I Got To Tell You Something 54: I Was There
Submitted by Big Brother on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 12:49 AM EST





I Got To Tell You Something 54: I Was There

Hello everyone and welcome back to my little place in the IWC. How was your week? I hope it was a good was as mine was absolutely un-fucking-believable. Yes, I was live this week at the taping of both Raw and Smackdown as this was a Supershow and I decided to break down everything that happened to me last Monday. But first, I’d like to take the time to talk about something that seriously pisses me off. And please, if you can, help me on this.

I was in the 3rd row of the “normal seats” in the arena (about 10th row if you count the chairs ringside). Two sets of fans were playing on my nerves all day in a very different manner. The ones right behind me were the “stupid-fucking-fans”, the ones that can’t stop screaming stupid shit. For a whole 4 minutes, he was screaming to Lillian Garcia to “show me that body”, “take your shirt off” and other less printable things. Look, I’ve got no problem with fans that get caught in the moment and scream to the heel character or to start a chant… but if you or any of your friends are screaming stuff that even a drunk shouldn’t… hit yourselves in the face with a frying pan. Cause it’s annoying, it’s stupid and there are other people who try to enjoy the show including children who don’t need to know what you want Lillian Garcia to do to your Little Johnny.

The other kinds of person that are killing me when I go to wrestling are those parents that don’t care about it and bought tickets for the kids… but are killing the mood anyway. The ones that could tell their son, while he is MARKING OUT for Undertaker, that “He is not really strong, it’s all fake. You know that stupid.” Seriously I was at about 4 inches of killing him. I’m asking the adults here: If you have friends who are buying tickets to a wrestling show just for their kids and you know they’ll probably kill the ambiance, offer to go with the kids instead. I know, it might be a chore to look for a bunch of kids but seriously, these kids deserve to enjoy a moment like seeing the WWE Live in their town, not to have a parent kill their enjoyment.

Thank you. Anyway, now is about time I guess to start the meat of the column. There won’t be any “Questions I shouldn’t think about” section as they are pretty much scattered trough my column. And this column goes way out of my usual format; hope you guys enjoy it all the same. I’ll start off with some of my thought from the PPV Sunday and then all my day on Monday.

Sunday, Sept. 17th, 2006

7:45 pm. I’m looking at my other column, in the CF (BaD News) that was posted earlier that day. Me and my partner in crime Degenerate did a PPV prediction column but instead of doing like everybody else and predict the result of the match, we tried to predict the quality of the match. We used the DaveyBoy rating system to see if the PPV review God would agree with our predictions. I’m looking at what we expect as results and I hope it achieves what we expected… but we expected a lot.

The PPV starts off with an interesting match up for the IC title but it kind of disappointed me. I could see those two capable of doing much better. Not a bad match, but not the best it could have been. Then again, Hardy barely came back, I can give him some time to readjust and be back to his usual self. Nitro is progressing along nicely though.

The little Hardy Boyz reunion backstage was a nice touch and I would absolutely love to see them back together. Let me go off on a tangent here and state that they could make the Tag Team division alive and kicking again by reuniting two tag teams. The Hardyz and World Greatest Tag Team formed of Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Hass. They could split the Spirit Squad to make two teams (one face and one heel) and just give them the opportunity to showcase their talent, like they allowed the Dudleyz, Edge and Christian and The Hardyz a few years back. Oh well… I can dream at least…

The two following matches were okay matches, just as you would expect but nothing special. The Kane-Umaga match was even good up until the double count out finish and the Tag Team match was nothing special because they aren’t given any time for us to care about them. But if I was starting to get bored, things turned around pretty fast.

The hell in a cell match blew me away. I didn’t expect a great bout for several reasons. It was a handicapped match (which is always hard to pull off) with two non-wrestlers (makes it even harder). I knew that it wouldn’t completely bomb since HBK and HHH are two great wrestlers who can put an entertaining bout against pretty much anyone and the Hell in a Cell gimmick could be used to fix some problems mentioned earlier. And did it work well or what? It was bloody, it was violent, it had its funny parts and it look like it’s the end of the feud between DX and the McMahon. Hopefully.

The Women Title match was next and I knew Trish wouldn’t go out without giving a great match, especially in her hometown. She topped it off by beating Lita for the title using the Sharpshooter on the day she was leaving. Wow. The crowd was on fire at that point and Trish, even with her makeup smeared and all, looking stunningly beautiful, smiling in a way that I didn’t see often from her. It was an honest happy smile that said: I made it. It’s over but I can retire proud of myself. She started as a no-talented valet but worked hard and became one of the best, if not THE best, women wrestler in WWE history. I’ll miss her.

Carlito against Orton was next and it was kept short. A bit too short to be better than it was. But in the time they were given, both wrestlers did a great job and entertained me. Plus, the finish was cool and brings back the “I can hit you from anywhere” Orton. And I think that it’s the way to go with this character. Too many young guns are overly confident and acting like assholes. They should make him sneakier. Stealing wins using ruse. I just think it would make more sense but hey… what do I know.

The Main Event. TLC. Not the nice kind. I must admit… WOW. Edge and Cena worked their asses off and took some huge nasty bumps to make this match really entertaining. The two falls from ladders to the outside through tables were cool (the second one was completely predictable) while the finish was insane. An F-U through two tables from a 12 foot ladder? And one of the things that I loved about that match was that the setups were made way in advance. For instance, the ladder Edge used to jump from the ring to the outside on John Cena was placed there several minutes ago. Made most of the spots more unexpected.

All in all, the show was great and I hope you bought it and enjoyed it. Nothing completely weird happened in the stands which is rare from the Toronto crowd. The cheered for Edge and Trish which was expected. Oh and just so you know, while we didn’t predict the exact rating of every match, we predicted the overall quality of the show right on the spot (B+).

Monday, Sept. 18th, 2006

5:07 pm. My ex-girlfriend house. I’m leaving my son to her Mom and kiss him on the cheek. I’m excited as you couldn’t believe at that point. I’m a couple of minutes away from watching two live taping. A Supershow. There are always big things happening in a Supershow. I’m heading to the Subway when I realize that I FORGOT THE TICKETS. They’re on my fridge. Shit. Again. But last year, I realized that I forgot the tickets when I arrived to the show. This time, I’m only a couple of minutes away from my place. Thank God I’m only half stupid.

5:42 pm. Outside the Bell Centre. I’m waiting to get inside and the lines are longer than I’ve ever seen here, except for a Canadiens playoff match. A lot of fans have their T-Shirts and caps or belts and some of them are screaming their favorite catchphrase. Two of them are clearly used more often. Ric Flair’s famous “Whooooo” and “Misteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrr Kennedy. (pause) Kennedy.” The crowd looks wild. That’s gonna be a fun night.

6:15 pm. Bell Centre. I’m waiting in line to buy myself a couple of Hot Dogs. I hear a match starting. It’s a dark match. Meh… if it won’t be on TV, I don’t care. Besides, I already lost 9 minutes of my life waiting for these hot dogs, no way am I leaving now to see a Val Venis match. He won. Meh.

6:30 The show start. I’m now in a line to be a HHH shirt (skull with a crown) when the pyro goes off and the music of the first wrestler is heard. A girl and his mom were the next ones to buy their stuff but decide to leave right away. Cool. Now I can buy my shirt and I only lost about 2 minutes of the show. But I’ll look cool with the shirt on.

I’m pumped but I realize something weird in the crowd. People, through the show, are entertained… but they are waiting. They are waiting for Raw to start which gave a strange feel to the Smackdown show. It’s a shame cause it was good. I won’t talk about any specific of the matches I have to say that the Vito-Booker T match was made interesting, one of the matches went into the crowd, two rows in front of me. I was close enough to take a shot at the wrestler. Can’t wait to see if I’m on TV. I’m in the third row with a black HHH shirt (skull with a crown). Oh and Sylvan Grenier was cheered. CHEERED!!! Well, he’s from Montreal so it was normal but Sylvan… cherish that moment. It won’t happen again anytime soon. Oh and, as usual when the WWE is in Montreal, we got to chant “Twooo” anytime there was a two count. It started here at No Way Out in 2003 although I can’t tell you why we started to do that. At least it gives us something to do when there is a boring match.

8:32 pm. Outside the Bell Centre. There is half an hour between the two shows. Thank God because we can’t smoke inside. I see a group of people aside from the rest. I decided to join them and smoke with them. Cool.

8:54 pm. In another line for more Hot Dogs. Strangely enough smoking with those strangers outside increased my appetite. It also made me laugh harder than usual. Oh well.

9:00 pm. Cena come to the ring. I don’t think he expected that hard of a reaction. He doesn’t know who we are. We’re Montreal. We are very vocal and if we don’t like you, we’ll tell you. Edge comes in and you can see quite a difference in the last two years. At that time, he was supposed to be a face and was booed out of Canada (both Toronto and Montreal) because he wasn’t doing a good job. Christian, on the other hand, was cheered even as a heel. This time around, Edge needed to bring out the old Montreal-Toronto hate relation in order to stop the cheers he was getting. Cena then says he want to wrestler tonight for the title, Edge refuse which, of course, doesn’t please the crowd. Edge brings some friends but DX come in to make the save. When Jonathan Coachman announces that Cena will team up with DX, HHH took a long look at John Cena. We know where this is going.

The Shelton Benjamin skit pissed me off… which may be a good thing. After all, the WWE hope that Shelton will get some heat with it which shows that they at least try something with him. It’s a bumpy road ahead if they really want to go that way but it could pay off dividends. I just hope they’ll give Shelton the push and opponents he need to make this gimmick work.

They decide to have a Kane-Umaga rematch which is fine by me. If I can see the match live, it’s even better than on PPV. Kane was always my favorite Big Men. He is faster than guys his size usually are and he’s always ready to put a younger guy over. I was marking out for his entrance and I was ready to see him bring his arms down to set the pyro on fire. HOLY SHIT! It’s real fire. I mean, I knew that but… it’s hot. Even from the 10th row or so, it was really hot. It’s nice to see Kane not yet losing the feud and the chair shots got huge crowd reactions. They looked painful.

Damn Maria is Hot. Damn the Spirit Squad isn’t. Damn.

They shown highlights from the PPV and the biggest pops were for Trish and TLC with HIAC coming third. Strangely enough, the only other match to receive any reaction was Carlito-Orton. They also shown an ad for a Best WWE Championship matches DVD and it looked awesome. My only complain is that they used a lot of segments that had nothing to do with title matches (ex: Hogan vs. rock) which is stupid. They have enough great moments from those matches to fill a 30 seconds ad. If not, the DVD will suck!

Ric Flair fights Johnny in a match that doesn’t interest the crowd. They just wait for the Flair chops to scream their lungs out. I do too. Flair won, which is a surprise. Cool.

Orton came to the ring to a huge crowd response. Looks like I’m not the only one in Montreal to like this kid. As I said earlier, the Montreal crowd will get behind the wrestlers they like. If you’re doing a good job as a heel, we will cheer you, until you make the correct adjustment, bash us which will make us boo. Anyway, Orton comes in to a nice reaction, nitro got a mixed one and you can see some semi-shots from Nitro to Orton. “You’ve been coasting on your reputation for years and while you were talking about getting to the top, others made it to the top”. Chris Masters decided to join the group (see, this one, nobody think he’s doing a good job) followed by Carlito (good reaction) Hardy and Super Crazy (by that time it was already chaos in the ring). We get to see a 6 men IC Title match. Nice. Me like. The match was fun but there was a lot of stuff happening at the same time. The finish, while predictable, was spectacular with pretty much everyone hitting his finisher one after the other. That’s how to book a group of wrestlers. Make them look like anyone can beat anyone else at anytime. This way, instead of elevating one person, you’re elevating the group and keeping things interesting. I’ve been telling that for years…

Next was the women match and while I didn’t really care about the match, something funny happened. A lot of fans finally understood that we can pretty much chant anything… as long as it’s in French, nobody will know to bleep us. At one point, nearly the whole arena was chanting “Tu pue de la plotte” (clap*clap*clap-clap-clap) which could be translated to “Your pussy smell”. Yep… about 15000 fans were chanting that, ain’t the world a beautiful place? It was fun, at least.

The Main event was very entertaining for a couple of reasons. First, it was DX, which makes it entertaining. Also, I was pleasantly surprised to see Cena and Edge work this match as they didn’t have an easy one the night before. There were a couple of “You Screwed Bret” chants but, that’s to be expected.

I’d like to do another quick tangent here and state one thing. We do not hate HBK. Montreal has nothing against HBK and we don’t even hate Vince McMahon either. That’s not why we do those chants. It’s part of our history as we, in Montreal, like to chant that because… it’s ours. It happened here and we will probably chant that for years to come. Hell, I remember in 2003 when Brian Hebner (son of Earl) was the referee for a match the crowd started to chant “Your dad screwed Bret”. It wasn’t because we had a beef with him; it was a way for us to show that we are knowledgeable fans.

Anyway, back to the Main Event, some fans behind me decided to show that they were knowledgeable by starting a “Paul Levesque” chant which is HHH real name. I joined them. We got a look from the Game. I think there was a half-smile from him but it could have been disgust too. The match itself was okay but we were all pumped up which probably made it look even cooler than it was. And in the end, even if Cena looked like shit doing the DX salute, we didn’t care, because we were all doing it with them.


Tuesday, Sept. 19th, 2006

3:15 pm. I wake up. Yeah, I’m a lazy bastard. But I realized how happy I was to be at that show. How happy I was to buy those tickets. When the WWE says that “There is nothing like seeing it live” they don’t lie. It’s worth it if you are a fan. I had the time of my life, I did the DX salute, I booed Cena, I cheered for the matches and even if nothing completely unique happened, I had fun.

So next time the WWE comes to your area, don’t heist. Buy yourself some tickets, go there with friends (if you can) or alone. The energy of the crowd will make up for it anyway. Trust me.

So that’s it, that’s how my week was. I hope you had fun reading my journey through Raw (I didn’t want to spoil Smackdown) and I should get back to my “usual” standards next week.

See you then.







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