WingedEagle

Did you try messaging Charles on Twitter?

I was offered a free seat in a box for Slammiversary and turned it down without nary a thought. As appealing as a couple beers and dirty water dogs might be, Joe Hendry & co. are not a good reason to get home super late on a Sunday night. Maybe a couple years ago but if turns out that anything was worth watching I'll catch it the next day.

I usually can't handle that stuff but somehow it didn't bother me much here. Death matches in Japan are an absolute handwave for me and feel like snuff films.

What an absolutely incredible main event. The involvement of everyone was pitch perfect and Danielson being a part of it was just amazing. Couldn't love it more. I don't throw 5 stars at much but this is one was easy. Running a 6 hour show is a kick in the nuts no matter what, but if you're going to do that a least close it like this.

What's the thinking with running what looks like a 5.5-6 hour show? Forget us jokers at home on the couch. You've got 25K people there who need to eat, use the bathroom, charge a phone, just fucking GET UP AND MOVE. How does this benefit anyone?

ATHENA POP! Let's hope this isn't a false start.

It took a couple hours, but the show now feels like a goddamn affair with that match. Let's go!

Plus straight to the heat here without any meaningful shine to warm up the crowd? Really odd.

That was an absolute highlight. The Bucks' entrance was long and grand for no reason at all. Casino Gauntlet was absurdly long. I get the Cole piece but you double the entrances for that match and give them full time and here we are 2+ hours into the show and not even halfway done. Never mind Zero Hour. Even Wrestle Kingdom has corrected course from that kind of pace.

Time management is an issue here. You don't get bonus points for eating into the SNME rating if you kill the crowd in the building and at home.

It looks great. Like a pretty full house. But it sounds like pretty awful. The company didn't do any favors letting the Casino Gauntlet run nearly twice as long as needed, or sending Cole out to read his career's death announcement (this is NOT at all a knock on Cole, who by all accounts is one of the best people in the business and if that's what he wanted I'm glad he and his friends got their moment) as that would kill even a hot crowd.

I hope Cole is okay. That didn't look or feel like an injury situation with someone who's coming back when he heals up.

This match is really good but man is it going long. Also, this crowd is not impressive.

MVP doing his best to kill this match on commentary.

Very much so. It almost felt like they were told to tone it down until then. I did not have a heavy injury angle for Joe on my bingo card. Is he off to film something?