Waited until the last minute to think about buying a ticket for the TNA house show at Chaifetz Arena...but a friend offered to foot the bill in exchange for a ride to and from the show. Well, that worked out well.
No matches were announced ahead of time, just a talent list...missing from that list were Austin Aries(not sure why he wasn't there) and Mickie James(injured, I think). My friend was quite disappointed about Aries' absence...heh. Would have liked to see a few other people from the TNA roster...no Samoa Joe or RVD either, among others. Previous TNA house shows had 6-7 matches but this one only had five.
The lineup was the same as in Poplar Bluff the previous night except for some slight order shuffling and one result(Angle beat Bully Ray on Friday). Angle-Ray seemed short for some reason...given how much finisher spam takes place in Angle matches lately, I think it caught people off guard when Angle stayed down after one Bully Cutter. (Ray had kicked out of an Olympic Slam earlier in the match.)
Someone else pointed out that there seemed to be a LOT of time-killing on the show...practically everyone did mic work.
Yup, Earl Hebner's been around a LONG time. I think the "Damn Right I Did" T-shirt and posing with the Bret Hart shades was a bit much, though.
My friend was pretty sure that the bigger of the two "wrestling" members of Aces & Eights was Luke Gallows. Not sure who the big ringside guy was...we guessed either Mike Knox or Abyss. The smaller guy PROBABLY wasn't Wes Brisco since he usually has the long hair out. Don't remember the full list of people rumored to be under the masks...Garett Bischoff, maybe? Storm and Anderson actually got the mask off one of the guys after the match...pretty sure that was Gallows.
Nothing local in my area next weekend as far as I know...
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