| 1 | 19.12.2019 | Paul Allain | 3.0 | The opener was a fine athletic opener, but the crowd was very uncharitable for the newcomers. Cloudy/Sabian was perfectly fine, if not going as crazy as they could have, while the subsequent tag team match not only felt random, but was a slow and deliberately boring aqtrocity that begin the awful tenure of Danny Demanto as an overpushed midcarder ruining the middle of the shows for the next half-year, Ruckus/Tornado have awesome chemistry and made for a cool title match with a real possibility of a title change, propped by awesome heel work from Ruckus that made the match original, keep Human Tornado white hot as a babyface and still manages to let Ruckus retain credibility as a sneaky champion, a very smart work of booking. The Tag Team Title match negates the cool happening of the previous show for no good reason, setting up months of dire misery for the division. Sabian/Havoc was okay, but the interference changes the trajectory so fast that you get whiplash, souring the rightful title change. The Tag Team Hardcore Match that followed was not for me at all, slow, aimless, boring, with a very lame finish and further building up the lackluster Cage Of Death main event on the horizon. The main event was a bit better, with more effective chemistry, but still felt like a tenuously connected bunch of stuff, with at least a finish that continues the story and gives big props to the Naptown Dragons. This show had fun moments and a few quite good matches, but too much randomness, incompleteness and needless swerves do spoil the package and make it a complicated tortuous journey towards the end that felt unpleasant and give a shoddy build to the end of the year. |
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