House Show Report for Smackdown

[Fartsauce 0]

by Ross Burbage

 

The WWE Smackdown show in Frederick, Md., began promptly at 7:30pm in the outdoor venue Harry Grove Stadium (home of the class A minor league baseball Frederick Keys).

Booker T beat Christian with the ax kick (Christian seemed to have lost some change in the ring as he bent over and scrutinized the canvas at length so Booker T could deliver the finisher). Then Sharmel encouraged Booker to do the spinarooni!

Then Teddy Long came out to review the purported card that was to include Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey MIsterio, MNM vs. H&H (Holly and Heidenreich or Horrible and Horribler - take your pick), and Batista vs. JBL.

Next match was Super Crazy and Psicosis over Nunzio and Big Vito. Vito looked like a monster with those three in the ring but his clotheslines were loving and delicate. Crazy pinned Nunzio with a Lionsault (Crazysault?).

Then in came The Boogeyman! He ranted some but at the rant's climax where he exclaimed "I am The Boogeyman!" a huge clap of thunder pealed and lightning flashed in the distance. And when he then yelled "And I am your worst nightmare!" the heavens opened up and it poured. He obliterated Doug Basham in about 15 seconds in the rain.

The real crime is that there were no TV cameras. There are probably few special effects masters who could have provided that eerie thunderstorm atmosphere and timed the thunder and lightning and rain so perfectly. The heck with the match, this guy had perhaps the greatest ring entrance ever! I don't think I'll ever be caught in a storm again without "I am The Boogeyman!" bouncing around in my head.

The hard rain created a delay, and persistent lightning forced the show to halt.

It was announced that the event was "postponed". Fans were to "hold onto your ticket stubs for when we rebook a visit to Frederick, Md." (I think that's WWE for "so long suckers, but we won't tell you you only got a three-match show so we can get out of here without a fight").

Personally, for The Boogeyman's awesome entrance arrangement with Mother Nature, the abbreviated show was well worth it. The crowd of maybe 2200 may not agree.

 

credit: observer.com

 

That has to be the greatest entrance of all-time.

[Jericholic82 0]

Great timing by the rainstorm eh?

[Slickster 0]

See, now they need to replicate that with fake thunderstorms inside the arena. They made it rain indoors that one time during the Kane-Taker buildup in 2004; just do it again every week.

 

This is one more reason why house shows are so much fun.

[Placebo Effect 0]

God damn that'd be awesome.

[Guest Brian]

I kinda like it. Even though it's over the top, it feels like they haven't done something in this light in a long time.

[Si82 0]

Awesome stuff.

 

So nobody laughed at him this time?

[cabbageboy 0]

I just went to the Raw house show here in Louisville last night. Suffice to say nothing as cool as The Boogeyman went down here, just by the numbers "heels put feet on the ropes" type finishes with Carlito and Kerwin White.

[EricMM 0]

I hope people realize that it wasn't planned by WWE, it was a crazy storm around here last night....

 

The storm was a shoot!

[Downhome 0]

I want to know how he looked in a WWE ring. He didn't still have the horns on his head and the cow penis for a cane did he?

[humongous2002 0]

God laughed so hard when he saw the Boogeyman's debut that he pissed on himself.