[Jordan]

This is a post I made at F4Wonline.com the night of the show. I stood behind production and one of the board members asked me if I saw anything cool...

Well the producer was this guy Roger who I was talking with before the show started. All the production guys on the mezzanine were having a blast watching the show. Roger was calling the shots via Court in the production truck outside the arena. It was so tempting to look at Roger's script because he was literally right in front of me but I didn't want him to feel like he was spoiling the show for me so I didn't look at it very much. They also had this computer with all of the graphics for the worker's entrances, and I saw this big blue BWO sign and figured that Blue Meanie was going to be a surprise entrant in Battle Riot and he was. So I stopped looking as much as I could. I also had the TV monitor right in front of me so I could watch live and also see what it will look like on TV, that was really cool. I'd say the most inside thing I observed was how Roger was so diligent in the countdown for Battle Riot. There was one part where I think Brodie Lee was eliminated and he told the guy running the entrances "HOLD! HOLD! JUST HOLD EVERYTHING!" because he wanted this moment to really set in. He was counting down from 20 for his workers to hit the countdown from 10 on time. He was really good at his job. Also he must be pretty important to the company because ACH kept making eye contact with him, like checking for approval ALL NIGHT. He'd look up and be like "was that good?" And then there was some issues with Rich Swann, he got hurt legit during his match. ACH was communicating non verbally with the producer. Turns out they took Swan and his girlfriend out of Battle Riot, she was scheduled but must have left to go to the hospital with Swan. I was like 5 feet away from Tony and Striker, you could hear Striker a lot because he was so animated. It was really cool having him there. He also did an in ring with Tom after the Battle Riot. After MJF won his Middleweight Championship he came up and kind of moved me out of the way and said to Roger "Thank you, I love you". It was really sweet. MJF was so on it tonight, a truly great heel. Seeing him live was better than TV for sure, same with Shane Strickland and Tom Lawler. They are all really fantastic live performers. Low Ki unfortunately was not, his match with John Hennigan was the worst on the show, not to say it was a bad match but still the most unexciting. Hopefully they get Tom the belt ASAP because Low Ki isn't going to carry this company. Tom was super over as a babyface, but sometimes in his promo's he comes off like a cocky heel... it will be interesting where that goes. I would recommend you see MLW War Games if you are near Fort Lauderdale in September, that should be a blast.