For those of you worried, I did make it to work on time this morning! Who needs a full nights sleep in wrestling? 3 1/2 is plenty!
APW last night. First off, wow….was this show long! I don’t mean 11.15 long either. The show was not over until midnight. Way too long. The crowd was tired and leaving after the eighth match – which was the tag match (Australian Rules!) between Ken/Doug and Romeo/Country. The next matches were fine too, it’s just that the crowd was hurting and tired, the tag match felt like the main event perhaps.
Mr. Terrific and Jimmy Kindrid did a fine job of keeping the crowd into the Evan/Morbid match, and Bill White and CB Kane delivered a technically sound contest. The main event was the defense of the US title by Cronic against Mickey Richards – also a good match, and one that makes sense with their history, Cronic once again tried to put Mickey out with his superb piledriver. It’s just that the people were already gone or leaving or too tired to keep up. Even the cleaning people were going around doing their thing before the last match was over! What does that signal to the fans in the seats?
I told ER that I had a premonition that something was going to happen last night, and I was right. It happened during the JYD Jr/Austin & Velvet/Psycho match. We saw it where I was standing.
Good to see Miss Arlene at ringside last night, getting her pictures…but please darling, you make too much noise, you must be quieter! Har!
Rowdy James grows on me more and more each time I see him….the Fury/McGrady match I really enjoyed, I like seeing “snug” wrestling….that “hit it like you mean it” thing…..the “Yes/No’s” were almost deafening last night!….I liked the solid “showing ass” from Boomer, is that the right term? The constant rolling in and out – the basics still work as well as anything new…..
Kaos debuted his new finisher last night, which he made the mistake of asking me to make sure and get a shot of it….so far when people ask to get a particular shot especially of a finisher, I screw it up! Just ask Neil Nitro, I frigged up at last years fair twice in a row on his….I think it’s time for Dragon to lose that mask, I have said before he could do something different without it…the only thing I can say to both Dragon and Kaos, buy a back brush for the shower and scrub! All in good humor of course!
The red goggles that Evan Force wears now are funny, he should be wearing them all the time….Seeing him last night between Terrific and Jimmy gave me a great idea. It would be possible if we taped “backstage” segments…put Evan at a table with plates of food in front of him…have Terrific and Jimmy on either side and they would be shoveling the food into his mouth, force feeding him…getting him into “fighting shape” and as big as them…..Just kidding of course, I am a hefty size myself so I can joke about it…..
Long show means even less of a voice for ER….My cankles were hurting, so I was sitting at the announce table a good bit at the end….that’s my signal right there!
Thanks again to the Buffetts for the royal fudge! It is being consumed as we speak…oh, and to James McHone, all I heard you say was “BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!”
Away!
Forgot to mention, I finished reading “Tab Hunter: Confidential” a couple of days ago, very good book about “old” Hollywood. Currently reading “The Tiffany Touch” by Joseph Purtell.
