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Friday, October 5

WWE comes to Dayton

by Mike on Fri 05 Oct 2007 09:05 PM EDT

Tuesday night (October 2), I went to the SmackDown And ECW show at Dayton’s EJ Nutter Center. This was the first live wrestling event I’ve attended since King of the Ring back in 1993. Attending the show was yet another chapter in my growing obsession with pro wrestling which was rekindled around a year or so ago. My friend Anthony, who went with me to the SmackDown/ECW show, is at least partially to blame for my renewed interest in wrestling, as he is the only other grown man I know who will openly and proudly admit to watching WWE shows on a regular basis. I was pretty excited about going to the show and I was especially looking forward to the ECW show which would be broadcast live on the Sci Fi channel and include an appearance from one of my current favorites, CM Punk. I even made a sign – yes, a sign – so I could stand out a bit in the teeming crowd of our fellow wrestling geeks.
me at WWE

Anthony and I were pretty psyched about the event and once we made it into the building, we started randomly shouting "Woooo!" to see if we could get other people going. That was kind of funny. Once the Smackdown portion of the night started, I kind of lost my mind and started yelling and generally heckling the wrestlers I didn’t like, which is kind of what you do at wrestling shows. I think about 15 or 20 minutes into it, I did end up telling Anthony, "I forgot to mention that I act like a complete fool at these things." Thankfully I wasn’t alone, though, as we were in a section with some like-minded folks. I was particularly proud of the fact that I started the "What?!" chant in our section when The Great Khali made his first appearance of the night. Later on when Matt Hardy came out, I stood up and yelled, "I like your brother better!" I also spent a lot of time screaming, “ohmygod, ohmygod, OHMYGOD” every time there was a near-fall. One of the funniest moments of the night came when they were running footage of Theodore Long’s awful, awful (awful fake, I mean) heart attack during his kayfabe wedding to Kristal. Right at the moment that Theodore hit the ground, Anthony – who had been relatively quiet compared to me up to that point – yelled out, "You killed him, you gold digger!" I just about fell out of my seat.

There were some boring and lackluster matches on the card, but there were some pretty good ones as well. The Tag Team Championship featuring Matt Hardy and MVP vs. Deuce and Domino was really entertaining as was the CM Punk vs. Mike Knox match. Seeing Tommy Dreamer win the Elimination chase was awesome, but it all went to hell when Big Daddy V. came out and obliterated Tommy. The Rey Mysterio versus The Great Khali match was very predictable, but it was pretty exciting to see Rey Mysterio in person. If I remember right, Khali got walloped by a chair-wielding Batista at the end of that match and that was pretty sweet.

As far as I can tell, judging from the ECW show, I didn’t make it on TV despite my best efforts. But SmackDown hasn’t aired yet, so maybe there will be a glimpse of me when it airs on the CW tonight.