Live Raw report from Scott Keith

[Guest reshad974]

Just when you thought a road trip couldn't get any weirder, it does.

 

I headed down to Calgary on Monday afternoon, to be honest more pumped about the hockey game later that night than the wrestling I was attending, and ended up in quite the adventure.

 

We picked up the tickets from the Will Call about half an hour before RAW went on the air, and immediately braced for disappointment when they were in the 201 section this time. However, a guy who was (supposedly) comped by Val Venis the night before was sitting in the grass outside the Saddledome and offered to trade ours for his in section 109, because he had to get rid of them to fill seats. So right off the bat, good stuff.

 

So it turns out that the seats were in basically the same place as the PPV -- right beside the hard camera, in the "comp section", this time to the left and behind the lighting control guy.

 

Sidenote: You get all sorts of interesting views when sitting behind the tech guys, like the SCRIPT, for instance. Over the course of the two evenings I was able to check out actual WWE scripts, complete with fancy cover page and everything, and yes, it's all written down there. You can also see the lighting guy using a layout of the Saddledome to check which buttons to push to blacken which parts of the arena. Very neat stuff for tech-heads like myself.

 

Okay, so back to the main story, and I should set this up a little bit. Rather than the usual crew, I went to this one with Zen and his friend Dave Burton. If you've ever seen Fubar, you've seen Dave. He wore a trucker hat and an Iron Maiden shirt to the show, and he was primarily concerned with seeing the "rasslin" aspect of the show, which was something of a warning sign right off the bat for us because it's a

TV taping.

 

So as noted, we're in the comp section, and once again we're sitting right by who else but Shane McMahon again. This time his date is Nidia instead of Palumbo, which is a step up in the looks department if nothing else. Zen thinks it's a good time to get a picture with him after the show as a keepsake, so we decide to ask him after the show is over.

 

Now, the Saddledome was mostly blocked off because of the hockey game last night -- there was maybe 6,000 people there and all of the upperdeck was taped off -- and the crowd was pretty distracted by the impending game, although I don't know how that came off on TV. So there was kind of an anxious mood all night. Dave, in particular, was anxious because he was promised fireworks, and they immediately raise his ire by skipping them and going right to the show. He complains loudly.

 

The night progreses with a lot of talk and commercial breaks, because it's TV and that's what you're getting into, and Dave gets drunker and more restless. The show might have come off really good on TV, but I was pretty distracted by the tech guys and Dave, so I could never get into it live. So by the millionth commercial break, Dave gets really loud, proclaiming that the show sucks and he's tired of sitting through commercial breaks and there's only been a few minutes of wrestling -- so

Shane McMahon turns around and GIVES HIM $100 (US) TO SHUT UP AND GO HOME. We took a picture of the bill and Shane just to make sure it was documented. So ladies and gentlemen, you now have your new rating scale for bad shows, as I will begin implementing the Shane McMahon Refund System to determine how much money Shane will bribe people with to shut up about it. Needless to say, we didn't ask for the picture after all.

 

Later that night...

 

We headed over to the Whiskey to catch Fozzy, and it was an interesting setup because they had the game playing on screens over the stage. The opener sucked but the place was empty anyway. So Fozzy is playing and the game goes on, and it's a pretty cool set, and then the really surreal stuff started happening. Jericho had worn a Flames jersey onto the stage, and as the set was 90 minutes old, he admitted that the band had run out of material to play and now they were just fucking around waiting for the Flames to win. It was 2-1 Flames late in the third by that point. Earlier, Edge and Matt Hardy had wandered into the mosh pit with us, and Brian Christopher danced a bit on stage, but pussed out on singing. So they start doing a cover of "TNT", and Jericho starts introducing wrestlers as they delay while the game wraps up. So you've got Jericho, Edge, Hardy, Christopher, Shelton Benjamin, Lita, Stacy, Nidia and Lillian Garcia all up there fucking around...and the Canucks score with 2 seconds left in the game. Jericho is just totally buzz-killed (I tried consoling him by flipping him off after he started a "fuck the Canucks" chant earlier, but it didn't work). So they go into OT, with the Flames still on the PP and the Canucks missing Bertuzzi AND their #1 goaltender (just saying), and Gelinas scores to win the series. The place went crazy and Jericho finished the song (which by this point was nearing 30 minutes long) with all the WWE guys helping to sing. He had to feed Lillian the words for her turn, because she didn't know them.

 

So having been previously promised a picture with Edge at some nebulous time after the show, we start going after the wrestlers for pictures, and keep losing them to the crowd, before it gets down to our only chance being either Shelton or Nidia. Shelton gets taken to the back as well for the private party, and since Nidia is just scraping the bottom of the barrel, we give up and go home.

 

However, that proved to be more difficult than originally planned, because we're in downtown Calgary and the place is RIOTING. Fans are going nuts in the streets and the streets are clogged with parked cars and partying fans...and Dave decides to join in. So Zen (an Oilers fan) and I (a Canucks fan) are trapped in this car as he stops at EVERY INTERSECTION and jumps out of the car to celebrate, and finally after nearly another half an hour, we make it off of 17th and back to Zen's place to recover, and here we are this morning as I get ready to head back to Edmonton and watch everything on tape.

 

So for those who think that nothing interesting ever happens in Calgary, there you go.

[Placebo Effect 0]

That part about Shane is FUCKING GOLD.

 

And I can't even imagine Scott Keith yelling anything at a concert.

[Styles 0]

I had great enjoyment reading that too. I'd love to see the Shane photo

[OldSchoolWrestling 0]

The part about him flipping off Jericho makes me picture him as a 9 year old fat kid. Instead of the thirtysomething year old fat man he really is.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Was he planning on actually talking about wrestling in this? Because I really don't care what Scott Keith did on his night out.

[OldSchoolWrestling 0]

This is from his blog where he talks about stuff like his night out. His rant will be up later today.

[Guest Coffey]

Was he planning on actually talking about wrestling in this? Because I really don't care what Scott Keith did on his night out.

My thoughts exactly.

[Placebo Effect 0]

If it was just the typical Raw Dark Match/Off-Air type report, I would've question this being here.

 

However, I'd say the article actually had a few interesting points. The Shane McMahon story and the tidbits about the Fozzy concert made it worth the read.

[The Kid 0]

Man, if I only I was a year older I should have headed down to The Whiskey. Sounds like it was a blast.

[Styles 0]

Was he planning on actually talking about wrestling in this? Because I really don't care what Scott Keith did on his night out.

My thoughts exactly.

Again, to be fair, this was copied from his personal blog which he uses to talk about himself without cluttering the rants...

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

Was he planning on actually talking about wrestling in this? Because I really don't care what Scott Keith did on his night out.

But I am sure that much like myself you would wanna hear about his night out if it consisted of him getting attacked by a two wolverines, a polar bear, and a egyptian elephant.

[Guest thebigjig]

Was he planning on actually talking about wrestling in this? Because I really don't care what Scott Keith did on his night out.

My thoughts exactly.

yes... because the wrestling quality last night was a HELL of a lot more interesting than Shane F'ing McMahon giving someone $100 to shut up and go home...

 

please

 

[Guest netslob]

that guy was lucky it was Shane...Vince would've had him thrown out.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

that guy was lucky it was Shane...Vince would've had him thrown out.

Or killed.....

[Styles 0]

that guy was lucky it was Shane...Vince would've had him thrown out.

Or killed.....

Or called up a green OVW wrestler to play a caricature of this guy as an inside joke...

[Guest wrestlingbs]

that guy was lucky it was Shane...Vince would've had him thrown out.

Or killed.....

No, Vince would have just challenged the guy to a fight.

 

Shane plays people $100 if the show sucks? No wonder they lost so much money on the XFL.

[Brett Favre 0]

that guy was lucky it was Shane...Vince would've had him thrown out.

Or killed.....

 

 

Shane plays people $100 if the show sucks? No wonder they lost so much money on the XFL.

He better hope he doesn't go to Smackdown!

[OldSchoolWrestling 0]

That's how John Bradshaw Leyfield came into his money!!

[Guest Trivia247]

guess thats why I haven't seen his all creaming over backlash and Raw reports on Benoit

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

Well that was fucking funny...I have a real solution. Shane McMahon took one look at Scott Keith, went to the restroom a few times to vomit into a urinal, came back, and offered him $100 to get lost before he makes anyone else sick.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

Let's see:

 

1) Fat joke? Check!

2) Ugly joke? Check!

3) Hair joke?

 

Quick, someone needs to make a hair joke to complete the triumvirate of SK jokes required in every thread about him.

 

Y'know, for people who claim to not care for SK, they seem eager to post something about him in every thread that mentions him.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Skeith should use that 100 bucks for a hair cut. That bad hair cut motherfucker.

 

RRR: King of the Zing

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

Let's see:

 

1) Fat joke? Check!

2) Ugly joke? Check!

3) Hair joke?

 

Quick, someone needs to make a hair joke to complete the triumvirate of SK jokes required in every thread about him.

 

Y'know, for people who claim to not care for SK, they seem eager to post something about him in every thread that mentions him.

I never said I don't care for SK's rants. With lack of PPV ones on this (main) site, he's the only one I've read who does them.

 

I can't believe I missed the hair joke. I'll just say it looks like a dog fell asleep on his head and died. There, finished the check list.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

Well, fuck. If I was that rich, I'd have paid him to go away, too.

[Crimson Platypus 0]

Skeith should use that 100 bucks for a hair cut. That bad hair cut motherfucker.

 

RRR: King of the Zing

Meanie.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

I'm so going to a Fozzy show.

[Jebus 0]

From his Backlash rant:

 

Benoit tries to revive the ref with no luck, but Shawn takes him down into a Sharpshooter as Earl Hebner runs out as the new ref. This was supposed to be heel heat, but it was more like “I can’t believe they’re doing this” heat, and it just made us more pissed off at everyone involved in Montreal. Shawn breaks the move and slugs away on HHH in the corner, and now begins the mother of all “You Screwed Bret” chants at Shawn as he gets two on Benoit. TV doesn’t even do the chant justice, as it was THUNDEROUS live. Even Shane was chanting it!

 

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That's good stuff

[Guest swilk]

However, I'd say the article actually had a few interesting points.  The Shane McMahon story and the tidbits about the Fozzy concert made it worth the read.

I know that SK usually gets roasted for his wrestling recaps, but his recap of the Fozzy concert was bang on. I was also there, and just had a blast!

 

I did see someone screaming at Jericho and giving him the finger when he started cursing the Canucks. Guess it could've been SK.

 

Also got to chat with most of the wrestlers. They were all very nice and took the time to talk to the fans.

 

Once again, a very fun night. GO FLAMES GO!

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

Hating SK is passe. He's not the best recaper but he knows a fair bit about wrestling so I can at least respect him for that.

 

I've talked to him a few times and I hate his guts because he's an egotistical prick. But most of you would wet yourselves if you got to talk to someone as "famous" in the IWC as SK.

[humongous2002 0]

Hating SK is passe. He's not the best recaper but he knows a fair bit about wrestling so I can at least respect him for that.

 

I've talked to him a few times and I hate his guts because he's an egotistical prick. But most of you would wet yourselves if you got to talk to someone as "famous" in the IWC as SK.

That's the funniest shit i've ever heard.