Jimmy Lloyd vs. G-Raver vs. Casanova Valentine vs. Shlak vs. Stockade
This match starts out awkward as its too many people in the match and they're just kind of hanging out waiting for somebody to make the first move. After the first couple minutes it becomes a good wild brawl where everybody is wandering around and fighting somebody somewhere in the ring or outside it. These way too many deathmatches kind of work better as it gives people time to sell big moves, but still have action going on because others are still good to go. Stockade stacking up a bunch of cinderblocks then powerbombing G-Raver into it was brutal looking. We also get my favorite thing in deathmatches where Shlak powerbombs Stockade through a table with cement blocks on it and the ref counts the pinfall while Stockade is in a V over the wreckage since his shoulders are on a surface. It also starts raining about the same time so that's a good omen. I can't believe they finish the match by climbing a ladder in the rain and Lloyd hits a brainbuster on the top of the ladder which has a bundle of lighttubes on it. This match has some fun moments, but a lot of awkwardness and blow spots so it's not great and it's got too many people to really tell a story. Awesome finish to the match as well as some other crazy spots though so it's a fun watch at least.
6/10
Josh Crane vs. Mance Warner vs. Dale Patricks
This match starts off hot with them breaking a pane of glass and a barbedwire board draped over the apron and guardrail. Mance gets his tongue stapled a couple of times first to the turnbuckle then just the rope. We get a really awkward part as Mance and Crane stand ringside waiting for Patricks to walk on the ropes and hit a moonsault. Them all hitting each other with a bundle of lighttubes at the sametime looked cool as hell though. And the rain stopped for this match which is nice. Patricks hits a piledriver off the top rope through a glass pane for just a two count on Crane. This isn't even the 'safe' way of doing a piledriver off the top Patricks gets it setup like he's going to powerbomb him and jumps to the glass instead of just falling back into it, impressive as hell. Patricks and Crane start fighting and we get a shot of Crane leaning against the guardrail drinking a beer, respect. Warner pushes the official down when he gets back in the ring after Crane has eliminated Patricks and jumps off the refs back to hit a tornado DDT through a glass pane for two. All three of these guys have wrestled the back half of the match with one of the round spike plates in their heads as well so that's impressive. Another of my favorite weird deathmatch things happens in this match. Mance knees a bundle of tubes into Crane's chest then hits a lariat for a win. I love all the crazy bumps through barbedwire and glass and a lariat is how the match is won. This match has less of the awkwardness of the first one, but it has a lot of downtime in it while selling and they seem to have really gassed out in the match. A lot of good spots though keep it a good time.
5/10
Drew Parker vs. RSP
RSP starts the match off just bullying Parker as he usually does in matches, but since Parker is small he can really toss him around. Parker hits a really nice 450 splash onto a bundle lf lighttubes. Parker hits a beautiful reverse 'rana and its cool to see a guy like RSP who doesn't normally take those kind of bumps take them. I really like that for this match they have lighttubes ducttaped to the outside of the ringposts. RSP hits a chokebreaker with some lighttubes over his knee for the win. They keep this match short and moving fast so I really liked this one. They broke a shitton of lighttubes and hit all of the moves crisply and it was just a good match.
7/10
Kit Osbourne vs. Conor Claxton vs. Brandon Kirk vs. Dan O'Hare
I can't believe the tournament matches had a normal match, a three way, a fourway, and a fiveway match and they didn't do them in descending or ascending order and just did them anywhich way. Osbourne gets the new to deathmatch treatment in this match I believe and they bully the shit out of him to start the match with lots of lighttubes shots. Osbourne and Claxton climb the scaffolding next to a spiders net with lighttubes on it and Claxton hits a michinokue driver onto Osbourne then pins him. The crew brings out a six foot high structure with a ton of barbedwire inside of it and set it next to the ring. Kirk hits a spear/crossbody block through the ropes on O'Hare through the barbedwire to get a pinfall and the win as Claxton couldn't compete after the spiderweb bump. This match was pretty bad, but it was short with some really good bumps. So definitely watch this for the two gnarly big bumps, but that's all this match has to offer.
2/10
Jimmy Lloyd vs. Mance Warner
They keep this one pretty short and go pretty hard. They share a beer, punch each other then start going to town with lighttubes. They bring out some fucked up sawblade weapons and Mance takes two straight bumps onto the sawblades and it looks brutal. He fights back and Lloyd traps him on the top rope and hits a tombstone piledriver through a gigantic lighttube bundle for the win. Shorter than I would have expected, but they both fought pretty hardcore and long first round matches so I get it. Not bad, but nothing special either.
4/10
Brandon Kirk vs. RSP
Can't argue with RSP coming out to Bayley's music and her shirt with some purple trunks. RSP hits two huge suplexes where instead of dropping Kirk he just chucks him and one of those is through a ladder, looked brutal as fuck. Kirk comes up with a dumb idea of doing a springboard ace crusher through the carpet strip, lighttube door and takes most of the damage. A lot of back and forth action but mostly RSP is in control and Kirk refuses to stay down and keeps kicking out. RSP may not have the body of a power wrestler, but damn he just chucks Kirk around in this match and it looks really cool. The superplex through the barbedwire board was really damn good looking as well. Just good stuff throughout this match.
7/10
Matt Tremont vs. Toby Klein vs. Jeff Cannonball
Toby Klein shows off his wisdom by letting Tremont and Cannonball fight then jumping them both and going to work on both men with a pizza cutter. Tremont puts a watermelon on Cannonball's duck then goes Gallagher on it. Can't believe Cannonball just left the Xbox 360 hanging around by Klein, we've all seen what he'll do with electronics to people. A lot of genital based violence in this match including a hammer with a phallus as the hard part. Cannonball saves Tremont from getting crushed by a cinderblock by having a cinderblock duel with Klein and Cannonball repays him by hitting a splash with a bundle of lighttubes for the win. Just a crazy brawl between these three guys which is what you're going to get when fans bring the weapons. Lots of bats of some kind and they go hard with those weapons and leave a nice mess in the ring. They show some decent restraint in this match to not overshadow the tournament matches since it's just fun to see Toby Klein back in CZW.
6/10
Jimmy Lloyd vs. RSP
RSP levels up hi stossing suplex by throwing Lloyd through a glass pane this time and Lloyd is busted wide open early in the match. One Irish whip into the barbed wire ropes takes them all out and RSP goes down to the ground CZW should know you can't just put three lines of barbedwire across the posts you got to cross it and use several strands per rope. Lloyd has unwisely taken all the damage to his head so he has a full crimson mask where RSP keeps breaking glass with his back and is nowhere near as bloody. Lloyd brings out a weedwhacker and as that keeps RSP down he sets up a big table contraption since they have scaffolding right next to the ring. It's impressive how smoothly RSP hits the lighttube assisted chokebreaker every time this tournament. Lloyd finishes his table pyramid construction then climbs up the scaffolding and tells RSP to come up with him. Lloyd hits the DVD off the scaffolding through the glass and board and lighttubes and gets the three count. A good main even and finish to the tournament, although it did have a little bit too much setting up stuff and being down forever by RSP. All the wrestling they did was good and smooth though. The scaffolding brawl before the big spot is overdone, but its fine and the spot after that looks awesome so its worth it. This match went for a good time and just looked good and you can't go wrong with RSP getting whipped through a glass pane wall.
8/10
Overall this is definitely a show worth checking out. It's probably for the best it didn't keep raining, but wrestling outside in the rain looks cool as hell and would have been cool, but its dangerous enough doing deathmatches so no need to make everything slippery as well. The worst part of this review is having to acknowledge that Rickey Shane Page was the highlight of this tournament. His matches were the best and he does a great job of making his opponents look good, even while he maintains dominance in the match. Some crazy bumps throughout the show and some crazy spots made even the worst match on this show worth checking out.
