pokoko said: Did anyone watch the ROH Championship match between Lethal and Strong? --SPOILERS--, though I doubt anyone much cares about being spoiled for an ROH match. I admit that I only watched half the match. Why only half when I think both Lethal and Strong are excellent in the ring? Because I was bored to tears by that point and turned off the feed. The outcome of the match, if you're wondering, was a 60 minute draw. Yes, just like they used to have in the old days. Now, I don't necessarily have a problem with that--it's not like I knew it would be a 60 minute match when I turned it off after 30 minutes--but the pace simply did not keep me interested. I know it was incredibly hot, and I now realize that both guys were trying to conserve energy, but I swear that Lethal rolled to the outside every single time he took some offense from Strong. He'd roll out, Strong would follow, they'd walk around the ring throwing each other into the barricades, then they'd make it back into the ring right before being counted out. Then Lethal would get knocked out again and they'd repeat the whole process. The flip side would be when Strong would eat some offense and Lethal would throw him out so his goons could take some cheap shots, which also happened many times. Inside the ring wasn't a lot better, as they spent a huge amount of time simply trading chops. I'm sure the stretch run was a LOT more entertaining, which is what everyone is saying, but when the first 30 or 40 minutes of your match is boring, who cares? They weren't prepared to entertain the crowd for a solid hour. I don't even blame the wrestlers, as they rarely if ever have to perform hour-long matches in this day and age, but whomever booked this should have been aware of that. |
I dunno. If you think about it the Shawn Michaels/Brett Hart Iron Man Match from WM12 was a hour long draw. There were lots of lulls in the match and lots of old school grappling, but I thought it was entertaining. Problem is that its has to have lulls in the action these days. Most wrestlers couldn't pull off what they did.