Big East Wrestling

Big East Wrestling
6/15/02
Clinton, MA
CT: Chris Tomkinson (tarn1@speakeasy.net)
DH: Dan Herman (datgi@iamit.com)

CT: Yep, yep. Big East Wrestling came to Clinton, MA for a night of
wrestling action in
front of a crowd of about 60 and a dog. The dog enjoyed playing with an
empty plastic
bottle. I also had an empty plastic bottle, but it wasn't as fun for me. It
was a cool gym,
with skateboard ramps pulled off to the side. Looks like the kids of
Clinton are lucky in a
way that I never was. Sad, it makes me.

Also making me sad: they moved the basketball hoops so there was no chance
of anyone
bumping through one. Damnit! When will I see someone take a bump through a
hoop?!!

Your ring announcer, some guy in a semi-tux (I'm not sure he even
introduced himself)
comes out and asks us to all rise for the playing of the National Anthem.
About halfway
through, Adam LeClair comes out and demands that they stop the music. He
requests,
quite impolitely I might add, that they play the Canadian National Anthem.
He goes on to
explain that he's from Canada, and Canada's WAY better than Clinton, MA.
Whoa, whoa,
whoa. There are many places Canada's better than; Clinton isn't one of
them. Best part:
the 10-year old next to me, who says, "He's not from Canada. That's the guy
who lives
behind my house." I tried explaining to him that maybe LeClair's house was
in Clinton,
Canada, but he wasn't buying it. Man, that kid looked up to me and I let
him down.

So they play the Canadian National Anthem in full. Dunno the wisdom or
appropriateness
of cutting off the American one, but playing all of Canada's, but that's
what happened.
Some guy next to me knew all the words to the "O,Canada." Part of me longed
for Nikolai
Volkoff's redition of the Soviet National Anthem.

DH: For the record, I only know most of the words of the Canadian National
Anthem.

I wandered into a gym in Clinton wearing a Toronto Argonauts shirt. How was
I to know that
someone was going to pretend to be Canadian? That really put me in an odd
place when it
came time to jeer the heel. During the battle royal, LeClair wandered about
with the crowd. The best I could do was tell him that he wasn`t a real
Canadian. He looks
at me and responds that he`s from Toronto. That put me in an odd place
again. I respond
that I`m really from Toronto and it`s a friendly city so I know everyone by
name and he`s
never even visited, but that`s awfully long and he walked away before I
could even think that
up.

CT: LeClair got some pro-U.S./anti-Canada heat, but BOY was this segment a
little long.
Especially to start the show. We Want Wrestling!

Match 1: Battle Royal for a shot at LeClair's U.S. Title
CT: LeClair takes a seat near the bellringer's table as everyone comes out
for the Battle
Royal. Since I've never been to a Big East show, I recognized exactly 2
people in the Battle
Royal. And one of them was the unnamed croney that came out with LeClair.
Why was he
in the Battle Royal again? Does he want to win the title? How does LeClair
feel about this?
And what's his name? They really should have announced each guy as he came
out. It
would have given something for the crowd to identify with and root for. As
it was, it was a
mishmash of guys rumbling around in the ring for 7 minutes. If you've seen
a battle royal,
you've seen this one. Flash Nick McKenna, making his first appearance of
the evening, got
the Diesel Push and eliminated about 5 guys by himself. The Final Four were
McKenna,
LeClair's guy, Chris Blackheart, and Max Ludacris. By the way, Ludacris has
the coolest
name ever. Ludacris wins because he's the only face in with 3 heels. Need I
tell you!
what happened?

I think the crowd wanted to get into this match. There's just no way of
doing so for a Battle
Royal. Especially one where everyone is presented as basically nameless &
faceless. My
suggestion: nametags. Plus, starting out the show with a long promo and a
Battle Royal
could have killed a lesser crowd. But we were strong. Strong like bulls.
Strong like Max
Ludacris.

DH: Max Ludacris is a great name, but not as great as Magnus Maximus.
Anyway, we
actually recognized a third person as the guy who does security for EWA
came out in a
mask and got eliminated very quickly. Chris and I were desperate to cheer
for someone so
we wound up cheering for Flash, who is a heel, but there was no way to tell
and he
eliminated about half of the guys in there. This was... a battle royal.

Match 2: Hardware & Scott Logan v. Overkill (Legion Cage & Morningstar)
CT: Just to prevent any action from taking place just yet, Head Ref Pepe
Sanchez gets on
the stick and announces that this is his last match as ref. Y'see he's not
too happy with
the way the crowd gets on him for his questionable decisions. I'll tell ya,
the crowd DID
hate him. And it seemed like Heel heat rather than Shut Up heat. My point?
You know I
have none. Sanchez puts his Travel Bag under the ring, and off we go. Did I
mention that he
brought a travel bag out with him? Well he did. And he put it under the
ring, as I said.

For those of you who've never seen any of these guys, I'll describe them
for you. Legion
Cage is bald with a green singlet. He's like a miniature Bob Evans (not the
restaurant) or a
giant Brandon Baxter. Morningstar looks like a fourth-generation Anderson
(sans the Male
Pattern Baldness). He's real thick, with a beard. Hardware looks like the
guy who cuts my
hair with a pink thong on the outside of his tights. Scott Logan looked
like a guy on a Big
East Wrestling show.

This match was a marathon, and really was indicative of an ongoing problem
with the show.
It seemed like Cage & Morningstar were the heels. They eschewed high-fives
with the
crowd and went straight to the ring. Problem is, Logan & Hardware sorta
halfheartedly
played to the crowd. And while I enjoy that Hardware's gay gimmick is a
face gimmick, I
wasn't sure what the point was. His application of it seemed pretty
heelish. Plus, the
structure of the match was all off. The heels controlled early, then the
faces got heat on
Cage, then the heels seemingly got the Hot Tag. Then the heels got heat on
Logan for a
bit. Then he hot tagged to Hardware. Then Referee Pepe Sanchez just walked
out to the
back. Then, mid-flurry, Hardware took off his thong, wiped his butt with it
and threw it to the
crowd. Ewww! Then he went back to his flurry. Then another ref came out.
Then the "two
minutes remaining" call came. Then I began to fret that we were going
Broadway. Then
Ove!
rkill hit a combination Legsweep/Clinton Mafia Kick on Toolbox, I mean
Hardware for the
pin. Then I realized I was 20 minutes further into my life, and would never
be where I was
again. Deep, huh?

As a good member of the crowd, I tried to get into the match. It's just
that the workers
didn't seem interested in that. The face partner on the apron made no
effort to slap the
turnbuckle or clap to get the crowd clapping. On a few occasions, crowd
reactions were led
by some of the "smarter" members of the crowd, who started the Slow Build
Clap during
restholds or teased tags. Plus, the match was seriously like 20 minutes
long. It didn't
NEED to be 20 minutes long. It just WAS 20 minutes long. Not that the work
was horrible,
they just had no fundamental psychology. Basically: Why have a match if you
don't involve
the crowd? There's a reason why the traditional face on offense/heels get
heat/hot tag
structure has been around so long. It works to get the crowd into it and
into recognizing
characters.

DH: Legion "Freakin" Cage has a tiny body and a huge shaved head. Throw in
his green
singlet and he looked like he should be bothering Whitley Streiber. I call
him on this and he
seemed honestly offended. When, during the match, Chris asked me why the
heel was
being isolated I told him that he`s making an invalid assumption. Cage was
obviously a
face since he was upset with jeers and aliens are popular. I can understand
his confusion
as Scott Logan was also a face and Morningstar was a heel. We`re still not
sure what
Hardware was.

Morningstar is broad and thick, has a full beard, wore a vest to the ring
and threw a nice
looking spinebuster. Overall he might be the worst possible Anderson
cousin, but that was
enough for me to like him. He should move down South and see if Gene, Ole
or CW are
running a school.

As Chris said, the crowd had little to cheer for. The match went on
forever. The ring
announcer called two minutes and there will still five minutes left. I
guess the name Overkill
wasn`t false advertising.

Hardware had thong panties on his trunks for whatever reason and he sniffed
them and
threw them at an audience member at an inexplicable time. Sanchez walking
out is where I
gave up trying to take notes of the show.

He didn`t take his luggage with him, either.

Match 3: Billy Braxx v. Flash Nick McKenna v. Phil Stamper
CT: Nick McKenna sighting #2. I'm very pro-McKenna from his work in EWA in
Maine, and
was glad to see him in a different environment. Stamper, I believe, was the
guy who carried
the Canadian Flag for Adam LeClair during the opening segment. He also
failed in a bid to
fight LeClair by losing the Battle Royal. Braxx was established as the face
by not only
slapping hands with the fans, but also getting beaten down by a heel
doubleteam. I was
psyched to actually understand what was happening in the match. The crowd
got behind
Braxx, and booed McKenna and Stamper. Phil Stamper should do an elephant
gimmick.
That's what I say. Anyway, decent little match. 3-ways are basically all
the same, and this
was a 3-way. Duh. McKenna looked the best of the 3, and whipped out his
rapidfire
kneelifts/neckbreaker combo. Since McKenna was the best in the match, of
course he got
pinned. My notes say that Stamper won with a "neck trauma." Hmmm.don't know
what
that is. Possibly El!
Nudo or a Reverse Ipponzei. Wait! It was a combo into a Katahajame that
actually looked
pretty good. After a hard night of fighting 2 heels, Braxx just
nonchalantly walked to the
back. He didn't even seem to care. Stamper had a Title Belt that was never
mentioned.
Since I'm a dedicated reporter, I saw that it said "WCW Tag Team Champion."
Okay, then!
Now I'm more confused!!

I really have little memory of this, so that must be good, right? Nothing
upset my stomach
or anything. I understood who was the face and the heel through their
actions and the
match flow. But if Braxx doesn't care whether he won or lost, why should I?
Hang around,
act pissed, stay awhile, eat a sandwich.something to let me know that I as
a fan didn't get
behind a loser.

DH: This was inoffensive. People were into Brax and Brax was into getting
the people into
him. McKenna knows what to do in the ring well beyond his six months
experience. If
things seemed to fall apart, he was usually there to pull it back together.

Match 4: Law Breaker v. Z-Rider
CT: The ring announcer was hard to hear most of the night, prompting quite
a bit of
confusion about the participants of this match. Law Breaker was noted as
"Jawbreaker",
"Ballbreaker", or, strangely enough, "Bob Rigger." We were able to get
Z-Rider's name from
the kid who lives near LeClair. These guys both basically had the same
gimmick--street
thug with facepaint around the eye. Sorta like a Ghost Shadow/Low Rider
thingy. Law
Breaker was pretty stiff in this one. He whaled Rider with a nice
clothesline, and his
punches and chops were solid and connected well. Basically a squash, since
Breaker (the
heel) controlled most of the way and then caught Rider coming off the top
with a
Bareback/Franchiser for the win. Halfway through, a dressed and packed
Billy Braxx made
his exit from the arena. Ladies and Gentlemen, Billy Braxx has left the
building!
Speculation is that he was on his way to catch a flight to Japan.

No complaints here, except for the similarity of gimmicks.

DH: I swear to God that the ring announcer said ``Bob Rigger``. Anyway,
Rigger really laid
into Rider. Those were some scary shots. Rider got in almost no offense.
Chris asked me
who the heel was, I told him he shouldn`t assume that there is one. This
only confused him
more.

CT: Late Breaking News! Apparently, Z-Rider is actually "C-Rider." Sorry
'bout that. I knew
that kid couldn't be trusted.

Match 5: Big Balla v. Whippin Post Pete
CT: You ever say to yourself: "Self, you saw Kerry Von Erich pin Ric Flair,
you saw Big
John Studd and Ken Patera cut Andre the Giant's hair. You met Steve Cox.
Your picture
was in an issue of Sports Review Wrestling. Heck, you saw Adam Booker vs.
Dr. Heresy
vs. Frankie Armadillo less than 24 hours ago. How did it come to THIS?"
Well, I had that
moment during this match. First off, the mostly inaudible ring announcer
brings out a
"Special Guest Ring Announcer." The Guest Announcer cuts a promo for a bit
about who
knows what. Then he intros the participants, and we realize that he's
completely inaudible.
If there were a way for our notes to show "throwing up our hands in
frustration," it would
have been on paper. All I know is that the guy referred to as "Big Balla"
above had about a
25 word name, like Big Balling Dancing Loverboy Bobby Cruz or something. I
was able to
ascertain that Whippin Post Pete was from the Styx, but, alas he came out
to a fiddle
song and n!
ot "Lady" or "Mr. Roboto." Just to keep it straight, Balla had a Disco
Gimmick, replete with
flourescent green jacket & pants and an afro. Pete was a hillbilly, replete
with coveralls and
bare feets. On the plus side, I'd like to say that the children in the
audience really enjoyed
Pete's schtick. That said, I (as a non-child) just didn't get this match.
At all. Pete got hit
from behind, and "choked" on his chewin' tobacky. Balla hit him again, and
Pete spit it out
into his snot-rag. Then he gave the snot-rag to a kid in the audience to
hold. Yum! They
went back to screwing around in the ring for a bit. I guess years of
watching wrestling
should have taught us that Hillbillies are good and Disco Guys are bad,
since neither really
made any real effort to establish a heel/face dynamic. Pete danced like a
goof, and acted
like a retard. He was like Spike Dudley if you replaced bumping and
sympathy with..well,
with nothing, really. Then at some randomly determined point, Balla was on
the outside
and the Mystery Guest Ring Announcer (MGRA) jumped off the apron onto him.
When I
say "jumped," I mean "sorta stepped gingerly into Balla's arms, then Balla
gingerly knelt to
the ground." I'd say it was a SWERVE~!, but I have no idea if it was or
not. Then the
MGRA went up to Pete and gave him a stuffed sheep. Before I tell you what
happened
next, let me remind you that Pete is the Babyface in front of a crowd of
Children. Yeah, of
course he started humping the sheep, why do you ask? Then he stuffed it in
his pants, "for
later." Balla came back in and hit a top rope splash for the win. Best
part: his Afro Wig flew
off, revealing a clean-cut look. Whoops! Pete celebrated his loss by
mugging with the
sheep and Balla's wig. The next sentence is a lie. This was a must-see 5*
match, possibly
Indy MOTY. The next sentence is true. I almost swore off wrestling because
of this match.

DH: The guest ring announcer introduced the first guy as the Big something
something
something something Escobar. Unlike Chris, I enjoyed this match. There was
a guy in a
lime green leisure suit and wig like my high school hair cut going against
a hillbilly. What`s
not to love? Since there was no pretense of being anything other than
goofy, I just laughed.
Sometimes I even laughed where they wanted me to.

Chris asked me why the ring announcer attacked the heel and gave a gift to
the face. I told
him that Pete was the heel since we`re all refined and stuff up here so
we`re supposed to
hate hillbillies. Either that, or both were tweeners. Chris decided that
the latter was true,
not just for this match but the entire card.

CT: More Late Breaking News: Big Balla is actually "Big Balla [something]
[something]
[something] Pumpkin Escobar." So, sorry 'bout that Sr. Escobar. There is
nobody to blame
except for anyone but me or Dan.

Intermission
CT: The crowd suitably deflated, they went to Intermission. Doink came out
to sell
polaroids to the kiddies. Actual conversation I witnessed: Doink "You want
a picture with
Doink? Only $5." Kid: "Can I have one for free?" Doink: "I can't do that."
Then Doink moved
to center ring to get away from the begging children. My cohort & I
discussed the card so
far, and I calmed down about my experience with Whippin Post Pete. Just
then, Whippin
Post Pete walked out dressed in his street clothes and left. 10 minutes
before, he was a
retarded redneck, now he's just some guy in sneakers rolling a suitcase. He
didn't even
have his chaw in his mouth! That poor kid had to hold his chaw, and he
throws it away right
afterwards. Boo! Why bother putting on a gimmick if you're just gonna
ignore it within 10
minutes?

Match 6: Flash Nick McKenna v. Freight Train
CT: McKenna sighting #3 of the evening. The kid next to me goes, "Wow!
Freight Train's up
next!" When grilled about how he knew, he replies with "I saw him standing
in the
entranceway." So there you go. A really short squash, as Train is a Big
Man, and
McKenna is a Small Man. Train has a TON of charisma, and really got the
crowd going.
Going "Woo woo!" that is. McKenna didn't get to show off too much of his
offense, but he
took a HUGE top rope splash at the finish. Train's like 260 legit, and that
couldn't have
been fun. Got the crowd back after the intermission.

DH: You have to figure that they sent out Flash because they knew that he
wouldn`t mess
up a squash match and weren`t sure about anyone else.

Match 7: Overkill (Legion Cage & Morningstar & ?) v. Sonny Soprano & Matt
Rage
CT: The ring announcer intros Overkill as the BEW Tag Team Champions, and
Cage has
get on the stick~! 'n correct him. Cage's promo was good in terms of
delivery, and odd in
terms of content. He basically explains that Soprano & Rage have to defend
the Tag Titles
in an "Overkill Rules" match, where all 3 members of Overkill can tag in.
Why, again, were
they allowed to have a 3 on 2? Why were Morningstar and ? in their gear ,
but Cage was in
street clothes? Why does Matt Rage wear a mask but Morningstar doesn't? So
it was
3-on-2 for some odd reason, and when I say "3-on-2" I mean "3-on-1" since
the ref allowed
liberal tripleteaming on Rage. Soprano shoots near the top of my list of
Workers of the
Night by leading the crowd to root for Rage's Hot Tag. Of course, Rage
doesn't really pull
off the Hot Tag. After getting heat on him basically the whole time, he
comes back with a
series of preposterous moves, THEN tags. Crowd: "Ohhh.eh." Overkill win
somehow, and
take the!
titles home to mommy. Guess the ring announcer wasn't so much wrong as
clairvoyant.
So.was the Overkill/Hardware & Logan match earlier a #1 contender's match?
Why did
Overkill wrestle twice again? Why were half the guys in the Battle Royal
sitting in the
crowd? Questions.hurting.brain..

DH: My notes have the third member of Overkill as Matt Lindsey.

They really wanted to make sure that the name Overkill wasn`t a lie.

Match 8: Adam LeClair v. Max Ludacris
CT: This was billed on the flyer as a BEW TV Title Ladder Match. The
announcer calls it a
US Title match, with no mention of a ladder. But there's a ladder
conspicuously standing
by the entrance. Will it come into play? Before LeClair makes his entrance,
Former Ref
Pepe Sanchez comes out and intro's his new charge.Adam LeClair! What're the
odds?! He
has some fun insulting the, um, more veteran women in the audience, and one
of them
gives him the ol' "Kiss my ass" motion. Heehee.LeClair uses all of the
tricks in the Heel
Heat Textbook in this one--earrings, anti-US Sentiment, stalling, having
Pepe Sanchez as
his manager. He may have been better served to pick one or two and really
see it through.
He seemed like a mishmash of half-done heel gimmicks. That said, he bumped
well for
Ludacris' suprisingly non-ludicrous offense, and the crowd knew to get on
him for it. The
ladder comes into play when, well, LeClair walks over and puts it into the
corner. Then he
gets wh!
ipped into it twice. LeClair was Busted Wide after the second ladder shot,
BTW. Then
Ludacris wins it with (I think) a backdrop. I'll call it the Ludacris
Driver, 'cause it seemed
like a ludicrous finisher. Your winner and NEW BEW TV or US Champion--Max
Ludacris!!
The ending seemed pretty anti-climactic after the entire focus of the first
half of the show
being on LeClair and this match. So the psychology was off again, just in a
different way
than the rest of the matches. The ladder did not come into play except for
the 2 shots that
LeClair took. Keep trying, guys.

DH: I`ll be fair and mention that there was plenty of heat for this match.
Adam LeClair was
in full Austin Idol mode. I`m not sure what the ladder was there for.

Sanchez once again left his luggage under the ring.

Match 9: Chris Blackheart v. Doink
CT: Here are the criteria for a Good Doink Match:
1. Don't waste a good worker who can be used somewhere else on the card.
2. The opponent must be established as a heel or able to garner Heel Heat.
3. Opponent must be willing & able to sell Silly String.
4. The match is short.
5. The kids dig it.

Blackheart vs. Doink: Check, check, check, check, and check. Not that
Blackheart's a bad
worker, but he was used in a good role here. Doink goes over with his Clown
Car Driver '99
(schoolboy). This was easily 5 stars on the Doink Sliding Scale. Hell, I'll
be generous--6
stars. A Must-See Doink Match.

DH: There aren`t enough snowflakes in Alaska for me to rate this match
after what
preceded.

CT: As they're prepping for the Main Event, everyone realizes that the ring
and the ringside
area are littered with confetti and silly string remnants. No wonder they
usually put Doink
on last--he makes a mess. After some searching, they bring out a broom to
sweep the
ring. No truth to the rumour that it was an attempt to recreate a Ric
Flair/Nikita Koloff
match with Booker, Heresy, and a broom. The sweeper did a good job.

Match 10: YOUR Main event, Dr. Heresy v. Adam Booker (w/Miss Kristie)
CT: Well, after all that, we have two of the best Indy workers in the area.
They very easily
could have dogged it out there, since the crowd was easily led and the
undercard was less
than stellar. But they didn't--they had a great, fastpaced match that sent
the fans home
happy. Guess that's why they're in the Main Event. They always give 100%
whether it's 60
or 600. Their early dropdown/leapfrog sequence was quick & crisp. Heresy
got good heat
by insulting the crowd, and Booker got good reactions via his high-impact
offense. Miss
Kristie did a good job of leading pro-Booker cheers without getting in the
way of the action.
She even hit a nice bulldog on Heresy. They had an Awwwesome spot where
Heresy tied
up Booker in his Plug Puller Whacky Submission. Heresy, believing that
Booker quit,
released the hold. When the ref told him that he didn't give up, Heresy put
it on the ref,
explaining "See, it hurts. There's no way he didn't give up." Heresy or
Booker or the ref or
whoever came up with that is a friggin' GENIUS. Fun little comedy spot in
the match. After
a ref bump, Heresy goes Old Skool and cuts off the turnbuckle. But the
fickle fist of fate
took over, and Heresy was the one who got rammed into the corner. A few
reversals into
the Bookdaddy Flapjack (Powerbomb/Styles Clash combo) "booked" this one for
Booker.
Hehe."booked." Nice, me! Just a great match. The type of thing everyone
else on the card
should be shooting for. The crowd bought the nearfalls, and each guy got
over.

DH: Booker and Heresy played to the back of the room at points, playing off
of spots from
the previous night's match in Portland, ME. They could`ve gone out and
dogged it and
worked a headlock for ten minutes, but they didn`t. They started with
standing switches,
they worked out into brawling in the crowd and then they brought it back
into the ring.
Heresy cheated to maintain control, Booker looked to the crowd for support.
Heresy
insulted the crowd when he was in control and they appreciated it all the
more when he
was getting tossed around by Booker.

This match wasn`t without its problems, though. When Heresy did the
aforementioned Plug
Puller spot, Booker lay clutching his arm while referee Beavis Melonhead
(no, seriously,
that`s what they announced him as) bounced back up and warned Heresy with
the same
arm. Still, why complain? This match was worth the price of admission alone.

Overall:
CT: I really got disenchanted around the middle of the card, but I was sent
home happy.
Booker/Heresy was great, and the Doink match wasn't painful or anything. As
for the rest
of the show.I don't claim to be an expert on wrestling. But I have spent 18
years as a fan,
so I know what I like. At this stage of the game, I'm willing to cheer the
faces and boo the
heels, as much as I want to cheer good workers. There were just too many
places where I
was unsure of whether to cheer or boo. The crowd was easy to lead, since I
felt like every
time I reacted, the kids near me would do the same. A few of the matches
suffered from
lack of structure, a few from not enough focus on routine stuff (like the
hot tag), a few from
too much structure. Everyone on the show seemed like a legitimate wrestling
fan who
wants to do their best. You can't fault that. But they need to get back to
the fundamentals
of crowd psychology before they worry about their gimmick or what their
jokey interaction
with the crowd should be. The work wasn't reckless or dangerous, and I'm
glad that they
didn't rely on plunder or blading to get 'em through, but there's a Next
Step that needs to
happen to keep the fans coming. Make them feel like part of the show. Show
me that you
care. Don't walk out halfway through the show--I paid money to see this,
and you can't be
bothered to stay for free? Act like you want to win your match. Don't just
shrug and head to
the back. Wrestling Nerd Mode On: The Face can ALWAYS outwrestle or
outspeed the
heel. The heel has to cheat to gain an advantage. The Face's advantage is
the crowd. It's
his Sixth Man, to use a basketball phrase. If the face isn't using that to
his advantage, he's
doing himself a disservice. The crowd doesn't want to just sit there. They
want to feel loved
& appreciated, like they had something to do with the face win, or at least
his escape of a
headlock. In a lot of cases, this stuff wasn't part of the show.

This isn't intended to bury anyone. I want Big East Wrestling to be
successful. To be
successful, fans have to want to pay to see your product. Getting them
there is a big part
of the product. Getting them to go home satisfied is the next step. Getting
them to come
back with a friend is the ultimate goal.

Man, I'm all lecture-boy here. I love wrestling. Everyone at the show loves
wrestling. I said it
before--I want 100% of the guys to be successful. They just gotta reinforce
some of the
fundamentals, and worry about the advanced stuff later. A pyramid tips over
if the base is
smaller than the top. Fundamentals should be huge, gimmick should be small
or else the
match topples. Things seemed a little out of whack on this show.

Credit: Chris Tompkison & Dan Herman