I only see 50 pages. What am I missing? 
Maybe you have 100 posts per page instead of 50?
House show report time!
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The night started off with a 16-man battle royal. This was fun cuz I’ve never seen them do that before. It featured A LOT of new people. Mostly people that I’ve never even seen before. I wasn’t able to write down the name of the winner, but he was a big, white bald dude with white trunks that the audience just called Mr. Clean. Looked Ryback-esque.
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They must have officially broken up the Super Happys because Blake has a new character. He’s a Tyler Breeze/Gorgeous George wannabe that they called “beautiful buxom Blake”. It didn’t get very over. I don’t see it lasting.
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Hideo and Asuka were there, but they aren’t the story. For each of their matches, the ref was a short, round Asian lady. I’ve never seen a female ref before (much less an Asian one) so this was especially interesting. I’m sure they’re common in Japan, and I’m betting they signed her to be the ref for all the new Asian talent.
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The main event had the funniest spot I’ve ever seen. I’m going to try and do it justice, but I’m sure I’ll fall short…
To start, the main even was the Authors of Pain and Murphy versus No Way Jose, My Workout Partner Tye Dillinger, and Shinuske.
Early in the match it was Jose and Murph. Jose was dancing around and Murph yelled at him to stop and said “No! No dancing!” The crowd booed. Then Jose stomped on one of Murph’s feet, then the other, and Murph was writhing in pain, but as he was doing that it looked like he was dancing. We started laughing, and then Jose joined and really made the audience crack up. Murph caught on and pointed to Tye and said he wanted to wrestle him. Jose shrugged and tagged Tye in.
Tye and Murph played around a while with Tye doing his “ten” motion a bunch. Murph kept getting mad at it, so Tye hit Murph so that Murph was on his hands and knees. Tye then stomped on one of Murph’s hands, then the other. Murph started writhing in pain from his hands, and was doing a motion like you were flicking water off your hands (i.e. the “ten” motion). Tye joined in with the ten and the crowd went nuts again. Murph realized what he was doing and got mad. So then he pointed to Nakamura. Tye shrugged and tagged in Nakamura.
(I think you can guess where this will eventually go).
Nakamura and Murph play around a while until, again, Murph tells Nakamura to stop doing his cross-chop thingy. Nakamura hits Murph on his hands and knees, stomps on his hands, and in his pain Murph does the cross chop sign. Murph realizes what he’s doing and get’s mad…so he rushes Nakamura. Nakamura lets him pass until Murph gets to the ropes. Then, Nakamura kicks Murph in the back of the knees and Murph does the rope thing that Nakamura does.
Again, the comedy is lost as I’m typing. But this was probably 10 minutes of the match setting up all of these comedy bits. Each of the wrestlers played their part to perfection and if I could go back in time I would have recorded every second of it.
That was really everything that was interesting at the house show. I think that Bound for Glory is still good to go, so Ms. Cups and I are going to Universal after lunch and seeing what’s up.
Hopefully the show won’t be DELETED!
I thought the sunglasses said that.
Alberto El Patron was supposed to make his AAA re-debut at a PPV yesterday, but he no-showed on them, and has reportedly been spotted in Orlando, so it’s likely he’ll be appearing in the next batch of TNA tapings. At this point, it seems to me that TNA must be the only company that would even be willing to do business with him at this point - he’s walked out on so many promotions that even CM Punk would just be staring at him confusedly.
And yes, TNA is somehow still a thing. An “outside third party” bailed them out in time to do Bound For Glory (at which The Artist Formerly Known as Damien Sandow won the new Grand Championship) and the tapings that’ll carry them through the end of the year, but the sale of the company is still up in the air. It’s likely going to be that Dixie finally gives up the ghost and cedes control of the company to Billy Corgan, or she decides to go down with the ship and sell to WWE so they can put the tape library on the Network and bury the promotion once and for all.
There were rumblings in the stands at Bound for Glory that ADR was going to come out, but he never did. We got Cody coming out instead.
The main event was EC3 vs. Lashley and a while after the match, EC3 grabbed a hot mic and addressed us all. Said that no matter the noise, no matter what everyone else is saying, the locker room is strong and they love coming out here for us and he thanked us all for being there. “eff the haters, eff the noise, we’re gonna fight,” is pretty much an exact quote from him.
From a PR standpoint that was a good move. Get the face of your company in front of everyone and throw good vibes their way. Biggest surprise of the night to me was that there was no Billy Corgan. He was on Gail Kim’s HOF video, but that was it. I guess he’s off at the negotiating table…
I’m too spoiled by WWE’s network to want to pay $50+ to see TNA’s BFG, but from what I’ve read, I would have loved to see The Great War. It had garbage, weapons, theatrics, poison mist, robots, weird hair, the whole kaboodle.
Cody’s supposed to go to RoH bc it’s on his fuck it list, so I guess the TNA appearance was a one time deal.
I think ADR was officially killed off in LU, so maybe he’ll wind up in New Japan as part of the pro-Mexican stable they have over there.
Official response (translated from Spanish by the site, not me);
*Lucha Libre AAA WorldWide announced that for reasons outside the company, Alberto “El Patron” was not submitted to the function of Heroes Immortals X , which took just this afternoon. This despite having confirmed their attendance to the event in advance and even this morning.
We regret the lack of commitment of Alberto, as he fails to Mexican public that has supported him throughout his career, to turn it into one of the leading figures of wrestling in Mexico and internationally .
For Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide , it is important to offer the best shows of international quality, in addition to strengthening the Mexican wrestling is the best in the world and is a fundamental part of the culture of our country.*
So even as late as the morning, he was confirming being there, which makes it a pretty deliberate lie on his part. So I dunno, he’s shit the bed too many times and should probably just hang it up.
Various people have posted it on YouTube, who knows if TNA has the money or the will to get them turned off. I just finished watching it, I think having to move from the ring, to pre-taped backstage segments where most of the wackiness happened, then back into the ring hurt it quite a bit.
Also, when Matt and Abyss came out of the Impact Zone, they showed a Ferris Wheel in the background. I don’t recall a Ferris Wheel at Universal? I know there’s the new huge one on I-Drive, but I don’t think that was it? Or am I misremembering?
Nope, that was the Orlando Eye. Not at Universal, but it’s basically down the street.
I found it here. Audio is kina fucked when Decay makes their entrance, but otherwise it it’s fun and campy in a Rocky Horror way. The triple mist spray on Remy made me LOL.
I don’t think the pre-taped segments hurt it. They added to the craziness. Lake of Reincarnation, Vanguard 1 initiating Poison Mist Protocol on Rosemary, the random redneck intervention, what’s not to love?
The language of the darkened lens is but a vacuum in my spectrum.
The crowd certainly loved it that’s for sure.
Well, New Japan has its Mexican stable because of a talent-sharing agreement with CMLL… which Alberto previously walked out on in order to go to WWE the first time. The dude’s pretty much burned his bridges everywhere he’s gone.
No wonder he’s named after a river.
Looks like Del Rio was attacked with a knife. Pics of the cuts on his arm and head.
Good enough reason to miss the show. Not good timing for him.
Well, looks like we jumped the gun on this one. He’s been in touch with AAA now and he’ll be re-debuting with them at a later date.
It’s weird that this comes right after Jamie Noble was stabbed by one of his neighbors a few days ago. Is there some epidemic of ex-WWE talent stabbings going on? If so, CM Punk should probably be worried. 
Well, given his MMA background he would be fine for at least 2 minutes…
The way the storyreads, he was attacked out of the blue after he left a restaurant. There’s got to be more to the story than that. Did they identify the attacker? Did ADR owe money to a loanshark? Did he cut somebody off in traffic? Where was this restaurant, Thunderdome?
Behind the scenes, making of WWE 2K’s epic Suplex City commercial.