Little Jimmy Gaffe Challenges the Butcher on Victory Wrestling Showcase

Two weeks ago the Butcher beat down Little Jimmy Gaffe something fierce.  This week Jimmy came to the VCW ring to challenge the big guy to a match.  And it was hard to watch.

Jimmy took a big boot early and the Butcher stomped on him pretty bad as he spasmed around the ring.

Jimmy eventually got to the ropes where the ref forced Butcher to back away.  Butcher argued with the ref for no other reason than to give his manager, Mysterion, time to pull Jimmy's neck across the bottom rope and choke him with it.

Then the Butcher went back to work and hit Jimmy with a kick ass looking shoulder breaker.

I was surprised to see Gaffe kick out of that.  He showed a lot of heart through out the match.  After blocking a mendable claw he fired off some good kicks to the Butcher's gut and pulled off a big arm drag.  And I mean big!  This thing had impact.

I also dug Jimmy's dropkick in the corner.

But in the end Butcher grabbed Jimmy out of the air in a cross body attempt.  He slammed him hard, put him in a camel clutch, converted it to a rear naked choke and put Jimmy Gaffe to sleep.

Putting Jimmy Gaffe to Sleep should be a Canadian folk song.  That guy has balls.  Gotta hand it him.

After the match, the Butcher refused to let go of his choke.  Ali Fahood ran to the ring to make the save for Gaffe.  This was the first time Fahood entered a VCW ring since the Butcher took him out months ago.  He said that he's actually fallen in love with the City of Toronto after his time spent in the hospital there.

And now he wants to redeem himself against the Butcher.  That old chestnut.  

Mysterion wouldn't give Fahood a match though; unless he put his career on the line.  So next week we get a loser leaves VCW match.

Buck Gunderson, Marty Michaels and the Life of the Party All Disappoint

After breaking his hand, Buck Gunderson made his VCW return this week, teaming with "Rockin'" Marty Michaels.  They took on the Life of the Party, two "Hip-Stars" who are mad that people aren't hugging trees and call everyone "Daddy." 

The match was awful.  Only Michaels's double dropkick stood out.  It was cool because he got both members of the Life of the Party with two different feet.  It looked cool.  

The ref was the father of one of the LOTP guys.  Apparently they don't get along.  Little back story there.  

Buck and Michaels won this by hitting an X-Factor and a Rocker Dropper at the same time.    

Bottom Line?  

This episode needed more Chunk E. Fresh.  They should call this company Chunk E. Fresh Wrestling. GFW.  Or GFEW depending how strict you wanna be.  I wonder what the E stands for?  Entertainment personified?  I'm so high right now.  

Gaffe might be a good wrestler for VCW in the future.  But the Butcher is a big deal RIGHT FRIGGEN NOW.

That's the obvious match right?  Chunk E. Vs. the Butcher.  A former tag champ with a whole new attitude since the demise of Mysterion's Royal Guards, and a win streak to go with it, against out beloved champion.        

Any way ... do you guys see the power of Universal Health Care?  Turns a mean son of a bitch like Fahood into the nicest guy in the world.  

Next week's Loser Leaves VCW match is gonna be good.  

Zero-G Championship the Focus of Wordwide's Second Episode

This episode's all about Mark Coffey's run with the Zero G championship.

It starts off with Mark wrestling an injured Kenny Williams.  Mark gets Kenny in a really cool pump handle slam and wins that way.  After the match Kenny's manager is yelling at him about how he owns his contact, and by proxy, him.  He was pissed off about Kenny taking the match despite being injured.  And it's hinted at that the manager would have liked his other client, Joe Hendry to get the shot instead.

We then get Mark Coffey Vs. Wee M. Punk.  What's he doing in the Insane Asylum?  Punk got kicked in the face and lost.

The next match had Solar trying to win the belt.  Before it started we got a cool astronaut graphic float towards another graphic of the Zero-G belt.  Very cool.  Solar took some serious knees from Coffey, a surfboard stretch, and that God Damn pump handle slam once again.  Coffey won.

The highlight of Joe Coffey Vs. Sebastian Redclaw had to be Redclaw piggybacking the champ and biting his ear.  But ... that damn pump handle slam again ...

The last match was Coffey/Williams II.  Kenny finally got the belt here with an incredible tornado DDT.  All of a sudden his manager loved him, telling Kenny that he was like a son to him.

Kenny told him to fuck right off and the entire ICW locker room came out to congratulate him on his accomplishment.

Bottom Line?   

Another good sampling of the ICW product.  If ICW seems like something that might interest you, check out the first season of Worldwide on youtube, where you get full shows in their entirety.  And if you're looking for something more recent, check out the Twinsanity DVDs they sell on their official site.

Ring of Honor Sucks (10/23/14)

Ring of Honor sucked this week.  That's unfortunate.

At the end of the day this is a hit and miss company.  There have been more hits than misses lately.  So there's that.

But here's what happened this week.

Briscoe's promo might have been the best part of the episode.  

It wasn't very long.  He just let us know that Mike Bennett was getting a title match next week.  Oh yeah, and Jay's coming for Mike's ass.  He wanted us to know that he's coming for Mike's ass.

Gonna be awesome!

TaDarius Thomas Vs. Adam Cole Page 

I have to remember that Adam Page is the one with the better hair.

This goes down as best match of the night.  And it wasn't very good.

Apart from a spot where Thomas was dangling out of the ring by his leg and Page smacked him the knee with a steel chair; everything else sucked.

Except for the ending where Thomas grabbed that chair back and starts beating the shit out of Page, right?

And BJ Whitmore, Roderick Strong and Jimmy Jacobs are outside yelling at him to keep at it!

And Caprice Coleman (Who did a great job on color commentary this week.) is shouting at Thomas about how he's better than that.  It's the preacher in him.  

So finally Thomas says, fuck it!  And he smacks Jimmy Jacobs off the ring apron with the chair and walks out.

The decade is like, "What the fuck!?"  And Adam Page is sitting there like, "I have no idea what just happened but thank God he stopped hitting me!"

And Caprice was like, "He says you're welcome."

Adam Cole went all Marsha Brady on us.  

Mike Bennett cut a promo in the ring about how he's gonna win the belt next week.

Adam Cole got really whiney about how it's him who should have gotten the shot.  What a baby.  I don't even know where he was going with that.  Did he think Bennett was gonna give him the title shot instead?

Who knows.  In the end Maria Kanellis talked him out of whatever he was gonna say and now he's super pumped for his buddy, Mike.  I wonder what that's all about?

The Romantic Touch took on Hanson

Separately, the Romantic Touch and Hanson kill my wrestling boner.  Combine the two?  And they annihilate it.

This wasn't very diligent of me, but I spent the entire match fantasizing about Hell in a Cell this Sunday and whether or not Brock Lesnar would show up at Survivor Series.  

I couldn't even watch the main event.  

Cedric Alexander took on Adam Cole here.  The one who's hair is also good.

This was so boring.  I must have watched a few minutes but it felt like hours.  I skipped to the end but I don't remember who won.

Cedric has matches like this every now and again.  Cole seems to have them all the time.  No idea why this guys is as popular as he is.

Bottom Line?  

Jay Vs. Bennett is gonna be killer next week.

The decade can't break up soon enough.  I'm hoping both Thomas and Page come out better for it.    

Neville Defends Against Titus and Banks Gets Rematch Against Bayley On the 10/23/14 NXT

It's time Titus O'Neil finally gets his Cum Muffins for the shit he's pulled in NXT lately!  

Is it Cum Muffins?  Is that expression?

Yeah!  Fuck Brock Lesnar, who needs him!  In NXT we got Adrian Neville!  A freight train from hell going straight up the ass of the competition!

O'Neil messed up.  He came down to NXT with an unnecessary chip on his shoulder.  All mad because NXT wrestlers took up one measly segment on RAW?  Assaulting our champ at ringside during one of his successful title defenses?  Newsflash, big guy, one segment devoted to NXT isn't the reason you're not on RAW.  You're now on RAW because you suck!

Although even I would have to admit that Titus didn't suck in this match.  He actually dominated.

The match started with Neville playing keep away, showing off his athleticism.  O'Neil eventually caught him though and when he did the champ tried a front side headlock that backfired.  Titus lifted him over the ring ropes and dropped him to the arena floor.

Neville couldn't grab the rope to break his fall.  I thought he was dead.

At another point Titus simply threw Neville across the ring as if the champ was a child.  I couldn't believe how in control the Gator was.

Especially when he locked on a viscous bear hug.  Watching Neville squirm in that vice was sickening but you had to respect the technique.  How often is a bear hug boring?  All the time!  But not this time!  

Eventually O'Neill let go out of boredom.  That was a mistake.  He could have won the match with it.  Even Neville has to breath eventually.  Gravity forgot him, not biology.

Neville chopped away at the larger man with a shit load of kicks and hit his Red Arrow or whatever he calls it from the top rope.  Neville got so much height on this thing that I'm surprised Titus didn't shit himself upon impact.

Even so I thought Titus should have kicked out of it.  I guess he's a lot better at giving punishment than receiving it.

The Banks/Bayley rematch wasn't as great as last time.

This bout started out great with Bayley kneeing Banks in the back and coming off the ropes with a reverse elbow.

Then it slowed down and didn't really pick up until the end.  Banks hit a backstabber and segued it into that brutal submission she does.  Is it a cross face?  I don't know ...

Banks gets the win.  And that's good for her because going into her upcoming title match against Charlotte Flair with a loss would have sucked.

Not good at all for my girl Bayley though.  As talented as she is she has to go to back of the line now and if that wasn't bad enough, that bitch Becky Lynch came out and assaulted her after the match.

I think this goes back to what Sasha said to Becky last week.  Something about good girls finishing last.

Bayley has that Hulk Hogan disease where all your best friends will eventually betray.

Jobbers Galore ...

I don't know if it's cool to call anyone in NXT jobbers.  But it certainly felt that way last night.

Sure these guys are scouted by the WWE and put into the best wrestling school on the planet.

But that doesn't mean they're ready for the NXT stage.

The Vaudvillians and the Ascension picked up easy wins over easy opponents this week.  And while the two jobbers who lost to the Vaudvillians impressed a little bit, that doesn't make for good TV.

Bottom Line?  

Our Champion, the greatest man who ever lived, Adrian Neville, showed that son of a bitch Titus O'Neil what NXT is all about!

However, Titus impressed so you gotta give him props.  Maybe he could be like Tyson Kidd.  Resurrect his career in NXT, not win anything, but then go up to RAW and play around up there.  I think it's cute that the WWE gives those RAW guys something to shoot for.

Decent episode not as good as usual.  But still had moments.  Still the best hour of wrestling on TV.

Shit!  It's comeuppance!  Where the hell did I get Cum Muffins from?

Insane Championship Wrestling Debuts Season 3 of Worldwide. Highlights Tag Division.

It's that time of the year again.  ICW is releasing a series of highlight videos to promote their product, which stands as one of the best in professional wrestling today.

The first episode is all about recent happenings in the tag division.  It features the Bucky Boys, the New Age Kliq, Brian Kendrick, Paul London, Colt Cabana and of course, GRRRRRAAAAAAAADOOOOOOOOOOO!

Bucky Boys VS. NAK

The show opened up with Davey Boy breaking the news that his leg is fucked and he cannot defend his half of the championship against the Kliq.  But Kaylee Rae, stand out star of ICW's women's division joined up with Bucky Boy Stevie and we had ourselves a match!

Kaylee hit a hurricanranna, Stevie hit a suicide dive.  Together they even hit a Double Van Terminator and Kaylee kicked out of an F5.  Don't know how she did it.

In the end though Chris Renfrew's stunner and BT Gunn's superkick got the job done.  The Kliq won the belts.

NAK VS. IRN JEW

At the end of a half hour contest Cabana caught Grado going "Old School," scooped him up and hit him with a GTS.  That allowed him to avenge his previous loss to Grado but the NAK rushed the ring and started beating both men down.  Dicks!

ICW owner Mark Dallas awarded Colt and Grado a championship opportunity the very next week.

It was then the newly formed team of IRN JEW took the belts from the NAK.  Cabana hit Chris Renfrew with a GTS and Grado followed up with his wee boot.

The week after IRN JEW successfully defended the belt against Jackie Polo Promotions.

The Three Way Dance

When Stevie Boy beat Colt Cabana in singles competition, the Bucky's manager Wee Man argued that Stevie and Kaylee were "Jew" a chance.  Colt and Grado agreed but the NAK joined the fray and won another championship when Renfrew rolled up Colt with a fistful of tights.

NAK Vs. Kendrick & London

Despite taking a beating, Kendrick was able to roll Renfrew up in a small package and add the ICW tag team championship to his and Paul London's long list of accolades.  Those guys win belts wherever they go.

Bottom Line

This series is a cool way to keep people in touch with all that went on recently in ICW.  It also serves as good promotion for what I feel is one of the best companies in the world.

I recommend you check out their seventeen episode first season of Worldwide, where they give you FULL SHOWS so you can judge wether or not you like their product.   Check out episode one here ...

And if you do like their product you can support ICW through their official website.  I recommend the Twin-sanity DVDs where you get two shows in one package.

The Honor Rumble Didn't Suck

I was pleased to find that this week's ROH episode was NTS.  Not Too Shabby.

This week the Honor Rumble decided a number one contender for Jay Lethal's Briscoe's World Championship ...

(I can see now how easy it was for JR to make that mistake on is podcast ...)

And we also got a shitty tag team match.

They opened the show with Kevin Kelly introducing Jay Briscoe as the new World Champion.  

Seeing Jay with the title again was wicked awesome.  As was what champ had to say.

Apparently his first order of business is gonna be getting that custom belt from his first reign off of Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis.  He doesn't like that they have it or what they've done to it.  Making it, "All Pink and Shit."

I'm not big on Bennett but I think Jay's reign is gonna be cool because that failed "SCUM" faction isn't around to make ROH unwatchable anymore.

The Decade isn't getting along anymore.  Haha.    

In a backstage green screen promo, we found out that another failed faction "The Decade" might be breaking up too.  They agreed about teaming up in the Honor Rumble.  But they couldn't agree on who would benefit from the partnership.  BJ Whitmore thought he should win.  Rodrick Strong thought he should.  Jimmy Jacobs just wanted to keep the peace.  Adam Page and Tadarius Thomas wondered why they were stuck with all those assholes.  Presumably.

Moose and RD Evans w/ Vida Scott Vs. Red Scorpion and Grey Wolf w/ Prince Nana

By now RD Evans's unofficial and probably made up winning streak has passed the 150 mark.  His partner Moose wanted to help him keep it in tag action.  The two took on the new team of Red Scorpion and Grey Wolf.

I wondered if  I died and went to the 80's in this bout.  Two jacked dudes in face paint with a flashy manager?  You'd think the redder one was Red Scorpion but I guess that's not the case.

All in all thought this match was pretty shitty.  The only entertaining thing was when Grey Wolf decked Prince Nana by accident.  Should we be worried that he was trying to hit Veda Scott?  Probably, but at the same time, she's kind of a bitch and it's interesting seeing a crazy son of a bitch like that in a usually dull place like Ring of Honor.

The Twenty Man Honor Rumble

So we all know how Rumble's work by now right?  Two men enter to start.  Every two minutes another guy enters the match.  Contestants are only eliminated by being thrown over the top rope and having two feet hit the arena floor.  Last man standing wins.

This one started off with #1 Jay Lethal and Rooster fave, #2 ACH.  (Attitude, Charisma, Heart.)

Nothing really happened in the first two minutes.  Lethal and ACH just felt each other out.  But then ...

Tadarius Thomas of the Decade entered at #3.  It took Lethal a bit of convincing to convince Thomas that they should double team ACH.  Lethal turned on Thomas two seconds after the agreement and the two struggled until Jay Diesel entered at #4.

Diesel eliminated a weakened ACH and Tadarius Thomas.  Since Diesel and Lethal are both managed by Truth Martini, they decided to work together and eliminated #5, the Romantic Touch shorty after he entered the Rumble.

To avoid the same fate #6 Mark Briscoe didn't get in the ring at all.  He started chasing Truth Martini around ringside until Jay Lethal came out to save his manager.  Briscoe dropped Lethal and entered the ring, where he put the hurtin' on Diesel.  Lethal eventually got back in the ring to help his boy but Briscoe had bought enough time so that #7 Adam Page could make his entrance and take one of Martini's men off his back.

I'll take this time to say that Briscoe's outfit is amazing!  Camaflouge has been done before but never so well!  And I bet it helps him sneak up on those roosters at that chicken farm.

Sometimes rumbles can become uneventful for long stretches.  That happened here as a graduate from Ring of Honor's wrestling school, Will Ferrara came in at #8.  Caprice Coleman entered at #9.  Brutal Bob at 10.  And Adam Cole entered at 11.

I thought the Karate Kid Crane Kick that Mark Briscoe hit Cole with was awesome.  That happened as Hanson came in at #12.  He's a big son of a bitch and he knocked Brutal Bob Evans out of the ring and spin kicked Caprice Coleman off the apron, eliminating them both.

Kevin Kelly informed us then that color commentator Steve Corino, home on maternity leave, tweeted him before the show.  Corino wished for a competitive Honor Rumble for everyone, except for #13 BJ Whitmore who he hoped had a stroke.

Kyle O'Reilly drew #14 as Whitmore and Page worked together to throw Hanson over the top rope.

Jimmy Jacobs entered at #15 and got into a tango with Jay Lethal.  Young Will Ferrara deftly elimated the distracted Lethal and also Lethal's partner Jay Diesel who charged him overzealously shortly after.

Being total shit heads, Lethal and Diesel dragged Ferrara under the ropes and beat him down something awful on the outside.  He wasn't eliminated then but was shorty thereafter when he got back in the ring in a weakened condition.  Adam Cole picked up the easy Will Ferrara elimination on a silver platter.

Such a shame considering how young Ferrara is and how well he was doing.

At this point I realized that Ring of Honor fixed their mat issue.  For while they hadn't laid out nearly enough mats to cover the arena floor.  No idea what the deal was there.  Maybe they were getting them cleaned.  But I'm happy to see they fixed it.

Roderick Strong entered at #16 and may have taken out fellow Decade member Adam Page on purpose.  It could be that he was trying to clothesline O'Reilly and got Page instead but you never know with the current state the Decade is in.

Cedric Alexander was supposed to come in at #17 but for some reason the suspended Tomasso Ciampa came out instead.  Tomasso immediantly started terrorizing ROH officals at ringside.  Everyone got out of their seats except for play by play man Kevin Kelly.  That was odd because Tomasso beat the shit out of Kelly last week, didn't he?  You'd think Kelly would be the first guy out of there.

Eventually head matchmaker Nigel McGuiness was able to convince Ciampa to leave.  No idea why Ciampa listened to him and I don't care.  Ciampa sucks.

Roderick Strong then eliminated Kyle O'Reilly with a big knee.  That's exactly when O'Reilly's tag team partner, #18 Bobby Fish entered the rumble.  Too late to benefit from having a partner in there with him.

The real number #17, Cedric Alexander came out shortly after holding his head because Tomasso Ciampa's a sucker punching bitch.

The last two entrants were Chesseburger at #19 and Mike Bennett at #20.

Remember that Mike Bennett is on Jay Briscoe's shit list.  He came out with Briscoe's custom belt decked out in pink fur.

Number twenty is the best number you can get in a twenty man rumble.  You gotta figure Bennett and Jay Briscoe were equally psyched.      

At this point I wanna bring up how boring Bennett's manager Maria Kanellis is.  Yeah, she's hot but variety is the spice of life and she wears the same out fit every week.

Believe me, I don't wanna be sexist, but Maria is there for sex appeal.  If she has any other talent ROH is not letting her showcase it.

So do one or the other, ROH.  Give that girl something interesting to do or hire her a new stylist.

Cedrick Alexander came up from behind and eliminated both BJ Whitmore and Jimmy Jacobs as they were trying to push Cheeseburger over the top rope.

Bobby Fish and Roderick Strong eliminated each other after trading blows on the ring apron.  Knocked each other the fuck out.

So the final four was Adam Cole and Mike Bennet Vs. the impromptu team of Chicken & Cheese.  (Kevin Kelly's moniker, not mine.)  I'm talking about Mark Briscoe and Cheeseburger.

No friggen idea how Cedric Alexander got eliminated.  I am not a good reporter.

Cheeseburger got pushed to the ring apron where he tried to suplex Cole out of the ring.  Cole simply pushed him out instead.  Mark got up from behind Cole and just as easily eliminated him.

Then Bennett got up from behind Briscoe and won the Goddamn Honor Rumble.  Ain't that a bitch?

A very weak ending to a decent rumble, I thought.

Was really rooting for Mark Briscoe so we could get a brother Vs. brother title match.  I also really dig both Briscoe Brothers.

I guess Jay gets what he wants, a match with Bennett, so that's great.

But Goddammit I hate that guy.

Bottom Line?

Sometime Rumbles aren't very good.  They tend to take away from in ring performances and create a lot of situations where two guys are just pushing each other along the ring ropes.

But they also create cool spots dramatic scenarios.

The Honor Rumble had the good and the bad of rumble matches.

But it held my interest and I thought the show was decent for it.  Bottom line is the Honor Rumble didn't suck.
  

Chunk E. Fights His Own Flesh and Blood

The wrestling Gods must really have it in for Openweight Champion Chunk E. Fresh.

Last week he lost his tag team championship because of VCW's Money in the Bank equivalent.

This week, his own nephew whacked him in the nuts and pushed him into an impromptu openweight title defense.

The opening segment of this week's Victory Wrestling Showcase was supposed to be all about Chunk and Cousin Eddie making up in the same ring they once held the VCW Tag Team Championship in.

They had a falling out a while back where Cousin Eddie got mad at Chunk for not helping him when a former VCW faction assaulted him in the ring.

I don't know the history of this incident but I can only assume that Chunk would have helped if he could.  Perhaps he didn't know about it?

Since then Cousin Eddie has been gone from VCW.  The opening segment was the first time Eddie's been back.

Before introducing Eddie, Chunk talked about his journey to the top of the VCW mountain.  How he used to raise piggies in Ding Dong, Tennessee and how he found himself because the people of Toronto excepted him for who he was.

He also talked about remembering where he came from and how you should never forget your family.
So he called out Cousin Eddie and the two shook hands in the middle of the ring.

But within thirty seconds Eddie went from saying, "Let's win those tag titles," to nailing Chunk in the Gonads from behind.

Eddie still held a grudge.  He further assaulted his own uncle and suggested Chunk give him an Openweight title shot.  He also said Chunk could keep the people of Toronto and shove 'em.

Later on backstage, Chunk demanded a match with Cousin Eddie.  VCW commissioner Lenny Lilac gave it to him on the spot.

Chunk E. Fresh Vs. Cousin Eddie Duke

And so right then and there we had ourselves a VCW title match.  From Ding Dong, Tennessee, Cousin Eddie Duke took on his Uncle Chunk E. Fresh, fighting out of Funky Town, Ontario.  (Probably a suburb of Toronto.)

This wasn't much of a match to be honest.  Both competitors slugged away at each other and missed with stinger splashes and sentons.  Cousin Eddie let us know early on what a tough bastard he is.  He absorbed a big elbow to the face.  Had no effect.

What made it interesting was the story behind it.  People can get behind Chunk.  He pulled off a sunset flip at one point, albeit the worst sunset flip I've ever seen.  He couldn't gather the momentum necessary to pull Eddie into a seated pinning position and Eddie tried another senton.  Didn't hit that one either.

Eventually Chunk was able to hit a move he calls "Dropping the Needle."  Turntable reference?

The beauty of this move is in it's simplicity.  When you weigh has much as Chunk, why not just follow through a body slam with a cross body if you get the chance?  That's just what he did and that's how this match ended.

Play by play man Hutch Henries made a good point about the adversity Chunk has had to overcome thus far in his title reign as the credits rolled.

Not sure what this means for Chunk's relationship with his nephew but I do know that Chunk is the man to beat in Victory Commonwealth Wrestling.

In other VCW news, there's some kind of evil Russian guy coming.  That old chestnut.

Don't forget to check out VCW's weekly show, Victory Wrestling Showcase every week on their official Youtube channel.  Peace!

VCW's Toronto Street Fight

This week on VCW, Openweight champ Chunk E. Fresh defended his title in a Toronto Street fight.  His opponent?  Some guy called Anthony Fiasco.  Interesting match.

Not good.  But interesting because it spilled out unto the side walk and the crowd at El Mocambo followed the contestants outside.

Fiasco whipped Chunk into steel shutters and followed up with a yukuza kick.  Chunk got even by throwing him into a sandwich board.  Fiasco would then use the board to knock Chunk upside his head.

I admire one fans attempt to get a "No, baby, no baby, no!" chant going.  I guess he was protesting the beating Chunk was receiving?  Never heard a protest chant before.  That was cool.

Eventually Chunk got back on top, beating Fiasco down and forcing him to crawl back into El Mocambo.  Inside the ring Chunk placed his opponent in a chair and ran to the opposite corner.  He then gathered up momentum and hit Fiasco with a seated cross body.

I realized then how over Chunk E. is with the crowd.  The more familiar "Yo, baby, yo, baby, yo!" chant started up again.  Whenever Chunk said "Chunk E." the crowd said "Fresh!"

Considering the size of the crowd I was impressed with the level of enthusiasm.

In the end Chunk E. caught Fiasco's springboard cross body and hit a black hole slam.  The fat lady started busting family friendly rhymes from the nineties, so to speak.

However, as the bell rang, Giant Ayella and Eddie Sapps came out to cash in VCW's equivalent of the Money in the Bank contract.  It wasn't for the openweight title, but for the tag team title.

Apparently Chunk was co-champion with some guy called Jarvis Jackson.

Jackson wasn't there that day and with the help of brass knuckles, The Giant and Sapps easily defeated the worn out Chunk E. Fresh.

So bottom line?  Another fun episode from Victory Commonwealth wrestling.

Sucks that Chunk lost his tag team championship after putting in such a great effort in the openweight defense.  The thing is, I'm not sure if he's gonna even try to avenge the loss.  He actually made his entrance in the Fiasco match by breaking up the Butcher's assault on some dude.

And I know Chunk is awfully pissed at the Butcher so he's got a lot on his plate right now.

But such is wrestling.

Remember that Victory Commonwealth Wrestling can be seen every week on their official Youtube channel.

"Beautiful" Bobby Jay Should Be On Every CWE Show

Was watching my favorite Manitoba based wrestling company.  The thing about Canadian Wrestling's Elite is that it has a terrible production.  It can be hard to watch at times.  And the roster isn't great either.

However they have a decent approach to wrestling.  They have cool story lines and characters to keep things interesting when the matches don't blow you away and I think that's what they did in this episode.

Stefan Epic w/ The Coach Vs. "Beautiful" Bobby Jay

I like the coaches gimmick.  Comes out with a whistle and a clipboard, it's awesome.  But what the hell is Stefan Epic wearing to the ring these days?  Guys dressed like he's going to a golf tournament.

Beautiful Bobby on the other hand is ... Beautiful!

Long blond wig not blowing in the breeze, wearing pink like a real man should and holding up a mirror so he can admire his own awesomeness!  That's what wrestling is!

Mr. Jay has been around the block though, and before the match the Coach reminded him that the only thing he has on his younger opponent is arthritis.  Ouch.  Coach played it like he was worried about Bobby Cakes but make no mistake, that shit was 100% intimidation factor.

But it was Stefan Epic who should have been intimiated, wrasslin' fans!  Because I've seen dudes half Bobby's age who didn't move that fast!  Beautiufl dropkick!  Beautiful cross body!  Beautiful suicide dive to the outside!

Epic got a nice powerbomb in while Bobby foolishly celebrated on the turnbuckles but after some shenanigans with the coaches clipboard backfired on Epic, the Beautiful one took the victory.

CWE is kind of boring at times and I sure would like to see Bobby back in the future.  He's exactly the kind of thing the CWE roster needs.

Dick Blood gets five minutes alone with Kevin Cannon.  

In a stipulation match inspired by seven minutes in heaven but seasoned with a wrestling twist, Dick Blood won the opportunity to beat down on CWE color commentator and manager Kevin Cannon.

Cannon came out with Rob Stardom and the Canadian Confederate Bobby Collins as back up.  But Big Jess Youngblood and Billy Blaze sucker punched those guys and handcuffed 'em to the ring posts.

That means Dick got to do whatever he wanted to Mr. Cannon.  And he did those things as play by play man Dave Petrol admitted to having a big old smile on his face.

Fun segment.  Dick Blood is the greatest wrestler name ever conceived.

Danny Duggan took on AJ Sanchez 

Maybe it was just me, but I wasn't feeling this match.  It was the last match in the episode so maybe I was just burnt out.

Duggan and Sanchez are two very big names in CWE.  I should have been psyched for this but it just felt boring.

Duggan gets the win with the Rock Bottom Cruel Summer.  

Moses Luke Vs. Anderson Tyson Moore

This match sucked.  More reminisant of typical CWE fare.  And the kind of matches I'd hope they try to stop doing.

Nothing really happened.  It did get better at the end.  I liked ATM's hurricanranna roll up.  His yakuza kick was cool.

Moses Luke has a black hole slam and I'm a big fan of that move.

But just kind of lame.  Wouldn't mind seeing more of that husky German chick though.  Husky women ... that's my thing ...

Final Thoughts

Bobby Jay saved this episode.  I wish they had more like him and continue to use him in the future.  Youth is overrated.  Entertainment value is every thing.  

If It's Monday ... It's Meet the Press

Guys, you know I like wrestling.  And you know what one of my favorite promotions are? 

United States Politics.  Every week we get amazing promos, smack talk and somebody gets suplexed.  

It's fucking awesome. 

So what I'm gonna do here is post a review of my fave political show, Meet the Press.  All these things are my opinion, and I mean no disrespect to my liberal or conservative brothers and sisters.  I love all you guys and I just wanna have a nice discussion about a dirty subject.  

Politics.  

Here are my thoughts on this week's episode.  All the subjects are bolded so ya'll can just jump to the bits you like.  

Please leave your thoughts and counter arguments, maybe I'll learn something, maybe you'll learn something.  Should be fun.  

The first big story covered this week was Ebola.  Seems to be a public fear that this thing can't be contained on account of it spreading to Dallas.  What I come away with is this ... ebola probably won't be something we're still talking about a year from now.  

I think the United States is very equipped with medical centers in all the densely populated areas to keep an outbreak from happening.  I also think that news people can't resist a good scare and are a little irresponsible in their reporting.  

Kind of related to the ebola thing is something called the trust deficit.  It's a really cool name for the recent issues that have plagued the Obama administration.  Basically a lot of people don't trust the president.  My take on that is that I'm disappointed that people don't realize what a good job he's done.  

There is no way we're not better off now than we were in 2007 and people should really know that. 

I'm not saying Obama and the Dems can't improve.  I'm not even saying they're good.  I'm just saying they're taking the country in a good direction, and one we'd have all been relieved to be in back in the financial crises of 2007-2008.  

One of the panelist brought up this disconnect.  10 millions jobs added over this period.  Not people leaving the workforce, real, honest to God jobs!  Housing is back, the autos are back, make no mistake there is a disconnect from what is actually happening in this country and I think it's because the news wants ratings.  

And bad news equals ratings.  Therefore they're not accurately reporting all the good things Obama and the Dems have done.  

One thing referenced to compare this situation to was the oil spill in 2010.  It wasn't even a talking point in the 2012 elections.  We should learn a lesson from that. 

I'm not saying the BP oil spill wasn't a big deal.  And I'm sure as hell not saying BP is a morally respectable company.  I'm just saying that the mainstream media likes these stories, stories that scare you but don't turn out to be the apocalyptic nightmare they say it will be.  

The head of the GOP was on the show.  To his credit he came out and said that if the republicans don't take the senate in November it's gonna be a real loss.  That takes ball and I give my props to him.  

The host of the show who's name I should know made a good point about the party's recent mission statement.  He said the republican party has no plan!  He says their list is vague and there is no policy there.  

I agree.  Wanting a balanced budget isn't a policy.  You have to tell us how we're going to get there.  When the Democrats inherited our floundering economy they said they were raising taxes on the rich.  And they did that.  They were criticized but that was a real plan.  Now the deficit has been cut in half.  

The republicans don't have a plan for making our country better.  It's a fact.  Their mission statement proves it. 

Another thing the republican guy said that he was called out on was a lie about the unemployment rate.  He said it was 11% the host corrected him.  It's actually 6%. 

The republican guy, and again, I'm sorry I don't remember his name, reiterated that the "real" number was 11%.  

He's wrong.  

This a common misconception.  Yes, when people drop out of the workforce, it can appear that unemployment is improving.  The reason is because those people aren't looking for jobs anymore.  So there's less people in the unemployment system.  Even though those that left are still without work. 

HOWEVER!  There is also a jobs number that comes out every month on the first Friday.  That number is no bullshit.  It just tells you how many jobs we added to our work force for the month.  

And the Dems are kicking ass with that number.  Time and time again it is proven!  Do you want a better economy?  Vote Democrat.  

I agreed on this GOP leader about this abortion issue he brought up.  I don't think tax money should go to funding abortion clinics, even as I'm FOR abortion.  I don't mind public money being used in that way but I wouldn't do it.  

Joe Scarborough, who's name I'm spelling wrong, I'm sure, agreed that republicans don't have a message and referenced it throughout the show.  This is relevant because he's a respected conservative analyst amongst conservatives.

President Obama's involvement in Egypt was brought up.  I can't really comment on this because I don't know the whole story and it wasn't recapped.  However, it certainly seems like the President botched Egypt by supporting the wrong side.  Obama's foreign policy is not his strong suit.  I'm not gonna make excuses for him, even as I feel he's solid President.  

They broke down how the economy is improving along the interstates more than it is in rural America. you gotta feel for our rural brothers and sisters because I don't think anyone has any idea how to improve the rural, local economies.  It's a tough nut to crack.  Staying the course is probably the best action but ... that's gonna be tough.  

Only thing I can think of is more legislation to ensure that people BUY AMERICAN.  This will be a hard thing to enforce but when combined with a campaign to encourage people to buy american the same way we encourage them to recycle and stop smoking ....

I think it could work.  

Also mentioned was how up in the air the Kansas senate race is.  An independent is winning the usually conservative state race by a wide margin.  Could be trouble for the republicans. 

Neville and Kidd tear that shit up. Charlotte dominates Bayley.

NXT put out another solid episode this Thursday.  Tyson Kidd got one last crack at Adrian Neville's NXT Championship and Bayley got her rematch for the Women's title.

The Vaudevillains were in action as well, Kenta got his ass kicked by the Ascension again, and three delightfully offensive Italian stereotypes mixed it up in the WWE performance center.

Here are my thoughts segment by segment.

Adrian Neville Vs. Tyson Kidd 

Tyson Kidd came to NXT to revive his career but never really won anything important down there.  His biggest achievement is beating Neville in a tag team match.

Still, he got another title shot.  This time because his wife, Natty Niedhardt asked commissioner William Regal for it.  That just seems like a very loose system for booking title shots.

Ridiculous even!  Look at Andre the Giant.  Went undefeated for twenty years and never got a title shot.  Because he didn't ask for one.  Gorilla Monsoon said so at 'Mania III.

There was a catch this time around.  If Kidd doesn't win he won't get another shot.  Not as long as Neville is the champ.

I actually liked that Kidd got the title shot in these ridiculous circumstances though.  Honestly, it added a lot of drama to the match.  You could see Kidd was underpreassure.

And it doesn't hurt that the match was freaking amazing!  A true back and forth contest between two guys who know how to put on a show with great high flying and technical wrestling.

Neville escaped a top rope powerbomb with a back flip.  Soon after he delivered his own, possibly the sickest powerbomb I've ever seen.

Kidd did great too.  At one point Neville tried to counter a springboard attack with a falling dropkick.  Kidd simply grabbed his legs in mid-air and locked on a sharpshooter.  Friggen fantastic!

Titus O'Neil eventually interfered.  Sitting in the first row, he grabbed Neville's magnificent locks and slammed his head against the arena floor.  Somehow Neville recovered though.  And thankfully Sammy Zayn kept Titus from interfering further by coming out of nowhere and kicking him in the head.

Seriously!  One minute we were watching Titus leaning over the guard rail, talking shit to a concussed Neville ... the next minute he had Zayn's foot in his mouth.  It was fantastic television!

As if to put a little cherry on top of this sundae, the segment ends with Kidd slumped in the corner defeated, and ring announcer Jojo gets on the mic and reminds the Full Sail Arena that Tyson Kidd would not get another title shot.

For a guy like me who was rooting against Kidd so hard?  That was awesome.  Nothing like watching a hated wrestler's face fall!  Suck it, Kidd!

Charolotte Flair Vs. Bayley

I think women's wrestling is in a better place now then it's ever been.  These two girls are part of the reason why.

They always put on good matches, just like we saw a few weeks ago at the Takeover event.  This match was a rematch for that, which Charlotte awarded to Bayley out of respect for her performance in that match.

This match was all one sided though.  Charlotte put the hurt on Bayley early and kept going throughout.

It was amazing watching Charlotte yank on Bayley's knee until her leg was perpendicular to the mat.  And while I have to admire Bayley's flexibility that shit had to hurt!  The lady's spent a lot of time on the mat but it never seemed boring.

She got in a little bit of offense, hit a good back elbow off the middle rope and reversed a figure four.  I also liked the way Bayley wrist locked Charlotte to the mat and dropped an elbow while still keeping the hold.  Very cool.

But Charlotte eventually took the pin fall.

Good match though.  Really something to watch because of Charlotte's dominance.

Kenta Vs. Victor Never Happened

This segment was shit.  I thought we were getting a Kenta match but instead I got two dudes beating the shit out of a guy who made a bad decision.

You see, Kenta was powerful pissed about the Ascension jumping him last week so he just went in there and started beating on the other acesnsion dude.  The guy who wasn't in the match.  So Victor joined in and the numbers game worked against Kenta.

That was the whole segment, eventually they stopped and that was it.  Never underestimate the power of five referees yelling at vampires.  Vampires don't like that shit.

Backstage though, in another segment WWE legend alumni Funaki showed up and told Kenta he had his back from now on.  Kenta lit up like it was Christmas, continuing to smile even as Funaki walked away.

I found that odd.  If Funaki told me he had my back in a fight, I'd just shrug.  It's better than nothing but it's not Christmas in July.

Christmas in July would be a cool Holliday.  Somebody should make that a thing.

Carmella in the Performance Center

I'd watch Enzo Amore and Big Cass do anything.  Those guys are entertaining as hell, and while you can teach that, it doesn't often get done in the WWE.

This week we got a cool peak into the much talked up performance center as they trained up Carmella, a former hair dresser who lost her job due to the shenanigans of Enzo and Cass.

Being one third Italian myself, I was a little offended by these three fresh of the boat gumbas.  But the other two thirds of me don't give a fuck about Italians so they thought it was great watching Enzo perv out on Carmella and seeing Carmella dropkick him out of the ring.

The Vaudevillains took on some other guys.

Rooster fave Ryan Drago, AKA Simon Gotch and the other guy from this tag team took on another tag team that kind of sucks.  Match was just decent.  Whatever.

Summary 

NXT's been putting out some good episodes.  Great talents putting on great matches.  What more could you want? 

West Coast Wrestling Connection 8: Only the main event was worth it.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Rooster’s Post.  The post that hurts the most.  

I like to talk about the wrestling shows that I watch.  

Yesterday I checked out episode eight of the West Coast Wrestling Connection.  

Even if you don’t live in the wonderful city of Portland Oregon, you can still watch this episode on their official Youtube account.  Subscribe if you like it.  And if you get to the point where you watch a few shows and think it’s okay, why not buy a t-shirt or something from their website?  

If you have it in your heart and your wallet, support indie wrestling.  Where the stars of tomorrow do their thing and guys who should be in bigger promotions show the establishment what they’re missing.

Bullet Points     

I like to start with a segment called bullet points.  That’s where I give you the gist so you don’t have to read this whole post if you don’t want to.  

• This episode wasn’t very good.  The West Coast Wrestling Connection can’t seem to get as much out of the Pacific Northwest indie scene that Portland Wrestling Uncut did.  Only the last match was worth checking out.  It would be great if they watched all those old PWU episodes on You Tube and applied that method of booking.  
• The DDT challenge proves that the Grappler, not Jake Roberts invented the DDT.  I just don’t understand how.  
• Alexander Hammerstone has a wicked awesome finisher. 
• Joe V mentioned DDP yoga!  Proof that he’s not just a great play by play guy, but a genuine wrestling fan as well. 

The Big Story

In this segment I’d like to talk about the big story. Every show has one.  

The big story in this episode was the DDT challenge.  For 37 years, Jake “The Snake” Roberts and the Grappler have argued over who invented the DDT.  The DDT challenge would presumably decide that.  

In a previous episode, both men picked a wrestler off the WCWC roster.  

The Grappler chose Heavyweight champ Danny Duggan over all the guys he manages.  

Roberts picked one of the Grapplers guys, Jeremy Blanchard.  Grappler got pissed.  Jake was always the master of the mind game.  But I like to think he also sees something in Jeremy, who was really psyched to be working with Jake.    

So the Grappler tought his DDT to Duggan, Roberts taught his DDT to Blanchard.  And in this episode, both men squared off.  To win this match, they’ll have score a pin fall using the DDT.     

I don’t know how this proves who invented the DDT but whatever, I just wanna see a good match.  

Danny Duggan started the match off with a killer cross body and later hit Blanchard with a good baseball slide.   But soon after he tweeked his knee coming off the top rope.  

That would hinder Duggan for the remainder of the match.  Blanchard put as much weight on Duggan’s knee as possible.  He did it with a front face lock, the move that sets up the DDT.  

Blanchard also executed a sick dropkick to the back of Duggan’s knee.  That hurt Duggan’s chances.  Besides the indescribable  amount of pain, you need to be standing to hit a DDT.  And that was only going to get harder as the match went on.  

But Duggan found his chance.  The Grappler jumped on the ring apron at one point to yell at him.  Duggan shoved Blanchard into the Grappler and while Blanchard checked to see if the man was okay, Duggan slipped in a front face lock, hit that DDT and scored the pin fall.  

Does this mean the grappler invented the DDT?  According to the logic of the DDT challenge, yes it does.  

After the match the Grappler hit Duggan in the back of the head with a pair of brass knuckles.  No idea why, he’s probably just a dick.  Roberts came in and hit the Grappler with a DDT.  

Then Alexander Hammerstone and Grappler 3 of the Grappler’s stable, “the Wrecking Crew” came out started beating on Roberts.  

The locker room emptied at that point, as everyone in the back came out to save Roberts.    

The episode ended with Joe V. promising to update us on Jake’s condition next week.

That’s the match of the night for sure.  Sadly, none of the other matches in this episode measured up.  

Other Shit

I call this next segment, other shit.  Every episode has a bunch of other shit that happens.  

-Alexander Hammerstone has a kickass finisher called the Stonebreaker.  It’s basically a GTS from the torture rack position.  Never been a fan of the GTS myself but the stone breaker kicks ass.  

His matched sucked though.  

-In another match that sucked, manager Johnny Fairplay’s team “Beauty and the Beast”  went up against Dan Joseph and Eric Right.  They lost because Ashton Vuitton is a pre-madonna and they’ll probably break up.  The break up should be more interesting than their matches, if history serves.  

-Former heavyweight champ Darin Corbin cost himself a very shitty match against Travis Sionys.  He just wouldn’t stop yelling at the promotion’s chairman and Sionys rolled him up.  Seeing what comes out of Corbin’s beef with management could be entertaining.  He thinks he was unjustly suspended and stripped of the title.  Supposedly he might have struck a ref.    

-Unfortunately the Voodoo Doughnut commercial they played twice during this episode may have been the second most interesting thing they did.  

-They played a classic Portland Wrestling match from the 80’s.  It was a six man tag featuring Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Matt Borne, Rocky Johnson, Bob Orton, and Buddy Rose.  It’s not very good, but may have some nostalgia or novelty value if you wanna check it out.

-Play by play man Joe V. referenced DDP yoga.  I legitimately marked out over this.  It proves that he’s not just a morning host over at PDX-TV, but a genuine wrestling fan as well.  I’ve been huge on this guy since the Portland Wresting Uncut days.  Can’t say enough good things about Joe V on commentary.  

The Bottom Line

In the bottom line segment, I like to give my general feeling on the episode.  

Bottom line is this.  The main event was just okay.  The rest of the episode sucked.  

When this promotion burst on to the scene I thought I was getting the new Portland Wrestling Uncut.  (A defunct promotion that I loved.)  And you might understand why I thought that.  They’re using pretty much the same roster.  

But that’s the thing about wrestling.  I’m reminded of it time and time again, a wrestler is often only as good as the promotion he’s in.  

In Uncut, it seemed like everyone on the roster had something to do.  Some really cool storyline going on.  

In WCWC, it seems they’re all just wrestling one boring match after the other.  

Anyway, here’s the Posties ...

The Posties

I like to give out these awards to the stand out performers of every episode.  Thanks for reading my blog post.  Peace.    

Match of the Night:  Danny Duggan Vs. Jeremy Blanchard.  

Mic Skills That Pay the Bills:  Jake “The Snake” Roberts.  You know I gotta give it to Jake!  

Best Dressed:  Johnny Fairplay.  Dat Miley Cyrus t-shirt tho!  

Sample Post.

Sample post.

Just to see what it looks like.  You know?  Get a feel for shit.

Holy shit!  Is that a spider?  What's a spider doing here?  It's mad cold for insects.  Is a spider even an insect?  I don't know.

Well.  You're not supposed to kill a spider.  They're good for eating up smaller bugs so I'm just gonna let it-

Fuck!  It bit me!  Jesus Christ that hurts!  I can't believe it bit me!?  Why would it do that?

I wasn't anywhere near it!  It must have jumped five feet across the room!  Fucking dick, yo!

I'm getting out of here.  I'm calling the fucking exterminator.  Gonna make it rain liquid death on that spider.