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Watched this today with my buddy as our schedules tied us up yesterday.
A lot has already been said all I'll go with my main takeaways.
Luchasauras looked like a star. Versatile moveset for a bigger guy.
Omega v Pac was stellar. Lived up to the last minute hype and Kenny losing was a surprise.
Cracker Barrel match was a lot of fun. I like Darby Allen as a natural brooding underdog and Joey Janella is entertaining enough. Not a big Jimmy Havoc guy but he has seemingly lost every time out so getting him a win was fine in an entertaining match.
Mad crush on Hikaru Shida. Riho is ok. She's going to get manhandled by Nyla Rose, and I think that's why they're putting her in that match. Women's belt is gorgeous.
Side Note: don't think I've heard the announcers once mention anything about Nyla Rose being transgender during the broadcast. Which is good. No need to play that up. My buddy said he thinks wwe would be all over that, selling how progressive they are.
Cody v Spears was great. Typical Cody match. It's not some technical masterpiece or high flying, high spot affair. Just gold, old fashioned story telling. Tully was great. Arn was an awesome surprise. Thought Spears should've gone over to help cement him as more than a good hand. Also thought this was the night MJF turned on Cody, but alas. That'll come another day. Still a good match.
Best Friends v The Dark Order was easily the most boring match on the card. Best friends are ok and the Dark Order, especially Evil Uno, look bush league as fuck. I couldn't get over that Dark Uno is just some fat guy with his pants pulled all the up under his chest as a bad ass, dangerous, intimidating guy. He's just a fat guy with flappy flaps rolling around the ring. His partner is fine, just really generic.
The ladder match of death was just that. Jesus fuck the spots. The Canadian destroyer off the ladder and thru the table was prob my fave. Second being the package spike piledriver on the outside. The bump Nick took where he clipped the ropes was brutal.
Awesome that the Lucha Bros won. Hopefully that'll be it for these 2 teams for a long while.
Jericho v Hangman was a good main event. Nothing was going to top that ladder match but this didn't need to. I liked the busted open spot, Page looked good, Jericho was in top form, and the right guy won. That Judas Effect elbow is going to generate a great pop when someone finally kicks out.
All in all I enjoyed it. It wasn't great, or groundbreaking, but it was a fun show and its marquee matches lived up to the hype.
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