Post by DTP. on Apr 18, 2009 20:19:31 GMT -5
Alright, I've been to see 1PW's To The Extreme event on its first night, I can't attend the second show tomorrow, unfortunately. But anyways...
Me and my Dad set off on the road from Grimsby to Doncaster at 3:45. Nothing like listening to songs from the Attitude Era like 'Ass Man' and 'Sexual Chocolate' while riding through motorways. We got there at 5pm. We had a tiny bit of trouble finding the Dome, but we found it and went inside.
There was a fat guy there, he was wearing an ECW Sandman shirt, and wearing three quarters, black hair with a big frik-off stuck-up fringe. Said he came from London. We left him after five minutes to go get a snack, went to the bar and got a Hotdog...I had had a hot dog for lunch...
Anyways, we go back to this huge hall called the conference room, right underneath the dome's tip, anyways there's three desks in the middle with the '1PW' logo on a banner behind it. We waited there for about twenty minutes [6pm] until something happened. A guy in the suit came out and introduced us to a mini press conference. Couldn't really understand him because of the PA system there.
He introduced the new belts, 1PW Heavyweight, 1PW Tag Team and 1PW Openweight Championships. I'm not going to go into too much detail here, but Martin Stone and Sterling James Keenan had a little brawl on the hall floor, being dragged off in seperate directions. There was a guy with long blonde hair and a ski mask on his forehead, called the G-Man, according to his shirt.
We waited for the doors to open, about 20 minutes. I was worn out before it started. It did start, I bought a 1PW shirt and out of all of the DVDs there...I got WrestleMania XXIV. Little did I notice others like SummerSlam 1999, numerous Attitude Era shows and about five Survivor Series 2000 DVDs. I had my eye on SummerSlam '99 too.
We got seated, the arena was really small. The stage was on a block leading to a small ring, black ropes, red turnbuckles and red canvas with black aprons. The stage was ECWish, just like the event was based on, a hole in a brick-wall feel, mesh caging on either side. The G-Man made yet another cameo, wandering around behind of it. Kid Kash was just by the area, near the tier seats, trying to catch food in his mouth. Pretty funny.
I had a dry throat so my dad went for a drink as the show started. The guy in the ring started talking about how tonight there would be no count-outs of disqualifications at all. Keep that in mind as I continue. My dad came back with ANOTHER hotdog. I nearly barfed. He said Sandman was doing autographs before the show too, he said he saw three empty beer cans on his desk.
Jerry Lynn, Nunzio and Kid Kash started off in a three way dance, Kid Kash got the heel heat from the audience. There was alot of swearing etc. The fans chanted 'roidrage' and whatnot, knowing of his firing from WWE due to steroids and drugs. Nunzio got eliminated by a lowblow and the Dead Level. Lynn won with a Cradle Piledriver. He had no belt with him. The fans loved Lynn.
Next, Doug Williams fought Zack Sabre Jr. I'm sorry, I didn't catch his name. The audience slaughtered this guy, calling him 'emo' repeatedly. Worked over Doug's arms, really did some nice mat-wrestling before Williams' rolling german suplex gave him the win.
Mad Man Manson came out in his straight-jacket, hyping everybody up for the Blue World Order to appear, Stevie Richards appeared on the screen [didn't see it] mentioning how he couldn't be there. Hollywood Nova and Blue Meanie came out and talked about their opponents, claiming to not know who they are. 1PW World Tag Team Champions, Project Ego came out to the theme of the nWo. Kris Travis was dressed as Hollywood Hogan, in red-and-yellow tights, whereas Martin Kirby was dressed as 'Big Stevie Cool'. They introduced this real obese guy dressed as Blue Meanie, too.
It was a good match, bWo seemed to have it won but the obese guy had slipped something into Kirby's hand when he was laid out, and he laid out Nova for the win. bWo left as Project Ego [or 'eWo'] celebrated. That's when Kevin Thorn's music played, he came out and Kirby and Travis seemed to avoid him, but then they suddenly went for him, Thorn red-misted Kirby in the face, and him with the obese guy left, Thorn battering Travis. Thorn played the face here, and Travis took a Razor's Edge powerbomb off of the staging onto bare gym floor.
The last match before intermission was 1PW Openweight Championship time. Johnny Moss defending against Lionheart. A cocky heel [whom I also cannot remember the name of...bad mic system] in a furr coat and shades with a lawyer [looking like Hitman] came out, saying something about how Lionheart earned a shot at Moss' title with a foot on the ropes, threatening with lawsuit. He was allowed to get in, but he was in casual, so he replaced himself with Dave Moralez...Big 260 pounder. Moss did like twenty german suplexes on them both combined, alot of Moralez. The cocky heel got laid out midway and soon after, Moss snuck a victory, pinning Lionheart.
During intermission, I noticed millions of ROH and TNA DVDs...God damn it. Had my eyes on some figures, but I dodged them to retain dignity [pft, lots of little kids and there was a teen like me? fat chance I'd of bought a fig].
Our first match back was Darkside James Gallagher taking on El Ligero. The marks in the audience [not too many of them] loved Ligero, and I got an evil eye from a toddler for calling Ligero a 'Rey Mysterio wannabe'. Gallagher got a clean victory, which suprised me a bit. Post-match, he got involved with some boxer, didn't really see because it was on the other side of the arena.
Our next match was a match where the winner would go to To The Extreme Night Two and challenge for any title they want. Nigel McGuinness [with a taped shoulder] against Scorpio. McGuinness had a heelish entrance but got a decent reaction, there were chants of 'Lets go Scorpio. Let's go Nigel' etc. Match of the night really, Scorpio acted heelish and worked slowly, slowing down the pace and working over Nigel's shoulder. Funny, a lady in the front row was flirting with Nigel during the match, a chant of 'shut the eff up' brewed. McGuinness hit the Tower of London from the top rope for the win.
Next was the Icon vs Icon match, if you call Ulf Herman against Sandman that. Herman asked for respect tonight, as Sandman entered through the tier, into our area. ALOT of people were singing to Metallica as a dude right in front of me got to hold his jaw open as Sandman poured beer into his gullet. He let it run over his head too, some got on my hand and the floor [including the bag containing my WM24 DVD], that bag will never be binned now.
The match itself was a letdown, lots of stalling, Ulf was pretty much made to look more dominant than Sandman. 1PW was called 'One Pence Wrestling' by the audience, lots more of 'Lets go Herman' over Sandman chants. Sandman tried to get chairs from under the ring, the referee took them away...Why? The announcer at the beginning said there'd be no disqualifications or count outs. Anyways, Bad Bonez came out, said he could do it more ECW style...He got involved, and added to the match, didn't use any weapons? Iceman ran in, chaired Bonez numerous times, and they dissappeared. A wimpy comedy character ran in, was added to the match, Sandman tossed him over the top rope and Ulf rolled him up for an awful victory in an awful match.
About 10 people in the tier dissappeared after this, the main event was next with Sterling James Keenan, the 1PW World Heavyweight Champion [with my new favourite manager ever, The G-Man~!] defending against Martin Stone. It was back and forth, G-Man got ran off by Stone before Stone cleanly won the title. What annoyed me was that the announcer pre-match noted that Stone wanted to become the first British man to win the 1PW World Heavyweight Champion in history...he did that, first British man to win the title in its three year existence.
Overall, I enjoyed the show, 'To The Extreme' in its name though wasn't really too fascinating, but I only watched the first night so. 1PW are going to Sheffield in July so, I'll probably attend that. If not, Dragon-Gate at Doncaster on Halloween 2009 sounds like the place to be.
Me and my Dad set off on the road from Grimsby to Doncaster at 3:45. Nothing like listening to songs from the Attitude Era like 'Ass Man' and 'Sexual Chocolate' while riding through motorways. We got there at 5pm. We had a tiny bit of trouble finding the Dome, but we found it and went inside.
There was a fat guy there, he was wearing an ECW Sandman shirt, and wearing three quarters, black hair with a big frik-off stuck-up fringe. Said he came from London. We left him after five minutes to go get a snack, went to the bar and got a Hotdog...I had had a hot dog for lunch...
Anyways, we go back to this huge hall called the conference room, right underneath the dome's tip, anyways there's three desks in the middle with the '1PW' logo on a banner behind it. We waited there for about twenty minutes [6pm] until something happened. A guy in the suit came out and introduced us to a mini press conference. Couldn't really understand him because of the PA system there.
He introduced the new belts, 1PW Heavyweight, 1PW Tag Team and 1PW Openweight Championships. I'm not going to go into too much detail here, but Martin Stone and Sterling James Keenan had a little brawl on the hall floor, being dragged off in seperate directions. There was a guy with long blonde hair and a ski mask on his forehead, called the G-Man, according to his shirt.
We waited for the doors to open, about 20 minutes. I was worn out before it started. It did start, I bought a 1PW shirt and out of all of the DVDs there...I got WrestleMania XXIV. Little did I notice others like SummerSlam 1999, numerous Attitude Era shows and about five Survivor Series 2000 DVDs. I had my eye on SummerSlam '99 too.
We got seated, the arena was really small. The stage was on a block leading to a small ring, black ropes, red turnbuckles and red canvas with black aprons. The stage was ECWish, just like the event was based on, a hole in a brick-wall feel, mesh caging on either side. The G-Man made yet another cameo, wandering around behind of it. Kid Kash was just by the area, near the tier seats, trying to catch food in his mouth. Pretty funny.
I had a dry throat so my dad went for a drink as the show started. The guy in the ring started talking about how tonight there would be no count-outs of disqualifications at all. Keep that in mind as I continue. My dad came back with ANOTHER hotdog. I nearly barfed. He said Sandman was doing autographs before the show too, he said he saw three empty beer cans on his desk.
Jerry Lynn, Nunzio and Kid Kash started off in a three way dance, Kid Kash got the heel heat from the audience. There was alot of swearing etc. The fans chanted 'roidrage' and whatnot, knowing of his firing from WWE due to steroids and drugs. Nunzio got eliminated by a lowblow and the Dead Level. Lynn won with a Cradle Piledriver. He had no belt with him. The fans loved Lynn.
Next, Doug Williams fought Zack Sabre Jr. I'm sorry, I didn't catch his name. The audience slaughtered this guy, calling him 'emo' repeatedly. Worked over Doug's arms, really did some nice mat-wrestling before Williams' rolling german suplex gave him the win.
Mad Man Manson came out in his straight-jacket, hyping everybody up for the Blue World Order to appear, Stevie Richards appeared on the screen [didn't see it] mentioning how he couldn't be there. Hollywood Nova and Blue Meanie came out and talked about their opponents, claiming to not know who they are. 1PW World Tag Team Champions, Project Ego came out to the theme of the nWo. Kris Travis was dressed as Hollywood Hogan, in red-and-yellow tights, whereas Martin Kirby was dressed as 'Big Stevie Cool'. They introduced this real obese guy dressed as Blue Meanie, too.
It was a good match, bWo seemed to have it won but the obese guy had slipped something into Kirby's hand when he was laid out, and he laid out Nova for the win. bWo left as Project Ego [or 'eWo'] celebrated. That's when Kevin Thorn's music played, he came out and Kirby and Travis seemed to avoid him, but then they suddenly went for him, Thorn red-misted Kirby in the face, and him with the obese guy left, Thorn battering Travis. Thorn played the face here, and Travis took a Razor's Edge powerbomb off of the staging onto bare gym floor.
The last match before intermission was 1PW Openweight Championship time. Johnny Moss defending against Lionheart. A cocky heel [whom I also cannot remember the name of...bad mic system] in a furr coat and shades with a lawyer [looking like Hitman] came out, saying something about how Lionheart earned a shot at Moss' title with a foot on the ropes, threatening with lawsuit. He was allowed to get in, but he was in casual, so he replaced himself with Dave Moralez...Big 260 pounder. Moss did like twenty german suplexes on them both combined, alot of Moralez. The cocky heel got laid out midway and soon after, Moss snuck a victory, pinning Lionheart.
During intermission, I noticed millions of ROH and TNA DVDs...God damn it. Had my eyes on some figures, but I dodged them to retain dignity [pft, lots of little kids and there was a teen like me? fat chance I'd of bought a fig].
Our first match back was Darkside James Gallagher taking on El Ligero. The marks in the audience [not too many of them] loved Ligero, and I got an evil eye from a toddler for calling Ligero a 'Rey Mysterio wannabe'. Gallagher got a clean victory, which suprised me a bit. Post-match, he got involved with some boxer, didn't really see because it was on the other side of the arena.
Our next match was a match where the winner would go to To The Extreme Night Two and challenge for any title they want. Nigel McGuinness [with a taped shoulder] against Scorpio. McGuinness had a heelish entrance but got a decent reaction, there were chants of 'Lets go Scorpio. Let's go Nigel' etc. Match of the night really, Scorpio acted heelish and worked slowly, slowing down the pace and working over Nigel's shoulder. Funny, a lady in the front row was flirting with Nigel during the match, a chant of 'shut the eff up' brewed. McGuinness hit the Tower of London from the top rope for the win.
Next was the Icon vs Icon match, if you call Ulf Herman against Sandman that. Herman asked for respect tonight, as Sandman entered through the tier, into our area. ALOT of people were singing to Metallica as a dude right in front of me got to hold his jaw open as Sandman poured beer into his gullet. He let it run over his head too, some got on my hand and the floor [including the bag containing my WM24 DVD], that bag will never be binned now.
The match itself was a letdown, lots of stalling, Ulf was pretty much made to look more dominant than Sandman. 1PW was called 'One Pence Wrestling' by the audience, lots more of 'Lets go Herman' over Sandman chants. Sandman tried to get chairs from under the ring, the referee took them away...Why? The announcer at the beginning said there'd be no disqualifications or count outs. Anyways, Bad Bonez came out, said he could do it more ECW style...He got involved, and added to the match, didn't use any weapons? Iceman ran in, chaired Bonez numerous times, and they dissappeared. A wimpy comedy character ran in, was added to the match, Sandman tossed him over the top rope and Ulf rolled him up for an awful victory in an awful match.
About 10 people in the tier dissappeared after this, the main event was next with Sterling James Keenan, the 1PW World Heavyweight Champion [with my new favourite manager ever, The G-Man~!] defending against Martin Stone. It was back and forth, G-Man got ran off by Stone before Stone cleanly won the title. What annoyed me was that the announcer pre-match noted that Stone wanted to become the first British man to win the 1PW World Heavyweight Champion in history...he did that, first British man to win the title in its three year existence.
Overall, I enjoyed the show, 'To The Extreme' in its name though wasn't really too fascinating, but I only watched the first night so. 1PW are going to Sheffield in July so, I'll probably attend that. If not, Dragon-Gate at Doncaster on Halloween 2009 sounds like the place to be.
up with my seats. 3 sets of tickets for the 2 seats was sent out, so after having a move about, managed to get in a better seat. 
, nice pics GaZzA, the closest i got to having pics with wrestlers was MCMG but it was unfortunate.
