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Micro Championship Wrestling (MCW) Television Pilot Taping Report

4 March 2010 @ The Impact Zone, Universal Studios, Orlando, FL

The show was advertised as beginning at 5:15pm and ending at 7:30pm. As you may have expected, this was not the case. We were left standing around until around 6:30pm waiting to enter in what could best be described as a completely disorganized mess. There was not true line but rather numerous areas where we mushed into a mess for holding.

Apparently the producers screened a handful of people into the Impact Zone in advance. Initially, they had everyone in the stands on the hard camera side outside of two rows of about 4 chairs next to the rail. The first row had someone from Baywatch as a ‘celebrity guest’ — I was not sure who it was but a few of people guessed it was the guy who played David Hasselhoff’s son http://www.tmz.com/2008/05/27/jeremy-spoke-in-class-today/ — and the second row had some teenage girls.

They then introduced the crowd to the concept that this was a television taping and insisted that all cell phones and cameras be off. A producer then set up shots for the cameras and had us boo, cheer and do what he called the Hogan bow (or something along those lines) — basically the bow that we would give Ric Flair. He imitated walking down the ramp and had us do similar as well. Once those shots were over, Gene Magee (a Universal employee who hypes the crowd at TNA shows) picked a front row for the rail on two sides and moved people down.

The visuals included green ropes on the TNA ring and the green logo on the TNAtron. When a wrestler was announced they showed a picture of said wrestler on top of the logo on the tron — it was by no means impressive looking. They appeared to have three cameras and possibly no hard camera. The cameras were portable and did not need someone holding the cables a la WWE, TNA and ROH HDNet tapings. All of the usual TNA paraphernalia was covered up with tarps or taken down.

Eric Bischoff entered the ring and thanked us for coming. He also hyped up Monday’s Live Impact. A few TNA regulars sang his now epic theme song as he entered and exited the ring — take the Hogan entrance theme and sing Eric Bischoff on it. Eric joked that he liked the sound of that.

The ring announcer/commissioner(?) was then introduced. His name was Cracker T and he looked a bit like Macho Man circa 1999 with a mohawk. I actually thought he was a little person until the real little people came out showing that he was more like 5’ish. FYI he had more than one name, which he told us himself in the middle of the taping, but I only recalled Cracker T. Also, I thought he made a comment about being a commissioner type at one point but things were not clear. He was a bit like the annoying Wrestling Society X announcer in that he was obnoxious and supposedly edgy. Moreover, he kept his mic on during the matches and would occasionally call moves, ask our opinions of who we were rooting for (he did that between matches too) and start chants, such as “midgets, midgets, midgets” — no I’m not joking…

He then introduced what was billed as a former WWF/WCW legend in Pat Tanaka to be referee. I’m a fan, so I was happy to see Pat.

The first match, which probably started close to 7:30pm, had BLixx (who slithered up the ramp and looked like mini-Marilyn Manson/Vampiro) vs. Demo (a masked wrestler). As the match was set to begin, our favorite Cracker informed us that in MCW they did not ring the bell. Instead, the match didn’t start until the crowd yelled the MCW slogan: Half The Size; Twice The Violence. They actually had a decent length match — possibly 10+ min — and it included submissions and top rope maneuvers. Demo was rather athletic and had a few impressive moves. I gotta admit though that seeing guys that small in a TNA size ring was rather comical. There were a lot of “we’re going to hell for this” jokes by people in the audience. BLixx got the win and slithered out of the ring. I’m pretty sure that BLixx also flipped people off a few times during the match.

The second match was Huggie Cub (a mini-pimp) vs. Meatball (who is supposedly 300 lbs). They played up Meatballs size and if I recall correctly a little plunder found its way into the match. Meatball ultimately got the win. Don’t forget that during this match we had Cracker T making noise and asking who we wanted to win. It came off rather corny.

The third match had a large woman who’s name escapes me (Stella maybe?) vs. Trixie. Oh, but this couldn’t be a normal match, interjected the great Cracker T. No, we were going to have the ladies have a cat fight, which translated to, and I kid you not, Socker Bopppers on the ladies hands (http://www.amazon.com/Big-Time-Toys-Socker-Boppers/dp/B00004YUYS if you forget what those are). They proceeded to have a rather weak five minute timed contest, during which T informed us that Trixie thought her ‘boobies’ might be popping out — yes, he really said that. T then tried to disqualify both girls for cheating (he described what each did), Tanaka disagreed because he did not see it and somehow the match was restarted for 30 seconds. He attempted to get the crowd to count down the 30 seconds, which was not very successful. Overall this match was rather weak and it spurred a mass exodus by the crowd. A few people that I talked to conjectured that some of the audience may have been paid extras who’s hours were up. Regardless, over half of the crowd left at the conclusion of the match. You could definitely see producers scrambling and the audience was moved around to fill up the holes. A producer came on the mic as well encouraging people not to leave and that we had two matches left.

The fourth match was Sarge (mini-John Cena doing the Marine gimmick — billed from Paris Island, SC) vs. Justice in a hardcore match. T started a USA chant during Sarge’s entrance. This match had a little more plunder and ended with Justice crushing Sarge, who was inside a trash can, with a splash, or at least that’s what I recall the finish as. They quickly rushed the final match due to the continuing reduction in the crowd. A funny moment was T telling the guys to “wrap it up” on the mic while making the hand motion. I think T or a producer also mentioned that they were running behind on the live mic somewhere in here.

Throughout the night they hyped a Battle Royale (pronounced Roy-al, right Buck?). Somehow this turned into “Good vs. Evil”, according to T, and was a 4 on 4 elimination match of the heels vs. faces. The heels were BLixx, Huggie Cub (I thought pimps were faces?), the large woman and Justice. The faces were Demo, Meatball, Trixie and Sarge. I cannot recall the order of eliminations, but when Demo pinned the second to last remaining heel T blurted out “your winner and new champion’. First off, when was this designated a championship match? Second, BLixx was still in the ring. Shockingly, Demo won the match and the title, which I again kid you not was a mini-WWE World Championship belt. Here is a pic that was posted to their website with the belt in it: http://mcwusa.us/images/stories/mcw_group.jpg

As the match ended we of course assumed that this was the end of things. T even thanked us for “making dreams come true”. But oh no, we needed to re-film the celebration and interview the Baywatch ‘celebrity’ in front of the live crowd. This involved getting all of the wrestlers back in the ring, who had already started to walk to the back. After that recreation apparently there was a need to do it again. And again. The producers kept asking for 15 more minutes of the crowds’ time, etc. Halfway through this I had my fill and headed to the exit where I was escorted out with a group during what I think was the last re-filming (the park was closed so we had to leave in groups with escort). During these re-filming episodes, they added Brian Knobbs — lucky us our favorite wrestler was there — to be a part of the group that T hugged and then talked to near the Baywatch ‘celeb’.

Eric Bischoff was walking around during the re-filmings taking video with a Flip (small compact videocamera), which was kind of neat to see. In fact, Eric was out for most of the taping and was visibly amused by the first match. Jason Hervey was also walking around and possibly wondering out loud about some years or something… Corny I know! Heh.

The taping ended at nearly 9pm.

The bottom line is that the hemorrhaging audience during the show may be an indication that this product is going to have trouble holding its television audience but then again maybe not. It was a rather contrived environment during the taping but this has to be expected of a TV taping of this nature. I kept wondering if this is what Wrestling Society X felt like live, except without the decent wrestling. Ultimately, this one is going to be a tough sell for sure. I do, however, feel like all of the wrestlers did their best to make it a good show.

For more on MCW here is their website: http://mcwusa.us/

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