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Ms.ZigZag and I were there.

The PPV was pretty good. Shows are almost always better live. I'll give a few live notes.

Dark match was Bryan Danielson over Heath Slater. The MITB winner is now featured in dark matches and on Superstars.

The crowd was hot for the opening match but died down a bit during Cody/Ted. There were huge WE WANT RYDER chants during that match.

Christian got a big pop but they need something new to heel Buffalo over besides the Bills never winning a SuperBowl.

The 4 way match was fun though it seems like Dolph is stuck in the midcard even though he has shown signs of breaking through.

RKO is over huge. I'd say the pop of the night was between him and CM Punk. I think people were actually surprised that Mark Henry won. I gotta say Henry's promo after the match was great.

Beth Phoenix was over big time since she is billed as being from Buffalo,NY. There were loud THIS IS BULLSHIT chants after Beth lost but I don't know if they cut away to something else.

Cena also got a huge pop. I guess I am in the minority of the IWC in that I actually like him. I think even if you don't like his Superman push ,you have to respect that he busted his ass to get to the top of the Company. For the last 5 years the WWE has pretty much put the Company on his shoulders. I'm not gonna judge this angle yet since they could just have Del Rio win the belt back in Mexico. I gotta say I got a big kick out of Cena's introduction of himself especially when he mentioned JORTS!

CM Punk & HHH both got a big reaction. The ending was a bit much and some of it made no sense at all such as Truth breaking up a pinfall for Punk when they wanted him to win. Punk has cooled off so much since his huge buzz a few months ago that WWE needs to get him his momentum back.

The giant head pictures of Punk,HHH,Beth & Del Rio in the front row were too funny. IDK if it got on TV but someone had a I WISH BENOIT WAS HERE sign ripped from their hands by WWE Security during the show. They were on the camera side so maybe it ended up getting on.