The WWE Raw House Show @ The XL Center Open Thread

Also tonight, Cena vs Kane. Kill me.

with great interest

Decent seats for free. Lots a kids. Lots of grown men with title belts. You’ll never get laid that way. Ric Flair had a title and got laid and he never wore the belt to the bar.

I forgot Lesnar/Overeem was tonight. Damnit.

The marks behind me think there won’t be a cage match because it isn’t hanging above the ring. Meanwhile the deconstructed cage is stacked right next to the titantron.

FUCK YOU VINCE!!!

Its the “famous people like our carny shit” video.

Fink is the ring announcer! Win!

I smell an angle hey

Pins Otunga in under minute. Thank. U god

Bella twins ref and timekeeper. And the show falls off a cliff immediately.

Cheap pops away!

Swagger vs Jerry the king lawyer???? Best show EVER!!!!

I hate that guy and I would pay money to see him get his ass whooped. (Which I would have done for CM Punk at Money in the Bank, but I only started following again after hearing all about/watching YouTube clips of that show.)

The girl sitting next to my buddy is annoying. She was heckling Lawler. If she was 13, Lawler would fuck her.

Six man tag. Bunch a losers. Skip it.

More fucking FCW job guys. Things are getting worse by the minute.

Santino wins. Dolph Ziggler and Vicki in the ring. She’s a fucking heat magnet. Old school.

US title match. This has a good shot of not sucking.

Kids and girls love Cena. Ron hates him.

Constructing the cage for the main event. Fink hocking the merch. So far, the good has been good and the bad has been awful. And the people next to me are about to get a full dose of fcmonk heckling rage. The poor parents in front of them are getting beer spilled all over them.

And here we go. Miz. Punk. Whoyagot????

The big one is that i"m no good at live blogging. It’s hard to type into my phone while watching matches, talking to my friend, and yelling at the people around me.

The Good:
- Howard Finkel. The Fink doing the ring announcing really brings me back to those old WWF house shows, back when they ran the civic center once every six weeks, not twice a year.
- Mick Foley. I’m just happy he’s still alive and not doing stupid hardcore shit anymore.
- Kids. Yeah, I know, I’m a hardcore fan and PG wrestling isn’t my thing. But the younger kids really can suspend disbelief far better than us jaded adults. The pops for the near falls, especially in the main event, was great.
- Vicki Guererro. I would fuck her. Did I say that outloud?
- Jerry Lawler. Again, one of the master workers of all time can still do a perfectly acceptable little match.

The Bad:
- The two fuckheads sitting next to me who thought it would be fun to “play wrestling fans”. I was able to verbally shame them into submission by the end, but seriously, if you think you’re too smart for something, first, don’t go and second, you probably aren’t as smart as you think you are.
- Grown men bringing actual wrestling championship belts to wrestling events. Seriously. Even a hooker wouldn’t bang you with that thing hanging off your shoulder.
- The sad state of women’s wrestling. I mean, when you see it live, it’s even worse than on TV. It’s one thing if the kicks are showing light on TV, but when you can see them coming nowhere near the target from five fucking miles away, it’s kind of a joke. Watch old All Japan Women’s matches and you can see that women’s wrestling can actually be entertaining with attractive women who are athletic enough to have good wrestling matches. Just leave this diva shit for Vince’s incest fantasies.
- Too many geek/job-guy matches.
- Dummy me forgot that Lesnar/Overeem is tonight, am too cheap to buy it, and hate hunting for live streams.

So ends the first wrestling thread. Probably the last one too, but hey, I tried.