Other notes:
-AJ Styles, Matt Sydal, Jay Lethal, and Michael Bennett & Maria Kanellis were available for autographs before the start of the show. I had Kanellis autograph my issue of Playboy with her in it. (She said she has signed a ton of those for fans over the years.) I talked to her and Bennett for a minute and wished them congratulations and good luck on the upcoming wedding. Both were very nice people. I didn’t get autographs with anyone else, but Styles and Lethal had their respective title belts available for fans to pose with.
-For an arena that housed the WWE debut of Earthquake, the WCW re-debut of Kevin Nash on Nitro, and is still used by WWE at least once a year, ROH actually made pretty good use for it. Granted, it wasn’t filled, but it had more people there than a typical TNA house show. The floor part was filled and many fans were sitting in the regular arena sitting (which wasn’t initially available for purchase online), 3-4 people even sat in the upper section. Although some workers at the arena thought it was rather light, according to some ROH workers, it exceeded the company’s expectations for attendance.
-It was my first time at WesBanco Arena, and while the concessions were nothing spectacular there, they were actually reasonably priced. Can’t say that for any of the major facilities in Pittsburgh.
-An ROH worker who was sitting in the audience asked fans before the tapings started how many people had been to an ROH show before. About 97% of the people there had never been to an ROH show before, while the other 3% (myself included) had gone to ROH shows in other cities. That same worker later helped the fans make chants, and gave everyone streamers to throw into the ring.
-After Sydal left the ring, Bobby Cruise thanked everyone for attending.
