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I hope it’s better than the NJPW US dojo/academy show from the other week. Not much of a crowd.
Maybe Nobby means decent in that they all were wearing clothing?
Like I get that he's probably 20k + business flights for him and his partner.
From memory, Rocky is a big fan of BJW so it stands to reason that he would be going out of his way to emulate that wrestling style
Heel groups are super hot and this is the first time they've done this sort of angle as well. I don't mind them having a theme each year.I woke up on the wrong side of bed today. Had I been able to sell my ticket and/or had the show been live streamed tonight, I would've stayed home. Maybe that informs my review?
But I've never been to a local show that I hated that much. And I was there at DMDU when there were only 30 others.
They aren't even trying to put on good matches now. It's just jam your shitty one-dimensional storyline into ****ing everything on the show, and absolutely torch it from an enjoyment perspective because the booker thinks his "art" of storytelling is more important than the art of professional wrestling, and telling stories in the ring.
The opener was nothing but an Icons plot device.
The womens match was just an introduction of Shay and Kingsley as a heel tag team ahead of the OPW crossover.
Ricky vs Dusk should've been a great match - it was a short bunch of nothingness.
The heel turn in the tag title match was predictable a week ago. I still don't know who those w***ers are, and I don't care. It's one thing that I can speak confidently about tonight, is that no one else gave a shit either.
Rapid was in the death spot coming out to no reaction, then we got another storyline ending to keep the feud going, and a result that made no sense going into the OPW show.
We got a short tag match which was only a plot device for the storyline afterwards - interesting to see a faction that was built in another Melbourne fed that MCW doesn't acknowledge, that failed the first time because Carlo wasn't around, is now getting a run in MCW. Zhan Wen looked incredible... then he fell on his ass hitting his one move.
And then the main event... that ****ing main event. It was going so well, it was such a good match. Then...
Rocky, Brooks, Robbie, Jarvis, the 2 flogs, Ricky, Aeros, Theseus, Tuckman. That's 10 run ins. Going out on a limb and saying that's a touch excessive.
To cap it all off, I had the biggest human I've ever seen sitting in front of me, I had the flogs you dread at a local show trying to get themselves over behind me, I had the fight come right by me as people were throwing beer at the wrestlers and one fat smelly campaigner was literally jumping on me. (He got a swift shove and told to get the **** off me before I headbutted him.)
The guys shouting bullshit at the back - but not so the wrestlers could hear their stupid inane shit - got so jealous when Tommy acknowledged that guy in the crowd during the main event. They were swearing at him, yelling at him to sit down, it was so precious.
This was the worst episodes of Raw from 2018. Just one-dimensional storyline bullshit interfering with everything, and not responding to crowd reactions at all. No great matches; the main event was the only thing that even approached a 7/10, and then the run ins made that a 3/10 for me.
I've left tonight feeling a strange mix of devastated and angry. Not angry that I wasted my time or money. Not devastated by the results.
I guess this company isn't for me any more. It's not the workrate company that I fell in love with, it's a shitty, broken toy, and the guy in charge of it is so arrogant that he doesn't take advice or feedback on how to improve it or make it more enjoyable. I've been lucky enough to have seen the MCW that I want - this aint it
For me, being the first show post Delta, this needed something big. I thought "The End" announcement was going to be it, I thought it was going to be a person. Whilst it did elicit a genuine shocked pop from the crowd when "Melbourne Pavilion" flashed up on the screen, it's not personally exciting. When I'm hanging by a thread in terms of attending shows, I don't need them to be further away from me!
I have tickets with a mate in a fortnight, but I won't be going to Fight to Survive, and unless my mate sees the "End Game" ad at Worlds Collide and wants to go, I doubt I'll be going to that either. And the question mark over the building probably makes my doubts over attending future shows a little easier - The Parea said tonight "this is the house the Icons built, but we're going to build a new house." The phrasing of it sounded like it's not a one-off show. I wonder if they're doing what I was wondering a year ago after the GCW shows where they return to the old Essendon/Thornbury model, except now you're running Thornbury for your "regular" shows, and you do Ballroom Brawl and End Game/Final Battle/Whatever at the Pavilion.
It's unlikely to impact me that much. I've been to every MCW show this year, I've been to every Renegades show... Since that first Renegades show at Northcote back in January, I could count on one hand the number of matches I've seen that I'd go out of my way to re-watch.
It might be a good time for a break from live wrestling until Grand Slam next year.
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Just no.
