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Post by brettappedout (BLM) on Dec 27, 2017 9:06:48 GMT -5
So Jinder wins. Carries the US title to WrestleMania..still gets his match with Cena. Hey atleast it isn't for the WWE Title.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2017 10:55:47 GMT -5
Crowds sounds too bored and tired even for the CM Punk chants. No, every time some knucklehead tried to start one, our section shut them down with cute things like "Shut The Hell Up".
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Post by Surfer Sandman on Dec 27, 2017 12:27:52 GMT -5
"Gable and old Jason Jordan"
Gold, Jerry, GOLLDDDDD!!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2017 14:39:10 GMT -5
Okay, figured this as good place as any to give my view of the show. My son and I, wife's cousin and his boy all got tickets for Christmas. So 4 of us went; my boy wears a hoodie. Cousin in his Rollins shirt. His boy is Superman. I rock my Lass Kicker Tee. (A guy can hope, right?) It was coooooold outside, blah. (And why does I-294 have 78 billboards of Ryne Sandberg and Brian Urlacher showing us the results of their visits to the "Restore" hair clinic? It's like every 1/2 a mile. Sometimes clumped together 3-4 at a clip.) Get there about 5:30. ($20 for parking.) We check the souvenir stand. MITB briefcases, "real" title belts, the plastic ones. Lots of gear for SDL regulars: Cena gear (okay, he's technically a "free agent"; I'll let that slide). Some stands had Christmas Booty O's shirts. Nakamura, Orton, AJ stuff. No Rusev Day stuff...yet they have the Shield, who are NOT on SDL. One of those "I Was There" SDL shirts for the Christmas/Holiday tour. I am NOT paying $35 for a shirt. Me and my son move onward while the others get stuff. My son sees Dippin' Dots and must have them. I give him a $5 bill. "You need to find 50 cents, I only have $20s." Looks around for drinks. I ain't paying $6.25 for a 20-ounce bottle of pop (or $11 for a bottle of recycled horse piss aka beer). Get souvenir cups for $8.50 each. Eh, best deal really. We find our seats after walking around the concourse (we followed all these paper signs labeled "Production Meeting". Funny, I'd love to see them as they conclude the meeting; seeing all these guys file out of the room like they were in a clown car.) Nice seats. Looking straight ahead at the ring and ramp. (Fun fact: When last I was here at this building, I sat one section over to our right and a few rows further down. Some event called WM13. You may have heard of it.) Cousin scored on these. Some asshole already starting CM Punk chants. Willing to wager a suit of clothes he's had a few before the show; and it's not even 6pm yet. A lot of "Wooo"s and "New...Day Rocks" chants going on. Nice Mexican couple in front of me. (They're going to hate me by the end of the event.) Wife's cousin and his boy come back. They got an Orton shirt (cousin's fave), a plastic WWE title belt and an autographed AJ Styles picture. $90. Plus 2 drinks and 2 popcorn.
6:45. Show finally starts with some videos (NO LASER PENS AS IF THIS IS 2002!) "Please no recording the show on your phones"; as everybody and their grandma is recording this on their phones even though there is no lights or screen on. "Woo woo woo...YOU KNOW IT!" Zack Ryder comes out. Fans cheer because the show is starting. He's facing...Mojo Rawley! Love his new theme, it's dark and in your face. That will be on my playlist soon. Basic starter match, Mojo gets the duke. I forgot how, wasn't paying too much attention. But it was a good kick-off.
Now they lower the lights again. Women's Royal Rumble announcement. (Zzzzzzzz) Show begins, we got the first "Rusev Day" chant going all over at the top. Daniel Bryan comes out. Fans go batshit. Makes his announcement for the upcoming US title tournament and is interrupted by Benjamin & Gable. Fans kinda indifferent to them. Aiden sings off-camera, now the place is going nuts. Fans chanting "Rusev Day" again. Here comes the New Day. I don't like these guys, but the fans like 'em. All of this becomes a pissing contest between these three teams, and a duel between the kids chanting "New...Day ROCKS" and the rest of us chanting "Rusev Day" made for a fun earworm. Rusev saying to Daniel "you going to make a decision, or do you have to ask your mommy, Shane McMahon?" got a huge reaction. Usos come out to a decent ovation, but nothing as big as the others. We liked the tag match. More dueling chants. Gable & Benjamin win the match. I'm the lone guy in several sections to jump up and yell "I TOLD YOU! YEAH!" Fun match with a lot of near-falls. (Wanted to roll my eyes when the upper deck tried a "This is awesome" chant. Guys...it isn't THAT good.) I was told there was a CM Punk chant somewhere in this match. It couldn't have been that large or anywhere near us. We did a pretty good job (Section 114 represent y0) of shutting every one of them down with cute things like "Shut the Hell Up".
Shane and Daniel on screen. Shane can go to hell. They're having a discussion/argument over how to book these matches.
Breezango and the Ascension in the locker room. I'd say about half the crowd got into this. A lot of them headed for the concourse. So half of the half that was left enjoyed this segment.
Fans liked the Breezango entrance. I still dig the Tyler Breeze selfie cam, we thought that was funny. Then Harper and Rowan makes their way in. A few people around me had no idea who they were. Straight ass whipping by the BBs. Ascension came in for the DQ after about 2 minutes. Crowd was...not happy. Well, confused would be the correct term.
Naomi on screen. Decent cheers.
Then the Ascension saying they managed to get Breezango a rematch next week. Ugh, why must you torture us.
Ruby and the Riott Squad hit the ring. More indifference. Naomi gets a good pop for her entrance. Match got...very little heat. Squad beats down Naomi. Our half of the building got a nice "We want Becky" chant going. (No, I can't claim that one.) Charlotte's music hits, Miss Flair runs down and gains a slight upper hand until getting cut off by the numbers game. (Stupid WWE cliche.) Charlotte gets chucked out, Riotts stand tall. Crowd kinda deflated. Nattie's music hits with her group of useless twits. Crowd still pops for the advantage in their favor. Squad backs down. Carmella talks smack. I yell at her, "Carmella, sit your worthless ass down; you weren't gonna do shit!"
More refugees to the concourse. RENEE! And she's with AJ. "AJ STY-LES! *clap clap clapclapclap*" like a mo-fo in this place. Says he's gonna beat Kevin. Needless to say, this was the loudest of the night. Follow that cheer/chant? I think a little "GLORIOUS" can cover! I'm telling our group "I wanna like this guy, but something's just not there." Crowd into the match. Guy in the upper deck has a "Corbin Likes Fishsticks" sign. And my 16-year old son is explaining the joke to me. That's amusing...and I get the joke now. Best part of the match was when Corbin walked around ringside and a bald guy is pointing at his own head saying Corbin looks like that. Absurd, but I laughed my ass off.
Here comes Jinder and his 2 man band. I stand up and yell "I AM NOT WATCHING THIS SHIT. JESUS CHRIST THIS IS AWFUL!" I go to the restroom. See one guy, I tell him, "Best time to take a piss, during frickin Jinder Mahal. Jesus..." (I told a mop guy he was doing a fine job keeping this place sanitary. I don't think he understood me.) Come back, this match still goes on. And I don't believe one person cared. Jinder wins, oh joy. A US title tournament and 2 Canadians advance. About par for the course with this belt.
Hideo vs. Jack Gallagher on the screen for 205 Live. Fans sound interested. We shall see...
Dasha with KO & Sami. People really hate Sami; he's such a little rat. But some did chant along with the "Yep" thing. (Yeah, he suckered me into it too. Damn you Sami.)
RENEE again! With Randy. And his hair looks better that that dead animal he had last week. Fans go batshit again. Until Nakamura shows on screen. Then he says his part and...people around me are like "Da f*** did he say?" (Stop screaming because Randy's on screen, he said "Good idea...let's Rumble!")
AJ vs. Kevin in the main event. I forgot KO got away with the win here. Good heat on both sides, nice way to end the show.
Ring announcer gets on the mic, reminds everyone "Don't forget after 205 Live, the main event will be Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn and Jinder Mahal against...Shinsuke Nakamura (huge pop), Randy Orton (same) and the WWE Champion AJ Styles!" Huge pop, even a bunch of fans that were about to leave thought "Eh, I'm staying." Though there were people leaving. A bunch on the hard camera side were empty when 205 started.
Hideo gets a...well, I dunno what kinda pop he got; they played his damn theme so loud. One idiot started a CM Punk chant, we yelled at him to shut his damn mouth. He stopped...and think he left. Gallagher came out to a library cheer. Started talking, dunno what he said. They had their "match", which was so frickin' dull and had nothing going on at one point (think Jack just lied on Hideo and did nothing) I yelled "THIS IS AWFUL! FRICKIN' DO SOMETHING!" The upper deck grabbed the ball and RAN with a "THIS IS AW-FUL" chant. (I owe you guys a beer Section 211.) Hideo wins with a sudden Rings of Saturn. Crowd was...not reacting and gave not one squirt.
Cedric talking to Gulak. Eh, I don't know anything about this show. Fans don't seem to watch either.
TOZAWAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Okay, I like this guy. He's facing Tony Nese. Fun little match, crowd seemed to perk up for Tozawa. Nese wins suddenly with a knee in the corner that I can see missed by a foot. Sucks Tozawa lost, but at least the crowd's coming back.
Drew and his boy (I don't know who, sorry) talking. "STOP ALL THIS USELESS TALKING!" although the mention of the never-seen Power Point Presentation got a bunch on the hard side to pop. (Pretty impressive, as it's only half-full over there. People have been slowly leaving, couldn't even bear to wait for the dark main event. And it's cold as heck outside, can't blame them.) Cedric and Ali came out. Ced reminds everyone that Mustafa is the hometown hero, and from that point on, the crowd was invested. Damn fine match. We came up with as many "Ali" chants as we could. (I thought of the "A-li Bom-ba-ye" one, but some fat guy on the floor started it before I could. Props, my good man. My head started to hurt.) Dude was over and the crowd loved him. His getting the finish after Cedric's bad-ass backstabber was great. PUSH THIS GUY!
Main event time. We sing with Nakamura's theme, scream for Orton and impossibly even louder for AJ. Nakamura is frickin' star quality. The heels come out, all more hated than the next. Jinder, Sami & Kevin. Daniel Bryan comes out as ref, and the Yes chants start. Lot of star power in that ring...and then there is Jinder and his boys.
(Result hidden somewhere on page 36.) Everybody had a good time. As we were leaving, we saw a guy dressed up in Ric Flair regalia: short blonde wig, floor-length robe...and aviator sunglasses. Had a goatee and a 5 o'clock shadow too. Odd. Another big guy in a Rusev shirt had a giant Rusev head getting his picture taken.
Had it's ups and downs, but it was a fun night. I scream and yell to have fun and to release energy. As Mad Dog Vachon has said "Wrestling fans need a safety valve release or else they'll kill someone. That's my job; to get them to do just that."
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