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North East Wrestling Society (NEWS) - Anniversary Show, 27th May 2011

Well for once your not going to get from me i know very little about said promotion as North East Wrestling Society are my local promotion (well 26 miles away but that's local enough for me), so i know a bit about them. North East Wrestling Society are based in the North East of England and run their shows out of the Peterlee Leisure centre. I have attended about 5 shows and all of them i have really enjoyed, although the crowds are made up of a lot of children NEWS cater for all fans in the style of wrestling they put on, whether its technical wrestling, high-flying or an all out brawl (Iceman and Lowthian put on a brutal last man standing match at one of their shows last year,involving blood,thumbtacks and just general insanity) there is normally a great mix.

Anniversary Show marked NEWS first year in business and the main event of the evening was to conclude their year long tournament and crown their first ever North East Wrestling Society champion, so less of the chit chat and onto the review .....

Match 1 - Pac vs Bingo Ballance vs Lowthian [**3/4]

This match was originally meant to have been between 'The man that gravity forgot' Pac and Ireland's very own Bingo Ballance, a well known high flyer around Europe. Ive seen loads of Pac and for me the guy is world class wowing crowds all over the world from the UK to the US and Japan, its just a matter of time before he ends up in the WWE or TNA. This is my first time seeing Bingo Ballance, Pac and Ballance started the match off at a fast pace jockeying over position over an arm, until Lowthians music hit, accompanied by Julian Werther Chambers and got himself involved into the match up making it a three way. The action was really good and started with a beauty dive to the outside by Ballance onto Lowthian. When the action eventually got into the ring it was solid with Pac and Bingo Ballance bumping around for Lowthian, Ballance in particular took a nasty looking bump when he was thrown to the outside by Lowthian. Pac and Ballance got very little offense in, apart from a awesome Pac over the top rope moonsault type dive to the outside and a diamond cutter from Ballance onto Lowthian. Lowthian was made by Pac and Ballance to look like a superstar in the making and an absolute powerhouse. However, one gripe i had with this match was that it was more like a handicap match then a three way as when Lowthian became involved in the match up bar a brief sequence between Pac and Ballance which was on the money, it was them two fighting Lowthian instead together in a handicap type match feel, bar this minor niggle this match was good for what it was. I also thought the booking of this match was gutsy how many promoters would let a wrestler with only a years experience go over one internationally renowned wrestler and another European standout yet alone both together. This match played its purpose perfectly and it made Lowthian a major force in NEWS and look like a superstar.

After the match Julian Werther Chambers got on the mike and claimed that one of the particiapnts in tonights title match up had signed up to become his second client (Lowthian being his first) but wouldn't reveal who.

Match 2 - Fast and Furious (c) (AJ Anderson and Max Heat) vs Full Pack (Iain Robinson and Micky Long) for the NEWS Tag Team titles [***1/2]

This is Fast and Furious's first defence of their Tag Team titles against my favourite tag team in NEWS, Full Pack. Full Pack have a great gimmick, heal Prima Donner's wearing pink who fancy themselves, its a shame the DVD didn't show their entrance has generally its hilarious the way they interact with the fans and subsequently have massive heat as a result. The action in this match up was great there was high flying action with the speedster Max Heat hitting dives to the outside, saying that the other 3 guys in this match aren't no slouches either. The in ring action was exceptional as well, Full Pack really are a great tag team with some classy double team tactics and one in particular sublime double team maneuver which the commentator on commentary called as the 'dream sequence',one slight negative in this match was the prolonged beat down of Max Heat that went a little to long for my liking but the hot tag came along and AJ Anderson hit two on the finest spinebusters you will see in wrestling today, the win came when Max Heat got the roll up on Micky Long for the 3 count. The crowd in this match were also really loud and added to the match up. With all my praise of Full Pack, Fast and Furious are really good tag team as well and complement each other perfectly and are really over with the crowd and probably the companies top babyfaces only behind the massively popular El Ligero. Both teams have great chemistry and to this day are still feuding in NEWS and putting on really good match ups amongst one another. It's great to see local talent like these put on really good match between one another.

After the match up Gorilla Warfare (Jack Norton) and John Britton went on to attack Max Heat until AJ Anderson made the save.

Match 3 - Order of Chaos (Cameron Kraze & Prince Ameen) vs Dragon Ryders (Lewis ‘The Dragon’ Chambers & Robbie Ryder) [***]

Another really good match he has the young inexperienced but fast paced and high flying duo of Dragon Ryders were making their tag team debut together against the veterans of the British independent scene in Cameron Kraze & Prince Ameen. The Dragon Ryders were exciting in this match up,exhibiting high flying wrestling whilst the experience of Cameron Kraze & Prince Ameen held the match together and sold really well for their young opponents and using some great heal tag team tactics and wrestling to make a good match up here. Order of Chaos picked up the win here after the arrogant Prince Ameen clocked Robbie Ryder in the face with brass knucks when the refs back was turned and picking up the win for his team. Although they were on the losing end in this match the debuting Dragon Ryders came out this match looking really good which is a credit to the hard work to not only themselves but the hard work Cameron Kraze & Prince Ameen done in this match up to make them look good.

Match 4 - Lance Thunder vs Andy Swan [***1/4]

When i looked at the card for this event i thought this match would be the sleeper match of the night so i went into this match not expecting much, but man was i wrong and i apologise to both wrestlers as in the time given they put on a corker of a little match up. Lance Thunder for his size is really agile and is an exceptional talent who showed some great technical wrestling against Andy Swan (both these guys are brothers in real life but this is never acknowledged in NEWS). Both these guys put on a very technical affair and Swan kept up move for both with the more superior Thunder. Swan picked up the win after taking everything Thunder had and rolled him up to pick up the surprise win. Again a really good performance from these two local talents and i hope to see both again in the future (am sure in the shows i have been to i haven't seen these two on the card). Lance Thunder in particular stood out and really impressed.

Match - El Ligero vs Martin Kirby to crown the first ever North East Wrestling Society champion [****]

To the main event of the night then, ive seen these two wrestle in a 30 min iron man match and a Mexican street fight at subsequent NEWS events and they were really good so i knew going into this match up what to expect goodness all round and i wasn't disappointed. By the way El Ligero is over massively with the NEWS crowd and rightfully so is their number 1 babyface. Theses two put on a classy performance two friends who know each others game inside out and it showed, as each other countered one anther's moves and had one another well scouted. This match had a little bit of everything,your high flying action, some nice technical wrestling and some really stiff action as well, which had a rapid crowd on the edge of their seats through out, in a great back and forth contest. Julian Werther Chambers and Lowthian took seats at ringside and got involved in this match on both guys behalf to keep the crowd guessing who had signed on to be Julian Werther Chambers's second client. The finish in this class match came when the ref was unintentionally knocked down and Julian Werther Chambers and Lowthian got involved clocking El Ligero over the head with the ring bell thus revealing it was Kirby who had signed with Julian Werther Chambers. Ligero kicked out just, and rolled Kirby up for the 3 after Kirby accidentally knocked Lowthian of the ring apron and Ligero hit Julian Werther Chambers with a superkick to become NEWS first ever champion in a fine match up to send the crowd into a frenzy.

Overall show thoughts - A great show everything was solid on the card with the opener being the only match to drop below ***. We had a really good tag title match with both teams really going at it and a classy main event which was supported with a really solid undercard. NEWS have alot of things going right for them at the moment they have in my opinion an excellent tag team division which this DVD highlighted and ive witnessed live at subsequent shows that have happened after this DVD. In Lowthian they have a superstar in the making and a massive heat magnet, he is hated by the NEWS crowd and comes up against the champ El Ligero at NEWS next show. Another thing which is pleasing is that a lot of local talent is shown in NEWS and are given their chance to shine which they do. Pick this DVD up now its a cracking show from top to bottom you won't be disappointed, also try get a long to a NEWS show for cracking nights entertainment and a great atmosphere which was shown on this show as the crowd were noisy throughout the night. Check out NEWS through their facebook page or visit their website at http://www.newrestling.co.uk/. It's a shame NEWS don't produce more DVD's of their shows as their good and some really good matches happen, and only the crowd ever get to see them instead of a wider audience. However, that's not all the kind people at NEWS have included a bonus DVD with this release, of the Tag Team Tournament which happened at their February show in 2011, to crown the first ever Tag Team champs, so onto the action we go ......


Match 1 - Fast & Furious (AJ Anderson & Max Heat) vs Perfect Saints (Purdie & Saint) vs Order of Chaos (Cameron Kraze & Prince Ameen) in a tag team gauntlet match semi final for the NEWS Tag Team Titles
Fast and Furious started out with the debuting team of the Perfect Saints, in all honesty i wasn't a fan of this match i found the pace slow and at times dull, and the beat down segement of Max Heat really slowed the pace of the match down until he hit the tag to AJ Anderson. However i totally understand the pacing of this match, to conserve energy due to the finals of the tag team tourney taking place on the same night and this match was a gauntlet and winners had a match coming right up, although i didn't like the match it made sense how it played out. AJ got the pin on Purdie after Max Heat hit him with the 619 [*1/4]

The team of Order of Chaos (Cameron Kraze & Prince Ameen) now entered the gauntlet and things picked up, with the beating Max Heat took he didnt wrestle much of this one, with AJ taking on the veterans of Kraze and Ameen. As mentioned above i really dig the work of Cameron Kraze & Prince Ameen, some people may not find them spectacular in what they do in the ring but there work is really solid, they played the old school heal team to perfection. AJ Anderson picked up the win for his team pinning Prince Ameen after hitting him with a superkick after some previous near falls exchanged between the two teams. [**1/4]

Match 2 - Full Pack (Iain Robinson & Micky Long) vs The Minto Brothers vs Project Lucha (El Ligero & Martin Kirby) n a tag team gauntlet match semi final for the NEWS Tag Team Titles
Full Pack and the debuting Minto Brothers started out and both teams went at it full tilt which i was rather surprised at. The Minto Brothers were impressive and I'd love to see them in a NEWS ring together. Both team showed some solid tag team wrestling and some nice tag team moves. The match gradually understandable slowed down in pace but this never came as an hindrance. Full Pack picked up the win when they took an arm each and lifted Shaun Minto in the air and hitting a powerbomb like double team move. [**1/2]

Project Lucha then hit the ring to enter the gauntlet match, a bit of comedy between Micky Long, El Ligero and the ref posing started of this match a wise move after Full Pack just wrestled in a highly competitive match up with the Minto Brothers. This one started slow but when it really hit its stride it was very good, Full Pack were there usual heal self while Kirby and Ligero brought their usual goodness. Good Tag teaming mixed in with some neat high flying stuff from ligero and kirby and this match was enjoyable, i wouldn't mind seeing these two teams go at it again and with Full Pack fresh, and not wrestling knowing they had to conserve energy for the finals of the tag tourney. [**3/4]

Match 3 - Ladder Match - Fast and Furious (AJ Anderson & Max Heat) vs Full Pack (Iain Robinson and Micky Long) to crown the first ever NEWS Tag Team Champions [*****]

Holy Shit !!! what a freaking match. Both teams wrestled 20 minutes at least in their respective semi final matches and then went all out busting their asses for around about 35 minutes in this classic match. There must have been about 5 legitimate times when i had me hands on my head shouting 'fucking hell' at some of the stuff these four men put themselves through, it was amazing,i was exhausted by the end of the match up. I'll try give a rundown of some of the stuff that happened in the match but forgive as ill probably miss some bits out there was that much going on. The match started off with both teams brawling around ringside , Micky Long falling on fans whilst getting beat upon by AJ, whilst Heat and Robinson went at hit around the venue. There was chairs, tables,broom sticks amongst other things used as weapons as chaos ensured throughout the match. The action got back to the ring and the in ring stuff was really great with no weapons at all being used for an extended period of time as both teams went at it full out, Full Pack hit their devastating dream sequence on Max Heat. Chaos again ensured around the arena with anything these 4 guys could get their hands on being used as weapons. After about 15 to 20 minutes the ladder came into play in the ring and the match really hit its stride some real stand out moments ill try do a rundown of some of these. After a steal chair was introduced, Micky Long proceeded to Tombstone Max Heat onto hit whilst it was in a seated position in a sick move. In what i thought was a very innovative sequence Robinson lodged the steal chair in the turnbuckle and AJ Anderson took advantage bulldogging Robinson right into it, as a result AJ's legs where lodged in the ropes and Micky Long from the vertical opposite turnbuckle delivered a leg drop onto a sitting duck which was AJ Anderson. You remember that beauty Spinebuster i said AJ delivers, he delivered it on Micky Long after running up the ladder after Long had previously turned round to fight him of slamming from the ladder straight onto the ring canvas. Max heat was hit by Robinson with a Rock Bottom type move of the ladder as well. A sick spot saw AJ Anderson pile driving Micky Long of the ring open through a table onto the floor. The big holy shit moment of the match was when Order of Chaos got involved in the match and the locker room spilled out with an all out brawl spilling out into the arena, Max Heat then, from what id say was a 25 foot balcony dived on to the fighting wrestlers blew him knocking them all down the, crazy lunatic. AJ Anderson captured the tag titles to win the match for his team when he flipped Robinson off the ladder when they were both going for the title, sending the crowd wild and the faces holstering him and Max Heat onto their shoulders in celebration and receiving a standing ovation from the fans. What a match,you guys need to see this, my write up here can't do it justice you guys need to see this with your own eyes.

Ive got to give major props to Iain Robinson, Micky Long, AJ Anderson and Max Heat, all four guys had wrestled semi final gauntlet matches previous to this ladder match in the same night and then and delivered a match like that, massive respect for that, they must have wrestled for nearly an hour in total all together through out the night.

Overall DVD thoughts- Buy this now !! you have a great main show and a bonus disc that contains a phenomenal ladder match that has to be seen what more can you guys ask for from £10 ? NEWS are a promotion as I've already said who are going places !​
 
#5,419 ·
ROH Underground 2012 Review:

1. Kenny King vs. Andy "Right Leg" Ridge - **1/2

2. "The Prodigy" Mike Bennett vs. Grizzly Redwood - Don't care about that.

3. Adam Cole vs. Kevin Steen - ***1/2
STEEN IS THE MAN. ONCE AGAIN.

4. World Tag Team Title Match: Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander - ***

5. Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team vs. Team A1 - N/A

6. Proving Ground Match: World TV Champion Jay Lethal vs. Tommaso Ciampa - ***1/4 - ***1/2

7. Winning Team Gets A World Tag Team Title Shot: Davey Richards & Kyle O'Reilly vs. Roderick Strong & Michael Elgin - ****1/4
WOW, what a great match. The finish was weak, but yeah, that was REALLY good.

Post Match with H.O.T was good, it's looks like Roddy will leave them. I Wish someone like Kyle, good wrestler but awful with the mic will join them.

Overall Rating: I was interested in the show because of the crowd actually. But I really think the place looked good. It's looked like Chiakra show, but with more people in the crowd. I Liked it, don't know why ROH were so pissed about this. Overall pretty fun show, good matches and great ME. I Will give it.. 7.5.​
 
#5,421 ·
highspots facebook said:
Now thru Monday April 9th we are offering a STORE-WIDE 28% off sale to commemorate the 28th anniversary of Wrestlemania. Use Coupon Code WM28 at checkout. Not valid on wrestling ring items and custom gear.
Just ordered Shimmer Vol 38 and 39. Thanks for the heads up Seabs. Wanted to get them for a while, might as well get them during a sale.
 
#5,422 ·
$5 Wrestling: This Many

I wanted to get some DVDs while in Miami but I was on a tight budget and this was the only one I could afford. Here we go I guess...


Dick Foley vs. "War Dawg" Rick Havok

Why does this company have their own Tough Enough and why is there a Mick Foley impersonator? Match starts with some terrible chain wrestling and some super weak chops and slaps. Foley also hit 3 clotheslines in a row where he made no contact at all with War Dawg. Everything was sloppy, nothing looked good, the gimmick was stupid, there is still no fucking crowd at all for the show, and neither guy gave me the impression that they knew what they were doing. That being said it's probably one of the better matches that this company has had.
DUD


Raider Rock vs. Storm Maverick


I think both guys might be retarded. It was rather amazing how they managed to botch every single move they did. Literally every single spot was botched which was rather impressive in how terrible it was. I think you could put two random guys into the ring (and I mean guys and not wrestlers) and they would be able to do a better job than this shit. One of the worst matches I've ever seen from a technical standpoint. At least they tried to tell a story where Raider Rock just beat the shit out of Storm but all of the moves looked stupid and terrible. This was embarassing to watch.
-****1/2


The Shiek and Grease Monkey vs. The Cruel Connection


This kids in the crowd actually seemed to enjoy the match. Or at least they found something entertaining to do while the match was going on. Also why the fuck is Sheik working as a face? He's literally been the only guy that appears to have any wrestling ability in the whole company and was a solid heel with his very generic gimmick. And turning him face made no sense. Also are we supposed to think the Cruel Connection members are identical? They have the same gear and made some illegal switches but the ref didn't seem to notice the obvious switches. Ending was insanely stupid as well, one of the worst roll-ups ever and the tights were held right in front of the ref but he counted to 3 anyway. Everything about this was bad. I still don't understand why The Sheik was a face and why he lost in his first match as a face.
-*3/4


America's Team: American Idiot and Dyn-O-Mite vs. The Un-Americans: Jeff Hart and Johnny N.

Johnny N. apparently hates the extreme racial discrimination so he has defected to Canada and decided to team with Hart, who is obviously a Canadian. I just don't believe that he's a real Hart though. Jeff Hart never got in the ring and the Americans just beat up Johhny N. for almost the entire time. I was left wondering what the point of all of this was. Highlight of the match was a shoulder tackle, and that's all that really needs to be said.
DUD


$5 Wrestling Championship:

Freight Train(c) vs. Wolfman

Fuck, what this awful. Freight Train seems to know how to do a bodyslam and a shoulder block. Yet this guy is their champion. He doesn't sell anything and just looks stupid most of the time. Never have I seen a wrestler in some type of submission start clapping himself to get the crowd going. His comeback consisted of Wolfman running into the corner and Freight Train hitting him with this super weak elbow. How is this the main event of any type of show? I am baffled as to why the main event was just so terrible. Nothing good to say about this match.
-*


I don't know why I expected anything different. I wish I had $10 so I could have purchased a PWG DVD or just something that didn't totally suck like this DVD did. Avoid at all costs.
 
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#5,427 ·
ROH Rise & Prove 2012 Review:

1. Adam Cole vs. Michael Elgin - **3/4

2. Rise & Prove Tag Team Tournament- Match #1: Shiloh Jones & Rudy Switchblade vs. Sean Casey & Chris Silvio - **1/2

3. Rise & Prove Tag Team Tournament- Match #2: Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls vs. Alabama Attitude - **3/4
BODY SLAM~!

4. No Holds Barred Match: Eddie Edwards vs. Roderick Strong - ***1/2
Great match, good spots.

5. Mike Mondo vs. Samson Walker - *1/4
UGH.

6. Rise & Prove Tag Team Tournament- Finals: Winners Match #1 vs. Winners Match #2 - ***

7. Proving Ground Match: World TV Champion Jay Lethal vs. BJ Whitmer - ***
Great to see BJ again, and he looks in good shape.

8. World Tag Team Title Match: Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. Davey Richards & Kyle O'Reilly - ****1/4-****1/2

Overall Rating: Great arena, very good crowd. The ME was really great (spot-fest, but still awesome), others was like good-ok-weak. too many OVW guys. I Will give it... 7.0, could be better if Samson-Mondo wasn't in the card.
 
#5,428 ·
Dragon Gate USA - Open The Ultimate Gate 2012 iPPV


Rich Swann vs. A.R. Fox - ***1/2

Tommy Dreamer & Bobby Fish vs. The Scene (Caleb Konley & Scott Reed) - **

Sami Callihan vs. BxB Hulk - ***

Street Fight
D.U.F. (Pinkie Sanchez & Arik Cannon) vs. Sabu & Jon Davis - **

Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Akira Tozawa - ****

Samuray Del Sol vs. Johnny Vandal - *

Low Ki vs. PAC - ***3/4

Open The United Gate Titles

Ronin (Johnny Gargano & Chuck Taylor) vs. Ricochet & Masato Yoshino - ****



Dragon Gate USA - Mercury Rising 2012 iPPV


Jon Davis vs. Bobby Fish - **1/2

Arik Cannon vs. A.R. Fox - **3/4

Anything Goes
Sabu vs. Sami Callihan - **

Chuck Taylor Invitational
Chuck Taylor vs. Lince Dorado vs. Samuray Del Sol vs. Rich Swann vs. CIMA vs. El Generico - ***3/4

The Scene vs. Los Ben Dejos (Ben Dejo & Cruz) - **

Open The Freedom Gate
Johnny Gargano vs. Masato Yoshino - ****1/4


Akira Tozawa, Low Ki & BxB Hulk vs. Ricochet, PAC & Masaaki Mochizuki - ****


Another good weekend from DGUSA, El Generico’s debut was great and the crowd loved it, Chuck Taylor fell perfectly into his role as a heel, Mochizuki & Tozawa had another great match & Gargano came back from the EVOLVE injury with two fine matches. Only things that were below par were the finality (hopefully) of the Sabu & Fox/D.U.F. feud and anything involving The Scene.


 
#5,429 ·
Hi. Longtime Chikara and indy wrestling fan. I've gotten out of wrestling entirely and have been selling off my collection. I've bought and sold on Ebay for years with perfect feedback. I still have quite a few ROH and PWG DVDs to sell, so I'm posting the list here. Most of the ROH are from 2004-2006 and are OOP. Virtually everything I have is in "like new" condition.

Payment is accepted through PayPal. Shipping will be via priority mail with a tracking number provided. I'll ship next business day after payment is received.

Here's the list:
ROH $10 each
ROH Night of Champions 3/22/03
ROH Round Robin Challenge 4/26/03
ROH/FWA Frontiers of Honor 5/17/03 (RF Video ROH version)
ROH Night of Grudges 6/14/03
ROH Wrestlerave ’03 6/28/03
ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/19/03
ROH 2nd Year Anniversary Show 2/14/04
ROH At Our Best 3/13/04
ROH Reborn – Stage One 4/23/04
ROH Reborn – Stage Two 4/24/04
ROH Round Robin Challenge III 5/15/04
ROH Survival of the Fittest 6/24/04
ROH Reborn – Completion 7/17/04
ROH Scramble Cage Melee 8/28/04
ROH Glory by Honor 3 9/11/04-
ROH All Star Extravaganza 2 12/14/04
ROH Final Battle 2004 12/26/04
ROH Do or Die IV 2/19/05
ROH Trios Tournament 3/5/05
ROH Best of American Super Juniors Tournament 4/2/05
ROH Stalemate 4/16/05
ROH The Final Showdown 5/13/05
ROH The Future is Now 6/12/05
ROH Redemption 8/12/05
ROH Survival of the Fittest 9/24/05
ROH Unforgettable 10/2/05
ROH Enter the Dragon 10/14/05
ROH Buffalo Stampede 10/15/05
ROH This Means War 10/29/05
ROH Showdown in Motown 11/4/05
ROH Steel Cage Warfare 12/3/05
ROH Hell Freezes Over 1/14/06
ROH Tag Wars 2006 1/27/06
ROH Dissention 1/28/06
ROH Unscripted 2/11/06
ROH Fourth Anniversary Show 2/25/06
ROH Arena Warfare 3/11/06
ROH Dragon Gate Challenge 3/30/06
ROH Supercard of Honort 3/31/06
ROH Better than Our Best 4/1/06
ROH The 100th Show 4/22/06
ROH Weekend of Champions – Night 1 4/28/06
ROH Weekend of Champions – Night Two 4/29/06
ROH Destiny 6/3/06
ROH Throwdown 6/23/06
ROH Chi-Town Struggle 6/24/06
ROH Generation Now 7/29/06
ROH Time to Man Up 8/4/06
ROH Unified 8/12/06
ROH Anarchy in the UK 8/13/06
ROH Epic Encounter II 8/25/06
ROH Gut Check 8/26/06
ROH Glory by Honor V – Night 1 9/15/06
ROH Glory by Honor V – Night 2 9/16/06
ROH Survival of the Fittest 10/6/06
ROH Motor City Madness 10/7/06
ROH Suffocation 10/27/06
ROH Honor Reclaims Boston 11/3/06
ROH The Bitter End 11/4/06
ROH Black Friday Fallout 11/24/06
ROH Dethroned 11/25/06
ROH The Chicago Spectacular – Night One 12/8/06
ROH The Chicago Spectacular – Night Two 12/9/06
ROH Dedicated 1/26/07
ROH Fifth Year Festival – 2/24/07
ROH Fifth Year Festival –Liverpool 3/3/07
ROH Fifth Year Festival – Finale 3/4/07
ROH Supercard of Honor II 3/31/07
ROPH Fighting Spirit 4/14/07
ROH The Battle of St. Paul 4/27/07
ROH Domination 6/9/07
ROH Undeniable 10/6/07
ROH The Tokyo Summit 9/14/08
ROH Injustice II 1/17/09
ROH Motor City Madness 1/30/09
ROH Proving Ground 2009 – Night One 2/6/09
ROH Proving Ground 2009 – Night Two 2/7/09

PWG $4 each
PWG Taste the Radness 2/22/04
PWG 88 Miles Per Hour 3/7/04
PWG The Musical 4/17/04
PWG Kee_ the _ee Our of Our _ool 4/27/04
PWG 44 Ways to Kill You With a Pimento 5/22/04
PWG The Next Show 9/3/04
PWG Use Your Illusion III 10/9/04
PWG Use Your Illusion IV 10/23/04
PWG Free Admission 11/13/04
PWG Uncanny X-Mas 12/18/04
PWG Card Subject to Change 1/22/05
PWG All Nude Review 2/12/05
PWG Ernest P. Worrell Memorial 3/12/05
PWG Jason Takes PWG 5/13/05
PWG 2nd Annual PWG Bicentennial Birthday Extravaganza – Night One 7/9/05
PWG 2nd Annual PWG Bicentennial Birthday Extravaganza – Night Two 7/10/05
PWG Zombies Shouldn’t Run 8/6/05
PWG Smells Like Steen Spirit 8/19/05 After School Special 10/1/05
PWG Straight to DVD 10/14/05
PWG All Star Weekend 2 – Night One 11/18/05
PWG All Star Weekend 2 – Night Two 11/19/05
PWG Chanukah Chaos 12/3/05
PWG Astonishing X-Mas 12/16/05
PWG Cruisin’ for a Brusin’ 1/7/06
PWG Teen Outreach Summit 1/21/06
PWG Permanent Vacation/Card Subject to Change 2 2/4/06
PWG Hollywood Globetrotters 3/4/06
PWG Beyond the Thunderdome 3/18/06
PWG (Please Don’t Call It) The OC 5/6/06
PWG Enchantment Under the Sea 5/20/06
PWG Fear of a Black Planet 6/3/06
PWG From Parts Well Known 6/24/06
PWG Self-Titled 10/6/06
PWG Horror Business 10/21/06
PWG Passive Hostility 12/2/06
PWG True Stories 1/13/07
PWG Guitarmageddon II – Amoryageddon 2/10/07
PWG Holy Diver Down 2/24/07
PWG Album of the Year 3/10/07
PWG Roger Dorn Night 6/10/07
PWG Schadenfreude 10/14/07
PWG The High Cost of Doing Business 11/11/07
PWG Pearl Habra 1/27/08
PWG Dia De Los Dangerous! 2/24/08
PWG 1.21 Gigawatts 3/21/08
PWG /it’s A Gift…. And /A Curse 4/5/08
PWG It’s It (What Is It?) 6/8/08
PWG Life During Wartime 7/6/08
PWG Threemendous II 7/31/09

Thanks. If you're interested in anything or have questions, please PM me.
 
#5,431 ·
The point behind a $5 dollar wrestling show dvd is that the wrestling itself is terrible. The catch is that people buy it for the comedy in the commentary the hilariously bad wrestling. Its not bad at all if you want a laugh. Not a horrible way to spend $5
 
#5,432 ·
I'm aware of that. I love all the DVDs and just have fun writing those stupid reviews as if I was taking them seriously. The whole idea is comedy gold. I was at the $5 Wrestling Live in Miami and it was incredible. Some of the absolute shit that they found was incredible and New Jack was there so that makes even better. Probably one of my favorite things going on in wrestling.
 
#5,450 ·
Other stuff I have, that shall be going up for auction eventually includes:

ROH Death Before Dishonor V Night 2
ROH Death Before Dishonor VI
ROH Final Battle 2007
ROH Fifth Year Festival Finale
ROH Glory By Honor VIII: The Final Countdown
ROH Supercard Of Honor IV
WWE Vengeance 2003
WWE Armageddon 2005
WWE Unforgiven 2003

I might put up some books, but considering I would never buy a book off eBay due to caring too much about bent corners, tears, etc, I'm not sure.

Pure Dynamite: Dynamite Kid
A Lion's Tale: Chris Jericho
Heartbreak & Triumph: Shawn Michaels
Have a Nice Day: Mick Foley
 
#5,436 ·
AAW - War Is Coming

1. Dan Lawrence, Samuray Del Sol & Zero Gravity vs The Clash
**3/4

2. Mena Libra vs MsChif
*1/2

3. Christian Faith & Gregory Iron vs The Awesome Threesome
**1/4

4. AAW Heritage Title
Mason Beck vs Michael Elgin
***

5. Street Fight
The House of Truth vs Darin Corbin, Danny Daniels & Marion Fontaine
**1/4

6. AAW Tag Team Titles
Irish Airborne vs Josh Raymond & Christian Able
***1/4

7. Matt Cross vs Shane Hollister
**1/2

8. Dog Collar Match
Arik Cannon vs Jimmy Jacobs
***1/2

9. AAW Heavyweight Title
Silas Young vs Rhino
**3/4​
 
#5,437 ·
Reposting this so I can add my email address:

Hi. Longtime Chikara and indy wrestling fan. I've gotten out of wrestling entirely and have been selling off my collection. I've bought and sold on Ebay for years with perfect feedback. I still have quite a few ROH and PWG DVDs to sell, so I'm posting the list here. Most of the ROH are from 2004-2006 and are OOP. Virtually everything I have is in "like new" condition.

Payment is accepted through PayPal. Shipping will be via priority mail with a tracking number provided. I'll ship next business day after payment is received.

Here's the list:
ROH $10 each
ROH Night of Champions 3/22/03
ROH Round Robin Challenge 4/26/03
ROH/FWA Frontiers of Honor 5/17/03 (RF Video ROH version)
ROH Night of Grudges 6/14/03
ROH Wrestlerave ’03 6/28/03
ROH Death Before Dishonor 7/19/03
ROH 2nd Year Anniversary Show 2/14/04
ROH At Our Best 3/13/04
ROH Reborn – Stage One 4/23/04
ROH Reborn – Stage Two 4/24/04
ROH Round Robin Challenge III 5/15/04
ROH Survival of the Fittest 6/24/04
ROH Reborn – Completion 7/17/04
ROH Scramble Cage Melee 8/28/04
ROH Glory by Honor 3 9/11/04-
ROH All Star Extravaganza 2 12/14/04
ROH Final Battle 2004 12/26/04
ROH Do or Die IV 2/19/05
ROH Trios Tournament 3/5/05
ROH Best of American Super Juniors Tournament 4/2/05
ROH Stalemate 4/16/05
ROH The Final Showdown 5/13/05
ROH The Future is Now 6/12/05
ROH Redemption 8/12/05
ROH Survival of the Fittest 9/24/05
ROH Unforgettable 10/2/05
ROH Enter the Dragon 10/14/05
ROH Buffalo Stampede 10/15/05
ROH This Means War 10/29/05
ROH Showdown in Motown 11/4/05
ROH Steel Cage Warfare 12/3/05
ROH Hell Freezes Over 1/14/06
ROH Tag Wars 2006 1/27/06
ROH Dissention 1/28/06
ROH Unscripted 2/11/06
ROH Fourth Anniversary Show 2/25/06
ROH Arena Warfare 3/11/06
ROH Dragon Gate Challenge 3/30/06
ROH Supercard of Honort 3/31/06
ROH Better than Our Best 4/1/06
ROH The 100th Show 4/22/06
ROH Weekend of Champions – Night 1 4/28/06
ROH Weekend of Champions – Night Two 4/29/06
ROH Destiny 6/3/06
ROH Throwdown 6/23/06
ROH Chi-Town Struggle 6/24/06
ROH Generation Now 7/29/06
ROH Time to Man Up 8/4/06
ROH Unified 8/12/06
ROH Anarchy in the UK 8/13/06
ROH Epic Encounter II 8/25/06
ROH Gut Check 8/26/06
ROH Glory by Honor V – Night 1 9/15/06
ROH Glory by Honor V – Night 2 9/16/06
ROH Survival of the Fittest 10/6/06
ROH Motor City Madness 10/7/06
ROH Suffocation 10/27/06
ROH Honor Reclaims Boston 11/3/06
ROH The Bitter End 11/4/06
ROH Black Friday Fallout 11/24/06
ROH Dethroned 11/25/06
ROH The Chicago Spectacular – Night One 12/8/06
ROH The Chicago Spectacular – Night Two 12/9/06
ROH Dedicated 1/26/07
ROH Fifth Year Festival – 2/24/07
ROH Fifth Year Festival –Liverpool 3/3/07
ROH Fifth Year Festival – Finale 3/4/07
ROH Supercard of Honor II 3/31/07
ROPH Fighting Spirit 4/14/07
ROH The Battle of St. Paul 4/27/07
ROH Domination 6/9/07
ROH Undeniable 10/6/07
ROH The Tokyo Summit 9/14/08
ROH Injustice II 1/17/09
ROH Motor City Madness 1/30/09
ROH Proving Ground 2009 – Night One 2/6/09
ROH Proving Ground 2009 – Night Two 2/7/09

PWG $4 each
PWG Taste the Radness 2/22/04
PWG 88 Miles Per Hour 3/7/04
PWG The Musical 4/17/04
PWG Kee_ the _ee Our of Our _ool 4/27/04
PWG 44 Ways to Kill You With a Pimento 5/22/04
PWG The Next Show 9/3/04
PWG Use Your Illusion III 10/9/04
PWG Use Your Illusion IV 10/23/04
PWG Free Admission 11/13/04
PWG Uncanny X-Mas 12/18/04
PWG Card Subject to Change 1/22/05
PWG All Nude Review 2/12/05
PWG Ernest P. Worrell Memorial 3/12/05
PWG Jason Takes PWG 5/13/05
PWG 2nd Annual PWG Bicentennial Birthday Extravaganza – Night One 7/9/05
PWG 2nd Annual PWG Bicentennial Birthday Extravaganza – Night Two 7/10/05
PWG Zombies Shouldn’t Run 8/6/05
PWG Smells Like Steen Spirit 8/19/05 After School Special 10/1/05
PWG Straight to DVD 10/14/05
PWG All Star Weekend 2 – Night One 11/18/05
PWG All Star Weekend 2 – Night Two 11/19/05
PWG Chanukah Chaos 12/3/05
PWG Astonishing X-Mas 12/16/05
PWG Cruisin’ for a Brusin’ 1/7/06
PWG Teen Outreach Summit 1/21/06
PWG Permanent Vacation/Card Subject to Change 2 2/4/06
PWG Hollywood Globetrotters 3/4/06
PWG Beyond the Thunderdome 3/18/06
PWG (Please Don’t Call It) The OC 5/6/06
PWG Enchantment Under the Sea 5/20/06
PWG Fear of a Black Planet 6/3/06
PWG From Parts Well Known 6/24/06
PWG Self-Titled 10/6/06
PWG Horror Business 10/21/06
PWG Passive Hostility 12/2/06
PWG True Stories 1/13/07
PWG Guitarmageddon II – Amoryageddon 2/10/07
PWG Holy Diver Down 2/24/07
PWG Album of the Year 3/10/07
PWG Roger Dorn Night 6/10/07
PWG Schadenfreude 10/14/07
PWG The High Cost of Doing Business 11/11/07
PWG Pearl Habra 1/27/08
PWG Dia De Los Dangerous! 2/24/08
PWG 1.21 Gigawatts 3/21/08
PWG /it’s A Gift…. And /A Curse 4/5/08
PWG It’s It (What Is It?) 6/8/08
PWG Life During Wartime 7/6/08
PWG Threemendous II 7/31/09

Thanks. If you're interested in anything or have questions, please PM me or email me at walking_uphill@yahoo.com
 
#5,438 ·
ACW/IWA Texas - Lone Star Classic 2007

1. Awesome Andy vs Tony Morales vs Human Tornado
**1/2

2. Joey Ryan vs Gregory Symonds vs Mike Dell
*3/4

3. Massive vs JT Lamotta vs Darin Childs
*1/4

4. Arik Cannon vs Jimmy Jacobs vs Chris Hero
***1/2

5. Rachel Summerlyn vs Andy Dalton
**

6. Human Tornado vs Joey Ryan
***3/4

7. Arik Cannon vs JT Lamotta
***

8. Berry Breeze vs Problems vs Nathan Sinn vs Dillon Stone vs Shawn Vexx vs Marco Riviera
**

9. Jaykus Plisken vs Skylar Skelly vs Scot Summers vs Bryan Danielson
***1/4

10. JT Lamotta vs Human Tornado
***1/4​
 
#5,439 ·
My first review of a show (mostly so I couldn't get off task/distracted while watching).

UWF Hardcore War 6/8/07

First off, I’d like to say this is my first review and the first time viewing the UWF product. I got this in a Highspots Sampler and I’m looking forward to watching it. The card looks strong, so let’s get this started up.

Some guy comes out and welcomes the crowd to Hardcore War (2?) and we are starting off with tag team action. The ring they are using is a TNA style 6 sided ring.

Team Macktion (Kirby Mack and TJ Mack) vs. Arrogance (Chris Bosh and Scott Lost)
Being a SoCal native I’d like to say FUCK YEA BOSH AND LOST! Moving on to the match, Lost and Bosh attack their opponents before the match, which draws the referee to start off the match. Team Macktion get the advantage quickly hitting several double team moves. Lost and Bosh get the advantage and they hit a couple double team attacks for a nearfall. Lost works over TJ, and the crowd gets behind TJ. TJ’s comeback is stopped, and Arrogance work him over with more double teams. TJ gets the hot tag, and Kirby hits a crazy backstabber to Lost. He hits a corner clothesline to lost, and he goes to the apron. Bosh is on the top rope and hits Kirby with a tornado DDT. Back in the ring, TJ hits Lost with a reverse huricanrana. Macktion follow up with a double suicide dive and they follow it up with a surfboard/double stomb combo. 2! Lost breaks it up and hits a superman spear. Lost and Bosh hit a double team for what felt like an awkward 3 count. I think this was an upset since Macktion seemed like the home promotion team and Arrogance was a one time thing here. Time of the fall ~7:06 (and they fit a lot in that time). **3/4 Fun, fun opener.

X Division Title Match
Chris Sabin © vs. Joey Ryan

The match kicks off as Ryan poses in his corner and the crowd chants for Sabin. They lock up and chain wrestle, but Sabin goes to the ropes to break up a hammerlock. They lock up again, and Ryan gets a wristlock. Sabin does the cartwheel, flip escape and then thumbs Ryan in the eyes. A standard shoulder block spot and a few quick moves ending with Sabin kipping up and Ryan failing to kip up. Sabin helps Ryan up, and then Ryan takes a couple hits from his inhaler. They go back to basic grappling with Ryan gaining control and working over Sabin’s arm. Sabin pops Ryan onto the apron and knocks him to the floor with a dropkick. Sabin feigned a suicide dive and got on the apron before hitting a double axe handle. Ryan gets in the ring, and Sabin follows up with a springboard drop kick to the back for a nearfall. Sabin begins to work over Ryan, but Ryan hits a couple of drop kicks. Sabin slips out the back of a slam, but Ryan ran forward and ducked sending Sabin to the floor. Ryan followed up with a suicide dive. Ryan got on the apron with Sabin following and he caught Sabin with a nice tornado DDT. They get in the ring and Ryan gets a nearfall. Sabin starts a comeback with an Enzuigiri, but Ryan stops him and hits a string of moves ending in another near fall. Sabin reverses an irish whip and hits Ryan with a dropkick in the corner. He puts Ryan in the tree of woe and nails a dropkick for a 2! Sabin went for a string of running moves, but Sabin gets caught with a superkick out of nowhere! A series of reversals and Sabin hits the cradleshock out of nowhere for the 3! Time of the fall ~9:28. Another fun and solid match. ***

Mixed Tag Team Match
April Hunter and JD Michaels vs. Daffney and Damien Wayne

The girls are starting off the match, and April goes for a test of strength. They do the opposite hand thing until Daffney tickles (really) April and runs away. The guys are in now and JD hits a hip toss and celebrates like he won the match. They lock up and Damien hits a couple hip tosses and wrenches the arm. Damien continues to work over the arm for a while, but Michaels hits a weird twist flapjack thing into the ropes. Michaels tries to do something that looks terrible and it earns a ‘You fucked up’ chant. He hits a back elbow for a nearfall. Michaels hit a suplex and hopped to his feet in celebration. Michaels continue to dominate, and he heads to the top ropes. Daffney kicks the rope to crotch Michaels, and Damien meets him up top and follows up with a superplex. Hot tag to the girls and Daffney hits some chops until she is caught with what seems like a crappy black hole slam. April hits a series of suplexs for a near fall. April tosses Daffney across the ring by the hair, but Daffney starts a comeback. April hits a messed up kick or something before going for a crucifix esque submission. April does a few moves to Daffney after putting her in the tree of woe. Daffney sits up and goes for a sliced bread #2? No, Daffney lands on her feet and hits an inverted DDT instead. After a near fall, Michaels runs into the ring to attack Daffney. Wayne cuts him off and clotheslines him to the floor. In the mix, Daffney takes April to the mat and locks in a cross arm breaker for the submission win at ~9:27. Okay, nothing special. *1/4

Doring comes to the ring first and says that the officials want him to say something about his release of the ECW brand. Doring says stuff about what he has done in this building and he calls out Sabu.

Sabu vs. Danny Doring
This match wasn’t listed on the DVD, so I hope this is a good little bonus. The match starts with some basic grapples and chain wrestling as the crowd goes wild for Sabu. Sabu hits several punches and a clothesline, before he hit a springboard leg drop. Sabu went for a another clothesline, but Doring hit one of his own and tossed Sabu to the floor. Sabu hit a few punches and slid Doring into the ring, and he followed up with a front flip leg drop. He worked Danny with a submission and got a chair from ringside. Sabu went to jump on the chair, but Danny grabbed his foot making him fall face first into the chair. Danny locked in an STF, before he set a chair in the corner. He tried to whip Sabu into the chair, but Sabu reversed it. Doring hit his back on it, as Sabu picked up the chair and set it up in front of his standing opponent. Sabu went to jump on the chair, but the chair broke under his feet. He stumbled forward, and Doring had moved out of the way easily. Doring followed with a cool neckbreaker like move for a near fall. Doring tosses Sabu to the floor, but Sabu quickly gets a chair from the crowd. Doring kicked Sabu to keep him on the outside and then leaped over the ropes for a suicide dive. Sabu moved aside and got in the ring. Sabu followed with a dive of his own to the floor. They fight on the floor but finally get in the ring. Doring hits a T Bone Suplex, and he locks in a rear naked choke. Sabu gets to the ropes to break the hold, but Doring gets a chair from ringside. He sets the chair on Sabu’s chest and goes to the rope. Sabu throws the chair at Doring’s head and hits a frankensteiner from the top for a 2. Sabu goes for the triple jump moonsault to be stopped by Doring, but on a second attempt he hits it for another 2! Sabu went for a dive on Doring in the corner, but Doring lifted Sabu to the top rope. He tossed the chair at Sabu. Doring mocked Sabu, and Sabu threw the chair at Doring’s face. Sabe picked the chair up and hit an Arabian Facebuster for the fall at ~9:24. ** The match dragged on a little bit, and a lot of the moves looked sloppy. Just an ECW nostalgia match. One thing that bothered me is how the referee never tried to take away the chairs or stop their usage.

After the match, Doring and Sabu shake hands and hug while ‘Fuck McMahon’ chants are heard.

Ruckus vs. Sonjay Dutt
Basic chain wrestling to kick off the match, and they seem quite evenly matched. About a couple minutes in, the pace quickens and Dutt hits the first impact move with a huricanrana and an arm drag. They go back to slow chain wrestling until Ruckus hits an insane sequence that sends Dutt to the floor with a huricanrana. Ruckus goes for a suicide dive, but Dutt rolls in the ring. Ruckus landed on his feet and Dutt goes for a dive but nobody home. Ruckus gets on the apron and hit a Shooting Star Pressed onto Dutt. Ruckus is dominating as they get back in the ring with a few nearfalls. Soon enough they are neck and neck with quick pins. They trade forearms on their feet, but Ruckus hits a twisting neckbreaker out of nowhere for the 2! Ruckus hits a bodyslam and a standing moonsault for another 2! Ruckus goes for a rolling corner move, but Dutt moves and follows with a flying leg lariat for a near fall. Dutt whips Ruckus but he hits a handspring kick. He follows up with a double handspring back elbow into the corner. This is getting to quick to call. He’s making this look way to easy. Ruckus is on the top going for a tornado DDT, but Dutt knocks him off. Dutt goes for some springboard move to no avail. Dutt ducks under a clothesline and ends up hitting a tornado DDT! He follows up with a standing shooting star press for the finish at ~8:06! Very enjoyable and fast paced match. ***1/4

Steve enters first and grabs a microphone. He says that he isn’t supposed to grab a microphone, but he has to say something. He makes some comments about the referee, Earl Hebner, before he says that tonight is the last time he’ll wrestle in the REAL ECW Arena. He calls WWECW shit, and then says he’d sellout if he gets the chance. He said he is going to burn as many bridges as he can. Steve says something and calls out Mitch Williams, that baseball player. Dustin comes out and starts talking but the crowd is too loud to hear it. It’s bad that I can’t hear, I just think it’s worse since I don’t really care what he’s saying anyways. Dustin goes to punch Mitch Williams and Steve cuts him off to start the match.

Bullrope Match
Steve Corino vs. Dustin Rhodes

Steve hits Dustin with the bell, and Dustin is already bleeding. Steve chokes Dustin with the rope, and they finally are tied together. Dustin cuts him off after hitting 3 ring posts, and Corino gets caught low with the bell. Dustin and Corino are on the floor, and Dustin tosses a chair into the ring. He then puts the ring bell on Corino’s crotch and punches it. They’re back in the ring and Corino knocks Dustin down with some punches. Corino sets up a chair, but Dustin soon plants him face first into the chair. Dustin sets the chair up in the corner, and he throws Steve face first into it. Dustin sets it back up again and puts Corino against it. Dustin hog ties him and somehow uses this to slam Corino face first into the chair again. Corino is busted up, and Dustin is going for the win. At the fourth turnbuckle Mitch runs in the ring and forearm Dustin in the back. Steve beats on Dustin and touches the corners, but Dustin crawls behind him. Before the sixth corner, Dustin pulls Corino into a bulldog, and gets the win at ~5:53. Average match, two older guys. Didn’t expect much. ** Only six minutes and they’re bleeding like crazy.

Matthews grabbed a mic before his match. He said all the companies he has been fired from and tells everyone to kiss his ‘white butt’. He says he is the hottest free agent in wrestling.

Joey Matthews vs. Senshi
They circle the ring, and before they lock up Senshi went for a high kick that Matthews barely dodged. They lock up, and Senshi forces Matthews into the ropes. They chain wrestle ending with Senshi kicking Joey in the chest and him fleeing. They lock up once again, but Senshi goes over the top rope and does a hanging cross armbreaker. The hold is broken and they lock up again. Joey takes Senshi down and slaps the back of his head. Joey poses, and he is caught with a STIFF slap. Joey bails and now Senshi is annoyed. He aggressively hits some chops in the corner. Joey was able to pull Senshi to the top rope, and he connected with a punch that knocked Senshi to the floor. Joey chops and punches Senshi on the floor, before he rolls him into the ring. Joey hits a stalling vertical suplex for the 2. Joey beat his opponent down with a couple of clotheslines, but Senshi started a comeback. Joey was able to prevent a springboard attack and pull Senshi up top. He hit a superplex for a 2 count. The crowd gets behind Senshi, as Matthews works a sleeper hold. Senshi escapes to the ropes causing a break. Matthews hits a snapmare to Senshi and reapplies the sleeper. Senshi escapes and they trade a couple of sleepers until Senshi hits a backdrop. Senshi hits a series of chops and a forearm. Joey hit a punch to the head, but Senshi came back with a kick to the head. Senshi went for a shining wizard and missed, but he came back with a kick to the back of the head. Senshi followed up with a roundhouse kick for a nearfall. The chain wrestle, but Joey gets the upperhand with a northern lights suplex for a 2! Joey goes for a vertical suplex, but Senshi hit knees to the head. Matthews sets Senshi on the top rope, and he goes for a superplex. Senshi pushes him off and goes for the Warriors Way. Matthews moves and follows with a superkick for a 2! Matthews lifts Senshi up, but Senshi does a quick double leg into a jackknife pin at ~12:31. Solid wrestling, some really slow points. ***

Before the match, Daniels says this won’t be a street fight. Styles goes on some rant saying that Team 3D can’t wrestle. Daniels agrees with him, and he says he hates wrestling for fans that think they know what wrestling is all about. He says everyone knows next to nothing about pro wrestling. He says they are the only ones that know it, and Daniels tells everyone to shut the hell up. ‘If I suck so bad, why am I in the main event, and you in the front row, ASSHOLE.’ Daniels is awesome here. Calling the ECW wrestlers trash while in the ECW arena. Team 3D enter with their belts and a chair, and say that here they are the Dudley Boys. Ray makes fun of Daniels and says that by the end of the night one of ‘those two bitches’ will be put through a table.

Philly Street Fight
Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother D-Von) vs. AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels

Daniels and Styles are leaving because they don’t want to be in a Philly Street Fight. After Ray puts down his chair they finally get into the ring. Styles and D-Von start in the ring, why are there tags in a street fight? Styles hits a couple snapmares to D-Von and celebrates. Styles starts to speed up the pace, but he gets hit with a back body drop and a back elbow. D-Von gets a trashcan lid, so Styles and Daniels bail. They get back in the ring after D-Von sets the lid down. D-Von and Ray go for a double team, but Styles goes to the floor, slides back in the ring, and tags in Daniels. Daniels and Ray lock up, and Daniels is overpowered into the corner. Daniels hits Ray with a drop toe hold and then celebrates. 5 minutes in and not much has happened. The pace quickens and Daniels is getting cocky in this match. Daniels hits a heel kick for a near fall, but in only a few moments Daniels runs into a side slam for a two. Ray tosses Daniels to the floor. Ray gets a ladder and throws it at Daniels, but he ducks and runs into the ring. Daniels and Styles begin a double team, and things are starting to lose control. Some double team moves and everyone is on the floor. D-Von crushes a trashcan lid into Daniels head, and Ray smashes the trashcan into Styles’ head. Ray hits Styles with a cookie sheet on the back, and he chokes him with a crutch. Styles ducks under a crutch shot, and Styles nails him with a cookie sheet several times. Daniels and Styles are both beating the Dudleys with weapons on the floor. D-Von gets a claw on Styles nether regions giving him the advantage as Ray hits Daniels with some chops. D-Von and Styles are back in the ring while the others are on the floor. So much action! D-Von with a chokeslam to Styles for 2! Daniels runs in with the STO for 2! Ray with the Bubba Bomb for 2! Styles hits a flying forearm for 2! Everyone is down! Styles and D-Von are up on the top, and Daniels lifts D-Von into an electric chair. D-Von squirms off and shoves Daniels forward into a suplex from RIC STEINER! Steiner takes down EVERYONE with suplexs. He leaves and Daniels and Styles hit a BME/450 combo, but Ray breaks it up. Daniels and Styles hit a double suplex to Ray, and they set up for a what’s up. D-Von shoves Styles off the top, and the Dudleys hit what’s up to Daniels! GET THE TABLES! Table is in the ring, but an Enzuigiri from Daniels and a pele from Styles take the Dudleys down. Styles and Daniels try to double suplex D-Von through a table, but Ray pulls the table out of the way. Ray takes them both down, and he powerbombs Styles THROUGH THE TABLE! The Dudleys hit the 3D to Daniels for the fall at ~16:28! This was a good main event and capped off a solid show. ***1/2

Overall: The show was only just over 2 hours long and it was pretty fun. Only the final two matches were over ten minutes, and nothing was particularly bad except for the mixed tag team match which wasn’t that bad.
 
#5,440 ·
Evolve 10 - A Tribute to the Arena

1. Ahtu vs Low Ki
SQUASH

2. Cheech vs Cloudy
**3/4

3. The Scene vs John Silver & Alex Reynolds
*1/2

4. Jigsaw vs AR Fox
***3/4

5. Uhaa Nation vs Pinkie Sanchez
SQUASH

6. Ronin vs The Super Smash Brothers
****

7. Jon Davis vs Kyle Matthews
SQUASH

8. Bobby Fish vs Sami Callihan
***

9. Open The Freedom Gate Title
Johnny Gargano vs Ricochet
**

10. Sabu vs Justin Credible
**​
 
#5,447 · (Edited)
Yeah everyone sorta skipped over the Sabu/Credible stuff to shit on Sami ruining the end of the Arena.

Also yes Gargano was injured and should have stopped during the match.

Anyway

Just Listed These

ROH - Live In Tokyo
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ROH - Race To The Top Tournament Night 2
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ROH - Tag Wars 2010
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ROH - Fade To Black
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ROH - Tag Title Classic II
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ROH - Glory By Honor IX
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ROH - Champions Challenge
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ROH - Richards vs Daniels
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ROH - Big Bang
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AIW - Todd Pettengill Invitational - Night 1

1. Gregory Iron vs John Kermon
*

2. The Duke vs AERO!
**

3. "Mr RBI" Izeah Bonds vs Sterling James Keenan
*1/2

4. Bobby Beverly vs Sonjay Dutt
***1/4

5. Mickie Knuckles vs Mena Libra
**

6. Dave Crist vs Rickey Shane Page
**

7. Facade vs Sugar Dunkerton
***

8. AIW Tag Team Titles
The Olsen Twins vs Dalton Castle & Joey The Snake
**1/2

9. Flip Kendrick vs Louis Lyndon
***

10. Jonathan Gresham vs Jake Crist
***1/4

11. Colt Cabana vs Marion Fontaine
**1/2

12. Falls Count Anywhere
Tim Donst vs Mad Man Pondo
***

13. Akira Tozawa vs Johnny Gargano
***1/2

14. BJ Whitmer vs Jimmy Jacobs
***1/2

15. Shiima Xion vs Paul London
***


ROH on HDNet - Volume 10

1. Homicide vs Necro Butcher
**

2. Austin Aries vs Roderick Strong
***1/4

3. Steve Corino vs Jay Briscoe vs Christopher Daniels vs Rhett Titus vs Davey Richards vs Claudio Castagnoli vs Chris Hero vs Roderick Strong
***

4. Christopher Daniels vs Chris Hero
****

5. Eddie Edwards vs Christopher Daniels
***3/4

6. Claudio Castagnoli vs Rhett Titus
**1/2

7. Chris Hero vs Kenny King
***

8. Homicide vs El Generico vs Roderick Strong vs Jay Briscoe
***3/4

9. Davey Richards & The Briscoe Brothers vs Roderick Strong & The Kings of Wrestling
****1/4


AIW - Todd Pettengill Invitational Night 2

1. "Mr RBI" Izeah Bonds vs Tim Donst
*3/4

2. Greg Iron vs Marion Fontaine
**1/4

3. Bobby Beverly vs Facade
**1/4

4. BJ Whitmer vs The Duke
**1/4

5. Shiima Xion vs Flip Kendrick
***

6. Jake Crist vs Dave Crist
***1/4

7. Johnny Gargano vs Rickey Shane Page
**3/4

8. Greg Iron vs Bobby Beverly
**1/2

9. Tim Donst vs BJ Whitmer
***1/2

10. Dave Crist vs Shiima Xion
***1/4

11. AIW Tag Titles
The Olsen Twins vs K.Fernandez & Dalton Castle
***

12. The Chad Williams vs Hobo Joe
SQUASH

13. AIW Intense Division Title
Marion Fontaine vs AERO! vs Louis Lyndon vs Maximo Suave
*1/2

14. Tim Donst vs Shiima Xion vs Greg Iron
***1/2
 
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New Generation Wrestling (NGW) - Dawn of Heroes January 21st 2012


My first taste of New Generation Wrestling, i was totally blown away, with the brilliant end of year show Eternal Glory 3 headlined by a classic between Nathan Cruz and Matt Myers for the NGW Championship. NGW's return show and first show of 2012 is Dawn of Heroes, headlined by the rematch between the new NGW champion Matt Myers against Nathan Cruz.


The show opens with a brilliant opening package showing highlights from Eternal Glory 3, the name of this show Dawn of Heroes is great, as in NGW going into this show it really is the Dawn of Heroes as, all the major faces in the company hold all the titles. Los Amigos with the NGW tag titles and Matt Myers as the NGW champion.


Match 1 - Los Amigos (El Ligero & Dara Diablo) (c) vs Bhangra Knights (RJ Singh & Darrell Allen) [***]
The massively popular Los Amigos made their first title defences against the debuting Bhangra nights. This match was really solid and got the crowd nicely warmed up for the rest of the nights action. There was some solid tag team action in this match up with Los Amigos and El ligero being particularly impressive. For a debut the Bhangra Knights should be a good addition to NGW's tag division, however i found a bit of RJ singh's work a bit sloppy but i think this might have been down to debut nerves as from what i have seen of him previously he is always solid in the ring. Los Amigos picked up the win with their double team move of Diablo holding Allen of the ground and Ligero coming of the top rope and frog splashing him for the 3 and a successful first defence of their tag team titles.

After the match General Manager Mark Criteria announced his resignation, but has his last act, he booked for the next show NGW Destiny a 30 Man Rumble Match with the winner receiving an NGW Championship Match.

Match 2 - Martin Kirby vs Stixx [**3/4]

In a first time clash, Martin Kirby took on the big man that is Stixx, this match was a solid affair and very closely fought battle at the start both men were evenly matched in the wrestling stakes and this trend carried on through out the match. This was a really hard match to rate as for what it was, it was good but something just didn't click for me. Maybe they were holding back or the chemistry wasn't quiet there due it being their first singles match together i just don't know, then again if i watched it again it could probably break into ***. Either way i would like to see these two go at it again after getting this first match together out the way, as a return match would most likely be a great encounter.

Match 3 - Joey Hayes vs Rampage Brown [**1/2]

The always impressive Joey Hayes fought the powerhouse and former FCW trainee Rampage Brown in a decent a match up. I loved the start of this match up, as Joey Hayes had to rely on his speed and superior technical wrestling to try and ground the powerhouse that is Rampage Brown and this involved some really good exchanges. Brown finally took the lead through brute force and put a beating on Hayes who's selling made Rampage Brown look a major and dangerous commodity. The ending of the match let this contest down as Hayes thought back and got a little bit to much of prolonged offense in, instead of a little fight back, and negated the middle part of Rampage's dominance making him looking a brute force. Rampage got the win when he locked Hayes in the crossface (which he previously tried to lock in during the match) out of no where and making him tap, and doing so as a result putting over the dangerous nature of the crossface and how Brown can hit it out of no where.

Match 4 - Team GB (Sam Bailey and Zack Diamond) vs Avian and Robbie X [***]
Originally Avian was meant to be tagging with his brother Danny V, but he has had to retire due to injury it was announced, so replacing him was the debuting Robbie X. I've never seen Robbie X before but man the lads a talent, his exciting, high octane wrestling had the crowd in awe and within minutes chanting Robbie over and over again. Whats freighting is that he only turned 17 a few weeks prior to this event, its scary how good this lad can become, he hit some spectacular moves in this match,but he also looked crisp in what he was doing and not sloppy in his eagerness to impress the crowd, which you wouldn't expect from a 17 year old, but not with this guy. However this match wasn't all just about Robbie X though as the other 3 guys busted their asses in a really good match up fought at a fast pace. Team GB got the win after Bailey hit Avian with a baseball bat to the leg without the ref looking and Team GB isolating Robbie X and hitting him with a Superkick brainbuster double team combination maneuver. I hope to get to see more of Robbie X not just in NGW but other promotions as well.


Match 5 - Lowthian vs 'Wildfire' Ricky Halestorm [N/R]

'The Tyneside Titan' Lowthian was making his NGW debut on this show accompanied by Dani Brooks, against NGW academy member 'Wildfire' Ricky Halestorm. This match was a squash with the massive Lowthian destroying the rookie Halestorm who got next to no offense in. The finish came when Lowthian hit a sheamus Esq bro kick and then a F-5. Dani Brooks then got on the mike to annonce that Lowthian was entering the 30 man rumble at NGW's next show destiny.
Perfect debut for 'The Tyneside Titan' Lowthian,he looked dominate and someone who is going to be a threat in NGW. I've seen Lowthian wrestle quiet a bit live and he has potential to be a breakout star in British wrestling, he has the look, is athletic and is good in the ring for a big man, a few more years honing his craft, and the wrestlers of only two years is going to be a major player on the British indy scene.

Match 6 - Matt Myers (c) vs Nathan Cruz, No DQ match for the NGW Championship [***3/4]
Announced prior to the match was a new NGW general manager had been appointed and his first act in charge was to make this a No DQ match. A great video was played showing highlights of Myers championship win against Cruz at Eternal Glory 3 which was a classic, along with some promos after the event, really great video package on level with top promotions like WWE and TNA in regards to quality and building up the forthcoming match to being a big event and getting not only the viewers of the DVD pumped for the match but the fans which the promo is displayed for on NGW's great stage set up.

These two had a massive task on their shoulders trying to put on a match that could live up their classic they had at Eternal Glory 3, whilst this match might not have been on par with that match it was still a dam fine match up. The match started and instantly both ended up on the outside brawling in a hate in tensed manner, once the action got in the ring it was quality, however what dragged the match down for me was the prolonged beat down on Myers by Cruz, and it to appeared to loose the crowd abit,but other then that this was a fine match up. Myers had to contend with Cruz's entourage getting involved, Cruz called out his bodyguard Colossus Kennedy who hit a Chokeslam on Myers, but that wasn't enough for the 3 count, El Ligero and Dara Diablo came to Myers aid to fight off the big man Kennedy, making Cruz take his eyes of the match and allowing Myers to hit his Shining Wizard kick and pick up the win and retain his title.

Whilst this match was really good it lacked the atmosphere of their previous encounter and this was always going to be the case but nevertheless they went out there and produced a fine display and kudos to them, i wouldn't have minded the No DQ coming into force a bit more maybe in the way of weapons, maybe they may go this route in a street fight in the future to end the heated rivalry for good, i don't know, it just seemed strange no weapons were used in a No DQ match.

After the match up Rampage Brown got into the ring and destroyed the champ, and then held up the title belt, signalling he has his sites set on Myers title.


Overall thoughts - A really good solid show, it was always going to be really hard for NGW to follow up after the great Eternal Glory 3, but tonight they put on a really solid show, especially considering it was there first show of the year, where i tend to find companies can be a bit sluggish in the shows they put out at times at the beginning of the year. Not one match of the night was bad all were solid, story lines were advanced, two new youngsters with a bright future debuted so all in all id say it was a good night for NGW a really good solid show which they put on, that i would recommend.​
 
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