WWE Ends Long Running YouTube Show
Renee Young noted on Twitter that the “JBL & Renee Show” “has been laid to rest.” The show originally aired on YouTube as “The JBL & Cole Show,” then became “The JBL (Not Cole) Show” and ended as “The JBL & Renee Show.”
Detailed Live Fan Reaction to 6/21 Bowling Green Global Force Wrestling Live Event
Thanks to Andrew Mitchell for sending in the following:
I attended the Global Force Wrestling show this past Sunday in Bowling Green, KY. Here are the results and some notes from the show.
VIP meet and greet notes:
All the wrestlers I talked to were very friendly. All of them that I talked to were willing to take a picture with me for free. Several of them did have their own merchandise available for purchase, but none of them tried to force me to buy anything or pay them for the picture. It was very casual, they were just at various tables, and there wasn’t much in the way of lines, so you could just go up to whoever and start talking to them for the most part, and the wrestlers were just kinda walking around freely within the crowds when no one was talking to them at their tables. And wrestlers kept rotating in and out of the meet and greet area.
The actual show:
I’d estimate attendance was only around 200 people or so, but it had been raining and lightning off and on for a couple hours before the show, pretty much right up until the 6pm bell time, so that probably kept at least a few people away with it being an outdoors stadium. Thankfully it stopped for the show except for some light sprinkling during the main event. The wrestlers were really listening to and trying to engage the fans during the matches. Several times throughout the night fans would yell or chant something and the wrestlers would yell comments back.
Results
Opening Match: “The Battle of Kentucky”
Cliff Compton (who was billed as from Louisville, KY) def. “The Kentucky Gentleman” Chuck Taylor (who is from Murray, KY)
Note: During this match something in the ring broke causing the ropes to become loose. They were able to work around it and finished the match, and the ring crew were able to fix it after the match was over while the ring announcer stalled by plugging merchandise available.
Three Way Dance:
Jigsaw def. Sonjay Dutt & Jimmy Rave
Women’s Match:
Thea Trinidad def. Lei’d Tapa
After the match Tapa attempted to attack the referee who managed to escape, and then she started to threaten the ring announcer before leaving.
Next a local radio DJ, Tony Rose came out and talked a bit about wanting to be a wrestler, but after seeing what happened with Tapa he decided he wanted to be a manger and talked about how anyone could manage. This brought out Jim Cornette who was working as the heel. They start to go at it, but refs separate them, but they stay out by the ring as Chris Mordetzky comes out for the next match, followed by his opponent, Shelton Benjamin. Jim Cornette decides he is going to manage Mordetzky for the match, so Tony Rose serves as Benjamin’s manager.
Shelton Benjamin def. Chris Mordetzky
Intermission – Many of the wrestlers came back out during intermission to sign autographs, take pictures, and sell merchandise. They advertised Thea Trinidad (who was not out during the Meet and Greet) would be taking pictures with fans for $20. They said these would taken by a professional photographer and printed out right there and would have the GFW logo on them.
Doc Gallows def. Moose
Jeff & Karen Jarrett come out to thank the crowd
Main Event:
The Young Bucks def. P.J. Black and Andrew Everett
After the main event was over, Jeff Jarrett came back out and they offered the opportunity to get into the ring with him and the Young Bucks and get your picture taken, again for $20 and they would have the GFW logo on them and be printed out for you like with Thea. I left at this point but I doubt anything of note happened afterwards.
Overall I thought the show was really good, but way too short. The show started at 6pm and ended right about 8 pm. So it was only 2 hours, with 20 minutes of that being intermission, So after you take that out, and all the time they spent plugging merchandise, and the Jim Cornette/Tony Rose thing, there was probably only about an hour of actual wrestling.
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
