Conrad ThompsonHostYou know, you likened it to, you know, AEW's version of WrestleMania, and I think that's a fair analogy in the sense of the pageantry of it all.
I don't think that, you know, this event necessarily lived up to a WrestleMania-level production, but it was damn close, and it was really great.
The staging was a little funky, that metal whatever it was right in the center of the staging.
So you had your two walls where you had s- you know, great images, and then you had graphics in the middle, but this, whatever it was, staging was kind of positioned in front of it.
So unless the camera swooped in down low and took a shot going up the ramp so you could see square with that, with the graphics, it was obstructed by whatever that staging was.
And a couple times, the first time I noticed it is when, uh, Takeshita came out.
Everybody tries to speak with a Japanese accent, accent when they say his name.
But the, the graphic said, "Take shit." [laughs] You, you couldn't see the first part, and you couldn't see the end of it.
It just said, "Take shit." And I thought, "Why would they do that?" Oh, I get it, 'cause the camera moved a little bit, and you can see the full graphic.
So other than that little just funkiness, I thought the entrances were really spectacular.
I think a lot of effort and, and money went into creating that opening spectacle, and I think for the most part they did a really good job.
There were a couple that I saw that it kinda made me scratch my head, but for the most part, I think they did a really, really good job creating that big event feel.
You know, you likened it to, you know, AEW's version of WrestleMania, and I think that's a fair analogy in the sense of the pageantry of it all.
I don't think that, you know, this event necessarily lived up to a WrestleMania-level production, but it was damn close, and it was really great.
The staging was a little funky, that metal whatever it was right in the center of the staging.
So you had your two walls where you had s- you know, great images, and then you had graphics in the middle, but this, whatever it was, staging was kind of positioned in front of it.
So unless the camera swooped in down low and took a shot going up the ramp so you could see square with that, with the graphics, it was obstructed by whatever that staging was.
And a couple times, the first time I noticed it is when, uh, Takeshita came out.
Everybody tries to speak with a Japanese accent, accent when they say his name.
But the, the graphic said, "Take shit." [laughs] You, you couldn't see the first part, and you couldn't see the end of it.
It just said, "Take shit." And I thought, "Why would they do that?" Oh, I get it, 'cause the camera moved a little bit, and you can see the full graphic.
So other than that little just funkiness, I thought the entrances were really spectacular.
I think a lot of effort and, and money went into creating that opening spectacle, and I think for the most part they did a really good job.
There were a couple that I saw that it kinda made me scratch my head, but for the most part, I think they did a really, really good job creating that big event feel.
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