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| #Post#: 9751-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Live Event Results and Discussion | |
| By: Thurl Date: March 6, 2016, 4:28 am | |
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| I am creating this thread as a place to talk about any live | |
| event you attend for any promotion to talk about the matches and | |
| results. I will start with the event I went to this evening. | |
| (Technically Yesterday.) | |
| WWE Live event in Cedar Rapids IA 3/5/16 | |
| Standard Match: The Miz vs AJ Styles. | |
| Winner: AJ Styles Via flying Elbow thing he hasn't named yet. | |
| Somehow, AJ Styles pulled a great match out of Miz. At one | |
| point, AJ was smashing Miz face against each turnbuckle and | |
| after each one hitting a back hand chop. We did the obligatory | |
| Flair woos after each one and on the fourth. Miz stumbled, then | |
| obliged us with the Flair flop. It was one of the best Miz | |
| matches I have ever seen. Also, I enjoyed my first live AJ | |
| Styles match. Wish ROH would come here some time. AJ kicked out | |
| Skull Crushing Finale twice too before hitting his finishing | |
| flying elbow thing. This match was given a decent amount of time | |
| too. Good one despite Miz botching a suplex at one point. | |
| Tag team Match: Darren Young and Jack Swagger vs Social | |
| Outcasts. (Rose and Axel) | |
| Winners: Jack Swagger and Darren Young via Rose tapping to the | |
| Patriot Lock | |
| Didn't know Darren Young was still with the company, but it was | |
| nice to see Swagger and he was fired up for the match. I don't | |
| care a fig for the Social Outcasts but I got a good listen to | |
| their entrance music and they have an awesome song for such a | |
| lack luster team. Also, I found my self surprised to have a mild | |
| mark out for Swagger. Guess he has been off TV for too long. We | |
| the People! | |
| US Title Match: Kalisto vs Wade Barret | |
| Winner and still US Champion: Kalisto via Salida del Sol. | |
| Before this match, Barret delivered a Bad News promo instead of | |
| King Barret, then did not wear the crown or carry the scepter in | |
| his entrance, I thought that was interesting. I didn't like | |
| this match though and not because either wrestler sucked. It was | |
| because it was poorly booked. It was basically a squash of | |
| Kalisto until the last couple minutes when he hit his finisher | |
| to win. That pulled me out of the match and I couldn't enjoy it. | |
| Though the crowd did give a loud Lucha chant, and Barret did get | |
| dueling chants, which may mean a push for him soon if anyone is | |
| paying attention in back. By the way there was one kick that | |
| Barret hit that he gave the loudest smacking sound I ever heard | |
| from a kick. The whole arena groaned for Kalisto. | |
| Triple Threat Tag team title match: New Day vs Usos vs Dudleys | |
| Winners: New Day via roll up or something. | |
| I am not a fan of New Day so I wasn't really invested to heavily | |
| in this one, despite Big E being a University of Iowa graduate. | |
| Though it was nice to see Dudleys live for the first time. No | |
| tables involved. Though there was one nice moment where one of | |
| the Usos flung the face of Xavier Woods face into Bubba's | |
| crotch. Also, Xavier did go through just about everyone slapping | |
| him on his back, hard, including Big E. and that was fun. Could | |
| have been better with tables. Also, New Day came out first. | |
| Finger of Shame, as Tito would say. Also of note, New Day wasted | |
| a good 8-10 minutes with before match antics. Nothing even funny | |
| really and I disconnected until the next team's music hit. | |
| Intermission. | |
| Sheamus vs Neville | |
| Winner: Sheamus via White noise off the second Rope. | |
| This was a fun match despite it being Sheamus. Neville gave | |
| quite the fight to Sheamus, much more than I thought he would. | |
| Match was decently back and fourth and not a squash. Neville got | |
| his airtime but not his finisher. Solid match in the end and we | |
| did chant to Sheamus that he looked stupid. Though I had the | |
| misfortune of sitting next to Sheamus marks. Didn't expect | |
| Sheamus since it was reported he was injured the previous night | |
| in Minneapolis. | |
| Diva's title: Charlotte vs Becky Lynch | |
| Winner: Charlotte via roll up and a handful of Becky's tights. | |
| I wondered going into this one if the women would be a bit more | |
| aggressive and more like I hear they were on NXT for this match, | |
| but really they weren't. Like much of the rest of the show, they | |
| wrestled light, like they were being overly careful for no one | |
| to get injured. (Speaking of which, Charlotte's nose is | |
| apparently fine.) Nothing special really for this match, just | |
| phoning it in I guess. | |
| Main event: IC Title match Kevin Owens vs Dean Ambrose | |
| Winner: Ambrose via DQ. (Owens had Ambrose in a corner and the | |
| ref counted to five and he didn't stop.) | |
| Didn't expect Ambrose, since on Raw Owens has been facing Big | |
| Show. I am a Steen mark for his ROH days. (He is neutered by the | |
| PG thing.) Again, I wish ROH would tour closer to hear than | |
| Chicago. So it was nice to see him for the first time too. He | |
| seemed shorter than I expected too. This match was pretty good. | |
| Nothing to write home about though. Ambrose sold a bad landing | |
| off the top turnbuckle and before I realized it was a work, I | |
| thought he may be joining Rollins on the sidelines. There was | |
| lots of flying Ambrose, which is always nice. This match took us | |
| over the 10pm time too and we didn't get out until closer to | |
| 10:30. The finish came when Owens got himself dq's. He then | |
| through a hissy fit and was yelling at the ref on the mic and | |
| made sure to announce that he was still the IC champion even | |
| though Ambrose won. Ambrose got the last laugh though when as | |
| Owens was going on and on, He caught Owens with a Dirty Deeds to | |
| send us home happy. Solid match from these two. | |
| All in all a good show, given that Ambrose and AJ Styles were | |
| the only A players on the card really. This was my first event | |
| where they set up a titantron too, which made me happy cause | |
| Titantrons make it better. I only have one complaint and that is | |
| that WWE only had ONE merch stand as far as I can tell, and the | |
| people running it were turtles. I almost missed the opening | |
| match entrances while waiting to get my merch. (AJ Styles shirt | |
| and Ambrose chain.) I was also dismayed that they raised the | |
| shirt price from 25 to 30 dollars. Ah well, still got the things | |
| I wanted, and it was cool to see they had replica Money in the | |
| Bank Breifcases and lunch boxes for sale. I guess the only other | |
| complaint I could have is some lazy booking presented itself as | |
| they pulled the 'screw this I quit' walk off at least three | |
| times with the face running out to drag them back in. | |
| Match of the night: Miz vs AJ. None of the rest lived up to it. | |
| Biggest pop of the night: AJ Styles, of course. With Swagger | |
| getting the second biggest pop, of all people. Third being | |
| Neville, then Barret with his dueling chants. | |
| Biggest Boo: Miz. No contest. | |
| Longest match: Miz/AJ | |
| Shortest Match: Divas. | |
| Biggest Merch mover: Kevin Owens. For the first time, I saw less | |
| than five Cena shirts in the crowd from where I was. New Day did | |
| OK too as dd the WWE tour shirt, and Styles's shirt. Usos would | |
| be a close third place seller. | |
| #Post#: 12260-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Live Event Results and Discussion | |
| By: Thurl Date: February 27, 2017, 12:12 am | |
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| Live event Road to Wrestlemania 2/26/17 | |
| SmackdownLive brand. | |
| For a nose bleeder, my seat was not bad at all. I could see | |
| almost all the way around the ring. The only things I didn't | |
| care for were the giants sitting around me. To my right was a | |
| guy so bit that I had to lean to my left to give him room. | |
| Directly behind me, another giant that if I leaned all the way | |
| back in my chair, my head would have been between his knees | |
| cause they stuck that far out. Not the most comfortable seat, | |
| but the view of the action was good. Speaking of the action... | |
| Opening Match: Heath Slater and Rhyno vs The Ascension | |
| Winners: Heath Slater and Rhyno, | |
| Not a bad match at all. It was my first time seeing Rhyno | |
| perform live and he was all about livening up the crowd if we | |
| got quiet. And of course. Some old people like me were in the | |
| audience because Rhyno got ECW chants. This was the best | |
| performance I have seen out of Ascension. But for me, I have | |
| only seen them outside of NXT. The finish came with a Gore from | |
| Rhyno which I marked out for just a little bit. | |
| Second match: Kalisto vs Kurt Hawkins. | |
| Winner: Kalisto | |
| Iowa likes lucha and we proved with giving the lucha chant | |
| almost the most pop for the night. It was a good outing for | |
| Kalisto, and no botches. Ending came with Kalisto's finisher | |
| which I can never remember the name of. . I don't care much for | |
| this current Kurt Hawkins. I liked him much,much better as an | |
| edge head. Except for the kids chanting lucha, the crowd was | |
| fairly dead for this match. | |
| Match 3: Women's match for the Smackdown women's championship. | |
| Becki Lynch vs Carmela (With James Ellsworth) vs Natalia vs | |
| Tamina Snuka vs Alexa Bliss. | |
| Winner" Alexa Bliss retained, (Because they never have title | |
| changes at live shows.) | |
| From the seat I had Bliss look 3 feet tall. Tiny woman. I will | |
| admit I marked out for the first seconds of Natalia's theme | |
| cause it reminds me so much of her Uncle Bret's music. Then it | |
| fade because she is still Natalia. All the women got their | |
| chances to shine. Tamina wasn't as dominant as I would have | |
| booked her. (I would have booked her almost Nia Jax Dominant. ) | |
| Lots of good spots hit. Match was ok but towards the end I did | |
| start dozing until action picked up for the finish. I can't | |
| remember what the finish was due to coming out of a fog of | |
| dozing off. | |
| Match 5: The Miz (With Maryse) vs Dean Ambrose for the | |
| International Title. | |
| Winner: Dean Ambose (Because title changes are saved for the | |
| camera only.) | |
| This was a solid match for both. It started with Miz running his | |
| mouth to get the boos really going. The Boos were so loud that I | |
| couldn't hear him yell that he is the Miz and he is ... Dean | |
| Ambrose music hits to cut him off and he gets a thank you | |
| Ambrose chant cause Miz was going on for a while. One highlight | |
| is that at one point, Miz played the crowed with out having to | |
| say a word. He put the mic to his mouth and we booed. He put it | |
| in front of Eden or whatever her name is that was announcing, | |
| and we cheered. In front of himself, boos. In front of maryse, | |
| mixed. Back to Eden Cheers. Back to Maryse, boos. Not the | |
| biggest Miz fan, but he made it fun. Match was as good as I | |
| would expect to see on TV. | |
| Match 6 Tag Team Triple Threat for the Smackdown Tag titles. | |
| American Alpha vs Breezango vs Usos. | |
| Winners: American Alpha of course. | |
| This Match was not as good as the opening match and I blame | |
| breezango. I would much rather have seen Slater/Rhyno in this | |
| match instead of Breezango. This match was a bit of a snoozer | |
| too and hard to get into until the Usos got in. It was nice to | |
| see them wrestle again. American Alpha got the win with their | |
| double team finisher. | |
| Match 7 Dolph Ziggler vs Apollo Crews. | |
| Dead crowd for this match. Ziggler was gettng a heavy reaction | |
| from the crowd instead of the boos he is trying to get. Crowd | |
| was dead because Apollo barely engaged us. Ziggler carried the | |
| match for sure. Apollo did get a decent pop for his entrance, | |
| too bad he didn't keep the fans tuned in during the match. | |
| Main event: WWE Championship Match | |
| This was advertised as a triple Threat of AJ Styles vs Cena vs | |
| Wyatt. Instead we got a 4 way dance between John Cena vs Bray | |
| Wyatt vs Luke Harper vs Baron Corbin. Disappointing that AJ | |
| Styles did not show. No Orton either, but since they were here | |
| in Iowa I suspect he was vising his family in St Louis Mo. | |
| Winner: Bray Wyatt retains because no titles change hands at | |
| house shows | |
| This was the second best match of the night. I liked the opener | |
| better. Cena got a massive pop that devolved into the dueling | |
| Cena chants eventually. Like the women's match, everyone got a | |
| chance to shine and it was good back and forth between the faces | |
| and the heels. Its different seeing Luke Harper play the good | |
| guy for a change. He had a hell of a time trying for face pops | |
| but he was getting some. There was a good stare down moment | |
| between Harper and Wyatt and they brawled each other as Cena | |
| went after Corbin to start the match. It took a short time for | |
| Baron to clear the ring and dominate the other three. Harper | |
| sent him hard into a guard rail and he responded by sending | |
| harper hard into the ring steps. Lots of back and forth like I | |
| said which came to the end with a low blow from Wyatt to Cena | |
| for the three. This brought boos. Then Wyatt got on the mic said | |
| he hated Cena, and offered to end the career of John Cena right | |
| here tonight. He got out a table and set it up in the ring with | |
| intentions of putting Cena through it. At the last moment Super | |
| Cena recovered and put Wyatt (the Champ) through the table to | |
| send us home happy. I was almost hoping for an AJ Styles | |
| interruption, but that didn't happen. By the way, a Tito finger | |
| of shame to wwe for Wyatt coming out first. The rest of the | |
| champs came out last. I will say it was pretty damn amazing to | |
| see Bray;s entrance live though. | |
| All in all an OK show, but not the best I have ever seen. (Its | |
| hard to beat a show with MnM vs the Hardys.) | |
| Pop of the night. Cena, followed by Ambrose and Wyatt in a tie | |
| and bring up third: Lucha Lucha Lucha! yep. | |
| Biggest boo: Should have been someone in the main event Like | |
| Corbin, but Miz owned it tonight. Close second to the Usos. | |
| Though the Uso's did have a few peopel doing the Us... Os.... | |
| chant. | |
| Match of the night: Slater/Rhyno vs Ascension, for me, but over | |
| all Ambrose vs Miz. | |
| Worst match of the night: Crews vs Ziggler. Even though I | |
| started to doze during the women. | |
| Merch stand: Meh, pretty dissapointing seeing as I have some of | |
| the shirts they are still selling, plus they had like 5 cena | |
| shirts and a couple of Raw branded shirts. (Certified G, Roman | |
| Reigns and New Day) Didn't see any Booty Os but they did have | |
| money in the bank breifcases. Which are cool. I ended up getting | |
| a Bray Wyatt shirt but wish I would have chosen the Undertaker | |
| one they had now. | |
| Also there were a couple of dude outside the arena trying to | |
| sell bootleg wwe shirts for $15. WWE was selling for $35 a peice | |
| inside. | |
| Best seller, I gotta say was probably Cena or AJ for shirts. But | |
| the Yes! foam fingers did bank tonight. Daniel Bryan should be | |
| happy. I did see a few kids walking around with Roman Reigns | |
| arm cuffs too. A | |
| Despite being slightly underwhelming. I still enjoyed myself. | |
| #Post#: 13189-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Live Event Results and Discussion | |
| By: Best in the World Date: September 12, 2017, 10:27 pm | |
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| On August 26 of this year I went to a house show (live event) | |
| here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I enjoyed it. Figured I'd post | |
| the results here in order to contribute to this site a little | |
| bit. | |
| WWE SmackDown Live Event in Baton Rouge, LA | |
| Match 01 | |
| Sami Zayn def. Baron Corbin | |
| I missed most of this match. I was too busy purchasing $90 worth | |
| of mercy at the stand. It sounds cool but it only translates to | |
| two AJ Styles snap backs and two shirts. That's what $90 gets | |
| you at these events. Ridiculous. Zayn won with a Helluva Kick. | |
| Missed like 90% of it. | |
| Match 02 | |
| The Hype Bros def. Primo & Aiden English | |
| Aiden English was a MASSIVE heat magnet. His performance was | |
| honestly among my favorite parts of the show. Everyone was | |
| booing him. The match was meh though. | |
| Match 03 | |
| Rusev def. Sin Cara | |
| Rusev is a BIG BOY in real life. He's quite massive. Not a bad | |
| match, either. Sun Cara wore really cool attire. Sin Cara | |
| tapped to the Camel Clutch. | |
| Match 04 | |
| AJ Styles def. Kevin Owens in a Street Fight to retain the US | |
| Title | |
| Best match of the night (obviously). KO did a solid job of | |
| talking trash to everyone in the River Center and AJ faced it | |
| up. The ending saw KO powerbombed through a table. AJ Styles | |
| gave me a two sweet after the match so I'm pretty sure that | |
| means I'm cooler than most people in the world. | |
| INTERMISSION | |
| Match 05 | |
| Charlotte & Becky Lynch def. Lana & Tamina | |
| These women are even more attractive in real life. I had seats | |
| at ringside and I just happened to be sitting on the seat right | |
| behind Charlotte as she waited for a tag. MY GAWD! I had the | |
| best view in the house. Charlotte and Becky might actually be | |
| the two most attractive humans my naked eye has ever seen! Lana | |
| was not bad either. She danced on a chair during her entrance so | |
| that was hot. The match was a mess though. | |
| Match 06 | |
| The Usos def. The New Day & Breezango to retain the tag titles | |
| This match was awesome! I went with my non-wrestling-watching | |
| friend and he loved this match the most. It was super | |
| entertaining. Didn't beat the AJ/KO match in my view but came | |
| close. It's just this was more a spectacle while the US Title | |
| match was an actual match. | |
| MAIN EVENT | |
| Jinder Mahal def. Shinsuke Nakamura to retain the WWE Title | |
| I hate to say it but this match was boring. The crowd was spent | |
| by this point and the match itself was just off and uninspired. | |
| Also, Shinsuke seemed like he was not giving it his all out | |
| there. His punches weren't landing half the time and he just | |
| went with it. I know this must've been a nothing show to him but | |
| come on, I paid near $300 for my seat. Give me the goods! Jinder | |
| had a very boring promo before the match, it was just bad. | |
| Shinsuke did high five me afterwards though. | |
| I got a two sweet from AJ and one from Byron Saxton (he hosted | |
| the show), Shinsuke gave me a high five, and Charlotte held my | |
| hand (more like grazed it but I'll take what I can get). It was | |
| a good night. Like I said best match was AJ/KO. Most boos was | |
| English. Loudest cheer was Shinsuke. Most meh was Primo. Laziest | |
| eye was Becky. And sexiest bod was Charlotte. | |
| #Post#: 14009-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Live Event Results and Discussion | |
| By: Thurl Date: March 4, 2018, 11:37 pm | |
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| It seems when WWE comes around, it always falls to this time of | |
| year. I had a lot of memory posts of facebook the last week of | |
| WWE events I have gone to. Tonight I attented another. WWE Live: | |
| Road to Wrestlemania. (AKA Smackdown Live Show.) | |
| This event was adervtised to start at 5pm., which is a bit | |
| earlier than their norm of 7pm. No big deal though, I like the | |
| idea of earlier. I got there about 4:30ish, as time got away | |
| from me, and parking was unusually easy for cutting it so close. | |
| I still had to wait a good 20 minutes at least to get into the | |
| arena. This time instead of metal detector wands they had the | |
| walk through style. A first for me. Did that and was fine. | |
| Before taking my seat I checked the merch tables. There was a | |
| small one when I first walked in, with the big one around the | |
| bend in the middle of the concourse, and it was of course | |
| packed. I checked out what they had and as usual, they had Cena | |
| and Roman Reigns. They also had Bobby Roode, Randy Orton, AJ | |
| Styles, the Sheild. tour, and random multi supsterstar shirts. | |
| The only Women's division shirt I saw was Bayley. I went back to | |
| the smaller table as it had no lines and picked up a blue P! AJ | |
| Styles House that AJ Styles built shirt. I wanted the red P1 but | |
| they didn't have my size. Note: the new Orton shirt is pretty | |
| cool looking. | |
| After that I went to find my seat, the last time I had been to | |
| this particular arena was the last time WWE came around so I | |
| wasn't exactly sure where I was to sit. I found an usher and | |
| asked where I was to go, she pointed me to my seat and down I | |
| sat and it was may 3 minutes and I feel what seems like a drip | |
| on my elbow I look behind me and come to find out a kid two rows | |
| up dropped his cup a soda. The guy behind me got his pants and | |
| chair soaked and it missed me except for that one drip, though a | |
| bit later I saw the soda running down the floor at my feet. Just | |
| as the lights went out for the show to start a guy comes up and | |
| says you have my seat. I said no I don and showed my ticket to | |
| him. He showed me his. I had a riser seat and got shown to a | |
| balcony seat in error. First for me. So I got up and found a | |
| different usher and got to the correct seat. The kid sitting | |
| next to me was fun to listed to all night, as he marked out for | |
| the matches and predicted the endings. It's still real to him, | |
| for sure. | |
| Anyways on to the matches. | |
| Match One: Fatal Fourway for the Smackdown Tag Titles | |
| The New Day vs Shelton Benjamin/Chad Gable vs Rusev Day, vs Usos | |
| Winners: Usos | |
| I missed the beginning of this match due to the wrong seat | |
| debacle, but it was pretty good. Rusev Day got the biggest pop | |
| of the match and New Day were extra extra goofy too. Big E, the | |
| Iowa native got his spot to shine in the losing effort too. | |
| Match Two: One on One Match | |
| Tye Dillinger vs Mojo Rowley | |
| Winner: Mojo Rowley with help from the ropes. | |
| I got bored partly through this match and started looking at | |
| facebook. The crowd wasn't terribly into it. But the pops were | |
| good for Tye. Nojo did get decent heat before the crowd got | |
| bored too. I will say too that Mojo, entrance music is pretty | |
| damned good. Though it outshines him a bit more than it should. | |
| Match Three: Tag Team Match | |
| Breezango vs Bludgeon Brothers | |
| Winners: Bludgeon Brothers in a squash. | |
| The Bludgeon Bothers entrance was way better live than on TV. I | |
| think they are grooming Luke Harper and Eric Rowan to be the | |
| next Brothers of Destruction type team since both Kane and Taker | |
| have one foot out the door at this point, and they have had a | |
| creative fail with Bray Wyatt. Good stuff despite the Squash. | |
| There was a bit of backstage shenanigans with Breezango but I | |
| blinked and missed it. | |
| Match Four: | |
| Jinder Mahal vs Sin Cara | |
| Winner: Jinder Mahal, another squash | |
| Of note: 'Lil Naitch' Charles Robinson was the ref and he would | |
| go one to ref about every other match the rest of the night. | |
| When he made the count out it looked and sounded like he pounded | |
| the mat four times before calling for the bell. Felt like a ref | |
| botch to me but the result was not affected. Sing brother did | |
| make the usual intro for Jinder Mahal. Also of note, isnt Sin | |
| Cara on 205Live? | |
| Match 5: Naomi, and Becki Lynch vs Carmella and Lana vs Riot | |
| Squad minus Ruby Riot | |
| Winners: Naomi and Becki Lynch. | |
| Notes: About what you would see on Smackdown Live. Not bad, but | |
| not the best match of the night either. It was nice to see | |
| Carmella do something for a change though. | |
| Match Six: US Title Match | |
| Randy Orton vs Bobby Roode. | |
| Winner: No contest due to Jinder Mahal interference. | |
| Notes: Orton got a huge pop and the chants were more for him | |
| than Roode. Kid next to me was a Roode mark and was not crazy | |
| about the interference but when Orton got to his feet and RKO'd | |
| both Roode and Mahal to the number two mens pop of the night, he | |
| flipped the birds to the ring. And His parents got on him for | |
| it. Lol. | |
| Match Seven: SD Womens Title | |
| Charlotte Flair vs Ruby Riot Vs Natty | |
| Winner and Still Champ, Charlotte Flair | |
| Notes: Wasn't excited to see Natty in this match, hope that | |
| doesn't mean she will be in the title match at Mania too. | |
| Charlotte spent most of the match getting beat down by the other | |
| two but mounted a comeback toward the end to retain. There was a | |
| good moment where Charlotte tossed Natty into the waiting feet | |
| of Ruby and Natty was driven face first into a turn buckle. | |
| Match Eight: Standard One on One | |
| Nakamura vs Dolph Ziggler. | |
| Winner: Nakamura. | |
| Notes: Damned good match. But you would expect that from these | |
| two. Ziggler got the biggest pop from the women of the the | |
| night. Nakamura got a big pop when he came out, but I couldn't | |
| tell if anyone else was singing along to his theme as the music | |
| was so loud I could barely hear myself, let alone everyone else. | |
| Match Nine: Main event for the WWE Championionship | |
| AJ Styles vs Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn vs Baron Corbiin. | |
| Winner and still WWE Champion: AJ Styles of course. | |
| Notes: Kid next to me predicted AJ losing as it was all heels vs | |
| him and they played that for the first part of the match as | |
| Owens and Zayn teamed up to take out everyone first. Ziggler and | |
| Cena were the two absent of the 6 pack challenge here. It was a | |
| decent main event and kept everyone's attention. Aj took so long | |
| to leave that by the time they came out to say thanks for | |
| coming, the arena had mostly already cleared out. | |
| Two notes of the night: All the faces signed autographs as they | |
| headed to the back, but Orton was asked to sign a Cena shirt. He | |
| took the time to cross out Cena's face and name before signing | |
| his on it. Good LoL there. | |
| Also before things got going and while I was sitting in the | |
| wrong seat, we got treated to a replaying of HBK vs Kurt Angle | |
| at Mania match. Good stuff. | |
| Pop of the night: Men: AJ Styles, but not by muich, Orton, | |
| Nakamura and Rusev were right there with him. Women: Charlotte | |
| by a landslide. | |
| Boo of the night: Jinder mahal. enough said. No one got more | |
| heat than he did. | |
| Top selling shirt from what I saw in the audience: Cena. But | |
| there were a lot of Shield shirts sold too. I saw a good bit of | |
| Rusev shirts and I think I was the only one wearing Nakamura | |
| tonight. I am pretty sure a couple people at least bought | |
| Orton's new shirt too. Also, New-Days Unicorns sold very very | |
| well tonight. | |
| So that was it. Almost every match was a group match, hope thats | |
| not a sign of the future.. Good show tonight. | |
| #Post#: 14353-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Live Event Results and Discussion | |
| By: Thurl Date: June 17, 2018, 11:39 pm | |
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| [center][font=impact]06/16/2018[/font][/center] | |
| Yes, I went to a Smackdown live event last night, I was just too | |
| damned busy to write my usual recap/report for it last night so | |
| here it is for all whom are interested: | |
| The first thing of note is that we were foisted with Byron | |
| Saxton doing all the announcing for the night. Yay. Not sure | |
| what Dubuque IA did to be punished like that. Hoever up until 5 | |
| minutes to the first bell the stands looked very empty they | |
| suddenly filled in allright just before the first bell. My seat, | |
| which was the closest seat I have ever had to the ring, was | |
| actually a bleacher not unlike what they had in my highschool. | |
| Nothing to lean back on, and not remotely comfortable. I paid | |
| medium price for my seat so it was not even the cheapest ones, | |
| which is annoying. Not to mention the space between bleacher | |
| rows was narrow enough that every time the dude sitting behind | |
| me moved he bumped my back with something. (WWE Merch bag, | |
| shorts pant leg etc) I guess its not WWE's fault if the venue | |
| doesn't have comfortable seats all around. Anywho, on to the | |
| matches... | |
| First match: Tag Match | |
| New Day vs The Bar | |
| Winners: New Day | |
| Notes: No Pancakes. I am ready for the Bar to break up as I miss | |
| the Cesaro Section, and his nice tear away suit entrance. | |
| Singles Match | |
| Tye Dillinger vs Shelton Benjamin. | |
| Winner: Shelton Benjamin | |
| Notes: This was not as athletic as I thought it would be seeing | |
| as Shelton Benjamin was in it, But it was my first time seeing | |
| Shelton live so that was cool in its self. This match caused the | |
| audience to die for a bit as no one was really into either | |
| wrestler. | |
| Tag Match | |
| Rusev Dav (Rusev and English) vs Sanity | |
| Winners: Rusev Day via DQ. | |
| Notes: Oddly, I found myself rooting and almost marking for | |
| Sanity. I don't watch next so this was my first time seeing them | |
| in action. Rusev was about to make one of them tap out with the | |
| Accolade, but the third member of Sanity interfered causing the | |
| DQ. | |
| Fatal Fourway for the US Title | |
| Miz, vs Samoa Joe vs Nakamura vs Jeff Hardy(C) | |
| Winner: Jeff Hardy. | |
| Notes: They had a new Jeff Hardy shirt that said immune to fear. | |
| I wanted that shirt but they didn't have it in 2X do to sell out | |
| or not bringing enough. Jeff was good as usual. This was my | |
| second time seeing Joe in person, I first saw him a couple years | |
| ago in the same arena. Wrestling with Double J Jeff Jarrett for | |
| TnA. Whose live show was 10 times better than what they had on | |
| TV for whatever reason at the time. | |
| Singles Match | |
| Cien Andre Almos vs Sin Cara | |
| Winner: Cien Andre Almos | |
| Notes: His woman manager whose name I don't know inerupted Byron | |
| and announced Cien. This match died harder than Benjamin vs | |
| Dillinger. The kids in the audience were all about the Lucha | |
| chants but got drowned out by the boos and no one paying | |
| attention. I would call this one the piss break match of the | |
| night. | |
| Triple Threat Tag Team match for the SD Tag Titles | |
| Usos vs Gallows and Anderson vs Bludgeon Brothers. | |
| Winners: Bludgeons. | |
| Notes: For what ever reason the Bludgeons spent the first 3 or 4 | |
| minutes standing outside the ring and watching everyone else | |
| beat each other up. Then they came in and cleaned house and got | |
| the win a bit later. Also it was not hammer time tonight as the | |
| Bludgeons came out empty handed. Luke Harper did bay like he did | |
| in the Wyatt family at one point though. | |
| Main event of the night: | |
| Daniel Bryan vs Big CAss | |
| Winner: Daniel Bryan | |
| Notes: The last time I saw Bryan live was in a cage match | |
| against Kane. It was good stuff. This was good too. Cass got | |
| into it and did the heel things to draw the audiences to booing | |
| and he did good. He got on his knees at one point and did the | |
| yes chant to mock Daniel Bryan while knee walking around the | |
| ring. | |
| Final Notes: | |
| Pop of the Night: Who touches the Yes Movement these days? | |
| Honorable mention to Joe though. Dubuque likes Samoa Joe. | |
| Boo of the Night: It was kinda a tie between all the heels but I | |
| think Miz gets the nod, only barely. | |
| Match of the night was Main Eve | |
| Worst match of the night: Cien vs Cara. It was a stinker because | |
| no one was really into Cien. | |
| If you didn't notice there was not a single Womens match on the | |
| card for this evening. No idea why. I was slightly disappointed | |
| none of the woman were there to be honest. We also got a replay | |
| of Angle/Rousey vs Triple H/Stephanie from Mania. They were | |
| playing WWE top ten videos leading up to the first bell and | |
| during the intermission and they showed clips I didn't expect | |
| featuring CM Punk, and AJ Lee, so that was cool. | |
| Despite no women it was an ok card, nothing great outside the | |
| main event and the triple threat tag match and the fatal fourway | |
| was pretty good too. They were protecting the talent for MITB | |
| and phoning it in. The only other disappointment I had is that | |
| AJ Styles was advertised and no showed. This is the second event | |
| I have gone too in the last four months he was advertised for | |
| and didn't show up. Fail to AJ Styles. | |
| #Post#: 14663-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Live Event Results and Discussion | |
| By: Thurl Date: November 26, 2018, 11:57 pm | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| So I guess my interest in WWE has waned enough that I nearly | |
| spaced off that I bought a ticket to tonight�s event. My | |
| interest was already low as I considered skipping altogether. I | |
| compromised and bought a cheap nose bleeder seat. Not worth the | |
| full ticket price for anything lower down or closer to the ring. | |
| Tonight after work though, I went to my chiropractor, then got | |
| gas, came home and started a load of laundry, wrote my rent | |
| check and turned on the TV before I remembered I was supposed to | |
| be somewhere tonight. | |
| I got to the show just fine event thoough I got stuck behind | |
| someone who wanted to drive under the speed limit. After getting | |
| in, hitting the merch table to see what�s new, (They had the | |
| Hardy shirt this time.) I took my spot. My view was nice I could | |
| see the floor all the way around the ring. and the whole ring | |
| ramp. I was looking at RAW results while waiting for the show to | |
| start when an usher spots me and tells me that I have to talk to | |
| another usher to get a new ticket as everyone in nose bleed | |
| section was getting moved to lower seats. I was annoyed, I | |
| specially chose my seat as a front row seat that would not only | |
| allow me easy escape to the restroom should I need it, but also | |
| so that I would not be blocked by someone�s big head in the | |
| middle of my view. | |
| I get my new ticket and its main level. A seat o the floor that | |
| was probably a good $50 more than what I had spent on my nose | |
| bleeder seat. I guess they couldn�t fill in the area around the | |
| ring enough with sales so just decided to move people to better | |
| seats. After getting help to figure out where exactly the new | |
| seat would be (US Celluar Seating arrangements are a nightmare | |
| on the lower levels. But they were a little better this time.) I | |
| take my seat between two people who are not on the small size. I | |
| had to squeeze my chubby self in like a sardine. In front of me | |
| a tall kid blocking my view. Mostly. Yay. Every time the crowd | |
| popped and stood up, I could no longer see the ring and if | |
| action spilled out to the floor, forget it I saw nothing. Oh | |
| well, I saw enough to enjoy the night. On to the matches. | |
| First match: Tag Title match | |
| The bar vs New Day (With Pancakes, which they need to stop with) | |
| with Lil Naitch as ref. He reffed about 90% of the matches | |
| tonight. | |
| Winners: The Bar retained. I missed the finish because everyone | |
| stood up. | |
| Next: Singles match Shelton Benjamin vs Aiden English (Its Aiden | |
| Night you know.) | |
| Winner: Shelton Benjamin in about 90 seconds. Then Aiden demands | |
| a rematch and the bell is rang Shelton hits his finisher and | |
| 1,2,3 over. Waste of time on the card really, but Aiden then | |
| attacks Shelton with the help of the colons,. The Good Brothers | |
| who are apparently faces now, (When did that happen?) Make the | |
| save and now we have a six man match. | |
| Shelton and Good Brothers vs Aiden and Colons. | |
| Winners: Shelton and good Brothers with the Brothers finisher. | |
| Good match. Crowd ate it up. | |
| Next Womens tag match. Lana and Carmella vs IIconics. The | |
| IIconics came out and did easy heel stuff talking smack about | |
| the city and Lana came out and told them to Sha tup. Then | |
| promptly quit using the accent the rest of the night. | |
| Winners: IIconnics via tap out to Lana using the Acolade. (Lana | |
| Crush!) a Surprisingly good match. | |
| Charlotte comes out next and talks smack on Rousey for a bit, | |
| then asks who is she beating tonight? Answer: Asuka�s theme. | |
| (Which is awesome live b y the way.) So we get a rematch from | |
| this years Mania in Charlotte vs Asuka. These women tore the | |
| house down. I swear they were given a good 45 minutes(Possible | |
| exageration, but I don�t think so) and they fought the match | |
| like it was a mania match. They went way harder then you would | |
| ever expect for a house show. Asuka�s mask was so crazy tonight, | |
| I almost thought she let Jeff Hardy paint her face. | |
| Winner: Charlotte was ready for Asuka again, But Asuka did NOT | |
| make it easy by any means. | |
| At this point I have to look to my left as the woman a few sears | |
| down is losing her mind at the ring for these matches like I | |
| usually see small kids do. Still real to her dammit. One woman | |
| even asked if she was ok, lol. | |
| Next match: Jeff Hardy vs Randy Orton | |
| Winner: Randy Orton via RKO not so out of nowhere. Kinda a | |
| surprise as I expected a face win for Hardy.Jeff looked like he | |
| was in the best shape he has been in in a long time. No limping | |
| or whincing or any signs that he was in any pain. It was nice to | |
| see. | |
| Intermission. This is when me and a guy a couple seats over | |
| notice a puddle on the floor that neither of us could figure out | |
| the origin of. | |
| Next match: R-Truth, (whom since he was rocking Jorts and kicks | |
| tonight shall be rechistened as R-Cena from here on out), vs | |
| Cien Andrade Alma | |
| Winner: R-Cena. Truth did get one hell of a pop. Dude is like a | |
| modern day Roddy Piper. No big title reigns under his belt but | |
| always is over with the crowd and getting pops and having some | |
| of the best segments of everyone despite the lack of gold. | |
| Next match: US Championship Triple Threat (Not sure if this was | |
| a hint of things to come.) | |
| Samoa Joe vs Rusev vs Nakamura | |
| Winner: Nakamura via Kin sasha to rusev.. Because titles rarely | |
| ever change hands at house shows. The crowd really wanted to | |
| sing along with Nakamura�s theme but the rap and stuff got in | |
| the way of that. at some point they need to give him back the | |
| original theme. Its still over. | |
| Main event: Non Title match The Miz vs AJ Styles (Who I am glad | |
| showed up this time.) | |
| Winner: Styles of course with the Phenominal elbow. AJ did have | |
| some fun as Miz took off his jacket, head band and glasses he | |
| handed them to AJ to put them on on the sly behind Miz�s back. | |
| Miz turned around and was not happy with AJ who mocked Miz in | |
| his gear. Miz for his part pressed every heel button and played | |
| it perfectly. He has come a long ways in his career. | |
| Worst match of the night: Shelton vs Aiden matches. Too short, | |
| waste of Benjamin�s athleticism. Aiden is way over due for a new | |
| entrance video. | |
| Best match of the night: Asuka vs Charlotte. By a wide margin. | |
| Biggest Pop: Tie between Charlotte, Asuka and AJ Styles. Truth | |
| was just barely less pop then them. | |
| Biggest boo of he night: Is it ever not the Miz? | |
| Merch: I am not sure if anyone outsold anyone else. I think I | |
| saw more new day shirts than not. Two of people in front of me | |
| had Shane O Mac shirts that I did not see on the merch stand. I | |
| saw a lot of Jeff Hardy arm bands and at least a couple Cena | |
| shirts out there too. | |
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