The Dresden Dose: Thursday Night Honor October 6th Edition!
Hello WrestlingSmarks faithful, it is I, Chris Dresden. Once again multi-tasking has caused me to get backed up on these articles but fear not, I made a note for myself to get to them when I had the time and well, here I am. This edition I'm going to review the October 6th edition of Thursday Night Honor. So without further adieu, I'm not a doctor but I play one on the internet and this is my prescription for all your wrestling needs, The Dresden Dose!
The October 6th edition of Honor is the first one headed up by the regime of Sam and Bronzy, my only contribution to this show was the main event between Brock Lesnar and Christian, but I'll speak more on that when I get to it. Honor opens up with Joey Styles looking rather somber, emitting his trademark line before delivering a promo announcing that his time as general manager was a temporary position and effective tonight, he will be stepping down from the position.
He introduces the new General Manager who only appears on the titantron screen, likely not to steal Joey's thunder, Jim Cornette. Joey says his goodbyes and Honor debuts its new theme, "Metal Warriors" by Manowar. With control of the show changing hands there was bound to be a new general manager, so in this case I don't mind yet another one being appointed, plus Cornette is a fine choice. As for the theme music, I can honestly say I've never heard of Manowar before now, therefore I can't comment on whether I like it or not. It isn't a surprising choice though as Sam is a huge fan of theirs, I know this because of Facebook.
Since I brought up the social networking site, yes I have one, but I'm selective about who I friend from the forum on there, because there have been times I get comments on my statuses or my Wall about e-fed stuff, and that pisses me off. It's all computer based but Facebook is personal life, WrestlingSmarks and PWMania is e-fed stuff, keep it here.
Anyhoo, Honor has a sweet banner instead of a logo now that features Aniking, myself, Sam, Andrew, and Slim. Or in other words it features Alex Riley, Kane, Kevin Thorn, Christian, and Brock Lesnar. Depends on how you want to look at it. Thanks to Sam for the awesome banner. Speaking of Sam, Honor officially kicks off with a promo from Kevin Thorn, who discusses his capturing of the CWF Championship. Basically he claims to be ushering in a new era with his Coven now that he is champion and boasts that all of them are unstoppable. Classic Thorn stuff.
This week Honor has the privilege of having the Roulette Wheel at its disposal, except unlike the week WAR did it, there are actually segments regarding the wheel spinning. Jim Cornette formally introduces himself and spins the wheel to find out the stipulation of the New Age Outlaws versus Mattitude match to crown the number one contenders to the CWF Tag Team Championship. The wheel lands on Dumpster Match, which Cornette is none too happy about.
Because of the events of the October 3rd WAR, Matt Hardy has set out on his own and replaced Stone Cold Steve Austin as Hoov's singles guy, allowing Jeff Hardy to take his place alongside Shannon Moore in the tandem. By now you obviously know the outcome, but the match is still worth reading if you didn't do so and merely skimmed over it to see the result. Jeff and Shannon got the crap beat out of them in this contest, and if I have my way, the New Age Outlaws will get the crap beat out of them at the Elimination Chamber. Btw, go read that thread and let me know what you think, I'm having a lot of fun and I think it shows in my effort.
Commercial one of the night is for none other than the band Manowar, the aforementioned group that Sam is a music mark for. Again, I've never heard their stuff, and likely won't give them a listen as I feel they might be a little too heavy for my taste.
Back from commercial, we are joined by Brock Lesnar, who is out here to give his thoughts on what happened at Invasion and what he feels is going to happen tonight. If you didn't read this promo, go back and read this promo, it's gripping stuff. Christian and Brock have had an interesting feud for sure.
We return to Jim Cornette, who is disgruntled about having to spin the wheel again. This time it's for the Kane versus The Miz match, and it lands on the No DQ stipulation. Because of a misunderstanding, this wasn't much of a No DQ match at all. Despite Soccerboy's participation, he got squashed. Let me clear up that I had nothing to do with it, and Bronzy is sorry for the oversight. Some feel Miz should've beat me, which is fine, but it could've been stated in a way other than the snarky passive aggressive way it ended up being stated.
After the match, we cut away to an interview between Alex Riley and Josh Mathews, which if it isn't the promo of the night, it's a close second behind the Brock promo. Riley ends the interview by leaving to prepare for his match. Commercial two of the night is a simple plug for Monday Night WAR, telling you the readers to go read it. I don't know you should do it, "NOW" though because then you'll miss the rest of this show.
Back from commercial, Jim Cornette spins the wheel for the Alex Riley versus Alberto Del Rio match, and it lands on the Last Man Standing stipulation. This match was another squash, although I don't think this was a misunderstanding, I think Del Rio simply no-showed for the TT'ing. Anyway, after the match concludes, it's right back to commercial.
Commercial three is for, well, I don't know. Swords I guess. Back from commercial, it's time for the main event of the evening. I enjoyed writing the match, but part of it pissed me off. I won't disclose what about it pissed me off, because this is a punch best pulled but trust me, it's for good reason.
Anyhoo, Christian advances to challenge for the title at the Elimination Chamber and Brock isn't double booked, instead he defends his Intercontinental Championship against myself and Alex Riley. Post-match a brawl breaks out with Brock beating up the referee, Kevin Thorn beating up Brock, and Christian beating up Kevin. As Christian poses, Jim Cornette comes out and makes the match between Christian and Thorn a Chamber of Horrors match. The camera gets a shot of all three men's reaction and that's the end of the show this week.
Final thoughts: This show got torn apart. Not out in the open of course but this show was not up to par in many people's opinions. I'll say it wasn't that great of a show because of the short matches and lack of filler, but it wasn't as horrible as it was made out to be.
Well that's going to do it for this edition. Please give some feedback and share your thoughts on this show, the review, or whatever you deem relevant. Thanks as always for reading, I'll see you shortly for the WAR October 10th review.