Night of Champions

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So my friends wanted to go see a wrestling show and asked if I would come along.  I said sure having no idea what I was getting myself into (Rochester has a respectable amount of indy wrestling promotions).  Turned out they just wanted to go to a bar/restraunt to catch the WWE PPV “Night of Champions”.

Now to be honest I have never gone to a bar to see a PPV much less eat (unless you count Applebee’s type restraunt/bars).  I just have no interest.  If I want to drink I’ll drink at home (with friends of course).  Anyways…

This was much more fun then I even thought it would be.  Just the astrosphere.  Now by no means was this bar packed (it wasn’t empty though either), but for what it lacked in shear numbers it more then made up for in die hard fans.  Now it was kind of hard to hear the announcers from the get go, but you might as well forget about it when something exciting was happening.

In the last 5-10 minutes of the main event it just never died.  People were screaming and pounding on the tables as if the wrestlers could actually hear their cheers.

It was just so much fun.

The only real complaint was the sound and picture quality.  I just wish they had pumped the sound up a bit more.  Not so loud you would be able to hear it when the place went nuts, but loud enough you didn’t have to strain to hear the announcers during a time when everyone wasn’t cheering.  I can’t imagine it is easy to find the sweet spot where you can talk to your friends and still hear the announcers though.

And then the picture.  I could either watch it on a 27 inch or so HDTV, or watch it on a crappy 60″ or so projector.  Anything short of WrestleMania, and the choice is easily the larger screen for me.

Lots of fun, and best of all I only spent $15 bucks on food.  Hmmm…  $10 to go out to eat and have decent food, or $15 to go out to eat, have decent food and watch a PPV I really enjoy.  Touch choices.