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Originally Posted by molson
It was pretty fun. I don't think anybody was blown away but there was plenty enough there for everyone to stay fired up.
MSG is definitely a unique crowd. Much older than average probably, there were only a smattering of kids - maybe 5% of the audience was kids. I was out in the concession area right before the dark match started and I saw several grown men running back to their seats when Santino's music started - they were running to not miss ANY of the Santino dark match. That's a hardcore crowd.
The fans loved Santino, and Dolph Ziggler, and especially Zack Ryder, who got spontaneous chants all night. Cody Rhodes got a lot of chants too but I got the feeling those were just started by a couple of guys who got it going - Rhodes didn't have the overall "pop" that Ziggler did.
Everybody seemed bored during Show/Henry so they started with the chants - "Mae Young", "Sexual Chocolate"...nothing too clever really.....but it was funny to just hear the smattering of boredom. I think boredom is an actual audible sound at a wrestling show, you start to hear all of this conversation around you about unrelated topics. I usually don't mind the slow/big guy matches, but this just seemed off.
It's amazing how fast the matches went by in person - it didn't feel like there was a slow moment (except for Show/Henry, and a few minutes of the tag team elimination match, after Sin Cara was injured, when it felt like they were trying to reset and get word from the back about what the new finish/order of elimination would be). But otherwise, the crowd popped for pretty much every move, which made CM Punk/Del Rio just fly by.
Rock looked great...I'm sure every second of that match was planned out and rehearsed (I read somewhere that Rock worked with Miz and R-Truth in Florida a handful of times to get the match down) but he put the time in to pull it off. I'm sure he can have a great main-event caliber match with Cena. I know a lot of people were looking for more storyline development in that finish, but Rock's off to shoot a movie and they still have another 5 months to build this thing for Mania. Rock blew the roof off the place, so I guess they figured that was enough for tonight. Still, a little anti-climatic. Rock did about 5 more minutes on the mic after the show went off the air - there again, there was a "We want Ryder" chant, and Rock acknowledged it, saying, "ya, I like that guy too", and then moving on, basically a little sentimental promo about MSG and his return.
Overall, it was fun, it is really tough to get through 2 1/2 - 3 hours of a PPV when you're drinking heavily, there's not a lot of natural bathroom breaks, and it's a bit of a commitment to get out and back. I think people were waiting for the divas' music to hit to make a break for it, but that was the second match and we were caught a little off guard.
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It seemed like a good PPV. You're right about Show/Henry, but I think a match like that can get buried when you have such a big main event. If that was headlining a PPV, it's another story. But it's fine for a midcard match. While I like Henry being a dominant champ, I don't like the feud with Show. Problem is that they don't really have another face besides Orton to throw at him right now.
I thought the Main Event was fine. I wasn't expecting some 5 star match, just wanted to see the Rock do his thing. Thought the rest of the card was fun too and the right guys won from a storytelling standpoint.
Their product has been better lately, although I still have no idea what they are trying to do with Kevin Nash. All I can think of is setting up a program with CM Punk but not sure that has much interest. Wouldn't mind seeing a short feud with Ziggler-Punk, the match they put on Monday was well done. And what the hell is with the Twitter obsession they have lately?