goodhelmet Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Me and shoe are here live in San Antonio so I thought I would collect my thoughts here as the show is going on. Shane Diller ? vs. The Romantic Touch - Fun opener with a Rhett Titus under the hood playing a Handsome Stranger gimmick. Shane is a big fat dude and Touch worked well around Shane's limitations. Nothing special but the crowd was into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Agree. A super fun opener. Romantic Touch is a fun act. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Dalton Castle vs Donovan ?? - the Castle gimmick with his man servants is awesome. Donovan looks like a really tall Ken Doane. Dalton plays his gimmick well and had some cool spots including a really stiff looking elbow suicide dive. Fun opener but I don't know about 2 comedy gimmicks in a row. At least one was a dark match. Dalton has the SWEET Tamon Honda delayed German. Donovan ends it with a flip GTS. Worth checking out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I liked this. It started out with schtick, but morphed into a straight laced match for the most part . I agree with Will about 2 straight comedy matches. Dalton Castle has a great act. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 War Machine vs. Andy Dalton and partner. - Dalton is such an awesome local worker and he got jobbed in 5 seconds with the Doomsday leg drop. At least he got to show some personality by licking his hand in the nastiest way before shaking Ray Rowe ' s hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I love the Romantic Touch gimmick. Probably my favorite part of RoH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Rowe gets over as a bad ass. We have Christine Jarrett in front of us . They tried to evict her for sitting in the wrong place. Security was wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 We get a live Fish Tank with Jay Lethal. Everyone is great . Lethal was incredible. He eyeballs Christine Jarrett . reDragon does some fun comedy. Lethal runs down Jay Briscoe. We get a kick ass brawl. KRD attack reDragon. Daniels,ACH, and Daniels out for the save. Am incredible piece of business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Michael Elgin vs. Cedric Alexander Early on Cedric nails the sweetest dropkick I have ever seen live. He follows it up with a sweet tope. Too bad Elgin fights back and takes over on offense because his offense kind of sucks. For such a power house, his offense isn't very dynamic. Pete gets a Cedric chant going and he fights back. I liked this a lot when Cedric was on offense, not so much with Elgin. Entertaining match overall but they went into 2 count overkill. Elgin wins but it didn't feel like it was his match to win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Elgin is a hit or miss guy for me. I enjoyed the match, but it had its flaws. I felt it was to your turn my turn and 2 count over kill . Live Alexander is a great baby face who plays to the crowd really well and gets them behind him. Too bad they are turning him heel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 BJ Whitmer vs. Caprice Coleman vs. Will Ferrera vs. MOOSE - People were into this match when Moose was in and not into it when he was out. Moose was the most over guy when he wasn't in the ring. Sloppy match and Moose didn't look great. He does do a tope that rocked the place. Moose has fluffy light headbutts. Moose kills Coleman with the spear but Whitmer grabs the pin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I enjoyed this more than Will. It was fun, but had flaws. I dug the arm work on Whitmer with Coleman and Ferrera working as a team. I liked the psychology of teasing the tag to Moose. The arm work didn't go anywhere. Moose got a hot tag and delivered weak looking head butts. A really bad choice on a hot tag. We get a dive train. Capped off by Moose doing one. The best one was Coleman's inside out Moonsault. I loved the finish as a way to build a future match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 ACH vs. Adam Page (impromptu match): - Worst ACH live match I hav been to. More angle than match with Whitmer distracting ACH and Page nailing a lame finisher from the pin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Having ACH lose to the Joes and Styles of the world ok. Page WTF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 reDragon vs. The Addiction - Too much to describe without replay but reDragon make mincemeat out of Frankies arm and he sells it like a champ. Then they go into overdrive with huge near falls, double teams and big saves. Fish and O'Reilly lose the belts after a member of KRD accidentally super kicks O'Reilly and the Addiction finisher. The KRD member is caught and unmasks as Chris Sabin and the Addiction are the guys in the masks. MOTYC tag match worthy of watching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 This was tremendous live. I thought Daniels and Kazarian were going to be affiliated with KRD so I'm glad to be proved right. The only downside to the match was the face/heel dynamic. This was the match I so wanted to like and I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Ok... site was down but we have some more thoughts... Killer Elite Squad vd. WAR Machine - This was turning into a nice little southern tag for awhile. Super stiff shots and Hansen ended up as face in peril after a nasty spot where his leg was kicked and he whipped his head on the mat. The ending ducked when the ref threw out the match after a low blow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I thought this was a great hoss battle. Hanson was a good FIP, but man that finish was the shits. Still confused about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topropepodcast Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 It's been a really fun show so far. I'll definitely have more to say when I'm not on my phone but I've been entertained throughout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Moose vs. Americos ? - The masked guy looked like a Puerto Rican Delirious. He gets killed by Moose. Tossed over the top rope from a military slam. Whipped against the boards and speared. Moose looked better here than the 4 way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 A squash Moose fucked up his 1st big move and killed it for me. Thought Moose was the worst wrestler on the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted April 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Tomasso Ciampa vs. JAY Lethal - I didn't care about either guy. However, the crowd was into it and they teased some nice finishes. Still some of the shit just didn't make sense. In the end, the ref throws out the House of Truth... but they never leave! Them Lethal just nails his finisher anyway to end it. Stupid. If they cut this up and put it back together, it might resemble something that looks like a good match but it felt like garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Lethal is the worst on working on top. This match went way too long and bored me a lot.It had a lot of cool stuff in it and if edited well could come out ok. Translation it had a lot of fat to get to the meat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Was Stokely there? That guy rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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