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Falls
Count Anywhere
05-28-03
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I need
5 minutes alone with Victoria and some vanilla pudding.
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Welcome to Falls Count Anywhere! My
name is Chris, and I was a hardcore fanboy all weekend.
RAW From a solid opening that
went too long, to good matches, things went very well for
RAW. Though it may seem there are a lot of individual things
in the average, this was a show that worked very well as
a whole.
The Good
The opening was very good, though it went too long and included
too many participants. Flair was great in getting emotion
into the show, and Michaels gave another of his legendary
heartfelt performances.
Booker T and Test had a match that
may be the definition of a good but not great match. They
worked it well, and the fact that it was Test made Booker
T's performance even more impressive.
Victoria. How the Hell is a woman allowed
to be so hot, and dressed as such? Her top was enough to
move the match into the Good column, and the match was fair
enough. I really like Steven Richards, and Val is good.
Trish was fun on the mic. She's getting good all around.
MY GOD, VICTORIA LOOKED HOT!
People don't seem to be responding
to Jericho with the zeal they had at other times. The fact
that they are using the WCW and WWE stuff that went on between
the two helped it in my eyes. The mace deal was kinda Smoky
Mountain, but still, I liked it. I also thought that Jericho's
Spear was a nice touch.
The Average
Christian is good on the mic. The Goldust bit was too much,
and kept it from being really good. Booker gets a hundred
times the response of Nash, and sees his push erode. Line
of the night goes to Christian: "Get me a Diet Tab, I think
they still have 'em here in Mobile."
The little middle of the show segment
was a nice tribute, but it didn't move very well. Still,
it wasn't really bad, but not terribly entertaining, at
least not until Austin started singing solo. That was funny.
Lilian chuggin' down a cold one was pretty freakin' HOT,
too! I won't comment on using the segment to get heat for
Le Resistance.
I am relocating the weekly White Boy
Challenge to the average, as it was fun and faster than
normal. Seeing Nowinski on TV again was good, too. Teddy
Long is still my Hero.
The RVD/Greneir match was not bad,
but I wasn't thrilled. The ending was so obvious, as they
could never let the French win on Memorial Day, and that's
just what they did. I must say that the off the top bump
Sylvan took was pretty awesome. RVD looked good, but not
quite good enough. People didn't really care enough about
it to give it the heat it would have deserved if done right.
The double cross was obvious, the match
too short. It could have been great, and the guy in the
ski mask was…odd. I liked what they did, and I would say
that it is on the high end of average, but still average.
I didn't like it as a main event, as it would have made
a great 10 o'clock segment. Why do the Nash KO in the back
with the guy in the mask if they were just going to bring
him out into the ring? Nice to see Orton back though.
The Bad
Wow, Kevin Nash has no charisma anymore. His interview was
awful, got no response. Fire him!
I love Christian's push, but Goldy
couldn't do much. Lawler's commentary in regards to Booker
T was awful, too.
Teri's segment with Jericho was lame.
Actually, I think it sucked in new ways. They could cut
her without a problem.
All in all, I liked it. I had a good
time watching, though it hung together as a whole far better
than it excited in the single moments.
News
Ron Trongard, former AWA announcer who had a run with the
WWF (if I remember correctly), currently suffers from cancer.
I hope he gets better. His call on the legendary Bockwinkle
vs. Hennig match from the Showboat in 1986 was the best
example of how to use announcing to heighten a feud.
The new Rey Mysterio Jr. DVD is going
to be awesome. It'll have all sorts of matches from WCW,
including the classic Eddy vs. Rey match from Halloween
Havoc 1997 and a couple of great lucha matches, like Rey's
Trios match from the When Worlds Collide PPV in 1994. It
should be great.
FlashBack!
Short little thing that I found amusing, and the fact that
Blassie has been in the hospital (get better, god of men!)
makes it more timely.
So I spent the weekend at BayCon, a
San Jose science fiction convention that I have been speaking
at for four years now. I talked and walked around, hit the
parties, hosted the Trailer Park, and got to do my first
public reading.
While there, I met a fellow from L.A.
who had a most interesting shirt: it had Freddy Blassie
on it, holding a Star Trek phaser and wearing Spock ears.
I followed the guy and asked him where the shirt came from,
and I was amazed at the answer.
Apparently, during the height of Blassie's
L.A. run, the North American Science Fiction Convention
came to town. Sometime, the master came out to see some
folks who were at the convention and they snapped the picture.
I'm not sure why, but the guy said
that Blassie had been talking to a lot of the old time L.A.
folks who were wrestling fans and science fiction fans.
He signed autographs, took photos, and even shook hands
with some of the legends, like Isaac Asimov (a photo that
I had heard of), Forrest J. Ackerman, and Fritz Leiber.
I would love to write the story where
Blassie met Harlan Ellison, in which Freddy Blassie met
the Hollywood Fashion Plate and gave Harlan the Terrible
the thrashing he has deserved all these years.
Just a strange t-shirt. I asked if
he had the image scanned, and he said no, but he'd try and
get one. I need it, as it is proof that I am not the only
one in both the science fiction and wrestling camps.
Well, that's the "I'm exhausted from
a weekend of little sleep and way too much walking" Falls
Count Anywhere. Friday: There'll be more!
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