle gets the win. Benoit chases him to the back and locks on the crossface for payback.Match 6: Ivory (c) vs Chyna for the Women's Championship - Absolute squash match. Chyna comes out and tosses Ivory around, finally scoring the win and earning her first Women's title.Match 7: Shane McMahon vs Vince McMahon in a Street Fight - Mick Foley plays the unbiased turned biased referee in this match. A very hardcore war between both father and son. The whole story line was the higher rated segment of the show. Vince beats his son with Linda at ringside. In the end she raises from her chair and hits a low blow on Vince. Shane then takes off from this and gets the win over his dad.Match 8: The Dudley Boyz (c) vs Edge & Christian vs The Hardy Boyz in the TLC II match for the WWF Tag Team Championship - A pretty good spotfest. Tons of tables, ladders and chairs in the match. It started pretty fast with a lot of good spots. The spear in mid air from Edge to Jeff Hardy was the best of the match. Jeff Hardy as well took the match to incredible heights with his daredevil attitude. Spike Dudley, Rhino and Lita all interfere for their respective teams. In the end Edge & Christian, with help from Rhino, win the tag gold again.Match 9: Gimmick Battle Royal - Entertaining match. The Iron Sheik wins by lastly eliminating Hillbilly Jim. Sgt. Slaughter locks on his submission to restore his rivalry with the Sheik. Classic stuff.Match 10: Triple H vs The Undertaker - The first meeting between these two main event caliber stars. They went all through the crowd and hit each other with a ton of weapons while the referee was down. Triple H makes you think that he is clearly on the road to ending Taker's streak, but it all comes to a head when Undertaker hits the Last Ride for the win and to extend his Wrestlemania win streak. Excellent match.Match 11: The Rock (c) vs Stone Cold Steve Austin for the WWF Championship - The greatest encounter of the night. These two always put on a top form match against each other. With the no disqualification rules they take it to one another with every inch of weapon that they can find. In the end Vince McMahon comes out and when you wonder why he is out there you suddenly see him align himself with his longtime enemy Stone Cold Steve Austin. They beat down the Rock and Stone Cold finally regains the WWF Championship.

This Wrestlemania was enjoyable from start to finish, brilliant matches all the way.All of the title matches were amazing, good work rate from everyone on the card.Best match was Tlc 2 with some brilliant high spots and i just love watching Jeff Hardy in action. 9/10The hardcore title match despite messing up a few times was funny to watch if for the wrong reasons some good spots here; raven being thrown through a window was my personal favourite. 8/10Angle vs Beniot always good anytime any place, excellent efforts from both men. 9/10Intercontinental match pretty good Jericho needs to be main event tho, i always enjoy watching Regal. 6/10European title match was OK, the interference was a bit ott though. 6/10RTC vs acolytes and tazz: this one was good it was just there so rtc could get its ass kicked to the delight of the crowd, reminds me of how good Tazz was. 5/10Womens title match see above, Chyna dominated, not very eventful match. 2/10Gimmick Battle royal it was OK, though i feel these kind of matches ruin the greats, i'm always up for over the top rope stuff tho. 5/10McMahon street fight: very good shane should have become a wwe superstar he never fails to impress me, i'm always amazed as to how huge vince is as well. 7/10Triple H vs Taker: another excellent match ref stayed down for ages it is amusing wen you think how much he missed. 7/10World title match: was just brilliant it reminds you how good Rock and Austin were; if anyone else were to kick out as much nowadays the crowd would get bored, not in this match though. 9/10

The Event was the best, A crowd of 67,925 fans watching the event in the arena and the Billions watching around the world. The 3 best matches in that event was TLC, Triple H and The Undertaker, and Stone Cold vs The Rock. TLC was a great match the only bad thing is the The Champions walking in left the with the titles. Triple H and the Undertaker, Motorhead did a fantastic job playing THE Game to the Ring it was great publicity for them and The Undertaker Entering the Ring with a HIGH rate of speed on his Motorcycle. The Match was great and The Undertaker ended the match with his record of 9-0 undefeated at Wrestlemania. Stone Cold and The Rock was the BEST OF THE BEST Stone Cold definitly had more fans on his side in the match you can tell. The Rock was basically a heel in the match because every time he would hit austin the more fans would boo him and the fans that were cheering him you couldn't hear from all the boos. I think Austin should have won that match because he deserved it more then any wrestler he came back after a year of healing from spinal surgery. Fans new it was his time to shine in the WWF and he went to rule the WWF for most of 2001.

The Rock vs. Austin was the draw.........the undercard was the most incredible sight ever witnessed.....just imagine if the Heartbreak Kid were allowed to participate, GOODNESS GRACIOUS! Kurt Angle vs. Chris Benoit was easily the best of the night as the two best workers in the business today were able to put on an incredible display of athleticism and dramatic intensity without using ladders or tables and whatnot, just plain good wrestling. The TLC match itself was incredible as well as the battle between the Grim Reaper and The GAME. The Main Event put an immediate and amazing punctuation on the evenings festivities with a Hogan like turn. One more thing, ROCKY SUCKS......OH HELL YEAH!