Sorry this took so long.
Some thoughts about Reloaded, which I thought was an overall very good show.
-Lamont was KILLING it this show. Seriously, he had like 10 or 12 zingers, and some of them weren't even all that over the top either, which Lamont can sometimes be guilty of.
-I've only been here for two evil heel stables (Hellfire Club and Walking Dead) plus I was a lurker through some of the Windham stuff. So while the line about destroying NFW because it's Tuesday is poignant, I'm sure its more so to older hands.
That said, weren't the Windhams out to take over, not destroy?
Also, Langston's interference in Hollywoods On Fire was well done from my perspective, and Cancer's (no) sell job really put him over as a monster.
-The fourway was done well too. HERPIN makes me want to punch him in the face, which is good since he's an annoying heel manager. I would NOT want Kerry as a tag partner if he's not willing to risk a five count to break a cover. Love Teddy going over the way he did, and everyone got their shine here. So much of the little subtlety between these four made it a very good match as opposed to a good match.
-Malik and Randalls was a fun fight. Randalls reminds me of the Ultimate Warrior in the way he speaks and the out-there way he acts too. Figures Blaine had to ruin it all. This could be a bigger clusterfuck than the Triple-Crown division.
-and of course, the main event.
Let me just say that its been a fun ride so far to feud with The Black Market. They're such an easily hated group, and they make any face group look like the ultimate good guys.
This match was definitely a big reward for our efforts IMO.
One of the things I’ve had an issue with over the course of the last few months is that, amidst all the chaos and multi-man mayhem, none of the Fellowship/Army, save maybe Kerry Kurosawa, had much of a shot to distinguish themselves from each other. Often Bandit and Devastator would be in tandem spots with Langston and Dragon, and you could have interchanged any of the four guys involved.
Through this match, all four individuals, both managers, and the two teams, are now very distinguishable entities, whose characteristics and mannerisms really got over here. This is the first time we’ve had an opportunity to see how ring savvy Zack Dragon can be...this is the first time since I’ve been here that I’ve been able to discern much of a difference between Bandit and Devastator, although both had very different styles, looks, and backstories. Again, Lamont is the perfect compliment to the action here, really selling stuff like the Dragondaddy thing, or the VOICEBOX HERO! lines. Seeing Bandit lose his cool and talking about his past history...talking about Devastator and Shane Southern...this is the kind of thing that brings it all together for someone like me, who’s still at less than a year tendered into the company.
The match itself had a lot of little things that made it a well-worked match too...both teams selling the point of the pinfall mattering with the double covers...the pacing of the match and the alternating strengths of the Dragons vs. the raw power and lethal force of the Graverobbers. And the ending was well done, a nod of the head to the death, chaos, and ultraviolence of Devastator trying to basically kill Zack’s career, and having Zack use his mental guile to counter.
Very well done.
Random Rumble is still the best match of the calendar year so far, but I’d put this up with any other match NFW has had as second-best this calendar year and you’d at least have to think about it.
