WWE "Road to Wrestlemania Tour: Oshawa"

[adamclark52]

WWE “Road to Wrestlemania”
Saturday February 9th, 2019
From the Tribute Community Center in Oshawa, Ontario

Natalya, Dana Brooke & Bayley vs. Mickie James, Alicia Fox & Nikki Cross
This match went on for what felt like forever. It was not a good opener to a show AT ALL. Dana Brooke worked a majority of it for the faces. "Eep".
Winners: Natalya, Dana Brooke & Bayley
Nia Jax and Tamina come out and beat up Bayley. They call their beating a preview of Elimination Chamber.

Dean Ambrose vs. EC3
This wasn’t too bad a match. But the outcome made me think the dirtsheets are right. I was surprised Dean was even there but coming out second and counting lights makes it seem like he is on his way out.
Winner: EC3
Dean Ambrose demands justice and says he’s going to sit in the ring until he gets it. Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder come out and tell him he has around two hundred and fifty-nine more losses to go to compete with them. They try to do the Shield hand thing with them but he takes them out.

Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder vs. the Ascension
The crowd was nuclear hot for this match...

...

...no, no they were not.
Winners: the Ascension

2 on 1 Handicapped Match for IC belt
Bobby Lashley (Champion) & Lio Rush vs. Finn Balor
This was actually a pretty good match. The crowd was into it and it was the most I’ve been entertained by Lashley since…ever.
Winners: Bobby Lashley & Lio Rush

[intermission]

Elias comes out and is about to sing with No Way Jose but Drew McIntyre beats Jose up on his way to the ring and challenges Elias to a match.

Elias vs. Drew McIntyre
Elias wrestles!?!? This wasn’t that great. I was pretty far away and I could still see their moves not connecting from there.
Winner: Drew McIntyre

For the RAW Tag Team Championships
The Revival vs. Bobby Roode & Chad Gable (champions)
This was a really good wrestling match but this wasn’t the time or the place for it. The final stretch was really good.
Winners: Bobby Roode & Chad Gable

Oshawa Street Fight
Baron Corbin vs. Braun Strowman
This was a pretty slow and plodding match but it was at least an entertaining end to the show.
Winner: Braun Strowman
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It was rough getting through this show. I’m an admitted WWE hater but I still tried to go in with an open mind for my kids sake. But I just don’t understand how a company with such a huge roster can still feel like the whole lot of them are nobodies. I guess investing the last four years on one guy who’s gone now is really biting them now. It doesn’t help that Seth Rollins got hurt last week and that Brock Lesnar is M.I.A. The WWE really needs to cut out two thirds of its roster and go back to one touring show because having shows like this can’t continue for much longer.

Another problem is the crowd they’re drawing now. I will admit that at times wrestling can be boring. And kids get bored really easily. I can watch the Revival and Bobby Roode and Chad Gable in a twenty minute match but this crowd, which was forty percent kids, is there for entrances and finishing moves. Everything in between may as well not happen.

I feel bad for these guys. They’re making money but they’re performing their craft in front of an audience that really doesn’t care. Some of the matches were really good to decent tonight and Drew McIntyre was really funny on the mic but overall it was a very flat, boring, hollow show.

I sensed genuine unhappiness coming from the ring; not only when Ambrose and the Revival were in there but from Roode, Gable, the Ascension and Lashley.

I got happiness from Balor. Corbin, Strowman.

Indifference from McIntyre, Hawkins, Ryder and Elias

Nothing from the girls, Rush or EC3

Elias

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Cool they made it to your town. They just up and decided not to the one in my town.

[adamclark52]

Feb 10, 2019 2:44:01 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Cool they made it to your town. They just up and decided not to the one in my town.

they've been sporadic with Oshawa. They didn’t come here for most of the Attitude Era then started coming back in 2003, sometimes twice a year. Then they stopped again in the late-2000’s and started coming again recently.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Feb 10, 2019 2:51:21 GMT -5 adamclark52 said:

Feb 10, 2019 2:44:01 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Cool they made it to your town. They just up and decided not to the one in my town.

they've been sporadic with Oshawa. They didn’t come here for most of the Attitude Era then started coming back in 2003, sometimes twice a year. Then they stopped again in the late-2000’s and started coming again recently.

Think they cancelled the last two shows they tried to run here. My city is like 65,000 people and it's probably their fault for trying to run a show against the f***ing Super Bowl, but I don't give a shit about football, I like wrestling, that's why I bought the ticket. Anyway, they cancelled because of "routing issues", like they couldn't figure out the 90 minute drive to the border to be in Portland for Raw.

And to that end, that's a thing that fills me with anxiety. I think "I'd like to go to WrestleMania", but that's like every single last person in my city, plus the surrounding area in one place at one time. I couldn't handle it. I can barely handle one guy ahead of me in line at the Circle K.

[theironyuppie]

Thanks for the report! Its always interesting to get insight on house shows even when the card sounds so rough--Seth and Sasha and Alexa all being out hurts.

[111111]

That honestly looks worse than some of those 80s c show cards.

[Prince Petty]

Feb 10, 2019 2:01:26 GMT -5 adamclark52 said:

Oshawa Street Fight
Baron Corbin vs. Braun Strowman
This was a pretty slow and plodding match but it was at least an entertaining end to the show.
Winner: Braun Strowman

I honestly can't think of many matches I'd want to see less than this.

But I would like to see Elias actually have matches, and Lashley vs Balor sounds like it would be fun to watch.

[Mozenrath]

Is Drew a face now, or is Elias not actually a heel after all, and just one for the Jarrett stuff?

I am hilarious levels of indifferent to the existence of Drew, so I don't even remember.

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I love that Dana was working as a face. She really is one of the new Big Shows.

[adamclark52]

Feb 10, 2019 6:17:15 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Is Drew a face now, or is Elias not actually a heel after all, and just one for the Jarrett stuff?

I am hilarious levels of indifferent to the existence of Drew, so I don't even remember.

Elias was working as a face

[David-Arquette was in WCW 2000]

This card sounds terrible. I would be so disappointed if I went to this.

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The raw roster is so weak with Rollins, Reigns and Banks out and Ambrose winding down if smackdown had the same problem (say AJ, Bryan and Becky on the shelf) you'd still be laughing with Joe, Nakamura, Asuka, Charlotte, Hardy, Orton, TND, Miz and more to make a good show.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

I think the fact that RAW shows are reduced to main eventing with Baron f***ing Corbin is really telling. this is what you get when you build the entire show around one guy and don't even consider a back-up plan if something goes wrong.

[HisRoyalGreeness]

Anytime I open up a house show report thread I expect to see all kinds of weird stuff about amorphous blobs and Superstars falling into a void in the ring. I wonder whatever happened to that poster.

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So you're saying the Ascension got a reaction?

[adamclark52]

Feb 11, 2019 9:28:56 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

So you're saying the Ascension got a reaction?

My new favourite phrase is “the crowd was stunned silent”