The building is way too filled with fans, even if they are all wearing masks so off to a bad start, but I'm not one of the people there so whatever. One of the commentators starting the show by saying It's a packed house Covid be damned is also pretty stupid. Anyway time to watch guys get fucked up in a deathmatch tournament. A bunch of new wrestlers to get acquainted with so that's also a nice treat,
Mouse vs. Bam Sullivan vs. Connor Claxton vs. Eric Ryan vs. Aiden Baal
Some Deathmatches use the weapons to tell a story, sometimes it's a bunch of guys doing a bunch of cool shit and using weapons. This is the latter. The five man nature kind of necessitates that. We get some fun weapons as its vaguely kitchen nightmare themed and there are some tongs used, a board with a bunch of plastic forks on it and then more normal weapons. Including a Nerg Gun with a bunch of tacks on the bullets. Eric Ryan gets a short advantage and hits a bunch of cannonballs and face washes on everybody in the corners. The tables are turned and he gets beat up by everybody culminating in a tiger driver through the fork board. Bam Sullivan eventually gets the win with a spear through some kind of board for the three count.
A fine match, nothing special, but some good stuff throughout it. 4/10
Scotty Vortekz vs. Devon Moore vs. Lucky 13 vs. Drew Blood
This match starts off fast. Moore takes Blood to the outside then Moore stops a dive from Scotty in the ropes and Scotty powerslams him onto the apron whehn he charges at him. Lucky 13 charges and does a fosbury flop over Scotty to Moore on the outside. Both thumbtack strip boards have been broken already, but we've still got a barbed wire board and a barbed wire frame that's really going to suck. Blood and Scotty battle on the top rope and Blood gets the advantage and hits an air raid crash through the barbed wire table. A bunch of back and forth action from everybody that is some good hard hitting action including Moore hitting a great superplex on Blood. Scotty takes Moore out and hits a double knee on him and rolls through right into a cookie sheet shot from Lucky 13 who covers Moore for the win.
A fun and pretty damn good match between these four men. Would have been a good match even without the weapons which make it more fun. Only downside would be when Blood got thrown through the barbed wire frame he didn't really hit it very well. 6/10
Brandon Kirk vs. Orin Veidt vs. Alex Colon vs. Tim Donst
Colon and Veidt get tossed through doors in the corner to start it off then get up with the remains of the tables and smoke Kirk and Donst over the head then start brawling. We get a dive train that culminates in Colon hitting a suicide dive into a spinning DDT. Colon and Veidt are fighting over control of the door when Donst puts Kirk through it with a DVD. We get some back and forth action in the ring before we get a barbed wire board introduced. Veidt lifts Kirk up with a suplex and just chucks him through the board. Then he stops Colon on the top rope and carries him across the ring to hit an electric chair driver on top of Kirk. Donst and Veidt start exchanging chops in the corner. Donst superplexes Colon off the top rope and on top of Kirk. All four men grab a chunk of door and start going apeshit on each other in one of the coolest spots ever. Veidt climbs up the scaffolding next to the ring with Kirk draped over a door in the ring. Colon cuts him off with a door shot then climbs up and hits the flipping belly to belly off the platform through the table for the win.
This match was awesome. Just a great match between these four guys and a bunch of cool spots throughout it. They do a great job of managing the four people in the match and making it have a flow and story. Plus who doesn't love four dudes just beating the shit out of each other with broken doors? 9/10
Lowlife Louie vs. Mitch Vallen vs. Stockade vs. SHLAK
As the last match was a bunch of guys who are good at wrestling doing deathmatch stuff. These guys can't wrestle so they just brawl and do deathmatch shit. Mitch starts the match by beating the fuck out of Louie with different bats and busts him wide open. Shlak and Stockade both mess up piledrivers that they both no sell. Shlak pulls out a plastic bag and starts suffocating Louie then starts stabbing him with a baby railroad spike. Stockade hits a good German suplex. I didn't think he had it in him. Stockade sets up two chairs back to back then climbs up to the top rope and Mitch throws him off over the top of the chairs. Shlak grabs Mitch and hits a DVD through a chair then Louie smokes Shlak with a bat. Louie uses a modified La magistral to get the win.
This is like the classic bad old style of deathmatches where everybody just starts beating the shit out of each other with lots of blood. Granted Louie bleeds a lot which helps add to that kind of match and we get some cool spots. It's not my cup of tea, but I know it works for some people. 3/10
Ryan Redfield vs. GG Everson vs. Dylan McKay vs. Austin Luke
A fast paced match between these four guys with a lot of pinfall attempts and break ups early. GG gets the first advantage hitting McKay with a huge sitout spinebuster then a couple of cannonballs in the corner. Redfield and GG work together for a bit until Redfield breaks up a pinfall attempt from GG. Redfield wrecks McKay with a motherfucker of a lariat. McKay gets the advantage and hits a corner dropkicks on GG then Redfield and Luke hits a coast to coast dropkick on McKay as he finishes the dropkick. Redfield hits a rock bottom then a springboard moonsault on GG who does the laziest kickout ever. McKay and Luke teamup to hit a double stomp tower of London on Redfield. Dylan McKay throws Luke off the platform onto Redfield and GG taking everybody out then hits a shooting star press off the platform for the three count.
Can definitely tell these guys are still students and new at this stuff. They've got some good stuff they can all do, but it's not a very well put together match. There are a few botches and really awkward stuff, but promising from some young talent. 4/10
Jeff Cannonball vs. Kit Osbourne
Kit fails to move Jeff with a shoulder tackle so Jeff hits im with one and sends him through the stack of cinder blocks. Then puts one on Kit's back and breaks it with another brick. Then he crushes Kit's hand the same way. Kit makes a comeback targeting the leg of Jeff, but it evens out again. Kit then dropkicks a cinder block into Jeff's head then grabs a gusset plate for revenge and rakes his forehead. Jeff's draped over the middle rope and Kit slams a cinder block across his back breaking it. Kit starts using a bunch of the carpet strips as weapons and goes to town on Jeff's back. He then puts a block on Jeff's chest and hits a double stomp on it. Kit sets up a chair in the corner and climbs to the top rope, but Jeff pulss him off into a slam onto it. Jeff hits a sitout piledriver for a two count then pulls out some of the blocks from the corner and hits a second piledriver on them for the three count.
Good match from these two. It's the obvious story of a big wrestler against the smaller underdog, but it works really well and both of these guys put in the work here. Not sold on carpet strips as weapons, but I love the use of cinder blocks.7/10
Frankie Pickard (c ) vs Marc Angel vs. Sean Henderson vs. Xavier Cross vs. Steve Sanders vs. Jimmy Lloyd
This match is a mess. Which makes sense with how many guys are in the match. A lot of people flying out of nowhere to hit somebody and some standing around as some people aren't in the right spot at the right time. Once the ring clears out we some we get some good spots in the match. Sanders hits a piledriver off the top through a table. Lloyd sets a door up between the ladders and hits a spinning suplex through the door. He sets up another door over the some tables and Henderson comes in with a superkick and yakuza kick to stagger him then Henderson climbs the ladder and Lloyd follows him up. Henderson hits some punches then hits a Canadian Destroyer off the ladder through the table, but can't capitalize as he's hurt too and Pickard comes in and covers Lloyd for three.
Too many people and not enough idea of what they want to do with this match. There's some cool spots, but its nothing special. 4/10
Matt Tremont vs. Rickey Shane Page
RSP goes to the lighttubes early in the match and within the opening minute Tremont is busted open and gets wipped into the barbed wire and tubes. RSP breaks a lighttube in Tremont's mouth, disgusting. RSP keeps control and breaks a ton of tubes over Tremont. He sets some on the ground and hits a powerslam then grinds the remnant of a tube into Tremont's forehead. Tremont finally counters an Irish whip and sends RSP into the barbed wire. Tremont trips RSP into the tubes and goes to the outside. RSP tries for a tope suicida onto Tremont through the tubes, but Tremont moves. It's all Tremont now and he takes RSP to lighttube hell and just keeps smashing them across his head, chest, and back. RSP escapes a powerslam attempt and chokeslams Tremont onto a lighttube bundle. Tremont's wife comes in to stop RSP and kicks him in the balls then breaks a lighttube bazook over his head. The lockerroom comes down to stop 44OH from interfering.Both men are on their knees and exchanging lighttube shots, but RSP dodges both of Tremont's attempts. Tremont eats a ton of lighttubes, but counters when RSP goes for a move and hits an Angle slam onto a bunch of lighttubes. They both go up to the platform and brawl and RSP throws Tremont off through a stack of lighttubes, pane of glass, and barbed wire board. RSP covers and gets two. RSP then starts chucking all of the lighttubes at Tremont and mixes in all of his big moves and finally gets the three count with a DVD.
This match was fucking insane. They broke so many goddamn lighttubes in this match and it is all spectacle in this one. Halfway through the match every step they take is kicking away broken glass and sounds insane. Some deathmatches use good wrestling and spots to tell the story and sometimes its just a dude about to retire who's refusing to stay down against an asshole who keeps chucking lighttubes at him. Tremont plays the underdog against the guy on the indies everybody wants to see get their comeuppance. This has some fucking crazy spots that looked awesome and Tremont's never say die attitude in this match was dope. 10/10
There are a lot of pretty whatever matches on this show. All those multi-man matches aren't really the easiest matches to make work so its not really surprising to me. But the two matches that are really good are fucking awesome. Honestly everything on this show could have sucked except for the main event and it would have been worth it. It's a spectacle in the best way and has a great story behind it. If you like deathmatch wrestling at all you should watch this show.
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