Pro Wrestling Chaos are a company who run shows down in the Bristol area, and have a roster that features quite a few of my favourite British wrestlers. Seeing as how I live a good 2 hours+ from Bristol, I decided the easiest way to check them out would be by DVD instead. This show is based around a four-man tournament to crown the King of Chaos champion, and is a really fun show from start to finish.
JD Knight vs Dave Mercy
This is the first semi-final tournament match. Given that I've only seen him before as an amusingly perverted heel, the one thing I wasn’t expecting is to see Dave Mercy as a
fired-up, white-meat babyface. It really suits him too, he looked really good
at working over Knight in the early going. Knight takes over after snapping
Mercy’s neck over the top rope and starts grounding Mercy. His covers looks
pretty nonchalant, which allows Mercy to make a comeback with a flurry of blows and a
swank looking Northern Lights suplex. Knight hits a chokebomb, which only gets
two, and he seems frustrated at this, going outside to grab the ringbell. The
ref stops him, but it turns out to be a distraction, as Knight instead nailed
Mercy with a wrench from his tights to get the win. Or so it seemed, as the ref
raises his hand before he has a chance to hide the wrench, which leads to it’s
discovery. The ref restarts the match, and Mercy hits a quick RKO to win. Fun
opener.
Mike Bird vs Wild Boar
I really like both guys, so I had high expectations for this
one. Boar is working face here, and it’s nice to see that he’s still plenty
vicious on the mat in this role, working the fingers of Bird. I liked Boar’s
punches in the corner, pummelling Bird to the ground, then picking him up to
deliver more punches. There was a lovely little sequence to change the
momentum, as Bird avoids a charge, and rolls Boar up with a schoolboy, then
hits a double-stomp right away. Bird starts slapping Boar around the head,
which seems a foolish thing to do to rile up his opponent, but then he
brilliantly follows it up by running the ropes at the same time as Boar to hit
a big clothesline from the side, which looked great. Boar’s corner senton looks
great as ever, but Bird picks up the win with another big clothesline and a
cradle piledriver. Really great match.
Dick Morgan, Alex Steele & Eddie Dennis vs The Doomsday
Killers (Gideon, KillBane & Ian Williams)
This starts off as a singles match between Gideon and
Morgan, before Williams attacks Morgan from behind. This leads to Steele and
Dennis making the save and proposing this six-man tag. I quite like the initial
structure of this match where, despite an initial flurry of offence by the
faces, the Doomsday Killers are able to take over following a big Gideon kick
to Morgan, capitalising on his still being groggy from the pre-match assault. I
thought Gideon looked terrific in this match, with just nasty, vicious looking
blows that looked convincingly painful. I also dug his offence on Steele
following a hot tag, with him holding Steele in a standing chokehold which he
then turned into an overhead butterfly suplex, which looked ace. Things break down
after another hot tag to Dennis, and things get a little sloppy until they head
to a hot end sequence. A big series of dives by Steele, Williams and Gideon
culminates in a big flip dive by Dennis. The action returns to the ring with a
series of moves, before Morgan finishes Williams off with a Northern Lights
suplex, which he rolls through with into a brainbuster. Decent match, really
made me want to see more of Gideon.
Big Grizzly vs Rampage Brown
The box has this match down as “Steve Griffiths vs Rampage
Brown”, but it wasn’t until I got to the menu screen that I realised “Steve
Griffith” is blog favourite Big Grizzly, and this became a match I was super
excited to see. This was a really good big man bout, with a fun story. Rampage
Brown is a big bruiser of a man, but for once he’s out-sized by his opponent.
Rampage tries a couple of shoulderblocks without shifting Grizzly, and Grizzly
meets him with a running knee as he hits the ropes for the third try. They
trade some big blows on the outside of the ring, and back inside Rampage tries
to pick up Grizzly onto his shoulders with no joy. This is teased a few times
in the match, and I like that, strong as Rampage is, he isn’t able to just lift
Grizzly on the first try. Grizzly can move for a guy his size, and I really
like the way that he uses this size as a weapon, smashing into Rampage like a
demolition ball with a running shoulderblock. Grizzly gets a two count off a
big sideslam, before Rampage hits a big lariat and finally hoists Griz onto his
shoulders for a running Samoan drop, which gives him the victory. Loved this.
Chris Masters vs Jeckel
Masters is quite a regular on these shores nowadays, and it’s
fun to see how he matches up with different opponents, and if he works a heel
or face. Here, he was working as a face, which involved him overpowering
Jeckel, until receiving a poke to the eye. He managed to catch Jeckel on a
pescado attempt, but ended up getting rammed into the ring post. Jeckel looks
to be a decent size, just not as big as Masters, so it made sense for him to
use these little shortcuts. Jeckel heeled it up a storm when in control, with
chokes and boot scrapes to wear down Masters. Jeckel gets a bit too over
confident and spends ages going for a top rope legdrop, which he somewhat
inevitably misses, and Masters gets him with a lovely Sky High powerbomb. Masters
locks in the Masterlock, but Jeckel pulls the ref to him to hide him giving
Masters a low blow, which allows Jeckel to pick up the cheap roll up victory. This
was fun.
Mike Bird vs Dave Mercy
This is the final of the King of Chaos title tournament, and
the other wrestlers comes out onto the stage to watch the match, which is a
nice touch. I liked Bird pre-bell trying to wind up Mercy and get under his
skin, which leads to Mercy attacking him with a flourish at the bell. They
brawl outside the ring and through the
crowd to the stage, before getting back to the ring, where Mercy misses a top
rope splash. Bird takes over, and hits a really cool looking running legdrop in
the corner. Mercy tries firing back with some really great looking punches, but
telegraphs one which gives Bird time to block it. Bird misses a top rope
moonsault, giving Mercy enough time to get his second wind, hitting a Northern
Lights suplex and a Michinoku Driver for two. Bird is able to hit a fucking
Dragon suplex on Mercy, which sends him from the ring, and Bird follows him out
with two suicide dives onto the dazed Mercy. Bird is fully in the ascendancy here, but is caught
diving into the ring by a RKO from Mercy, and only getting his foot on the
ropes prevents Bird getting pinned. They battle on the top rope, and Bird tries
for a top rope cradle piledriver (which it really looked like he was going to
hit) before Mercy breaks free. This does lead to a really great end sequence.
They fight on the ring apron, and Bird DOES get to hit the cradle piledriver on
the ring apron. Mercy is pretty much out, but does just about get back into the
ring before the 10 count…only for Bird to immediately hit another cradle piledriver
for the clean victory. Really loved this,
both guys managed to look stronger coming out than going in, which is
surely the aim of matches like this.
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