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WrestleMania XL Review | What Professional Wrestling is All About, Brother

Ryan Brown
Pantheon of Film
9 min readApr 8, 2024

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My followers are likely really confused, and I completely understand. Isn’t this a movie blog? Why am I talking about wrestling? Because I, and millions of people around the world, bared witness to what will go down in history as perhaps one of the greatest WrestleManias of all time. Night 2 just wrapped up and there’s still a tear in my eye. ‘Manias 39 and 40 were the first shows I watched in-full since WrestleMania 34 back in 2018, and I’m confident in saying that these back-to-back wrestling spectacles are in the top 5 of best WrestleManias. For now, we got to talk about this latest show and why it’s such an achievement for the company and the wider landscape of professional wrestling.

Cody Finished His Story

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It’s difficult to describe the sheer popularity and support by fans that Cody Rhodes has been receiving since his return in 2022. He won the Royal Rumble this year and almost gave up his spot to The Rock (who had recently become a member of the TKO board, the company that owns WWE), only for #WeWantCody to trend for around 3 days across social media. After losing the championship match last year at…

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Ryan Brown
Pantheon of Film

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