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Post by Old School NWA Fan on Feb 26, 2016 19:37:58 GMT -5
Having been to over 60 shows(WWE, WCW, ECW), I walked out on 2 WCW shows & for WWE or at the time F, there was just one event that I left not even halfway through the show. It was a house show which was May 16, 1999. The advertised main event was Rock vs Kane. That match ended up being the last match before intermission. The rest of the card was pretty piss poor and we had to sit through a Harvey Whippleman vs Jaqueline womens title bout. Me and a friend promptly headed for the exits right after Rock beat Kane. Anyone else leave an event early for whatever reason?
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Post by Jeremiah on Feb 26, 2016 19:41:42 GMT -5
Wm 19 to beat traffic and catch the boat back across the river to where I was visiting, left right after the 3 count on angle.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 19:45:35 GMT -5
WrestleMania XXIV
Left immediately after Edge tapped out, to try catching a taxi back to the hotel.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 19:48:53 GMT -5
I left NOC while Kane was in the ring. I could hear Seth later giving a promo but I wanted to beat the traffic.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Feb 26, 2016 19:54:05 GMT -5
If I drive to the arena I always leave as soon as the last match starts so I can get out of the car park before the traffic builds up.
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Post by Nivro™ on Feb 26, 2016 19:57:11 GMT -5
Nope. If Im paying for a ticket then Im gonna sit there as long as I can. Traffic isnt a concern either. After the event is over Ill just sit there for 20-30mins and chill in my seat, take some pics and play on my phone.
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Post by ricflair4ever on Feb 26, 2016 20:33:40 GMT -5
After the money has been spent, I'm not going anywhere. That said ,almost every show i ever went to was worth it for one reason or another. However, i can think of 2 that seemed like a real chore to sit thru. The first was a January 2000 WCW Thunder taping that me and my then girlfriend went to. She was a casual fan at that point so she was excited to go........after that, getting her to watch WCW again was next to impossible. The other show was a WWF house show in late summer 2001.The stadium was barely even half full (the first time i could recall WWF getting a poor attendance there) and most of the guys really half assed the show because of it. The saving grace was the main event, Taker and Kane vs DDP and Booker T in a cage for the WCW tag team titles. Those 4 put on a hell of a match.
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Post by Manning Of Steel on Feb 26, 2016 20:39:55 GMT -5
WrestleMania 24. I left before the main event even started. I had no interest in seeing Edge vs. Taker, plus I assumed Taker would win. I didn't feel like being stuck in Orlando traffic.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 21:10:12 GMT -5
Raw in 2004 it was my first and only time ever going to a WWE Event.I was a young teen and me my brother and a person who I thought was my friend went to raw but we left early due to a snow storm.It was during the road to WM 21 and I belive the main event was HBK vs Chris Jericho in a hardcore match or something like that.We left right before The Trish and Christy Hemme segment.
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Post by attitudesback on Feb 26, 2016 21:22:19 GMT -5
Imagine paying hundreds..even thousands to have a once in a lifetime trip to WrestleMania.. and leaving early!! Man, when I finally get to Mania in a few years time I'm going to soak every last damn second in!!
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Post by gawd6sic6™ on Feb 26, 2016 22:43:34 GMT -5
Only at concerts that I don't care for the headlining band. Anything else I'm sitting through all of it.
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Post by POOR-ly Cuyler on Feb 26, 2016 22:48:12 GMT -5
Like others said, to beat traffic. I have bad road patience.
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Post by Kanenite on Feb 26, 2016 22:55:21 GMT -5
No I never have.
When I went to Wrestlemania 29 I got up and started walking away before Rock and Cena went behind the curtains but I wouldn't really call it leaving earlier. They were at the top of the stage as I was making my way out and we got back to the hotel quite quickly without any trouble really. We actually stopped at Wendy's too.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Feb 26, 2016 23:04:12 GMT -5
WCW @ East Rutherford, NJ - Meadowlands - March 31, 1992 (4,500 paid) Richard Morton pinned Mike Graham WCW US Tag Team Champion Terry Taylor pinned Diamond Dallas Page Ron Simmons & Big Josh defeated Vinnie Vegas & Mr. Hughes Cactus Jack defeated Johnny B. Badd via count-out Barry Windham & the Junkyard Dog defeated WCW Champion Steve Austin & Larry Zbyszko in a bunkhouse match Big Van Vader pinned Marcus Alexander Bagwell Rick & Scott Steiner defeated WCW Tag Team Champions Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton via disqualification WCW World Champion Sting pinned WCW US Champion Rick Rude at 19:00
I left right after the Steiner Brothers match. I don't even remember most of the card.
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Post by jakksking1 on Feb 26, 2016 23:19:26 GMT -5
I never have, but at WM30, the family of 4 sitting next to me split after Cena/Wyatt. The seats ran $600 a pop, so unless they got those sweet tickets comped, that was a waste of cash
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Post by King Bálor (CM)™ on Feb 27, 2016 0:01:01 GMT -5
I've left numerous WWE shows early.
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Post by Joe/Smurf on Feb 27, 2016 1:02:05 GMT -5
I have to question your time frame on this because Harvey won the women's title from Jacqueline in like December of 99. I'm not sure they would have been having them at house shows that far in advance.
I've never left a WWE show early. I left one wrestling show early and it was an indie show that was running late and I decided it would be better to leave early and get home by 1 than watch the main and get home by 2.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 2:19:58 GMT -5
Ask people this again after the HHH vs.Reigns main event at WrestleMania....
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Post by BCizzle on Feb 27, 2016 2:26:46 GMT -5
I am hoping if the WWE remains as tone-deaf as it seems to be, and the WM32 main event is really just forced-face Reigns vs not even being booed-heel Hunter in a bland out-of-touch match, that the overwhelming apathy leads to the crowd heading for the exits en masse.
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Post by BoJack Hogan on Feb 27, 2016 2:33:12 GMT -5
There was a house show in Trenton in July of 13 that I left as soon as Cult of Personality hit.
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