Tuna vs Jeremy Jensen
Tuna is a female wrestler, accompanied by manager Anthony
Gaines, a guy with a very smackable face. You really feel like she’s going to
have to change that name if she wasn’t to get anywhere. This felt like a competently
worked rookie match. I don’t know how experienced either of these two are, but
both felt like they knew what they were doing, whilst also both lacking the
refinement that comes with experience. Aside from an early roll up, nothing is
fluffed, but there’s a slight hesitancy throughout from Tuna. There’s also
hesitancy from Jensen, but this is part of the storyline, where it seems like
he doesn’t want to hit a female wrestler who has no problems hitting him. They
work some early mat stuff before she surprises him with a big forearm, and
maintains control from there. When Jensen does get on offence, his clothesline
and back elbow are (deliberately) super light. However, just as he decides to
fire up, Tuna hits him with a rolling elbow and a Samoan Drop to get the win.
Colin Delaney vs Orange Cassidy
Far more experience here, both guys looked super comfortable
in a match where neither really had to stretch themselves. Cassidy’s laid-back
schtick gave them both plenty to work with, and Cassidy bumping with his hands
in his pockets looks both super smooth and visually impressive. I like how
Cassidy’s comedy stuff serves to frustrate Delaney, which then allows Cassidy
to shock him with sudden bursts of offence, and I like how he lures Delaney
into a chop battle, throwing weak slaps and allowing Colin to wind up for a big
chop, only to duck and nail a superkick. I also dug Cassidy taking a mouthful
of orange juice to “fire up”, then about half a minute later spitting it into
Delaney’s eyes for a nearfall. They exchange roll ups, with Delaney getting a
leverage advantage enough to keep Cassidy on the mat for three. Fun stuff.
Team Tremendous (Bill Carr & Dan Barry) vs Killer
Instinct (Jacoby Riddick & Mike Skyros) vs Wrestling Liberation Front
(Cloudy & Krist Worthless)
Enjoyable match, if you choose to ignore the inherent issues
in teams tagging out to other teams in a triple threat tag. Killer Instinct
impressed on the last Wild Zero show, and here they both bump impressively to
make a hackneyed “one wrestler gets hit with a move that causes him to
accidentally DDT his own partner” spot come off well. Nice spot where Skyros
trips Barry whilst Riddick runs the ropes and hits a low dropkick to his head.
Worthless looked decent too, a big ugly guy who hit hard and seemed to have
good movement. The two heel teams, Killer Instinct and WLF, argue on the floor,
providing a nice set up for a big Barry dive. Bill Carr follows with a huge
flip dive of his own, which looks great for such a big guy. Carr hits a nice
clothesline and Black Hole Slam to the KI guys, which they bump huge for,
before Team Tremendous hit a neat Doomsday Sliced Bread, However, before they
can make the pin, Cloudy rolls up Barry for the sneaky heel win. Logic gap
aside, this was neat, everyone worked really hard.
Jay Freddie vs Daniel Garcia
I really wanted to like this – I liked what I’ve seen before
of Freddie teaming with John Silver as the Thick Boys and I really liked the
big match feel, with both guys have entourages and a big fight introduction.
The problem is that I don’t think this was a very good match. Alarm bells
started ringing when they kicked off with a clumsy looking forearm exchange,
which I hoped in vain was just getting that nonsense out of the way.
Unfortunately, they went back to these strike exchanges seemingly as a way to
fill time or when they needed to transition to the next part of the match. This
match went almost half an hour, so there was a lot of time to fill and a lot of
strike exchanges used to do it. They also do too many non-selling mirror
sequences, where one would hit a back suplex then they’d both get up and the
other would hit a back suplex. They even exchange sharpshooters at one point in
the match, with no sign of any long term damage. Really felt like two guys
trying to have a “fighting spirit” epic, when the truth is that this would have
been much better without these parts and with ten minutes taken off the run
time. There were definite good bits – loves Freddie’s early dive, thought
Garcia tripping him on the apron looked good, liked the driven knees that
Garcia hit to the ribs by diving across the ring and Freddie hits a nice
cannonball and Fisherman Buster. These were all positive bits, but the layout
of the match really affected it. By the time Freddie finally gets the tap out
with yet another sharpshooter, I was just willing it to be over, which isn’t a
good sign. A missed opportunity.
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