Wrestling House Shows: Always A Great Night Out!

  I can remember, every saturday growing up was the greatest day. You had saturday morning cartoons and then afterwards I had atleast two different types of wrestling on TV to watch. Then every saturday night there was wrestling at the Nashville Fairgrounds in Nashville, TN. The promotion from memphis traveled there each week and we seen stars such as Jerry "The King" Lawler, "Superstar" Bill Dundee, "Dirty" Dutch Mantell, The Fabulous Ones, The Rock n Roll Express and so many more year after year. Wrestling at the fairgrounds was some of the greatest fun you could have as a kid growing up as a wrestling fan.

  Now fast forward 30-35 years into the future for me and WWE is still putting out quality house shows. The wrestling  that I grew up in has long been gone which is a story for another day, but WWE still maintains a huge fan base and weekly house shows bring the most fun of all the WWE's products. It has a more fun feeling atmosphere to it and the wrestlers don't seem so nervous as they can be on Raw or Smackdown tv tapings. Now it has been a while for me since I live in an area now where WWE doen not make stops and appearances, but there are quite a few people out there each week going to the shows and enjoying them completely. 

  Enter Twitter follower Hannah on my BTC Twitter account. She recently attended the RAW house show in Spokane,Washington. She got to see superstars such as Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, Ricochet, Sammy Zayn & a great tag match featuring my favorite WWE tag team of The Revival, The Uso's, The Good Brother's and Hawkins/Ryder.  I'd like to include a few pictures she sent me and a rundown of the show from her perspective so please take a moment and check out her experience.

                                 




I went to a RAW house show in Spokane Washington we had second row seats right by the stairs. The arena was pretty full.

First match Ricochet vs Samoa Joe for the United States championship.



The crowd loved ricochet. He was FANTASTIC in person! He did some amazing moves. I love how good of chemistry him and Joe have! Joe won Second match was MoJo vs Heath slater.


No one stood up for mojo. He didn't really get any reaction from the fans until the end. He was really good with working the crowd but people weren't into it. Heath did a great promo about his kids. Pretty boring match. Nothing really happened. Heath won.



Third match The usos vs Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder vs The good brother's vs The revival for the tag team championship. This was the best match of the night for me. Everyone did so well. It was so funny at times. Even the ref was involved. The crowd loved the usos. I honestly didn't want this match to end. The revival won.



Sami Zayn came out the crowd was booing so loud except for me! . Talking about how much Spokane sucks and how they are only a couple hours away from the greatest country Canada. Braun came out to attack Sami but Cesaro came out to help Sami




Fourth match Braun vs Cesaro with Sami ringside. This was a good match. Lots of back and fourth. Sami was a great heel. Braun pinned Cesaro and ended up doing a finisher on Sami.



Fifth match . No way Jose , Naomi and Dana Brook vs EC3, Sarah Logan and Tamina. Very boring match. Not really any crowd reaction. Dana was definitely the best part. The crowd did get behind ec3. Naomi pinned Sarah



Sixth match Lacy Evans vs Becky Lynch for the woman's championship. This was an ok match. Lacy did better than I expected. Was pretty short. Becky won. She did touch my hand!!! She went around the ring and signed autograph and took pictures.



Seventh match Seth vs Baron for the universal championship. I couldn't hear after Seth came out. The crowd was so loud! This was a good match Baron did very good! I ended up cheering for him at the end! He was very funny and he is a very good heel. Seth won.


This was one of the best events I've ever been to!

Now with the arrival of AEW, MLW staring to make a little name for itself and we still have impact & Ring of Honor, having great quality house shows to enjoy are in abundance. Thank you Hannah for sharing your night with us and I am so glad that you had a fun night! Like & subscribe to us and follow us on social media at:



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It was brought up in our last podcast since it is Hall of Fame time and since we really didn't tackle it last year, we decided to this year. This video is one half ofthe 2 part series we are doing on the subject. Myself, and special co-host, Douglas O'Shea are goingto be presenting you  the listeners with an argument in favor of Chris Benoit being in the Hall of Fame. The 2nd part will be done and released very soon by Mike Currence and Chuck Meyers and  they will argue against Benoit making the Hall of Fame. We encourage comments, you can agree & disagree but keep it civil.  

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I Have Finally Figured Out The Internet Wrestling Community!

   I have news above all other news tonight ladies & gentlemen. I was sitting around a few minutes ago & it hit me. What hit me you ask? Well, let me tell you, I figured out the Internet Wrestling Community!!! The IWC as they are so lovingly referred to by many out there. Now for those of you who are really true wrestling fans, you may ask yourself, WHO is this IWC that he speaks of??? 

   Well, the IWC are basically a bunch of "wrestling fans" that think they know everything and they insist that they can do the job 100 times better than the current group of writers & owners. Notice my use of quotation marks around the words wrestling fans when I refer to the IWC because when it becomes so serious to you that you claim to be the aficionado of all things wrestling and that ratings would be 10 times better if you were in charge and that YOU and YOU only know what the best direction a wrestler's gimmick should go, then you officially are no longer a fan.

   A fan takes in the business for what it is which is entertainment these days. Now is the time when some ask me, "Chris, are YOU not a card carrying member of the IWC since you have a podcast based on your opinion of all things wrestling?". The answer is simply......no. We will point out how things are going and give our opinions but I will not tell you that I can run an entire organization better than someone who is experienced in all areas. 

   But back to the subject at hand, I have figured it out. The IWC are democrats!!! Snowflakes!!! Hear me out now..... Tell me if this sounds familiar. "Roman Reigns is getting an undeserved push I don't like him im not watching the network anymore!!" 

Sounds kind of like "I hate Donald Trump, he got an undeserved push to president so I'm not watching Presidential speeches anymore!"  Hmmmm....... The IWC has become a blizzard of snowflakes yelling "It isn't fair!!!"    "I'm not happy!!"   "He's not MY choice!!" . Am I wrong?? Can you see the same trends here that I'm talking about? Why is Roman treated so badly anyways? He has served his time now. He spent a short time in FCW which is now NXT and came up as the muscle for The Shield. Not everybody has great mic skills and charisma. I hear Big Cass & Big E Langston getting mad cheers from the crown but they aren't that great on the microphone. Roman is just as great in the ring athletically as they are. Lex Lugar was not a great talker either really but he was from a different era where the baby face got cheered anyways.Here is another wrestler for you that they hate with a passion:

  

   You can't see him! No wait, there he is! John Cena probably brings that company more money in then any other wrestler on the roster. The kids love him as do the women and the guys love to boo him. But why boo the hero once again? It's the Villains that you boo but when Brock Lesner comes out he gets a huge pop from the fans.

   He comes in, wreaks havoc and leaves. Not even on a full time basis, just shows up when he wants part time and suplexes people 100 times a match! Yet you cheer for him like he is the second coming of Hulkamania from the 80's! I wonder if Baron Corbin showed up part time and kicked a few butts when he felt like it would get as many cheers?

  

   No never mind, he has been complained about as well for his lack of charisma but let me tell you this....Corbin has all  the makings of a solid wrestler for years to come. He may not reach World Heavyweight Title contention but if this guy doesn't get a solid and I mean solid Intercontinental Title or US Title run then they are possibly missing the boat on him! Careful......I almost sounded like one of those snowflakes.

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