Thoughts from the last row of the Scottrade Center during Monday's WWE ECW/Raw taping:
- There was a sold-out crowd (except for the seats that had been blocked off for TV production purposes)
- The crowd seemed to be mostly comprised of kids and their parents. Lots of Rey Mysterio masks and Jeff Hardy merch. It seems that the WWE Attitude era fans are all gone.
- No one really yells out anything funny anymore. All you get is the occasional "you suck" chant from a five-year old. I miss the glory days of "somebody please pin somebody", "why don't you turn into a bat and fly away" (to Gangrel the vampire), and various taunts at the female valets. Ah, the good old days.
- They had one non-televised match. Mark Henry beat D.J. Gabriel, who was accompanied to the ring by the WWE's hottest woman, Alicia Fox.
- The crowd was hot all night.
- I fell asleep during the ECW main event of Finlay vs. Jack Swagger and during the JBL/HBK interview segment.
- Nine dollars for a hamburger at the Scottrade Center? Are we in Chicago?
- They did a segment before Raw where Joey Styles interviewed Randy Orton and asked him what it was like to be back with his family and friends in St. Louis. Orton went into a tirade against St. Louis, basically calling us losers so he would get booed later. It didn't work.
- The Orton "we didn't fight back on purpose" excuse for last week's fiasco kinda worked for me.
- I loved when Chris Jericho said they should revoke Ric Flair's Hall of Fame status.
- Why is Rey Mysterio getting beat in regular TV matches?
- Props to John Cena, who wrestled a solid main event match against Chris Jericho, then turned right around and had a good ten minute match with Randy Orton for the live crowd. He won with the "FU", uh, the "Throwback", or whatever the hell they call it now.
- Well worth the twenty bucks.
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