Revolution 216 Review

YAY ME! I read a show! WOOOOOO!!!!

Piss off if you're not as excited about that accomplishment as I am.


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1. PRIME finally debuts on HBO. The first show was definitely full of fireworks and it didn’t get long to get the party started. Boda, former Universal Champion Boda, came out and poured his heart out explaining what he’s been going through the past 4 years. His speech was short lived and soon found both Brandon Youngblood and Jason Snow in the ring. To everyone’s surprise the two joined forces and formed SOB, Standards of Bastards. When all looked lost for Boda, Change in Spades came to his aid, only to find the giant betray them and join with BY and Snow. Who now can stop these 3 men and what impact will they have on the whole landscape of PRIME?


It's an extremely interesting group of people to have put together and a fantastic way to not only kick off the first show on HBO but to also give Boda a pretty darn huge impact right out of the gates.

I'm a huge Snow fan and a huge Youngblood fan so them joining forces also is very cool but I can't help but think, for a couple of reasons, this will be very short lived. With their title match on the horizon I can't see this working out all that great in the long run and then there is the fact that, for the most part, in PRIME's history the heel stable just never seem to really last very long. It should be entertaining while it does last though.


2. Devin Shakur, the big boss man got put in place by Tyler Rayne who exploited a clause in his contract which grants him similar powers to the on-air authority. He used said authority to deport Devin Shakur. Then he had to be an ass and have Lisa Tyler put on regular clothes instead of the maid outfit, what a dick. Shakur left peacefully, but not before making a huge match between Tyler Rayne and Chandler Tsonda. Shakur is not a man to take abuse like this lying down. How will he seek revenge on Rayne and can The Underground Pimp really match Shakur’s authority and thus be invulnerable to The Man in Black?

Given that I haven’t read nearly enough of PRIME over the last couple of years to know much about the feud between these two I can only imagine that this is just the beginning of some really serious stuff to come between the two of them. I think it’s hilarious how Rayne got the one up here though.


3. A huge match took place in all the madness of ReVolution. The PTC Elite Champion Hessian defended his title against the hottest man in PRIME, Brandon Youngblood. After run ins, cheating, attacks, and overall mayhem The Pariah continued his domination and emerged victorious. How does this affect the main event between Snow and BY? How will The Murder Show recover from his slump in which he’s lost everything that matters to him?

Great win for BY and an outstanding match was used to really set up, even further, the start of this new group. Hessian is slumping a bit but I think I like him even more in this role than I do with him dominating. It’s got a much better feel to it and I think, ultimately, makes him even more dangerous.


4. Some very interesting stories came out of ReVolution. Cyrus Sutherland continuing to seek revenge against Tyler Rayne. Rayne seeking an exit from his upcoming match with Chandler Tsonda. The Osaka Street Cutters making an impressive debut. Gamble seeking vengeance on Shakur. Sloan continuing his abuse towards Hessian and plotting with an unconscious body in his locker room. What are your thoughts regarding these issues?

I don’t have any really good ones, right now, as I don’t really know all the ins and outs of what has began with some of those things. I’ll have to reserve judgment on all but the Street Cutters who I do think had a very impressive debut and should pose a very serious threat the tag team division.


5. Change in Spades are tired of the disrespect. First Nelson and his crew and now the SOB. They sought revenge and seemed to come up with a slight bit of it, but definitely not enough. With the battle lines drawn, but a Universal title match on the line between Snow and BY, how does they supposed beef with Change in Spades tie into everything?

Changes in Spades could, and should, benefit from the upcoming title match between Snow and Youngblood cause it’s going to have to, at some point, start to divide them and that’s where the actual team of Change in Spades can really capitalize. I’d expect to see them use this fact to their advantage and start, fairly soon actually, planting the seeds of doubt in Snow and Youngblood about one another.


PRIMEate of the Night:
1. Brandon Youngblood – This is an easy one. HUGE win for Aaron to get the Elite Championship and I’m very proud to see him win it. Awesome work.

2. Tyler Rayne – He seemed to be all over the show and doing something interesting the whole time.

3. Osaka Street Cutters – I liked their start and I love the name for some reason.


Segment of the Night: A Blast From The Past – No offense to anyone else but this segment really had zero competition for the best segment of the night. It was just head and shoulders better than everything else.


Match of the Night: Elite Championship – The Main event was really cool, no doubt, but this match was just great work.


Other Thoughts:

- I love the SOB team. I think it’s an interesting mix but I’m really most curious to just see how long they’re able to keep it up if there are even any plans for it to last more than a minute.


- I’ve got to say I’m not a fan, at this point anyway, of the move to HBO. It seemed like, to me anyway, that the move was made with the idea of simply being able to throw even more curse words out there just to be throwing them out there.

I don’t get the idea of having a weekly wrestling show on a station that not everyone is going to actually have. Maybe FX is the same way, I don’t know cause it’s a standard cable channel where I live, but HBO is most certainly not standard. You have to pay extra to have that channel and I just don’t get the idea of moving a weekly wrestling show to a channel of that nature. But that’s probably just me being nitpicky.

- I love the Change in Spades team. I think those characters work great together and D has put together year another homerun for himself.