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leaveharmony · 8 years ago

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So we had ourselves a nice little house show.

Sadly I couldn't find Asuka's figure at Toys Toys Toys beforehand & Hot Topic had no new rasslin' shirts in since last time; we did however end up buying New Day funko pops. Kinda. In that mum & I both wanted a Kofi so we went up w/ two of them, and then it was cheaper to buy three so I went back and grabbed a Xavier and I still feel terrible about leaving E behind lol

The INCREDIBLY IRRITATING emergency alert system actually went off at the Eaton's Centre while we were there, I guess they thought there was a fire or something but they didn't evacuate the place, just kept pulsing this ungodly loud BEEEEEEP every 3 seconds or so. We took an accidental wrong turn into another tax bracket trying to get to the Bay to check for Betsy Johnson stuff, I guess they've sandwiched Saks 5th Avenue between the Bay and the rest of the mall. I've never actually seen “Alexander McQueen” written anywhere in meatspace before. We walked by a $3000 handbag, and I was afraid to breathe too hard.

They've fixed whatever it was needed fixing down by Exhibition Place, so the streetcar delivered us right outside the doors of Ricoh instead of like three blocks away, which was unimaginable luxury after last time.

Ricoh is a great venue, the only tricky thing about it is there's way less space for merch booths, so, there are really only 2 for the whole building & it's like a really patient mobscene trying to get near 'em. We only succeeded at the end of the night.

- we kicked off w/ the Golden Truth & Sin Cara facing the rather motley assortment of the Shining Stars, Jinder Mahal and Bo Dallas, of all people. I think it was Jinder who got on the mic offering to graciously let the other team take a forfeit, R-Truth explained they had a partner but they were “stuck in traffic,” (Eva?) so you knew how this was gonna go from the off. lol. Of course the faces got kicked around until Big Show arrived near the end of the match. Or rather, Big Show arrived and caused the end of the match.

- I was hoping for a Cruiserweight match & got my wish with Rich Swann and Neville; this is actually the third time I've seen Rich in the span of like 5 months lol. From a technical standpoint this was probably match of the night, but, the crowd let it down a bit. Surprising amount of support for Neville...I guess we are a Commonwealth country, after all. He won by faking a leg injury and wolluping Rich when he turned his back. Then he hopped sarcastically on the supposedly injured leg - I've never seen a man hop sarcastically before, but he managed it, by god.

- Next up, Sasha and Alicia took on Nia and Dana. Nia got a very warm reception, for a heel lol. Ppl were actually cheering for Alicia which is odd, because they booed her at Survivor Series, and that was BEFORE the dumbass angle w/ Cedric and Noam. The Boss was of course received rapturously, as befitting her station. Her & Foxy picked up the win.

- I think Roman and Braun were supposed to be the main event originally, but they got demoted to the pre-intermission spot. I was laughing at a dueling pair of little boys in the audience, as one would yell LET'S GO ROMAN and the other from a few rows behind him would counter w/ ROMAN SUCKS! Ro got thrown around like a ragdoll but picked up a DQ victory when Braun used the ringsteps. Repeatedly. Still not as terrible a sound as when Shinsuke hit them. :) He & Sami were prolly tied for glad-hander of the night b/c it took him a very long time to get back up the ramp, taking selfies w/ kids and signing autographs and stuff lol. I should have run down to the merch stands while he was taking his sweet-ass time leaving, but I wasn’t 100% sure it was the last one before the break...ah well.

- Post-intermission, we had a fatal 4 way for the tag titles. The start was heralded by the gradual appearance of a giant inflatable box of Booty-O's; Xavier and Big E took the ramp while Kofi drove in the ice-cream cart from beside it. Enzo & Cass were out next...the dorks were dancing to their theme along w/ Enzo. Sheamus and Cesaro completed the challengers...at one point when Sheamus was mugging for the crowd Cesaro stood behind him w. his hand up on his head like a shark fin, mocking the mohawk. XD 'Course then the party was over as Anderson & Gallows hit the ring. A guy behind me loudly confessed as they did that he couldn't tell them apart & also didn't know which one was named Karl and which was namd Luke. “Does it honestly matter?” I thought. Once everybody was assembled, Kofi briefly attempted whirling two unicorn horns like nunchucks as an intimidation tactic. He was more coordinated with them than Shinsuke was with the bone-chucks, but, I think in fairness Shinsuke was trying to look as ridiculous as possible. <3 Anderson ended up getting a quick roll-up-feet-on-ropes victory after E assisted in tossing Kofi out of the ring onto everybody else. AFTERWARDS, all the faces surrounded Anderson, and Cesaro swung him. Like 20 rotations, at least lol. Then there was a brief dance party. Enzo & Cass participated willingly but Sheamus had to be physically restrained and coerced into a brief hip-wiggling before fleeing the ring in shame (shame! shame!).

- Bayley & Charlotte were up next. I wish I could say it was as good as the masterpiece Charlotte and Natalya put on, but sadly not so much. There was a tiny contingent of side-pigtailed little girls somewhere to our left, who maintained a LET'S GO BAYLEY chant for the entire match lol. She won w/ the Bayley to Belly. I took more pictures of them, to make up for the celebration picture Charlotte ruined with her heel ways at Survivor Series XD

- I think they saved all the canadians for the main event lol. Team heels came out first, Kevin followed by Joe followed by Triple H. KO is still beloved...we don't care he's a heel, he's our heel. I gotta say, I'm much happier watching Joe when Shinsuke's literal neck isn't at stake lol. Trips was...certainly there. I've been casually indifferent to him for like 18 years at this point, so.... I thought they might save Finn's entry for last, but, he came out after Sami, leaving the last word to Jericho, god-emperor of Canada. It occured to me at this point that with the exception of Trips, everybody in the ring had had at least one match with Shinsuke. :) I just. They're all super. lol. Jericho got the pin on Kev, following a vicious codebreaker. Then he put us all on the list, which has now I believe become a list of the Friends of Jericho. Words cannot express how much I love that guy <3

Having a bit more of a time-cusion than last time, we stayed to watch everybody leave. They actually played Sami out twice because Finn left before he did, but Sami had wandered off to one side of the ramp hugging ppl and taking selfies lol. I will confess to waving to all three of them as they left, though there wasn't a prayer they woulda seen. <3

As people left en masse there was a slightly less ridiculous line at the smaller merch stand, so, mum picked up one of the tour shirts and I ended up w/ one of Finn's - I was hoping for a Sami shirt, honestly, but at least at that booth they didn't have one and I couldn't get anywhere near close enough to the big one to even see if there was. Even though we made it back to the bus terminal well ahead of time we actually ended up having to literally chase the bus, because mum took a bit longer in the downstairs bathroom...thankfully the driver stopped after making us run alongside the fucking thing right up to the stop sign...if there hadn't been a sign there it's entirely possible he would have just left us there, at Midnight, even though our names were on his list of passengers. It's funny now but it wasn't funny at the time. :/

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