Man, it's almost hard to believe the same company put on these two WrestleMania shows. The first night was a pretty good, approaching very good, WrestleMania card, with three matches reaching or approaching four-star territory by my count, and a feelgood main event. Night 2 had a somewhat promising first half and then kinda drove off a cliff and never got back on track. The two worst matches of the weekend were on Night 2, and a comedy match featuring the guy from Jackass more or less stole the night. That's not good at all. I will say the crowd was nuclear for both shows, so at least there's that. I hadn't seen a WWE crowd this hot in a long time.
Both nights had time management issues, because it's WWE and they don't know or don't care about fitting everything in properly. The New Day-Sheamus/Holland match got moved from Night 1 to Night 2 and ended up going 100 seconds anyway. Given the four-hour running time of each show there was of course no reason Finn Balor vs. Damian Priest and the Intercontinental three-way from that week's Smackdown couldn't have been included. It makes me laugh when WWE fans refer to AEW as minor league; not once has AEW ever had to bump a match off a major show on the fly because they ran out of time, while WWE's done it countless times over the years.
Night 1 started with the Smackdown Tag Team Titles, a match that had promise but was unfortunately derailed by an injury when Rick Boogs attempted the John Cena double fireman's carry spot and his knee buckled. Apparently he suffered both a torn quad and a torn ACL, poor soul. That left Shinsuke Nakamura to hastily finish the match against the Usos, and he ultimately fell victim to their version of the 3-D. This only went 7 of the planned 14 and thus fell very short of expectations.
The second match wasn't a whole lot better, nor could it be given Drew's opponent. Baron Corbin had a typical Baron Corbin match, while Drew did his best to elevate it, hitting a Kenny Omega dive to the outside at one point. Corbin hit End of Days and Drew kicked out, made a comeback, hit the Future Shock DDT, and finished him with a Claymore. Post-match, Madcap Moss got in Drew's face, but Drew took his sword and actually cut two of the ropes (which was for some reason accompanied by an exploding sound - were there pyros inside the ropes?). We got numerous endless video packages while they changed out the ropes. This match was just there.