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Post by sarkerpolseng on Mar 3, 2019 0:09:21 GMT -5
And one of the main events was Orton vs. Styles. Maybe the first match up between then.
The crowd hates AJ, and loved Randy. There were several chants of "RKO", "Orton, Orton, Orton" and "We Want Mania". During the match, AJ would hold out his hands as if he he was frustrated with the crowd. Orton would play favorably to the crowd.
It was also in Minneapolis, which is kind of a big market for them. I just think they may flip flop before WrestleMania based off of what I had seen tonight.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 0:12:01 GMT -5
Ehh...Orton is super popular in the Midwest. I feel like if they did the same match in like Greensboro or Atlanta, AJ would have been the face. Both those guys are kind of beyond the traditional face/heel disposition.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 0:12:37 GMT -5
Interesting. I don't really want face Orton, but AJ's so damn stale right now and he's much better as a heel.
Did Orton twerk at all?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 0:16:22 GMT -5
The Midwest is where Orton's from so yeah, they'd be behind him. Mind you the WM crowd will probably be behind Styles more.
It's like Reigns in the South. Even during his most hated days Reigns always went to the South and had a good amount of places cheer him.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Mar 3, 2019 0:16:35 GMT -5
Another note, Mustafa Ali returned and had a barn burner with D Bry.
But yeah, Orton was the face and AJ played the heel.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 3, 2019 0:22:36 GMT -5
I was at the same show, and it might have been based on where you were sitting it seemed more one-sided than it was. While there were a lot of Orton supporters, AJ had a sizable amount of cheers, especially during those closing sequences.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Mar 3, 2019 0:27:09 GMT -5
I was on the floor facing the ramp. Basically behind where the announce tables would be.
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Post by theironyuppie on Mar 3, 2019 0:35:22 GMT -5
Glad to hear Ali's healthy again.  How was the Asuka/Charlotte main event? As an aside, I know they've had some bad luck with injuries on the Raw side, but SDL house shows feel much more stacked in terms of starpower and wrestling. |
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Mar 3, 2019 0:43:55 GMT -5
Glad to hear Ali's healthy again. How was the Asuka/Charlotte main event? As an aside, I know they've had some bad luck with injuries on the Raw side, but SDL house shows feel much more stacked in terms of starpower and wrestling. Asuka and Charlotte was great. Whole show was. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 1:24:19 GMT -5
They actually had a match on SmackDown a couple of years ago. It was pretty good.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 1:28:02 GMT -5
They actually had a match on SmackDown a couple of years ago. It was pretty good. Which is why I have high hopes for their possible WM match. Yeah, Orton has been known to phone it in and AJ hasn't exactly been killing it lately, but it is WM and both have excellent chemistry from what we have seen. |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 3, 2019 1:42:42 GMT -5
It's not too uncommon for wrestlers to play around with the face/heel thing on house shows, especially with vets like Orton and Styles, when they're not getting the originally-intended response from the audience.
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Post by darbus alan on Mar 3, 2019 1:50:17 GMT -5
I remember when I went to a house show at the Izod Center at the Meadowlands and it was a proto-New Day Kofi and Big E with Xavier Woods as their very serious lawyer-ish manager and they were working face against Los Matadores who were working heel.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 2:08:13 GMT -5
I remember when I went to a house show at the Izod Center at the Meadowlands and it was a proto-New Day Kofi and Big E with Xavier Woods as their very serious lawyer-ish manager and they were working face against Los Matadores who were working heel. I always forget that Xavier didn't come up to the main roster as a member of New Day. I can't say I blame myself for forgetting all about that weird ass angle with him, Truth and Tons of Funk. |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 3, 2019 2:16:41 GMT -5
I remember when I went to a house show at the Izod Center at the Meadowlands and it was a proto-New Day Kofi and Big E with Xavier Woods as their very serious lawyer-ish manager and they were working face against Los Matadores who were working heel. I always forget that Xavier didn't come up to the main roster as a member of New Day. I can't say I blame myself for forgetting all about that weird ass angle with him, Truth and Tons of Funk. This was after that, when the New Day first formed (without the team name) and Xavier was all SRS Heel In Suit and it looked like the team was going in an early Nation of Domination direction. |
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 3, 2019 2:38:00 GMT -5
I always forget that Xavier didn't come up to the main roster as a member of New Day. I can't say I blame myself for forgetting all about that weird ass angle with him, Truth and Tons of Funk. This was after that, when the New Day first formed (without the team name) and Xavier was all SRS Heel In Suit and it looked like the team was going in an early Nation of Domination direction. Yeah, he promos to them after losing a match and he’s like “Join me and we’ll set their shit straight”. They have one TV match as a group as kind of intense, serious tweeners, then they go back to singles for a while (which includes that one Rollins v Kingston match that got brought up recently when Vince gave Rollins a serve backstage for not squashing him hard enough), then they’re all taken off TV for the original happy-clappy New Day that was dead in the butt for like four months before they turned heel. Oh, and don’t forget how much we all popped for it because we spent years fantasy booking the “New Nation” any time more than two African-Americans were seen together... officialfan.proboards.com/thread/504245/official-new-nation-thread |
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Post by Chiral on Mar 3, 2019 3:00:27 GMT -5
Damn I was thinking of going to this one, I haven't been to a show since TLC there.
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Post by ayumidah on Mar 3, 2019 4:40:00 GMT -5
Hah Peoria is supposed to get Orton vs AJ on the 17th, I expect the same reaction. He made his official TV debut in Peoria at my first TV taping in 2002.
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Post by Shark on Mar 4, 2019 1:31:49 GMT -5
Glad to hear Ali's healthy again. How was the Asuka/Charlotte main event? As an aside, I know they've had some bad luck with injuries on the Raw side, but SDL house shows feel much more stacked in terms of starpower and wrestling. Asuka and Charlotte was great. Whole show was. I saw Asuka vs Charlotte at a house show in December and it was freaking amazing. |
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How was the Asuka/Charlotte main event?
