Scott Grimm vs Local Jobber 2
At Clusterfuck II, Grimm took on Local Jobber and pretty
much destroyed him in minutes. Local Jobber#2 tries to learn from this and
attacks Grimm from the bell and gets caught in a Black Hole Slam. A quick
splash finishes it for Grimm. Not a good night for the local lad
Scott Grimm vs Dave Mastiff
Mastiff was due to face Wild Boar on the show, but injury
put paid to that. Instead, Mastiff
decides he wants a piece of Grimm. This match is just two massive dudes whaling
away on each other, with a few choice power moves for good measure. Loved
Mastiff getting Grimm up for a rolling fireman’s carry, whilst Grimm’s
belly-to-belly suplex on Mastiff was also impressive. After trading nearfalls,
they managed to both get disqualified as the referee lost control. The pair had
to be separated at the end (including the help of Local Jobber #2, still
selling injuries)
Terry Seddon vs Sebastian Radclaw
Seddon is Triple X’s resident zombie slayer, primarily due
to his physical resemblance to Simon Pegg. Here, he took a break from the
undead to take on Radclaw, an interesting character who seemed to be talking to
voices in his head. Radclaw looked good, I’d never seen him before, but he was
a lot of fun and should fit in well in the Triple X universe. He even managed
to get a chant going for his late Uncle Eggbert (who apparently told him to
never lose a fight to a ginger man). Midway through, Professot Lex emerged with
a zombie for Seddon to fight with, before Radclaw flew over the top rope to
take out all three men. Back inside, Seddon finished Radclaw with a big boot
and legdrop. Goofy fun
Zack Sabre Jr vs Mark Andrews
This match was awesome. ZSJ was positioned as the more
experienced, dominant wrestler here, totally schooling Mandrews on the mat and
kicking the shit out of him to prevent any kind of comeback. Andrews was great
in the underdog role, and used his speed and ariel skills to get some nearfalls
on Zack. Everything ZSJ looked great, with his matwork looking like it was
killing Andrews, tying him up in knots. I also liked the focus on wanting
Andrews to tap-out, following a killer looking cradle Tombstone with another
submission focused on the neck. Eventually, Sabre does get the tapout after
Andrews misses a 450 splash, but both guys looked immense here.
The Henchmen (Benton Destruction & Jim Diehard) vs Slap
Dash Tag Team (Chris Brookes & Tyler Bate)
The Henchmen are fucking brilliant. The “80’s legends” are
massive, massive men and totally outweighed the Slap Dash Tag Team. Bate in
particular was tiny compared to the man mountains. This was a well-worked tag
match, where the in-ring action was as successful as the comedy. Brookes and
Bate used their speed to initially worked over Destruction, but Bate was soon
isolated and worked over as face-in-peril. The Henchmen cut off the ring
nicely, and a hot tag was denied by the ref, who didn’t see it following a
distraction by Destruction (who literally stood on the apron yelling “I’m
causing a distraction”).The Henchmen can move for big guys and looked awesome
in domination. The hot tag saw Brookes on fire, until he got caught outside by
Destruction, who threw powder into his eyes. In the ring, a recovered Bate hit
an amazing deadlift German suplex on Diehard, but was soon outmanned and nailed
with the Five Moves of Doom for the Hench win. A victory that was soon to turn
sour when Diehard found out about the powder in the eyes, which was the “payoff
from Tijuana”. Really fun tag match.
Damian Dunne vs Lee Hunter
Clusterfuck saw the Hunters lose to Damian and his brother
Pete. With Pete in Japan, we got this singles encounter this month. The main
story of the match saw the Hunters constantly swapping place in the ring,
swapping a hoodie to indicate to the referee which Hunter should be in the
match. The Hunters played up to this brilliantly, highlighted by one Hunter
stalking around the ring, hoodie on inside out, crowing “This is too easy”.
Though good faces, the Hunters are way better as heels. The match itself was
really good, with Damian timing his comebacks nicely. Eventually, Damian got
hold of the hoodie and put it on outside the ring, prompting the unsuspecting
in-ring Hunter to to try an enlist his help, only to get a pummelling instead.
Dunne eventually won a fine match with a springboard Codebreaker
Eddie Dennis vs Majik
This was for Majik’s XXX title. Dennis really impressed in
an nXXXt match (you cna guess what this is) at the last show and he looked good
again here. He’s blessed with a quick wit which allows him to keep up with the
comments from the crowd, which was useful to win them over in only his second
match in front of this audience. In particular, I liked him joining forces with
the crowd to highlight that Majik can’t spell his own name (with Majik stooging
magnificently by covering the name on his tights). This was a good main event,
with both guys brawling all over the SQ Club and into the crowd. Majik gave
Dennis a lot here, only surviving a powerbomb when manager Gabriel Grey stuck
his foot on the rope. At one point, Majik threw Dennis into his rival Devilman,
who was selling merch outside the ring. The end saw Dennis try another
powerbomb, but get distracted by Grey, leading to a Majik lowblow and a roll up
to maintain. A Majik post-match assault was thwarted by Devilman making the
save. All in all, a terrific night of wrestling
