Dude, I totally saw you there. I told my buddy that it looked like the Ultraman guy from the crap boards, but wasn't sure. We were sitting in the 3rd row right in front of the Section A sign taht got destroyed.
lol seriously?? Did you get a chance to see the OMFGZ look on my face when they started climbing the scaffold?
It's true though, someone needs to reserve a WrestleCrap section at the next shows.
I don't know if I'll make it for January's show, because it's LONG trip for me, but I'll definitely try to go back someday.
EDIT: And just in case it needs clarification, I'm not the Ultra Man. The guy on left of my sig is.
HA! I know. I was so freakin asleep when I posted last night... I"m gonna now give my thoughts on what was a good show.
The preshow was not too bad, though it's been overlooked in this post. We met one of the wrestlers girlfriends or wifes before the show. She was buying 6 front rows to the next show. Me and my buddy got two tickets front row to the next show as well... in the best seats, i'm pretty positive. I can't remember all the guys... but I know it was Dookie, Sigmon, and Shane Hagadorn vs Sugarfoot, Ernie Osirus and another guy. Good match with The babyfaces going over.
Next was Rhett Titus vs Dingo, which was fun because the announcer doing the D.I.N.G.O. thing which got a fun chant going. Dingo went over. Titus looks a lot like a young Stevie Richards. It was a fun match and both guys worked the crowd.
Main show:
1) Claudio Castagnoli vs Seth Skyfire
I won't lie. I'm a big fan of Seth due to his time here in OVW. I was excited to see him have a match in ROH. It was a good match, where it was a lot about respect. Claudio applauded Seth and vice versa a time or two during the match. The ending was kinda sucky for seth. He went to jump up on the rope and slipped to which the crowd nailed him with a "You F'd Up" chant. I felt bad for him, but they recovered and went to the finish which was good. At one point Seth hit a european upercut on Claudio to which Claudio responded with a real European Uppercut.
2) Delirious vs Adam Pearce
Holy Crap this was a fun match. It was all over the arena and I've already read so you know there was "we can't see crap" chants which were funny. But build up and the end were awesome. Pearch suplexed Delirous through one of the "section" signs... and if you've ever been to a show and seen the signs you know that's hardcore. They end came when they climbed up on the scaffolding where one of the camera and lights guys is. Pearce was stuck through one of the rungs and Delirious climbed to the top... I was like HOLY crap... SHADOWS OVER HELL from the scaffold... but instead he locked in a submission that Pearce tapped too. Delirous didn't disapoint as he hit a cross body off the scaffold onto Hagadorn. Fun stuff.
3) Chris Hero vs Jigsaw.
Good squash. Hero dominated Jigsaw who seemed to rely totally on Armdrags and headscissors. Hero is gold though. Love him or hate him he has it... and he knows it.
4) Briscoes vs NRC
GREAT MATCH. These 4 work great together. There was a ducked Doomsday device. WHich I'd never seen before. Graet match is all I can say. Will air on the next PPV.
5) Butcher vs Dragon
This was a good match. Not a lot of hardcore and Dragon winning with the Cattle Mutilation was quite a suprise. I thought Necro was Hardcore. I wanted to see Elbows
~INTERMISSION~
Walked around and met Jimmy Yang, which has been discussed by me earlier
. ALso stood in line FOREVER to get a water... I mean damn... that's dumb. Open up another concession booth! Was sad i didn't have more money because they had the Original Blue Chris HEro Shirts and Sara Del Ray Death Rey Shirts which I wanted
. They were charging 5 bukcs to get an autograph from Nigel which was ok, but I met him before and got a picture and stuff for free so ya know
. Anyway, show back on.
6) NIgel vs Silas Young
Ok, I have to say that before tonight I wasn't a fan of Silas... but now I am. I'm sorry but anyone that can come to the ring to JOURNEY's "Don't Stop Believing" deserves whatever push they give him! SO yes, now I am officialy a Silas mark and he may be appearing in my sig in the near future... stay tuned. This was a good little match. Nigel with a new finisher made Silas tap.
after the match Nigel is talking about how much he loves Dayton and how Silas has a great future when all of a sudden Sweeny starts talking over the PA. Sweet n sour Inc come out and Talk about how Hero is the uncrowned Champ, and it's a conspiracy. Nigel invites him in, but Sweeny says no... save it for the money match down the road. SARA! tries to get in but sweeny makes a sexist comment about how she needs to let the men deal with this(trouble in paradise?), and instead sends Toland after him. Tank and Dempsy double team Nigel and then SNS come in and try to attack Nigels arm before Claudio makes the save. Nigel says next time they are in Dayton it'll be Nigel/Hero for the belt. HUGE POP.
7) Erick Stevens vs Human Tornado
Before the match crowd was chanting "dance off" at Tornado & Stevens. Crowd was HUGE for Tornado by the way. Stevens says nah, and instead calls out Davey Richards. They fight then Tornado hits a suicide flip onto both of them... comes in the ring and the ref says its a triangle match. It was a great match. I loved it a lot. Richards got his nose busted open and bled a lot. At one point he blew a bloody snot rocket on Tornado and he also rubbed blood all over tornados face. i have a few awesome spots I need to talk about here...
1. Stevens hits the Choo Choo on Davey who falls into the corner ala Stink face. Tornado gets in the corner and does X-pac style crotch chops like he's going to give Davey the bronco Buster... instead runs in and starts hitting his kicks on him where he's dancing... AWESOME! Crowd popped... I popped. I think Erick Stevens even popped
2. At the start of the match Tornado and Stevens are both going for DAvey and he's like... WAIT!!! I HAVE MONEY!
3. Davey is sitting in the corner and Stevens hits a back body drop type move on tornado who lands in the splits, his foot nailing Davey in teh balls. that's good stuff
Anyway, at one point I think Tornado may ahve got legit hurt because he was grabbing the back of his leg and pretty much was out after that. Davey won by putting H-Tizzle in i think a Key lock for the tap out.
8) Aries vs Strong 30 minute iron man
I won't lie... i was a little disapointed in this match. I"m a huge Aries mark and my buddy is a pretty big Strong Mark. This match had way too many falls. no way should there be 4-7 in a 30 minute match. It was a smooth match and for my first Iron man match in person it went by fast enough. But the end killed it for me. Aries got 2 falls in less than 30 seconds. The one fall I could see for the tie. But the last fall was stupid. I liked the concept, but no way did I buy that Roddy passsed out. and Sinclair didn't call for the bell so he had to annoucne that Aries won by knock out. It was just an awkward end. Although, it was pretty high impact.
9) Jack Evans & Ruckus vs Jay & Mark Briscoe vsBrent Albright & BJ Whitmer vs Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black
THis match was crazy. It was way to short though. Evans while not being my favorite is amazing to watch. He hit like a standing 450 with a twist! How the hell do you do that?
There were some awesome spots in this match. Jacobs had one of the briscoes locked in the choke and I thought it was over. Many close falls. I was equally suprised that Evans got the pin on the briscoes for the fall. 690 thouhg is bad ass to witness.
My overall thoughts
I enjoyed the show. I thought the set up of the matches was a little otu of whack. I think they should have done the Tornado/Stevens match befoer the PPV match. Then went ot intermission after the PPV match. I think Butcher Dragon should ahve went on Between The Iron man and the scramble match. But I kinda thought the finishes to the 2 last matches were pretty ill thought out. Nothing wrong with who won, but the methods were not taht great. The Iron man match should ahve went maybe 2-1 or 3-2... but 7 falls in 30 minutes is too much imo. The scramble match was fun, but they had a series of finishers which is always good and lots of stuff outside of the ring. But I felt like the end with Jack hitting the 690 and getting the pin was odd, not because he won, but because there wasn't really a build to it... if that makes sense.
Fun tiems though. I look forward to the January show and sitting first row by the entrance Ramp... that's gonna be off the charts!
and EDIT to save double posting.
Hey, I saw you there.
Seriously, for the next Roh Dayton show we need a section of the building just for us Crappers.
From what it sounds like, I was on the other side of the building from most of you. Bleachers by yhe entrance.
But we'll all bring sign or we'll all wear carnations as a mark of wrestlecrap member.
Dude Carnations would be funny stuff. But yeah we should have like a hand sign or something haha. Something so all of us crappers can take over ROH. FUn times
. I say next dayton show we do a roll call of seats here on the boards.