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!