How do I love Toronto wrestling show crowds?
Let me count the ways:
Two years ago, they ignited the dormant career of Hulk Hogan by booing the Rock at Wrestlemania 18, turning on him in spectacular fashion. This led to a brief nostalgia run with the WWE title and Hogan taking on the young bulls before bowing out as "Mr. America." (He's still around, BTW. 411 this week suggested that he's trying to convince Vince that Ted Turner wants to build a promotion around him so Vince will hire him back)
Tonight, the crowd booed Eugene lustily and chanted the usual "You Screwed Bret" chants. But the twin highlights of their show were both during the dire Undertaker/JBL match. First they began doing the wave during a particularly dull portion of the match. Not for a few seconds, mind you. For at least five minutes. Then they started chanting "Spanish Table" when it looked as though Taker might put JBL through the table. Funny stuff.
The rest of the show was decent, but kind of strange. JBL/Taker ended on a stupid DQ, which was followed up by Taker dropping JBL through a very bad-looking (vinyl)"metal" limo roof. And the Orton/Benoit main event seemed to just end out of nowhere, as though something had happened to one of the participants. (Benoit took a few bumps that looked as though they might be unintentional; a tope suicida looked as though he'd hit his head on the rail instead of getting his hands up, and when he attempted to hit the flying headbutt on Orton, it looked like Orton kicked him in the back of the head.)
In the undercard, HHH beat Eugene in a decent match that included Eugene hitting a pedigree on HHH. Kane beat Matt Hardy, so he gets to "marry" the "pregnant" Lita while Matt goes off for 6-8 months for major knee surgery. Edge beat Jericho and Batista(though Batista wasn't really a factor in the match.) John Cena beat Booker T in the first match of a best of 5 series that will probably continue all the way to Survivor Series. The Dudleys beat London, Kidman and Rey Mysterio in a short and dull match. And there was some stupid crap involving Divas and Dodgeball that isn't worth mentioning.
Overall, not a bad show, just... strange.
--------------------------------------------
TNA is ending its weekly PPV shows in favor of a more WWE-like schedule, with house shows and one Sunday PPV a month. It figures that they'd do this just when I was starting to get into TNA. If they want to get a better audience, they're going to need to turn Impact into a more Raw/SD~!-like show, and less of a Superstars-squashtacular-like show. But I'd say this probably puts paid to my interest in TNA unless they get it going.
Two years ago, they ignited the dormant career of Hulk Hogan by booing the Rock at Wrestlemania 18, turning on him in spectacular fashion. This led to a brief nostalgia run with the WWE title and Hogan taking on the young bulls before bowing out as "Mr. America." (He's still around, BTW. 411 this week suggested that he's trying to convince Vince that Ted Turner wants to build a promotion around him so Vince will hire him back)
Tonight, the crowd booed Eugene lustily and chanted the usual "You Screwed Bret" chants. But the twin highlights of their show were both during the dire Undertaker/JBL match. First they began doing the wave during a particularly dull portion of the match. Not for a few seconds, mind you. For at least five minutes. Then they started chanting "Spanish Table" when it looked as though Taker might put JBL through the table. Funny stuff.
The rest of the show was decent, but kind of strange. JBL/Taker ended on a stupid DQ, which was followed up by Taker dropping JBL through a very bad-looking (vinyl)"metal" limo roof. And the Orton/Benoit main event seemed to just end out of nowhere, as though something had happened to one of the participants. (Benoit took a few bumps that looked as though they might be unintentional; a tope suicida looked as though he'd hit his head on the rail instead of getting his hands up, and when he attempted to hit the flying headbutt on Orton, it looked like Orton kicked him in the back of the head.)
In the undercard, HHH beat Eugene in a decent match that included Eugene hitting a pedigree on HHH. Kane beat Matt Hardy, so he gets to "marry" the "pregnant" Lita while Matt goes off for 6-8 months for major knee surgery. Edge beat Jericho and Batista(though Batista wasn't really a factor in the match.) John Cena beat Booker T in the first match of a best of 5 series that will probably continue all the way to Survivor Series. The Dudleys beat London, Kidman and Rey Mysterio in a short and dull match. And there was some stupid crap involving Divas and Dodgeball that isn't worth mentioning.
Overall, not a bad show, just... strange.
--------------------------------------------
TNA is ending its weekly PPV shows in favor of a more WWE-like schedule, with house shows and one Sunday PPV a month. It figures that they'd do this just when I was starting to get into TNA. If they want to get a better audience, they're going to need to turn Impact into a more Raw/SD~!-like show, and less of a Superstars-squashtacular-like show. But I'd say this probably puts paid to my interest in TNA unless they get it going.
posted by Jon M. at
11:38 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home