My House of Hardcore Experience
Dec 4, 2016 17:30:58 GMT -5
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Post by Last Trent Barreta Fan on Dec 4, 2016 17:30:58 GMT -5
This is probably the right place for this, right? Right? Idk, whatever.
ANYWAY I went to Waukesha (just outside of Milwaukee), Wisconsin for my second straight Blizzard Brawl. I went last year, but it was held by Great Lakes Championship Wrestling. This year it was held by House of Hardcore, which is owned by Tommy Dreamer, and damn did he bring the firepower. It'll probably be my last, not because it was bad or anything, because it was the opposite, I loved it, but I'm moving to Charlotte next year so unfortunately I can't go. Pardon the potato pics, didn't bring my camera so I was using my phone.
Let me start with the pre-show experience. Damn this was cool. I met one of my wrestling heroes Bob Holly and we talked briefly about racing, but I was shaking so bad I really didn't talk much.
I also met former commentator Matt Stryker, who has pretty cool to meet. He wasn't listed for the event so it was neat to meet him. Pardon my dumbass expression, I was still shaking from Bob.
I finally also met WWE Cruiserweight wrestler Tony Nese, who I think is being let wrestle the rest of his Indie dates, which is cool. Really turned into a huge fan of him, but I'll get to that later.
It should also be noted that Sandman was drunk, as usual. Ryback and Mickie James were the two "big names" there this year, last year was Chyna, who I met, but didn't meet either of them this time because Ryback was charging too much and Mickie had a really long line.
Match 1- Kevin Thorn vs Bull James
Kevin Thorn looks, I don't want to say /worse/ than last year, but he looks... ehhh
Bull came out wearing a cheesehead, and everybody booed when he took it off and cheered when he put it on.
Pretty entertaining match. Bull won after hitting a pedigree with the cheesehead on.
Match 2- Matt Stryker vs Conor Braxton
God, ugh. Why have Stryker wrestle? He eventually went on to commentary but he did his original teacher gimmick, came out with two chicks and the match went on too long. Not to mention there was a stupid hoverboard part to the match which just, like I said, took too long. There was a "I'll teach you some new sexy moves thing that made me cringe, ugh
Stryker /eventually/ won by rollup after knocking Braxton off the hoverboard.
Match 3- Mr. Anderson vs Sadist
Sadist is a local wrestler who wrestled at Blizzard Brawl last year. Anderson took off his shirt, and my friend, who is a TNA fan, said "God you can tell he let himself go"
Anderson won in a pretty uneventful match.
Match 4- Colt Cabana vs Danny Duggan
Didn't get any pics of this match, not that it was bad, but because I have enough pics of Colt after the Global Force Wrestling event last year. Same reason I didn't get many of Tommy Dreamer and Abyss. Interesting, as Colt had an obsession of Danny's chesthair. Colt won, obviously.
Match 5- Tony Nese vs Matt Cross
MATCH. OF. THE. NIGHT. They tore the house down in quite a few standing ovation moves, very fast paced, cruiserweight match. I
ing loved this match. really made me a fan of both. I got to talk to both afterwards and Matt Cross and I talked about the Backyard Wrestling video game (which I actually liked, especially the soundtrack)
Match 6- Tommy Dreamer/Mickie James vs Angelina Love/Aiden O'Shea
Pretty good match. Mustafa came out as enforcer for Love and O'Shea, but was ejected after tripping Tommy. Tommy won after hitting a piledriver on Angelina, which I'm still.. just... not used to so that got me laughing. Mustafa came out after the match and attacked Tommy, Hornswoggle came out, got his ass kicked, then out came Ryback, who got a big pop. Tommy then had a thing praising everybody.
Match 7- (HoH Main Event) Bob Holly vs Sami Callihan
So my fandom for Bob Holly goes back to my childhood after I found out Bob was a big NASCAR fan, like me. Ever since Smackdown vs Raw 2007 I've been making a CAW for myself named Burnout Holly, (storyline wise) playing his son. So getting to meet him and see him wrestle was amazing for me.
Bob stiffed Sami on one move, still ended up losing. Nice hardcore match, throwing each other into guardrails.
Match 8- (GLCW Main Event) David Herro/Al Snow vs Damien Nelson/Abyss
Took place in a steel cage, which took a long time to put up. Quite a few "Virgil" chants towards Damien, which was dumb but whatever. Two enforcers came in, one was Sadist and I can't remember the other one, then Sandman's music hit which got a huge pop. Sandman took his time getting to the ring, and Herro ended up winning.
So overall, like last year, had an amazing time. 10/10, was worth the $35 tickets.
STILL WAITING TO FINALLY MEET TRENT BARRETA THOUGH
ANYWAY I went to Waukesha (just outside of Milwaukee), Wisconsin for my second straight Blizzard Brawl. I went last year, but it was held by Great Lakes Championship Wrestling. This year it was held by House of Hardcore, which is owned by Tommy Dreamer, and damn did he bring the firepower. It'll probably be my last, not because it was bad or anything, because it was the opposite, I loved it, but I'm moving to Charlotte next year so unfortunately I can't go. Pardon the potato pics, didn't bring my camera so I was using my phone.
Let me start with the pre-show experience. Damn this was cool. I met one of my wrestling heroes Bob Holly and we talked briefly about racing, but I was shaking so bad I really didn't talk much.
I also met former commentator Matt Stryker, who has pretty cool to meet. He wasn't listed for the event so it was neat to meet him. Pardon my dumbass expression, I was still shaking from Bob.
I finally also met WWE Cruiserweight wrestler Tony Nese, who I think is being let wrestle the rest of his Indie dates, which is cool. Really turned into a huge fan of him, but I'll get to that later.
It should also be noted that Sandman was drunk, as usual. Ryback and Mickie James were the two "big names" there this year, last year was Chyna, who I met, but didn't meet either of them this time because Ryback was charging too much and Mickie had a really long line.
Match 1- Kevin Thorn vs Bull James
Kevin Thorn looks, I don't want to say /worse/ than last year, but he looks... ehhh
Bull came out wearing a cheesehead, and everybody booed when he took it off and cheered when he put it on.
Pretty entertaining match. Bull won after hitting a pedigree with the cheesehead on.
Match 2- Matt Stryker vs Conor Braxton
God, ugh. Why have Stryker wrestle? He eventually went on to commentary but he did his original teacher gimmick, came out with two chicks and the match went on too long. Not to mention there was a stupid hoverboard part to the match which just, like I said, took too long. There was a "I'll teach you some new sexy moves thing that made me cringe, ugh
Stryker /eventually/ won by rollup after knocking Braxton off the hoverboard.
Match 3- Mr. Anderson vs Sadist
Sadist is a local wrestler who wrestled at Blizzard Brawl last year. Anderson took off his shirt, and my friend, who is a TNA fan, said "God you can tell he let himself go"
Anderson won in a pretty uneventful match.
Match 4- Colt Cabana vs Danny Duggan
Didn't get any pics of this match, not that it was bad, but because I have enough pics of Colt after the Global Force Wrestling event last year. Same reason I didn't get many of Tommy Dreamer and Abyss. Interesting, as Colt had an obsession of Danny's chesthair. Colt won, obviously.
Match 5- Tony Nese vs Matt Cross
MATCH. OF. THE. NIGHT. They tore the house down in quite a few standing ovation moves, very fast paced, cruiserweight match. I
ing loved this match. really made me a fan of both. I got to talk to both afterwards and Matt Cross and I talked about the Backyard Wrestling video game (which I actually liked, especially the soundtrack)Match 6- Tommy Dreamer/Mickie James vs Angelina Love/Aiden O'Shea
Pretty good match. Mustafa came out as enforcer for Love and O'Shea, but was ejected after tripping Tommy. Tommy won after hitting a piledriver on Angelina, which I'm still.. just... not used to so that got me laughing. Mustafa came out after the match and attacked Tommy, Hornswoggle came out, got his ass kicked, then out came Ryback, who got a big pop. Tommy then had a thing praising everybody.
Match 7- (HoH Main Event) Bob Holly vs Sami Callihan
So my fandom for Bob Holly goes back to my childhood after I found out Bob was a big NASCAR fan, like me. Ever since Smackdown vs Raw 2007 I've been making a CAW for myself named Burnout Holly, (storyline wise) playing his son. So getting to meet him and see him wrestle was amazing for me.
Bob stiffed Sami on one move, still ended up losing. Nice hardcore match, throwing each other into guardrails.
Match 8- (GLCW Main Event) David Herro/Al Snow vs Damien Nelson/Abyss
Took place in a steel cage, which took a long time to put up. Quite a few "Virgil" chants towards Damien, which was dumb but whatever. Two enforcers came in, one was Sadist and I can't remember the other one, then Sandman's music hit which got a huge pop. Sandman took his time getting to the ring, and Herro ended up winning.
So overall, like last year, had an amazing time. 10/10, was worth the $35 tickets.
STILL WAITING TO FINALLY MEET TRENT BARRETA THOUGH
