Well, I've finally uploaded all the pictures we took from last night. Unfortunately the camera started dying after a few matches, so I started only taking pictures of the wrestlers' entrance and after they won. Anyways, you can see all 95 pictures here in the public album of my facebook. All in all, it was pretty good. The superstars put on a really good show and didn't half *** it since they knew it was just a house show. We had some pretty great seats five rows back and on the end so our view wasn't obstructed for the matches (we still had to squeeze our way up to the barricade during the "major" people's entrance so we could get pictures. Evan Bourne Vs. Zack Ryder started the show. Of course Bourne got pretty big pop from the crowd, but Ryder really didn't get much of anything. However, he did goad some heat during the match from his taunting of Evan, which I personally loved (but the rest of the crowd didn't). The rest of the match was the typical Even fare, lots of kicks, sunset flips, pin attempts, and finished with the Shooting Star Press for the win. Pretty good match for the most part, Ryder got some hard kicks in on Bourne, heh. William Regal and Goldust followed. Surprisingly, Regal got huge heat from the crowd, and even started talking trash with this huge biker in the crowd. Actually, he worked the crowd very well before Goldust came out. As soon as Goldust's music hit though, he got a bigger reaction than I was expecting (it is Goldust after all). Once the match started, the crowd went back to it's "You Suck" chants to Regal, who grabbed a mic and declared "I can't possibly suck, I'm not from Youngstown". Of course, the chanting only got louder, while the match went on. They put on a great match for the most part with Goldust eventually winning it. Vladimir Kozlov came out, and spoke russian for the majority of his promo before finally saying "I demand good competition". Well, unfortunately for him, all he got was Yoshi Tatsu, which turned into a very one-sided fight, and probably the least exciting match of the entire night. Tatsu got maybe 3 kicks in while Kozlov just handled him. As soon as Ted DiBiase's music hit, the crowd starting booing. However, it wasn't until he started his promo that he got the real heat. Ted told the crowd that they wish they could be him since he can have anything he wants, nice cars, nice houses, beautiful women (he was accompanied to the ring by Maryse), while all they could do is live in their crappy houses and dream. Apparently, the WWE switched Morrison and Mark Henry in their scheduled matches, (Ted was originally supposed to fight Henry, while Morrison was in the Triple Threat Match for the US title). Morrison got a huge pop from the crowd (he was also the first superstar to come out who had signs in the crowd). Honestly, this was one of the best matches from the night. Maryse distracted Morrison a few times, which led to him chasing her around the ring. Eventually, she was on the apron trying to keep Morrison's attention, while DiBiase was going to hit him from behind, but he John dodged and Ted ran into Maryse ( ). It wasn't long before John hit the "Starship Pain", and scored the victory. The best part of the match was when Maryse was right by the barricade on my side of the ring, trying to flag down the cotton candy dude, but the security guard wouldn't get him for her. I would have been asking anyone for five dollars to get her that cotton candy. The award for best performance of the night hands down went to The Miz. He cut the best promo of the night, which probably rivaled some of his televised ones as well. After the boos started, he demanded to know why he's getting booed, since he's from Cleveland. According to him, the crowd should be on their knees since he's the best thing to come out of the entire state of Ohio. Miz went on to state that he's "bigger than Youngstown, bigger than Cleveland, bigger than Columbus, bigger than the entire state." The crowd was asked to name one superstar from the state of Ohio that's better than him, "Drew Carey? I'm bigger than him. LeBron James? LeBron James never brought anything to Ohio! I'm bringing the United States championship, you people should be bowing to me!" Mark Henry was his first opponent to come out, and I must say, the dude is even bigger in person than on TV. When R-Truth came out to his "rap song", the Miz started this ridiculous little dance mocking him and the crowd. It was absolutely priceless, I wish I had gotten a picture of it. Although it was billed as a triple threat match, it was more of a singles match between the Miz and Truth. Sadly, Henry was slammed into the ringpost about 5 minutes in (after a few punches and a failed attempt to sit on the Miz) and remained outside the ring for the majority of the match. The rest of the match consisted of the usual R-Truth spots, before the Miz dodged the scissors kick, and walked away with the victory. After a "brief intermission", Santino came out to guest referee the Divas match between Eve and Alicia Fox. If it wasn't for Santino's shenanigans, I probably wouldn't have had much (if any) pictures of the match. Despite that, it was still an entertaining match (like I said, my camera was dying, but I had to try to get pictures of the crap Santino was doing), Eve seemed to have improved (at least for one night) her wrestling skills. The only real laughable part was when Alicia was slamming Eve's head into the mat, she was noticeably slowing down when Eve's head was getting ready to hit the canvas. It wasn't long after that, though, that Fox hit her scissors kick and earned the win. I will say that Eve is even better looking in person than she is on TV. With only the main event left, the ring crew came out to assemble the cage while the crowd took a break. Once it was completely together, Sheamus was the first of the four men to come out. Out of both heels, he got the larger amount of heat, especially when he was posing on the ring steps with the championship belt. Sadly, he didn't really give any photo op's, aside from the ring steps. As Metalingus started playing, the crowd gave Edge a HUGE pop, which surprised me as to how he's been played against Orton lately. He pulled a Sheamus and ended up just getting into the ring. Thanks for the photo ops, Edge As soon as "Voices" hit, the biggest pop of the night started (until Cena came out...) and lasted the entire two minutes of his walk into the ring. Orton actually gave the best photo op as well, climbing to the top of the cage, surveyed the crowd, and went into his trademark pose. Of course, Cena came out next and all you heard was the high pitched screams of middle aged women and little kids. I was too busy turning off my camera to take any pictures of him, that and trying to deal with the girl behind me screaming into my ear. During the match, Sheamus got the most of the attention from the crowd (countless Sheamus Sucks chants). I tried to counter the "Let's Go Cena" chants with "Cena sucks!" but it wasn't catching on. The match itself was great, with all four men at least attempting their finishers (Edge missed the spear and ran head first into the cage. Orton RKO'd Edge, before Sheamus bicycle kicked him, and Cena attempted the Attitude Adjustment on Sheamus). However! While Cena had Sheamus on his shoulders, the Nexus ran out and stormed the ring. Edge and Sheamus were laid out, with Orton following not long after. Cena ended up getting pummeled while Justin Gabriel held the door closed. After a few minutes though, the rest of the WWE locker room came out to aid Sheamus, Edge, Orton and Cena. Bourne lept from atop the cage, Morrison climbed over the top, while DiBiase, Henry, Miz, Regal, Goldust, and Santino knocked Gabriel out of the way and entered in through the door. After clearing house, Tarver was caught and thrown into the ring with Cena (Morrison held the door closed). When Tarver turned around and saw Cena, he ran to the door and begged for them to open it. Sadly, Cena turned him around and gave him the AA. Night over. For only a house show, it was surprisingly good and entertaining. The ring work was great, the few promos that were cut were great, and the interaction with the crowd was great. The Nexus interfering with the Main Event definitely took the cake. I never would have expected them to throw that angle in for a house show, but it went over extremely well. Even though on Raw it got a bit stale seeing them run out and destroy everyone week in and week out, it was surprisingly fresh and entertaining in person. The Covelli Centre far from sold out though. The ringside sections were sold out, but the stands had two empty sections. I apologize for the massive post and the shoddy writing, I've only been up for a little bit and I'm still trying to fully wake up.
