TNA House Show - Short Review

It kicked @$$.

Longer review to come either tomorrow or Sunday, as I'm very tired and need to catch some sleep. But a few quick observations to whet your appetite...

-Hot crowd, the place wasn't full (attendance was apparently about 3700), but those of us who were there were loud and enthusiastic.

-Sharkboy's just a really fun character, especially in person.

-Sabin/Shelley was a tremendously cool match. First sign that there would be some card changes, none of which really hurt the show overall.

-Seeing ICP "wrestle" = not a highlight. But we got to see Scott D'Amore show off that BIG MAN MOBILITY by somehow hitting a Canadian Destroyer on Petey Williams.

-Awesome to see Jerry Lynn in the ring again, even more awesome to see he hasn't lost a step.

-Ditto Sabu.

-Rhino is MEGA over in his hometown. And A-1 can take a hell of a gore.

-Joe/A.J. = match of the night (duh), and easily the best wrestling match I've ever seen live. I quote the lovely and talented Stephanie Ruehl: "I'm gonna be talking about that for months!"

-Tag title match had a lot of work to follow that show, but they worked hard and got in some neato-keen psychology involving a leg injury, that actually played well into the finish.

-The crowd wasn't as into the main event, but it's Jeff Jarrett so what do you expect? And Christian was mega-over. Show closing brawl teased the possibility that Sting was there, but nope, just the mega-faces of the evening celebrating. And there's nothing wrong with that.

-And I got to slap hands with Christian as he circled the ring post-match. Hee hee. :)

All in all, an amazingly cool evening. Even Steph and J raved about how awesome the show was. More extensive review later. For now, time for sleep.