Never Again...
Never again will I go to a WWE show for any reason beyond seeing a big name I haven't yet. The Bangor house show was absolutely terrible, from top to bottom. There were only two exceptions. I'll start with those.
Seeing Paul London and the three Mexicools live was fucking great. One of the greats of early ROH and three classics of American lucha libre. Though this was the worst London match I've ever seen, it was still great because I saw him. But since this was a house show I was seeing the super-low-energy version. This was low-low-low end London, London with his spirits dead. But he was there, and he's on my list.
The other highlight was the highlight of the night, Eddie Guerrero vs Rey Mysterio. This was a street fight so Eddie was in his jeans and not wrestling gear. This match was actually a decent, ECW style match. They worked through the crowd, then beat each other down around and in the ring. They made excellent use of the chair, logically working it into the match. By the end of the match, Eddie had bladed and he was fucking bloody. Corino bloody. The mat was stained since he was face down a couple of times. Great stuff here, and really showed you how much these two care about the business since they'll even turn it on for house shows.
Now the rest... oh god the rest. Matches varying from 2 minutes to 8 minutes at most. We were only like 9-10 minutes late and we missed the opening match and half the second match. Worthless show. Even the four way with Benoit, Christian, Booker and that other black guy was bad. Terrible logic, just a bunch of rest holds and finishers. Oh and the triple germans, gotta love those triple germans. The Boogeyman was there, oh god I wanted to laugh at how bad this gimmick seems. A guy in leather pants with facepaint. Oooh I'm shaking like Jacko trying to restrain himself in a preschool. Terrible. Matches not even worth talking about for the most part. Regal vs Scotty, Richards vs Boogeyman, Heidenreich and Animal vs MNM (who both sold like fucking crazy). Real stacked card huh?
The main event was JBL vs Batista. JBL came out and said shit that made me shake in anger, you don't know how much I wanted to run down there and cut his foot off. He is what is wrong with wrestling. A jobber that became king in one week. Absolute bullshit. But it will only get worse with Lesnar coming back... anyway we stayed to see the Trips Belt on Deacon Bautista and then we left, feeling thoroughly ripped off. We had to pay for admission PLUS the price of the ticket. Fucking E, fucking Bangor State Fair.
I'll update my wrestler count list, which is now exclusively my own sadly. I should probably include the guys from the Legends of Wrestling tour, but I can't remember who was there since it happened 2 years ago.
Fuck the E.
Seeing Paul London and the three Mexicools live was fucking great. One of the greats of early ROH and three classics of American lucha libre. Though this was the worst London match I've ever seen, it was still great because I saw him. But since this was a house show I was seeing the super-low-energy version. This was low-low-low end London, London with his spirits dead. But he was there, and he's on my list.
The other highlight was the highlight of the night, Eddie Guerrero vs Rey Mysterio. This was a street fight so Eddie was in his jeans and not wrestling gear. This match was actually a decent, ECW style match. They worked through the crowd, then beat each other down around and in the ring. They made excellent use of the chair, logically working it into the match. By the end of the match, Eddie had bladed and he was fucking bloody. Corino bloody. The mat was stained since he was face down a couple of times. Great stuff here, and really showed you how much these two care about the business since they'll even turn it on for house shows.
Now the rest... oh god the rest. Matches varying from 2 minutes to 8 minutes at most. We were only like 9-10 minutes late and we missed the opening match and half the second match. Worthless show. Even the four way with Benoit, Christian, Booker and that other black guy was bad. Terrible logic, just a bunch of rest holds and finishers. Oh and the triple germans, gotta love those triple germans. The Boogeyman was there, oh god I wanted to laugh at how bad this gimmick seems. A guy in leather pants with facepaint. Oooh I'm shaking like Jacko trying to restrain himself in a preschool. Terrible. Matches not even worth talking about for the most part. Regal vs Scotty, Richards vs Boogeyman, Heidenreich and Animal vs MNM (who both sold like fucking crazy). Real stacked card huh?
The main event was JBL vs Batista. JBL came out and said shit that made me shake in anger, you don't know how much I wanted to run down there and cut his foot off. He is what is wrong with wrestling. A jobber that became king in one week. Absolute bullshit. But it will only get worse with Lesnar coming back... anyway we stayed to see the Trips Belt on Deacon Bautista and then we left, feeling thoroughly ripped off. We had to pay for admission PLUS the price of the ticket. Fucking E, fucking Bangor State Fair.
I'll update my wrestler count list, which is now exclusively my own sadly. I should probably include the guys from the Legends of Wrestling tour, but I can't remember who was there since it happened 2 years ago.
Fuck the E.
