[Stardust Genius]

wXw FAN 2012 - Night 1

Axel "Axeman" Tischer vs. Davey Richards
Slightly better than the match from Axeman against Eddie Edwards from last year. Especially some counters were really great. ***3/4+

RockSkillet (Jay Skillet & Jonathan Gresham) vs. LDRS (Zack Sabre Jr. & Marty Scurll)
This match had everything: Amazing mat wrestling at the beginning, a good isolation in the middle and a very hot finish. ****

Big Van Walter vs. Bad Bones
A great heavyweight war. Both gave everything they had and due to this match, Walter was not able to compete at the next day. ****-

[thearmofbarlow]

I can't be the only one here that watched King of Trios, can I? Best match of the whole thing was the SENDAI Girls vs The Young Bucks with Mike Bennett. He's a bunch of 5' tall 130 pound Japanese women beating the shit out of 6' tall muscled (well, at least Bennett is...) men... and they made it work! The whole thing was filled with badass matches but this one was on another level. Easily my favorite match of the year.

[Last Chancery]

Davey Richards and Kyle O'Reilly vs. Sami Callihan and BJ Whitmer from Friday's AAW show. This was one stiff as fuck tag match. At a little over 22 minutes, this match received a couple "this is awesome" chants and a standing ovation in the middle of it. Light on selling (of course) but it had a finish that came out of no where. I'll have to wait for the DVD, but maybe ****1/4? Maybe less, maybe more. Look out for this one.

And avoid, at all costs, Elgin vs. Silas for the AAW Heritage and Heavyweight Championships in an I Quit Match. Overbooked snoozer at over 41 minutes. Won't spoil the finish, or who won (you can do that on your own), but the only time the crowd was alive was after the final bell rang. Maybe a little at the beginning, but other than that, silence. Dead silence. What's more is Elgin botched so bad, it warranted multiple "boring" chants from the crowd. Loud chants. Just brutal. At one point in the match, Silas tied Elgin to the ropes using duct tape -- but Silas took a minute to open the tape roll, and it was painfully awkward to watch him bite at it and everything. Then, Elgin one-upped his botching ass by getting his hand stuck on the top rope after Silas taped him to it. First, Elgin tried severing the tape. That took a minute and didn't work. Crowd was getting antsy. Then he had the genius idea of trying to unscrew the top turnbuckle to free himself. Two more minutes, the turnbuckle doesn't unscrew. Crowd is furious. Boring chants start. Elgin starts tearing at the tape, pulling at it. Finally, he frees himself. It was like that time Mark Henry spent five minutes trying to get the cage door open but couldn't, only much, much worse. Felt bad for the guy, he got shat on hard. Wouldn't be surprised to see it on a Botchamania. *3/4 -- just painful.

[smitlick]

Originally Posted by thearmofbarlow

I can't be the only one here that watched King of Trios, can I? Best match of the whole thing was the SENDAI Girls vs The Young Bucks with Mike Bennett. He's a bunch of 5' tall 130 pound Japanese women beating the shit out of 6' tall muscled (well, at least Bennett is...) men... and they made it work! The whole thing was filled with badass matches but this one was on another level. Easily my favorite match of the year.

People have seen it. There just avoiding posting spoilers about it till most have got there DVDs.

[Matt_Yoda]

Originally Posted by Last Chancery

And avoid, at all costs, Elgin vs. Silas for the AAW Heritage and Heavyweight Championships in an I Quit Match. Overbooked snoozer at over 41 minutes. Won't spoil the finish, or who won (you can do that on your own), but the only time the crowd was alive was after the final bell rang. Maybe a little at the beginning, but other than that, silence. Dead silence. What's more is Elgin botched so bad, it warranted multiple "boring" chants from the crowd. Loud chants. Just brutal. At one point in the match, Silas tied Elgin to the ropes using duct tape -- but Silas took a minute to open the tape roll, and it was painfully awkward to watch him bite at it and everything. Then, Elgin one-upped his botching ass by getting his hand stuck on the top rope after Silas taped him to it. First, Elgin tried severing the tape. That took a minute and didn't work. Crowd was getting antsy. Then he had the genius idea of trying to unscrew the top turnbuckle to free himself. Two more minutes, the turnbuckle doesn't unscrew. Crowd is furious. Boring chants start. Elgin starts tearing at the tape, pulling at it. Finally, he frees himself. It was like that time Mark Henry spent five minutes trying to get the cage door open but couldn't, only much, much worse. Felt bad for the guy, he got shat on hard. Wouldn't be surprised to see it on a Botchamania. *3/4 -- just painful.

I knew it, I just knew this match was going to be lackluster but I didn't think it would be this bad. Like I said earlier, I only like these types of matches from major promotions as indy promotions can never get these types of matches right and this yet again proves it.

[smitlick]

IWRG - 22/1/12

Black Terry vs Chico Che
****

Looking forward to the Hair match as well.

[Violent By Design]

Originally Posted by Last Chancery

And avoid, at all costs, Elgin vs. Silas for the AAW Heritage and Heavyweight Championships in an I Quit Match. Overbooked snoozer at over 41 minutes. Won't spoil the finish, or who won (you can do that on your own), but the only time the crowd was alive was after the final bell rang. Maybe a little at the beginning, but other than that, silence. Dead silence. What's more is Elgin botched so bad, it warranted multiple "boring" chants from the crowd. Loud chants. Just brutal. At one point in the match, Silas tied Elgin to the ropes using duct tape -- but Silas took a minute to open the tape roll, and it was painfully awkward to watch him bite at it and everything. Then, Elgin one-upped his botching ass by getting his hand stuck on the top rope after Silas taped him to it. First, Elgin tried severing the tape. That took a minute and didn't work. Crowd was getting antsy. Then he had the genius idea of trying to unscrew the top turnbuckle to free himself. Two more minutes, the turnbuckle doesn't unscrew. Crowd is furious. Boring chants start. Elgin starts tearing at the tape, pulling at it. Finally, he frees himself. It was like that time Mark Henry spent five minutes trying to get the cage door open but couldn't, only much, much worse. Felt bad for the guy, he got shat on hard. Wouldn't be surprised to see it on a Botchamania. *3/4 -- just painful.

Kinda makes me want to watch it.

[Bubz]

LOL! That sounds amazing tbh.

[Last Chancery]

From a comedic perspective, I can see it being funny, but it hurt hearing Elgin get shit on SO hard. It was just horrible. He even cut a post-match promo that talked about that, saying he didn't care if we cheered him or shit on him, blah blah.

[KingCrash]

Originally Posted by Last Chancery

And avoid, at all costs, Elgin vs. Silas for the AAW Heritage and Heavyweight Championships in an I Quit Match. Overbooked snoozer at over 41 minutes. Won't spoil the finish, or who won (you can do that on your own), but the only time the crowd was alive was after the final bell rang. Maybe a little at the beginning, but other than that, silence. Dead silence. What's more is Elgin botched so bad, it warranted multiple "boring" chants from the crowd. Loud chants. Just brutal. At one point in the match, Silas tied Elgin to the ropes using duct tape -- but Silas took a minute to open the tape roll, and it was painfully awkward to watch him bite at it and everything. Then, Elgin one-upped his botching ass by getting his hand stuck on the top rope after Silas taped him to it. First, Elgin tried severing the tape. That took a minute and didn't work. Crowd was getting antsy. Then he had the genius idea of trying to unscrew the top turnbuckle to free himself. Two more minutes, the turnbuckle doesn't unscrew. Crowd is furious. Boring chants start. Elgin starts tearing at the tape, pulling at it. Finally, he frees himself. It was like that time Mark Henry spent five minutes trying to get the cage door open but couldn't, only much, much worse. Felt bad for the guy, he got shat on hard. Wouldn't be surprised to see it on a Botchamania. *3/4 -- just painful.

That's so disappointing from a match I expected a lot more out of. Liked their first match despite the interference, loved the 60 min. match and even their ROH match was good so I thought they'd kill it here. How was ACH/Hollister?