Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Monday, July 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM EST

giants3404 sent this live report in:

I would like to Start off by saying I also had great seats.

Thoughts:
I agree with the dead crowd statement. LI is famous for hostile rowdy crowds and last night was shocking. Also it was a sellout the only empty seats were where the camera's were.

Dark Match: Mr Kennedy vs Umaga

Mr. Kennedy got a loud pop from the fans one of the loudest of the night. He made a Brett Farve Joke during is opening, again extremely over. Umaga wins with the Samoan Spike.

WWE Tag Team Championship Match

I wished this match was elimination style but sadly it wasn't. I was expecting the title change but Ryder and Hawkins were my last choice to win. Finlay and Hornswoggle and Jesse and Festus were the two over tag teams and the crowd was into this opener.

WWE United States Championship
This was the ending of the on fire crowd and my personal favorite match of the show. I was part of the loud contingent pulling for Shelton. The loudest point in the match was when Shelton went for his finisher. The crowd was in shock after the first two matches results. Smackdown to control of their belts again.

ECW Championship Match
This match stunk the place and killed the crowd. Fans were chanting boring at Tony Atlas tryed to convince us we were saying Henry! The Delaney turn was predictable to me but a shock to the fans. It really took the crowd out of the show.

HBK vs Y2J
This match was a hreat match that was tainted by the crowds lack of enthusiasm following the ECW match. Their was a small crowd resurgence of "Lets go Michaels" "Lets go Jericho". But the finish killed that resurgence. The Whole crowd even the Jericho fans didn't want the match to end like that. It was a terrible finish. One extra note of HBK getting alot of heat for 1. Looking like he was gonna put the Sharpshooter on Jericho. 2. Putting the Crippler Crossface on Jericho.

WWE Divas Championship
This match was a typical womens wrestling match, short and boring. Michelle McCool was more over than Natalya their was a sign in my section that said Long Island just got McCool. WWE showed their respect in womens wrestling with Jericho annoucing HBK's injury. The crowd didn't care before
and they didn't care after either. Way to go Vince the title is meaningless on its first night.

World Heavyweight Championship
I was shocked at the boos Punk got in Long Island. After all he did in LI with ROH the response he got was shocking.
Batista was over with the crowd and their were tons of new
champion signs in the crowd. Again Kane's interference was
predictable but effective it helped save Punk from getting booed for winning cleanly. Funny moment was the fact that the bag was more over than all three wrestlers.

John Cena vs JBL
This was the biggest piece of crap and Worst Match of the night. First we all payed to see the match live and they did it in the Parking Garage. The stunts were so poorly put together you could tell. I have nothing good to say about this match but it was nice that Cena finally returned the favor to JBL after losing 4 times.

WWE Championship
The Match was the average main event style WWE always gives.
Happy to see HHH win even though alot of the crowd around me was pulling for Edge. The biggest Pop of the match came when Edge speared Vickie! There was loud cheers of "About Time". Overall a Good Show but it was truly hard to enjoy with a dead crowd.

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John Seibert sent this live report in as well:

FIRST, PRIOR TO THE SHOW, WWE OFFICIALS WERE POLLING THE CROWD ON A POSSIBLE NEW WWE LOGO, THEY GAVE OPTIONS AND YOU TOLD THE GUY HOLDING THE CLIP BOARD YOUR CHOICE.

SECOND, TONS OF PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY CHOCKING AND PISSED AFTER THE PYRO SMOKE NEVER WENT AWAY. THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE REAL REASON Y2J AND HBK DIDN'T GET ANY AS PEOPLE IN THE CROWD COULDN'T SEE THE RING AS IT TOOK HALF THE SHOW FOR THE PREVIOUS SMOKE AND GUN POWDER TO SETTLE. IT WAS TERRIBLE!

ALSO, IT IS CLEAR THAT THE CROWD WAS USED TO LOOKING FOR PEOPLE LIKE ORTON, FLAIR, MYSTERIO, HARDY, BIG SHOW, KHALI, ETC. AS THE LAST TIME IT WAS AT THE ARENA THEIR WAS NOBODY LIKE COLIN DELANEY AND VICKIE GUERRERO TO FEED OFF OF. IT WAS VERY LAME, FILLED WITH CRAZY LITTLE CHILDREN AND TO BE HONEST, BEING THEIR LIVE TOTALLY, STUNK! I GIVE IT A CLOSE TO FAILING GRADE BELIEVE IT OR NOT. EXPECT A CRAZY GOOD SUMMERSLAM IN 1 MONTH!