Ospreay's sus mate handing out wristbands on the door is a good first impression
Followed by Bodom out first
Boston doing dull basic offence to no reaction gives me hope for the rev pro crowds yet
Higher concentration of bullet club shirts than I've seen in a few shows, if I had to guess I'd say the crowd vibe is ring of honour circa 1 year ago
Angelico did 2 flips and one slingshot to the outside, beating his previous York Hall total of 0 flips and 0 dives
Bodom caught him coming back into the ring off an interference spot, this was dogshit, literally 0 interesting features
Whitewolf vs Besties was FnP
Started off with some nice solid wrestling, nothing to write home about but fine and they're second on the card
A lot more spotty sprinty stuff down the stretch was was good even if both are a bit rough
Not one to go out of your way for but worth watching if you're watching the show
Sha and Bodom out for a beat down after white wolf win, and generic promo about how hey all of you and management, everything is going to change (pretty much verbatim) 😴😴😴
Bea vs Zoe man I hope this doesn't suck
Well ignoring the finish, which I'll get to, this was the best Zoe Lucas match I've seen and didn't die a complete death (until the finish)
There was more noise than the Bodom match, but also a constant loud chatting amongst themselves and going to the bar from the crowd
There's a viciousness to every Bea Priestly match I've seen that I appreciate. Part of it is her being stiff af, but my head canon is just that everyone shoot hates her. As much of a shit Priestley is as far as we know, I'd actually be totally fine with Bea winning the title and being the ace of the division, I think her having a fucking fight on every York Hall show would do wonders for the division.
Zoe hit the weakest slaps I've seen since the attitude era, and I still hate her feather light corner kick, but she hit a damn good PK so 🤷♂️
Zoe botches the feet on the ropes finish and Roberts somehow counts to 4, and the girls get out of there sharpish while the crowd laugh and grumble. Let's call it less of a failure than intended.
CCK vs Aussie Open let's gooooooooooo
Everyone is booing the time announcements for some reason
We've been doing comedy for 5 minutes (plus a couple before the bell), which I'm fine with but there are already a couple people in the crowd getting restless and yelling boring and minus 5 stars
Gresham is such a fun little shithead
Gresh doing staplegun shots behind the refs back then doing Zandig pose is a plus
They've fought into the crowd, we're 15 minutes in and not really got going yet
CCK now working over Kyle in the ring with Dunk by the merch somewhere dead, this hot tag should be good
Kyle fighting back and Davis coming back got pops
I think the problem is people expected a banger, CCK are playing Uber heels and the cck fans in the audience ain't playing along, so it's just a bunch of disappointed people
Ending stretch was good, then Fletcher reverses Gresham, gets rolled up, Roberts takes 5 seconds at least to get back in the ring from dealing with Brookes and counts 3. Great start for your #1 contenders we already have no reason to believe can beat Suzuki-gun the second time round.