Bryan Danielson defends against Roderick Strong: What time will this start? 11:15 ish? What time will it end? 5:40 Tuesday evening. I mean, I’m sure this is going to be a fine fine match, but I’m also sure I will hate everything by the time I get to my car and figure how I’m going to stay awake for the ride home.
I was so wrong.
It started at 11:50 pm.
The hating everything, that’s oh so true. I’m thinking only Danielson could’ve worked an old school 60 minute draw style match in front of that crowd at that time (and even then, 25% of the crowd went home during the match)
Brian will be happy to know that the DG guys were not only good, but they were great and awesome and match of the night and worth the price of admission and a million other superlatives. Even in a smart crowd, I’d say 2/3rds of them had no idea who they were and by the end, they figured out they were number one and the best.
If I was any smart, I would’ve just gone home at intermission.
Could someone buy the good people at ROH a map? Chicago is not Trenton. Chicago is not West Philadelphia. Chicago is not Plymouth, Mass. Chicago is Chicago, and I’m not sure why in Chicago we’d care about Over Glorified East Coast Indy Group hating Over Glorified East Coast Indy Group, much less want to see THREE SKITS OF IT (complete with subtle and possibly unintentional lucha bashing – that touches me right here). Homicide pointing his NY Yankees wristband once was far more compelling and a far better heat getter than CZW and ROH.
If you buy, say, 8th row and back tickets at ROH, don’t expect to actually see the mat at any time and get ready to stand up and look thru people when things get going – make sure you get bleachers. It’s annoying and like not bothering to indicate row/seat numbers (or even line up the chairs in a reasonable fashion), it’s a little thing they’re not going to bother with.
Other things that made my day
– BJ Whitmer NOT wrestling
– Jimmy Yang doing the Rock pose. What an extra special tag team, him and Claudio. (So of course they lose.)
– Danielson grabbing the rope on abdominal stretch, getting caught, and teasing repeating the whole bit from scratch.
– other stuff I can’t remember now.
I’m done. Maybe I’ll recall something tommorow.