Who woulda thunk it? I bet nobody, and I mean nobody could have seen this coming. I knew it was happening when Dennis Miller mentioned it during his guest appearence on RAW just a few weeks before. As of this writing, tonight's show won't start for another nine hours. It's gonna be gooood. At least it better be, with all the hype they're puting into it.
UPDATE: So, at the last possible minute, I went to the show in Dayton, Ohio. First off, they really need to either host these things at a bigger venue or do something about the stupid one-lane highway that leads to the parking lot (then shuttle bus it over to the Nutter Center)
So, Bret comes out to a very good reception. Up until that point, I actually entertained the thought of it all being a major swerve. Like they would have another midjet dressed up like Hart to piss us all off. That would have been a bad idea for Vince McMahon and company. Of course, it could also just have been idiotic thinking on my part.
As good as the in-ring "confrontation" between him and Shawn Michaels was, and later Hart and McMahon, as a guest-host, Bret was not all that involved. Actually, he wasn't involved at all. You figure he would have "booked" a few decent matches that he himself would have liked to have seen (of course all the matches are determined before the show by Vince and his bookers anyway) but it didn't have that "Bret Hart-Guest Host" feel. Basically, another run-of-the-mill Monday Night Raw, just with The Hitman doing a few promos. But it was historic just the same and one couldn't blame me for wanting to be there, right?
Monday, January 4, 2010
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