Fuck me dead, Triplemania. Where to begin? I can’t remember the last time an entire event dominated a Botchamania. Victory Road 2011 or Elimination Chamber 2015 probably. DJ Z, Aerostar and others were involved in fun matches but the bad bits were SO FUCKING bad that it cancelled those out. Easily the worst PPV of the year. What’s the worst PPV of the year so far, Battleground? That was like caviar compared to this dog food.
Here’s Kevin Gill’s length defence of the commentary at the event (in the interest of fairness):
”The ring announcer announced winners before matches were over in some cases.
The ring music of winner was played before matches ended in some cases.
The Spanish announce team sat out the “key to glory matches” that we were asked to jump on commentary for right before they went to the ring. We had no names for any of the around a dozen people in these two matches. And no one went through the Spanish announce table at any time which is just wrong!
The trios match features team members fighting each other for some reason.
The team battle royal had lumberjacks surrounding tjenring and TEN teams of trios aka teams of 3, except in the case of team global force who were all seperate individuals. 2 of them inexplicably fought each other and disappeared from the screen never to be seen again, while a possibly socially lubricated JJ threw tortillas and beer at the crowd. Ps the lumberjacks all disappeared as well.
There were no onscreen identifying graphics for ANYONE.
No one in the crowd recognized ray escoprion in street clothes but I’m a bad commentator because I also didn’t recognize him.
Meltzer reports backstage production people did not have a show format.
Rules were ignored so it made me
Cautious to emphasize rules or stips until I saw them actually be enforced.
And finally, maybe someone can smarten up the LuchaBlog community to the concept of announcers being given guidelines to work with. That w
