BRM Reviews KC Guest Booker w/Gabe Sapolsky & Kevin Sullivan
Posted: Dec 2nd, '12, 09:53
Whatever you do, DO NOT BUY THIS DVD! This is, without a doubt, THE MOST DISAPPOINTING GUEST BOOKER EVER! Worse than Al Snow spending most of the DVD ranting about how no one understands what terms in the business mean anymore, and only abstractly booking two or three angles, despite being advertised as booking “the Attitude Era” in today’s product. Worse than Dutch Mantell barely booking at all and just blasting TNA by saying things about TNA’s booking that were mostly factually incorrect. Why is this more disappointing than even those DVD’s? BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T BOOK A DAMN THING!
This was advertised as Gabe and Sullivan booking a WWE purchase of TNA and how they would integrate TNA talent into the WWE. Gabe had some ideas and definitely seemed to have come prepared, but Sullivan definitely did not. To make matters worse, neither Sean Oliver nor Sully would shut up. They just kept asking questions about various random, semi-related topics. Gabe and Sully talk a great deal about what is wrong with WWE right now and why they aren’t creating main eventers the way they used to, but that isn’t what people buy Guest Booker DVDs for!
The first hour of this two-hour DVD was really more of a shoot interview with both guys, which is fine, although I thought it dragged on for way too long. I would have been able to forgive this if the booking was decent, but instead the booking was non-existent. All they booked was “push Fortune, do a viral, ‘real world champion’ angle with Kurt Angle”… and that’s it! Gabe seemed to occasionally try to get back on topic but was always quickly derailed by either Sullivan or Oliver, and there was a point where he just gave up. Kayfabe Commentaries should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for putting this DVD out. It felt like they printed the hype paragraphs on the back of the DVD before filming it, and rather than change the DVD out of the Guest Booker Series and make it something else (like ROH did with Secrets of the Ring w/Raven, vol. 5, which actually started as a Straight Shootin’ interview), they just left the old hype on the box cover and sold it anyway. I am past the point of feeling disappointed. I have never reached a point where I have said this about a DVD before but I honestly feel ripped off by this DVD. Do not buy it. Do not even rent it. Instead you should write angry letters to Kayfabe Commentaries about the declining quality of their Guest Booker product.
This was advertised as Gabe and Sullivan booking a WWE purchase of TNA and how they would integrate TNA talent into the WWE. Gabe had some ideas and definitely seemed to have come prepared, but Sullivan definitely did not. To make matters worse, neither Sean Oliver nor Sully would shut up. They just kept asking questions about various random, semi-related topics. Gabe and Sully talk a great deal about what is wrong with WWE right now and why they aren’t creating main eventers the way they used to, but that isn’t what people buy Guest Booker DVDs for!
The first hour of this two-hour DVD was really more of a shoot interview with both guys, which is fine, although I thought it dragged on for way too long. I would have been able to forgive this if the booking was decent, but instead the booking was non-existent. All they booked was “push Fortune, do a viral, ‘real world champion’ angle with Kurt Angle”… and that’s it! Gabe seemed to occasionally try to get back on topic but was always quickly derailed by either Sullivan or Oliver, and there was a point where he just gave up. Kayfabe Commentaries should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for putting this DVD out. It felt like they printed the hype paragraphs on the back of the DVD before filming it, and rather than change the DVD out of the Guest Booker Series and make it something else (like ROH did with Secrets of the Ring w/Raven, vol. 5, which actually started as a Straight Shootin’ interview), they just left the old hype on the box cover and sold it anyway. I am past the point of feeling disappointed. I have never reached a point where I have said this about a DVD before but I honestly feel ripped off by this DVD. Do not buy it. Do not even rent it. Instead you should write angry letters to Kayfabe Commentaries about the declining quality of their Guest Booker product.