Mattick vs J George vs Isys Ephex vs Jeremy Jensen vs Vinnie
Moon
Enjoyable scramble opener. Of all these guys, I’d only seen
JGeorge previously, so there was a lot of talent to try and get a measure of
and quickly. Mattick felt like the standout here, firstly in his double teaming
with stablemate Jensen where he gets armdragged by his partner onto Ephex in
the corner, then by hitting an awesome tope con hilo to the floor that belied
his look. This kicks off a dive series, though this is by far the most
impressive looking dive. JGeorge in particular has some low elevation
highflying throughout. Ephex has some wimpy looking kicks, but makes up for it
with a killer flipping driver on Moon. Mattick continues to win my heart by
uppercutting Moon viciously as he goes to the top , hits a running fireman’s
carry to the corner sending Moon headfirst to the turnbuckle, before finishing
the run with a cradle neckbreaker. It almost feels like a let down when JGeorge
kicks him in the head to win, but this managed to keep the action going for it’s
entire running time and is never less than fun.
Nick Sullivan vs Icon Ace
Sullivan is a big beast of a guy, who is managed by Felicia
Rose (better known as the lady who held up that sign offering oral pleasure to
Finn Balor), and before Ace comes out, we have an open challenge with Sullivan
killing two skinny jobbers. Ace is the third person to answer the challenge,
and offers a bit more resistance. Not much resistance, as Sullivan catches him
with a slick looking belly to belly that just whips Ace over. Ace manages to
hit his finish, a second rope enzuigiri, but Sullivan mauls him with a bear
attack and hits the Big Ending for the win. Definitely made me want to see more
of Sullivan.
Nick Ando vs Orange Cassidy
This veers just a little too close to goofy bullshit comedy
for my liking. Cassidy is working an apathetic gimmick, and this means he does
some slo mo wrestling. I don’t totally hate it, as Ando doesn’t play along and
at times they play it off as Cassidy playing mind games with Ando, as he’ll
suddenly turn it up a notch and look like a competitive wrestler. The side
effect of this is that Ando looks like an idiot when Cassidy goes into the
apathy schtick again and basically offers a competent wrestler an open shot.
Ando has some nice offence, decent rana into the corner and a good flipping
senton into the ring. I’ll admit, I chuckled when Cassidy went up top and
called for a 450 splash, only to do a belly flop splash instead. They go
through a series of roll ups and legsweeps, and Ando gets the win. With a
legsweep. There were good moments here, but I didn’t love this.
To Infinity And Beyond (Cheech & Colin Delaney) vs
Killer Instinct (Jacoby Riddick & Mike Skyros)
Good main event here, just a solid bit of tag wrestling.
Killer Instinct jump the faces before the bell, but end up outsmarted by the
veterans, who nail them with a double team dive as a full stop. Delaney hits a
nice little combo of strikes in the corner, before getting worked over after a
distraction on the top rope. Really liked the heels backstabber/tope atomico
combo, looked really painful. Jacoby loses me with a really shitty over-the-top
sell of a Stundog Millionaire by Delaney. Cheech looks great on the hot tag,
hitting a step up rana then a great stunner into a German suplex with his
partner. Things break down, Killer Instinct hit a nice ace crusher from a Gory
bomb, just to show the faces don’t have the monopoly on nice combo moves. The
end comes from another great double team by Cheech and Delaney, as Delaney hits
a lungblower on Skyros, then holds him in place to allow Cheech to powerbomb
Jacoby from the top onto his partner which is enough for the pin. Just really
enjoyable.
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