Eddie Gilbert & Don Muraco vs JT Smith & Glen
Osbourne
Gilbert really feels like a breath of fresh air in these
shows, as his execution is far crisper and his movement far better than anyone
else in the promotion. Liked a few bits from Muraco here, his slingshot of
Smith that sends Smith throat-first into the bottom rope is pretty good.
Hotstuff International target Smith’s head and throat, with a neckbreaker and a
loaded thumb to the throat from Muraco. Osbourne is tagged in to no reaction,
and hits an admittedly sweet tombstone to Gilbert, but a debuting Paul E
Dangerously clubs him with his phone and Gilbert picks up the pin. This wasn’t
too bad.
Super Destroyers vs Tony Stetson & Larry Winters
The more I watch of Stetson and Winters, the more pronounced
the gulf in ability becomes. Winters looks pretty poor here, stumbling over
when trying to hiptoss a Destroyer, whereas Stetson has some nice touches. Dug
the thrust headbutt to the Destroyer’s arm to continue his team’s basic
armwork, and he gets nice height on a flying forearm. The Destroyers work a
dull heat segment on Winters, including some truly terrible chokes, where the
Destroyer waggles his elbow about in an unconvincing attempt to make it look
like he’s adding more pressure. Stetson is tagged in, but gets caught with a
loaded punch when trying a back suplex, giving the Destroyers the pin.
The Sandman vs Sal Bellomo
This was terrible. Bellomo is a terrible offensive wrestler,
all chokes and wimpy looking stomps. Sandman here has an odd habit of trying
roll ups that only manage to send Bellomo into the ropes. Bellomo locks in a
terrible submission, where I honestly thought he was trying a sloppy pinfall.
Sandman only looks mildly inconvenienced. The end is a special type of
dreadful, as Sandman clotheslines Bellomo from the ring, and Sal decides to
wander about talking to the crowd and gets counted out. An absolutely abysmal
match.
Rockin’ Rebel vs Ernesto Benefico
Very quick squash. Liked the cockiness of Rebel taking
Benefico’s legs out and casually slapping his face. Big elbow drop, powerslam
and a spinebuster wins it for the Rebel
Johnny Hotbody vs Tommy Cairo
This is billed as a grudge match, so of course they give it
less than 5 minutes. Hotbody looks really good in places here, and then
absolutely shocking. Loved how he stumbled into Cairo armdrags, made it look
really natural as if he was being caught unawares. He also hits a lovely diving
elbow from the ring apron to the floor. But then, there’s his superplex.
Honestly, it takes so long to get into place that it feels almost inevitable
that Cairo will reverse it. They go for the move and it looks like Cairo has
reversed to a top rope spinebuster, but no! The commentary, and Cairo’s
selling, tells us that Hotbody did indeed hit his superplex. Absolutely
dreadful. Cairo rolls up Hotbody, ramming his head into an interfering Chris
Candido, and gets the win.
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