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[quote][i]Originally posted by mastermind[/i] It was with great and eager anticipation I watched the first UWF show last night, �First Blood�. Start time 8pm, but by 8:02 the screen was still dark. Turns out technical difficulties of some kind plagued my broadcast. Figures. I was on the phone with the cable company trying to figure why it wasn�t coming in. Finally he punched through the STANDARD definition version but it didn�t come through until like, 8:30 so I missed half the damn thing. The first thing I saw was the sloppy finish to the Fa�ade versus Beastia 666 match. Some long-haired, dreadlocked white boy versus the Hispanic Beastie. IMMEDIATELY after it came through I knew exactly why post-show editing would be so important to this product � sloppy white boy Fa�ade was botching moves left and right, including an attempted hurricanrana thing that he tried twice, only to have Beastie 666 finally pitch him through a wooden table at ringside for the pinfall. Another quick observation � the ring is SMALL. Real small; it looked almost miniature. The show took place at Hammerstein, so the setting is familiar to wrestling fans � but it was a very small, personal audience and much of the seating was blacked out. Post match shenanigans though illustrate the vibe UWF is trying to capture. The rapper in charge of the wrestling �crew� Beastie 666 belongs to is Billy Blue, an up-and-coming kid representing Miami. He also had my boy Sabian of CZW and BLKOut fame with him. In their brief in-ring interaction, the celebration quickly ceases when Billy Blue reveals Beastie 666 owes him money (that Beastie obviously doesn�t have) so Billy Blue orders Sabian and the rest of the goon squad to lay Beastie out. They do, and then carry him backstage while unconscious. The interludes and skits between matches are laughable in some aspects, but they�re all very gritty. Like a SMACK street DVD or a scene from the show �Cops�. Melle Mel (who may remember from �The Message� and the Furious Five etc) was clearly the star of the rap/wrestling connection, as he exhibited the most charisma and crowd interaction during his appearance. There was a brief interlude with Melle Mel and his camp (including Eddie Kingston) gearing up to take on Homicide in a �Bronx versus Brooklyn� battle. This was the shows in-ring main event, and sadly (due to the excessively small ring perhaps?) was not their greatest showing. It was certainly lively, and there was plenty of emphasis on all the scantily-clad black woman at ringside, but it was far from a 5-star classic. Best move of the night was Homicide�s �Cop Killer� finisher on Kingston that earned him the win. Homicide and his Brooklyn capo and rap crew leader Uncle Murda celebrated to end the show. From about 8:50 � 9:00 pm we got a series of skits that were far better than the in-ring product. A few skits of Slyck Wagner Brown on the streets, running his mouth. A lot of swearing and hand-to-hand transactions (including Sabian completing a quick play before Slyck Wagner Brown ran up on him for a brief interaction). These are rap leaders using crews of wrestling goons to get money. At the end, one of the skits involved a shady drug-dealing set-up in which two Haitians representing the Miami cartels got jumped, robbed, beaten and stuffed in the trunk in the night�s best segment (that I saw). Finally, Homicide and his guys ran into a rival crew that featured my boy Ruckus (of BLKOut fame). The Ruckus-lead team chased Homicide out of the building into a car. As they fled, Ruckus and crew actually started shooting a gun at them! So that part was cool. I got the 11pm replay sitting on my DVR so I�ll catch the first half later, but from what I saw so far it�s �aiight�. I like the theme, and it�s definitely a slightly different variation of familiar wrestling motivations. But from what I saw so far, the in-ring action is far below �Wrestling Society X� standards (which were actually very good). My dude Robbie Mireno worked the commentary team (which used plenty of slang and casual profanity), I like Uncle Murda, and the shots fired at the end of the show was definitely a cool moment. All in all, aside from the technical difficulties it was straight for a first show attempt � and I hope to see more in the future. [/quote]
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