I arrived at the train station for 9.40am, I was the last one there with my nephew Dominic, Welkey, Len and his son George where all ready, everybody else had got there for 9 in the excitement even though we'd all arranged to meet for 9.30 (yeah I was late, sue me)
The train to Sheffield took just over an hour and we quickly headed to the HMV in Meadowhall as two superstars where doing a signing there at what we found out was 4 o'clock (WWE.com said 3) - Kelly Kelly and Michelle McCool - it's fair to say Sheffield got the Raw end of the deal on this tour, other towns had the likes of Kane, Randy Orton, Chris Jericho and C.M. Punk - whilst waiting in the cue we found out McCool had cancelled and was to be replaced by Kofi Kingston, it felt a really, really long wait in the queue and in the end I got a Royal Rumble 2008 steelbook and my ticket from last time signed by the pair. I can't complain
After tea we headed to the venue (Hallam FM Arena) via tram and went to the concession stand as it opens earlier before the event for people who didn't get tickets and the like. £15 for a programme is too much for me and the shirts had gone up £5 from last time to £20, so shockingly for the third time I didn't buy anything from a WWE event. We then went outside to queue, we where near the front of our entrance and we queued for over an hour, when the doors opened we where first in, well technically Welkey, Len and George where the first in the actual arena, but I was 4th. We got to our seats and took a few photos posed near the ring, we waited an hour for the show to start... Oh yeah before I talk about the show, it was nearly £10 for 3 beers for the 3 of us, we each did a round (that was nearly £30 for nine bottles of beer. what a rip off!) I forget to mention we where Section B Row 7 GREAT SEATS!!!
Hollah Hollah. Teddy Long opened the event, running down matches in the card, earning his pay cheque. Vickie Guerrero was nowhere to be seen.
Kofi Kingston beat Jamie Noble and Kenny Dykstra in a triple threat match, when he pinned Noble. Pretty good match, quick paced, crowd don't know if Noble is a face or heel though. Me, Len and Welke cheered for Noble, I'm sure he heard is chanting his name.
WWE Tag-Team Champions Morrison and Miz beat Jimmy Wang Yang and Shannon Moore in a decent match, M&M did a good bit on the microphone before the match
Kelly Kelly beat Victoria in a better match then it should have been, Kelly Kelly's pants constantly falling down helped. I cheered (and cheered alone I feel) for Victoria during the match
Mark Henry beat legend Tommy Dreamer, you kind of guessed Dreamer was losing once Henry's music hit. Not a great match by any standards but enjoyable.
Batista and Finlay (w/Horney) beat Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins in an awesomely entertaining match. At one point the match involved waterpistols (!) and after the match finished the three faces did an irish jig to Horney's music which included Batista putting Horney's hat on (picture above). Wonderful.
Eve Torres came out to throw t-shirts into the crowd. She ain't a bad arm for a dame, which lead us on to intermission.
C.M. Punk beat Shelton Benjamin in a slow match, I did expect better from these two but it was great to see them wrestle in person.
MVP beat Matt Hardy after a bit of cheating. MVP did a "Andy Kaufman" bit on the mic before the match started. Good match.
Undertaker, Kane and Big Show beat Edge, Chavo and Khali in a great main event. I'VE GOT TO SEE UNDERTAKER WRESTLE IN PERSON!!!, Khali is not a wrestler at all but he applied his self well enough and obviously others helped carry the match. Brilliant.
The show ended with Taker doing his pose in the middle of the ring
Then home, the kiddies fell alseep soon because it was a long day. The show was much better then the last show we attended and was seriously a lot of FUN. Great to see a lot of the wrestlers specially Undertaker. Brilliant day.
On a last note, I haven't seen a wrestler wrestle more then twice for the record, these are the 2 times club: Triple H, Randy Orton, William Regal, Edge, Batista, Shelton Benjamin, Kane, The Miz, Tommy Dreamer, Abyss, Christian, Rhino, AJ Styles and Samoa Joe. Any guesses on who will be the first wrestler I see three times!
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