Live fan notes from TNA Lockdown PPV

Jon Whaley sent in the following:

I attended lockdown last night.

Here are some notes.

The arena was abotu 3/4 full. The hard camera side was practically empty. But they did have a full section taped off for the production crew.

Before the PPV Dixie Carter was in the crowd greeting fans and getting pics taken with the world title (which is very heavy).

My seats were accross from the hard camera about 10 rows up fromt he floor. and I got some pretty good pics with my DSLR. I got stuck with seats right infront of a stereotypical redneck and an stereo typical "yelling at the movie screen" black man, and the two of them seemed to hit it off great and were bets of friends by the 2nd match.

Tenay got some mixed reaction and West got some decent heat.

Danny Bonaduchie messed up several times and had the crappiest swanton/somersault off the to rope, and botched a small package by E.Y.

The Pyros were freakin loud!

The X division match was great, and the ending dive by Suicide to the outside on Kiyoshi hot a "Holy Sh*t!" or "That was awesome" chant... cant remember which.

Madison Raine got some boos. Sojo Bolt barely got any reaction. Daffney goot a goot reaction. ODB is pretty over, the people behind me were amazed at the size of her boobs.

LAX & MCM are way over with the fans. LAX came out first and got lots of cheers. MCM got even more after they won.

Matt Morgan is HUGE. The ref made the blad jobs very obvious, diggin in his pockets and laying in front of Abyss, who took forever to blade. After the ref bump the ref dug in his pockets and pulle dhte blade and morgan rolled over and picked it up and bladed. Stevie got a great pop and "ECW" chant.

Taylor Wilde was not over, but Angelina Love & Velvet Sky were. Kong's flip of the top rope got a "Holy Sh*t" chant. They must have tied Kong's hair pretty well, It took a few mins, they barely got her untangled before the next introductions started.

Beer Money got a good pop, but Team 3D's was deafening! Ray and D-Von entered thru the crowd. The crowd was just pleading for a 3D through a table. After the match, Team 3D thanked the fans that made them famous afterwards and were all smiles.

Angle wore black & gold with his trunks, which added to his heat in with the Philly crowd. The video screen froze during Angle's entrance. Daniel's got a great pop. Booker T's Spinaroonie got a loud pop than his entrance. AJ was over. So was Steiner. Aftere his franketeiner got a good pop, he flicked off the fan and yelled "f*ck you!" several times, yet after the match while walked up the ramp, he and Nash got cheers and Steiner acknowledged them, since he was off camera. The crowd is horrible and counting down dispite the huge countdown ont he screen. I havnt noticed Joe's entrane video since he got his new look, but it was very Taz-esqe, and he was abotu 1 min late for his entrace, whcih I later read he was getting "instructions" Joe came otu with a black towel over his head which I heard many people scream "it's Taz!". (I may have been one of them.) Nash is ofcourse, very tall. Jarrett was mostly over. Joe did many Taz-like moves and Jarrett played with the crowd as if he was goign to hit AJ with the guitar. Afterwards Joe teased he was goign to hit Jarret as he left the ring.
And I think he sat in one of the corners practically all match. AJ's leap tru the top of the cage got a huge reaction with a "Holy Sh*t" chant, i believe.

Foey was way over. So was Sting. I dont think anyone really expected Foley to come out the champ. I think he may have disloacted knee cap or somehting he was banging on it pretty hard after a move and walked on it very gingerly.

Team 3D came down and congratulated Foley. Foley thanked the crowd and TNA for giving him one more rememberable moment in Philly with the great fans. He said a few yrs ago he was gettign ready to wrestle in front of 64,000 fans at a PPV, but longed to be infront of the 900 at the old ECW arena. Ray said since the Phillies had tshirts for winning the world series, they had tshirts to celebrate their 22nd tag title reign. There was a limit of 400 shirts and Team 3D signed auto graphs afterwards.

Some guys were out front selling unlicened Lockdown & Mania shirts for $15.

One of the better PPVs I think, maybe it was because I saw it live. The only let down of the night was Bobby Lashley.