Tournament of Survival 8

Ciclope vs. Green Phantom vs. Miedo Extremo

Match starts off with Los Macizos teaming up for a short bit at the beginning to take Phantom out and then they start fighting each other. Well it actually starts with the ref nearly falling backwards into a pane of glass after calling for the bell which would have been hilarious.They go right into breaking lighttubes on each other. Extremo hits a very nice looking tiger driver into a cross armbreaker on a bundle of lighttubes on Ciclope which gets broken up and I'm pretty sure he reinjures his shoulder thats all taped up as he goes to the back when he hits Phantom with a chair and then can't hold him up for a DVD. Ciclope takes control of the match and hits a senton onto a pane of glass over top of Phantom and then hits a DVD off the apron through a table which they just barely hit. Ciclope gets Phantom back in the ring, covers him with a pane of glass then does the Eddie Guerrero shoulder shimmy before hitting a frog splash onto Phatom for the three count.

A very rewatchable match that is pretty much all hardcore moves, but doesn't have the problem of feeling like it doesn't escalate. There's nothing that feels too big too early in the match and Phantom does more than I wrote in the overview, but a lot of people in their first tournament appearance do have to impress by taking a beating. It's funny to see him in their as a tall muscular guy against the short, stockier Macizos. Macizos love throwing tubes, but their always a little sloppy about catching them which makes those spots look a little awkward. 6/10

Joey Janela vs. Tomoya Hirata vs. Toru Sugiura

Tomoya and Toru toss Janela and start with some normal wrestling, but Janela recovers and comes back in with lighttubes to both men and then puts a bundle down and tries to knock Tomoya down with a clothesline. Tomoya resists then toss the bundle to Janela and lariats the tubes into Janela's chest. Tomoya actually has a pretty good crimson mask going which doesn't always happen when you're relying on the weapons and not blading. Tomoya and Toru both hit dives tot he outside and Toru takes a phone from a fan and pretends to make a call. Janela catches Toru as he's trying to get in the ring and hits a DVD on the apron. All three men get back in the ring and exchange strikes and lighttubes and there are several times where it looks like the ref is going to inadvertently take a tube to the head. Joey sets up a barbed wire door across some chairs and a lighttube cabin next to it then goes for a superplex on Toru, but Tomoya comes in and powerbombs him down. Janela gets barbed wire stuck in his hair so they cut the barbed wire off the board and he's got a crown of barbed wire the rest of the match. Tomoya and Toru exchange some big power moves most impressively Toru picking Tomoya up for a one handed powerbomb that he gets him up high for. Janela hits a package piledriver on Toru then puts a lighttube cabin on top of him and then a chair on top of that and hits a brutal top rope double stomp which looks amazing and brutal. Tomoya hits Janela with a lighttue fan and then military presses him through the other barbed wire table. Toru comes back in and breaks a lighttube over Tomoya's head then hits a headlock take over to get the three count.

This match was very good. Like the previous they do crazy shit the whole time, but they escalate it well and the headlock takeover finish is kind of anti-climatic I do like when deathmatches are insane, but it comes down to just wrestling to determine who wins. Plus when everybody's all fucked up grabbing a pin like that seems quite believable. Janela looks insane walking to the back after the match with a tooth missing and the barbed wire stuck in his hair. Everybody looked great in this match. Tons of cool stuff and they do good wrestling while also using lighttubes and barbed wire. 8/10

El Desperado vs. John Wayne Murdoch vs. Matt Tremont

Tremont fires the crowd up as the three men meet up and just start exchange forearms. Tremont hits a punch to both competitors sending them to the corner then tosses Murdoch a bundle and splashes him in the corner, then he tosses a bundle to Desperado and charges, but Desperado runs out and meets him with a crossbody block. Murdoch and Tremont brawl on the outside and Desperado hits a beautiful tope con hilo through the ropes. Desperado takes Tremont into the ring and hits a belly to back suplex on him then Murdoch comes in and rips Desperado's mask then Tremont and Murdoch team up to cut his forehead with tubes and rip the mask open further. They start brawling on the outside and Murdoch takes Desperado around the ring with a side headlock driving the broken lighttubes into his face to show all the fans. The three men meet in the middle of the ring with on their knees with lighttubes and start exchanging them until the ring is nice and smoky looking. Tremont and Murdoch brawl on the outside and Desperado hits Tremont with a lariat that sends him into the barbed wire spidernet that collapses under his weight and falls into the fans before they lift it up, move and set it down on the floor. Desperado hits Murdoch with a big powerbomb variation onto the cut can board. Desperado pulls the other can covered board into the middle of the ring and Murdoch surprises him with a brainbuster onto the board. Murdoch sets up two chairs and puts a pane of glass on top then pulls Desperado to his feet and the two men brawl on the ropes. Murdoch hits a headbutt then hits the Destroyer through the pane of glass for the three count.

This is a good match, although it does have some of of the deathmatch things that I dislike that make it seem too fake. It's still good and it's always fun to watch one of these with a guy who is just a really good wrestler who wants to try deathmatch stuff. Everything Desperado hits is crisp as fuck and there's a shot of him pulling himself up in the corner with his mask ripped where he looks badass as hell. A bunch of good stuff in this match and you can't argue with a barbedwire spiderweb bump. I hate that Murdoch uses a top rope Destroyer for a finisher though. 7/10

Rina Yamashita vs. Kasey Kirk vs. Sawyer Wreck

Sawyer overpowers both of her competitors in a three way lockup so they team up against her. Rina and Kasey take turns breaking lighttubes over Sawyer's head but Sawyer fires up and hits Rina with a spinning back kick from so far away because of her long legs which looks cool. Sawyer puts Kasey into a Guerrero special then puts Rina in a boston crab as well. Sawyer and Rina exchange a couple of lighttube shots then Rina breaks one over her own head and digs into the forehead of Sawyer. Kasey shows back up in the match and brings a chair with her to take the advantage and hits a piledriver on Rina onto the chair. Rina kicks out of a cover attempt and then counters Kasey's attempt at another pilderiver with a suplex onto the chair. We get to what starts out as my least favorite moment of the match where everybody stands around as they all grab gusset plates and pound them into their own foreheads, but then they start exchanging foreheads which kind of fixes it. Rina breaks up a pinfall from Sawyer with a double stomp off the top then goes for some rollups, but it kind of stymied by how tall Sawyer is so they look pretty rough. Kasey and Rina end up on the apron and drag Sawyer out with them. Sawyer fights back and shoves both women off the apron by the throat through the pane of glass on the floor. Back in the ring Kasey hits a crossbody with a chair with lighttubes attached and then Rina hits the weakest strong zero on Sawyer for a two count. Rin puts Sawyer on the top rope and hits the splash mountain onto some chairs and Kasey breaks of the fall. Rina puts a bundle of lighttubes across Sawyer's chest and then hits splash mountain on Kasey through the lighttubes and then pins both women.

This match had a lot of awkward moments in it and was definitely the weakest of the opening round matches. It had by far my least favorite deathmatch trope of people doing damage to themselves with weapons. Sawyer also made the mistake of wearing white gear to show how bloody she got, and then doesn't get that much blood on her gear, which seems to not be her fault considering how many lighttube attacks she takes. There are some good bumps in the match at least so it's got that going for it. 4/10

Alec Price vs. Gringo Loco vs. Blake Christian vs. Jack Cartwheel

We start with everybody playing to the crowd and then everybody doing a cartwheel until we get to Blake who flips the crowd off instead. Jack goes to do another cartwheel and Blake superkicks him halfway through. Jack reminds me a lot of Matt Cross, but a little too focused on the acrobatics he can do to the detriment of the match. A lot of back and forth before Blake takes control of the match and works over Alec in the ring and keeps the other two men on the outside. Price makes a comeback and hits a top rope legdrop to a standing Blake then just leaps the top rope onto the other two on the outside. Jack hits some nice acrobatic moves including a big dive, but he gets back in the ring and Alec dodges a move from the top and Gringo hits a sitout piledriver. Gringo goes to the top rope, but Jack stops him first, but Gringo fights back and shoves him off the top and hitting th ropes on the way down. Alec goes to the corner and hits a hurrincanrana on Gringo taking him to the mat. Gringo hits the base bomb on Jack, but Blake hits a kick on Gringo and steals the cover and the three count.

These scramble matches are hard to care about since they seem so pointless and especially since they all end by somebody hitting a big move and then Blake Christian stealing the pinfall. This one is pretty good because nobody tried for something they're not capable of doing which helps a lot. 5/10

John Wayne Murdoch vs. Ciclope

We get a bunch of lighttubes breaking early and then some rollup attempts that can only get two. Murdoch sets a pane of glass up in the corner and then grabs the weedwhacker, but Ciclope dodges it and hits a lowblow then takes it to the midsection of Murdoch. Murdoch is seated on the apron and Ciclope puts a bundle of lighttubes on his chest then hits a big crossbody that sends both men down to the floor. Ciclope then stomps a lighttube right on the face of Murdoch. Ciclope gets some chairs and sets the barbed wire door across them. They fight on the top rope and Murdoch steals Ciclope's headphones and hits a destroyer through the barbed wire door, but Ciclope gets right up. Murdoch hits a running knee that sends Ciclope throught the pane of glass, but kicks out at two. Murdoch holds onto Ciclope and rolls him backwards into a leg choke to get the submission.

A solid fast paced match, although the impact of the weed whacker is hurt by the fact that Murdoch wears a shirt. Not a big fan of no selling the destroyer off the top. I do like seeing submissions in deathmatch tournaments though so that's nice. It was fine. 5/10

Rina Yamashita vs. Toru Sugiura

We start off with them crashing into each other with lighttubes and then exchanging some furious forearms. Rina hits Toru with some lighttubes then sets up a board with lighttubes in the corner then to weaken him stabs him with a lighttube and then starts biting him. Toru countes an Irish whip to the corner and hits a suplex through the board and lighttubes. The crowd is loudly behind Rina and consquently booing Toru a lot and he plays right into it. Rina counters a powerbomb getting back to her feet and lifts Toru up for an air raid crash and runs him into the bundle of lighttubes hanging in the corner. Toru counters a suplex attempt so Rina gets the testicular claw then lariats him down for a two count. She then breaks some lighttubes over his dick with some chairs. Rina goes up top for a splash, but Toru throws a chair to hit her in the face then jumps up and superplexes her. Toru follows up with a fisherman buster for a two count. Toru puts the lihgttubes to the side of Rina's head to kick them, but Rina dodges out of the way and smashes them over his head then hits another weak strong zero for a one count. She follows that up with a low blow and a straight jacket german suplex for a long two count. Rina then hits splash mountain to Toru through the lighttube covered board for a three count.

A really good back and forth deathmatch between these two. It also helps to setup Rina as an underdog in the finals with them really wrecking each other. Really enjoyed this one between the two as they go hard and work what would be a good match even without the weapons, although they definitely help make the match seem way more epic. 8/10

Rina Yamashita vs. John Wayne Murdoch

We start with a test of strength like there isn't a scaffolding next to the ring and lighttubes over all the ropes. Rina gets a wristlock and whips Murdoch, but he puts on the brakes. Murdoch whips Rina into the ropes and she bounces off with a dropkick then grabs a broken tube and cuts his forehead. Rina goes for a powerslam onto tubes, but Murdoch counters and hits his own powerslam and then like a psycho tries to cut her throat with the broken tube. Murdoch piles up a bunch if tubes, but Rina counters the suplex and sends him through the tubes, she picks him back up and hits a german suplex for a two count. Rina mounts Murdoch and starts punching, but he grabs a lighttube and breaks it over her head. Murdoch gets some tubes and piledrives her through them and gets a two count. Murdoch starts grabbing tubes and smashing them over Rina nearly twenty of them probably then goes for a pin and gets a two count. Murdoch sets up some chairs and brings in a pane of glass to set over top of them with Rina underneath it and he starts climbing the scaffolding. Rina fires up and breaks a tube over her own head before climbing up after him. Murdoch sets up for the Destroyer, but Rina gets the testicular claw then tosses him off the scaffolding through the glass. She follows up with a splash off the scaffolding for a one count. Rina piles up the rest of the tubes and chairs then pushes Murdoch up the ropes and hits splash mountain onto the pile of weapons for the three count.

This match has some really great moments and some that don't hit as hard for me. Rina takes a good beating in the early part since she had the tougher semi-final, but it doesn't play into the match as much as it probably should. Loved when Murdoch going nuts with the lighttubes though, that will always rule. The struggle on the scaffolding was a pretty short and the toss off the scaffolding is shot in a way where it is too obvious that Murdoch is just jumping off himself. The kicking out at one was unnecessary, but nothing match breaking. 7/10

After the match Hirata and Sugiura come down seemingly to celebrate with their fellow Freedoms competitor, but they attack Murdoch after the match and then Yamashita. Jun Kasai runs down in a mask pretending to save her and then hits her with a piledriver before Nick Gage leads the locker room down to the ring to make the save.

Overall it was a really good show. There are only two clunkers of matches and even those were easy to watch. A lot of crazy shit happened in the show and it was just an easy to watch show. They did a good job of cleaning up between the matches pretty quickly, and it helped they had highlight videos for the people who were going into the Deathmatch Hall of Fame later that night to fill that time. Rina gets the win and looks good throughout the whole show which is always helpful when you're going to win the tournament. Toru Sugiura was the standout of the show being in the two best matches. 

Wrestlemania Weekend

 

Even as I've grown more and more detached from WWE's product I still get excited for Wrestlemania weekend. Even with all the shitty business practices they embrace and how terrible of a person Vince McMahon is it doesn't matter. A life's worth of memories of getting together with friends and family to watch Wrestlemania is just a thing that sticks with you. No matter how bad the year of wrestling has been Mania always offers the promise of great action and huge moments. And I can't discount the excitement I get toward all the indie shows that take place that weekend as well. It's just a four day bacchanalia of wrestling where there is always something to watch. Covid ruined my plans to go to Tampa for Mania in 2020, but I'll make it to a mania weekend in person live, but watching the shows even at home is still a good time.

Some years how hardcore I go with watching everything waxes and wanes. I remember the WWN days and trusting their pretty terrible streaming services, at least with GCW on Fite the only thing I really have to worry about is their bad audio. I do miss out on watching with people live after moving to Florida away from all my friends, but live tweeting with people helps to provide some of the same feeling at least. My favorite photo with my brothers is us outside in the snow grilling during mania with me in shorts and rocking wrestling shirts. We also got some kegs because my cousin worked at a beer distributor, but it was so cold that it broke the taps in them and kind of wasted most of the beer until we drank it flat. It was still a good time.

This year I'm thankful for Fite+ so I don't have to spend a fortune to get all of the shows and there's only a few outliers to spend extra on. I started the weekend of wrestling off with Bloodsport 9 which featured the long awaited return of Kota Ibushi to the ring after injury in a phenomenal match with Mike Bailey. Bloodsport just offers a fun and different style of wrestling, but one I really enjoy as a fan of MMA as well. It's fun to see the wrestlers modify their style to fit that especially high flyers like those two and Johnny Bloodsport who delved the most into pro wrestling style with his match against Royce which I really enjoyed. There were a few weak matches, but overall a really good show that wrapped up in under two and a half hours and ended with a good main event that saw Timothy Thatcher get the submission victory over Barnett.

I'm watching the DDT show as I speak and it's been a fun show. I vaguely know most of the DDT regulars through my friends who love the promotion and clips I see of people and of course it's got some US based wrestlers I know which helps as well. Joey Janela and Tetsuya Endo had a really good match against each other. Plus the highlight that is happening as I type this is Eddie Kingston getting to team up with Jun Akiyama. And of course I got to see Yoshihiko in action as well.

For upcoming shows Joey Janela's Spring Break should be fun, they always are, RoH Supercard of Honor is a ridiculously stacked card that should be amazing and could be the show of the weekend, and Gringo Loco's the Wrld on Lucha show should be good as well.

And of course there is Wrestlemania itself which looks like a very good show. I'm disappointed they are doing two nights, but if you can fill a 70,000 seat stadium two nights in a row of course you're going to do it and get more money. It looks like we're going to finally see the Bloodline unseated from all of the titles which should provide awesome moments for both nights. Trish and Lita returning to action with Becky against Damage CTRL looks like it should be a really fun match that is one I'm really looking forward to. The feud for Bianca vs. Asuka hasn't been very hot, but both women are great in the ring so it should be a great match.

It's just a magical time in wrestling that happens once a year and no matter what kind of wrestling you like there's something for you to like and people who are ready to experience it and share their experiences with you.

Let There be Blood

 

As often happens around an AEW PPV some members of the wrestling 'press' blurted out their hot takes about wrestling and specifically about the level of blood and violence. It's fine not to like blood in wrestling, everybody likes different things, but often they spout off with an ignorance of the history of wrestling beyond what WWE has written it to be for the past twenty years. Which is fine for just a viewer of wrestling to feel, I don't need everybody to know the lineage of wrestling back to when it started, but if you're writing about wrestling you can't respond to tweets about nobody knows who Abdullah the Butcher is when he wrestled on WCW ppvs and at some point was in every wrestling territory that existed. But more than that it's the idea that blood can't add anything to a match.

I'm a proponent of blood in wrestling and think it always makes every match more visceral when it happens, but I understand why people want to limit it to big matches. Sometimes in AEW the blowoff match happens on tv when the whole feud has been on their youtube shows so it seems like a nothing match like when Dustin Rhodes and QT Marshall took on Butcher and Blade in a bunkhouse brawl. For the most part if you want to avoid bloody matches in AEW it's easy to tell when it's going to happen. Any hardcore gimmick match is going to have some blood and any Moxley match as well.

For me the biggest benefit is emphasizing the story of an underdog trying to overcome the bigger or more experienced wrestler. They're already at a disadvantage and now they've got one more thing working against them. It's a great visual indicator of their stamina being drained by the length of the match and them fighting against the loss of blood and energy.

Another factor is it makes the violence seem more real and reflects all the other combat sports. At a certain point I know if you're taking elbows to the face you're going to get busted open because it happens in MMA when somebody is being elbowed. This especially extends to any match with hardcore elements. When you smash a chair into somebody's face or send them face first into a ringpost there's a good chance skin would yield to the metal surface. Obviously wrestling involves a suspension of disbelief, but at a certain point blood would just happen, it's my main problem with cage matches and especially wargames in WWE.

And lastly, and most subjectively, it looks cool as hell. Behind Hogan slamming Andre the most iconic moment in wrestling is Stone Cold bleeding while in a sharpshooter from Bret Hart refusing to tap out. Nia Jax accidentally breaking Becky Lynch's nose and her bleeding while she continued fighting in the ring and into the stands made her the biggest star WWE had and that was accidental. And not just in matches, cutting promos after bleeding in a match was done well by Ric Flair after his Wrestlemania match with Savage, and probably other times and especially by Moxley leading up to the Revolution PPV.

As for the specifics on this AEW show the build to Moxley vs. Hangman had left no doubt that it was going to be a bloody affair with barbedwire used throughout. And to be honest until Moxley bladed the second time there wasn't that much blood throughout this match as there is in many other deathmatches and AEW is much smarter about barbed wire tables and doesn't put so much on the table that it takes minutes to cut a guy out of the barbed wire to continue the match, although the chair had enough barbed wire on it to rip out a bunch of Hangman's hair.

In the main event both Danielson and MJF bled and MJF cut quite a gusher on himself after a flying headbutt from Danielson. MJF definitely bled a lot in the final quarter of the match, but as much or even more than the previous match it really added to the toll that an hour long wrestling match takes on somebody. MJF's cardio was already being questioned and was a big aspect of the story of the match so him losing blood at this point just added to it. The final minute when he's bleeding in a single leg crab from Danielson shows him standing strong in the face of Danielson's overwhelming cardio and technical ability.

In summary blood is great in wrestling. It may not be for everybody, but it's for me and that's one of the things I appreciate the most about AEW. If you don't like blood, you know it's going to happen in AEW so just don't watch it and don't complain about seeing it on their ppvs. And you can complain about it as a wrestling journalist if you don't like it, but making ahistorical arguments that forget there was wrestling before WWE banned blood is a ridiculous way to make your argument.

No Peace Underground: Samsara

Like one of my favorite concerts there were a lot of technical issues and the show started late, but by the end everything was so good that the delays didn't matter. Doors opened when the show was supposed to start at six, but they got us in pretty quickly and the venue was nicely setup and I got a spot right behind the front row of seats with a post to lean against. I had a great view for all of the matches and had a great time. I'd love to give a more exact thought of all the matches, but that's hard to do without rewatching the show, so it will mostly be vague ideas of the matches and how much the live experience helped.

Starting off with the two non-hardcore matches was definitely the right call and both were good matches, and after being used to a local indie with no big names it really set the night off on the right foot with Mathers and Treehouse both hitting dives and some big spots on each other. Treehouse's spinning legdrop off the top looked brutal as he fully landed on Mather's chest. A great opener that really set the tone for the show. Alex Kane vs Robert Martyr was cool because I'm a big Kane fan and he really got to dominate the match especially after winning by stoppage after an exploder into the corner.

After that we got to move onto the hardcore matches and what I was really looking forward to the show for. My local indie had Kelsey Raegan hit Zack Monstar with barbecue skewers to the forehead, but other than that it's been mostly WWE tv style hardcore matches. So the presence of lighttubes in all corners of the ring had me hyped. The first time a lighttube was broken I missed seeing it as it was a scramble match with brawling happening everywhere, but the sound is very intense in person. It wasn't too important in this match, but thankfully I was next to a post and when glass was getting broken in my direction I could duck behind it. The rest of the show was just a bunch of great moments of deathmatch wrestling with some good wrestling mixed in and I mostly loved all of it. The one downside of the show was AJ Gray being on the show. I was a big fan of his until all the allegations about him came out which ruined finally getting to see him in person. On the plus side Mad Man Pondo did a bunch of damage to his crotch including having a lighttube bundle kicked in into his dick and Pondo running his sawblade along his taint.

Jimmy Lloyd and Lindsay Snow never really got going as a match before 44OH! Attacked them. They did some fucked up stuff with the gusset plates and tattoo needles, but it just felt like they didn't really plan a match since they knew the run in was happening, which is a bummer, because I'm a big fan of Lindsay Snow. JJ Escobar's open challenge match was just crazy. Alex Xcean got a great reaction and there was a lot of crazy shit in this match. Obviously you can't really top Escobar getting a strip of firecrackers set off on his dick, but Escobar's follower jumping off the ladder in a lawn chair was also pretty crazy.

Best Bros vs. Joey Janela and Jamie Senegal was awesome and the match of the night. Janela seemed offended that this was a No Peace show with a ring and made sure that they never went into the ring for anything. It was hard at times to see what was going on during this match, but the venue didn't have a ton of chairs so it was pretty easy to move around with the match and watch what was going on which was always fun. I was excited to see Mei Suruga in person so the match already had that going for it, and if you think Mei looks small when you've watched her on tv she's even smaller in person. The match was a phenomenal blend of comedy and hardcore wrestling action and it never felt weird going from one to the other. I did mostly pay attention to Mei and Janela's fight as I'm more familiar with both of them, but with a chaotic match like that there were times when Senegal and Akki were right in front of me as well. I think the highlight of the match was from Akki when Best Bros did the tandem run up the wall bulldogs and he put a hole in the wall, which hopefully doesn't get them kicked out of the venue, because it's a nice setup. Janela picking Mei up in a vertical suplex and taking her all the way around the venue, out the back, and in again, before dropping her onto a couch was awesome. While Janela was moving the couches around earlier he almost hit a kid sitting in one of the couches which was pretty funny. Mei and Joey climbing onto the bar and brawling there before Mei knocked him down then jumped off and hit a hurrincanranna was awesome. Akki slammed Senegal on the floor then did a senton off the guardrail onto her and as he got up right in front of me he complained that it was a bad idea and I was thinking that the whole time he was setting that move up. The match ends up on the stage with two doors setup for the finish and the Dolphin Star Press through a table was very cool looking. Janela puts Akki through the other table and gets the three count. I should rewatch this, but in person this match was perfect and one of the best I've ever seen live. Just a fun match with crazy shit happening and it's the reason I spent so many words typing about it.

The main event had a lot to live up to following the craziness of the last match and while it didn't have the unbridled joy of the last match it has 44OH! Who the crowd always hates especially after ruining a match earlier in the night and attacking Marcus Crane's girlfriend. Shlak, Parrow, and Sawyer Wreck would all have the crowd behind them anyway, but the support was definitely amplified for this match. They start off like it's going to be a real six man tag match before 44OH! Hit Wreck with a lighttube from behind after everybody has had some time one on one into the ring and it breaks down into an all out brawl. The action is more frantic and harder to keep track of than the earlier scramble match as the six people in this match are more experienced and are more on top of their game. 44OH! Looked to be about to win until Zachary Wentz ran down and hit Cogar with a DVD off the apron through a glass pane and a door to let Parrow get the advantage and the win. Parrow tries to stand tall, but the lights go off and the Sinister Minister shows up and Su Yung hits the mist on him and Lord Krewe and Otis Cogar attack and put him through a door in the corner. A fun match to end the show and an interesting hook for No Peace going forward.

A very fun show to be at live. After all the action was said and done the late start didn't matter at all. Only one really stand out match, but a lot of fun stuff, although it being my first time seeing so much hardcore and deathmatch stuff live definitely added to the atmosphere. The crowd was super loud the whole time and I'll definitely be back at some point, but I won't be making the trip and hotel stay every show. I am looking forward to the next show on Fite TV though. No Peace Underground isn't the best indie going right now, but it's just got a different energy and might be my favorite one to watch. Very happy they found a new venue to bring their brand of wrestling back. It's worth a trip to check out because there's nothing really like it right now and Orlando has plenty of other stuff for you to build a trip around so you don't have to go somewhere just for wrestling you can build a whole vacation out of it.