30 MIN. IRON MAN MATCH FOR THE EVO HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
COREY HOLLIS def CEDRIC ALEXANDER to become the new EVO Champion
- Alexander picks up the 1st fall w/ a schoolboy 6:30
- Hollis ties it at 1-1 with a snap mare rollup
- 30 minutes has expired & Cedric Alexander & Corey Hollis are still tied at 1 fall apiece. Owner Patrick Wright calls for sudden death
- Post match Trevor Lee, Chip Day and John Skyler come out and attack Corey Hollis
- Skyler says he’s on a plane to the UK in June & he’s taking the PrWrestlinEvo title with him. Alexander chases the trio out.

JOHN SKYLER def CALEB KONLEY
- Tyshion Williams hits Konley with a tennis racquet right away & a DQ is called. Konley asks for a restart & Ty is sent to the back.
- Skyler used the tennis racquet & hits sliced bread to win

SUPER HEX CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
CHIP DAY(champ) def JOE BLACK to retain

Marcellus King def Zane Dawson in a helluva fight.
- “The Man Servant” CIRCO appears & helped King
- King welcomes CIRCO home & details his list of accomplishments. King issues open challenge to KEVIN STEEN 6/28

Jake Manning def Zane Riley

Triple Threat: Mr. Elite def Robyn Golphin & Alton Terrell Lee

Trevor Lee def Anthony Henry

Andrew Everett def Raymond King

Arik Royal def Chase Brown

EVO returns 6/28 to El Patron with Marcellus King vs Kevin Steen & Corey Hollis defending the EVO title against Eddie Edwards

- Main Event: Johnny Gargano beat Matt Cross.

- Adam Cole beat Tim Donst.

- Michael Elgin beat Biff Busick.

- Ethan Page beat Seleziya Sparx.

- Josh Alexander beat A.C.H.

- Rickey Shane Page beat Colin Delaney with help from Eric Ryan.

- Kimber Lee beat Bobby Beverly.

- B.J. Whitmer beat Josh Prohibition via submission.

- Marion Fontaine beat Veda Scott. After the match, The Batiri’s music hit and they issued a warning to Gregory Iron and Veda Scott.

- Chris Dickinson beat Nasty Russ.

- Davey Vega beat Gary Jay.

- Louis Lyndon beat TaDarius Thomas via submission.

- In a feel good moment, before intermission, J.T.’s son proposed to his girlfriend and she said yes.

The Internet PPV, which aired on WWNLive.com Friday night, started with Daffney explaining her frustration with the roster. Daffney then introduced new ring announcer Chasity Taylor.

(1) SHINE Title Tournament Qualifier: Nikki Roxx pinned Allysin Kay with a discus lariat.

(2) Ivelisse Velez beat Amber O’Neal with the DDT to Distain. Made In Sin went after O’Neal after the match, but Santana Garrett made the save.

(3) SHINE Title Tournament Qualifier: Santana Garrett beat Kimberly with the Shining Star Press.

(4) Sojo Bolt & Sassy Stephie & Jessie Belle beat Heidi Lovelace & Solo Darling & Luscious Latasha in a six-woman tag match. Lovelace was pinned by Stephie with the Kiss My Sass.

(5) SHINE Title Tournament Qualifier: Leva Bates beat Taylor Made with a superkick into a chair.

(6) SHINE Title Tournament Qualifier: Mia Yim pinned Mercedes Martinez with an inside cradle.

(7) Jessicka Havok beat Portia Perez with an Air Raid Crash.

(8) Angelina Love beat Rain with a bicycle kick. Rain initially beat Love after AK47 nailed Love with a bat, but Lexie Fyfe came out and suspended Kay for 90 days, then restarted the match.

TWGP Quarterfinal #1: The Young Bucks def Spectral Envoy. Young Bucks advance to the semifinals over Spectral Envoy after More Bang for your Buck on Frightmare

TWGP Quarterfinal #2: The Batiri def The Daywalkers. Obaryion pins Cage with the top rope DDT

TWGP Quarterfinal #3: Devastation Corporation vs. The Colony went to no finish via count-out. Double count-out. Winner of the next match gets a bye to the finals. Brawl is continuing. The unidentified third member of Dev. Corp. participates in the legal murder of Green and Fire Ant.

TWGP Quarterfinal #4: Pieces of Hate (Jigsaw & The Shard) def AC/DC (Arik Cannon & Darin Corbin) Pieces of Hate advance to the finals via a bye. Jig ‘n’ Tonic on Corbin.

TWGP semifinal: The Young Bucks def the Batiri when Matt Jackson rolls up Kodama and sends the Bucks to the finals

Icarus def Colt Cabana after the pedigree

Grand Championship: Eddie Kingston def Archibald Peck to retain.

Backfist to the Future connects. Lights go out. Archie is not in the ring. Another Archibald Peck appeared in the balcony. Fans chanting “Where is Archie” and “You killed Archie.” Kingston snapped. He threw a bunch of stuff in the ring. Kingston threatens Icarus and says Archie is dead.

TWGP Finals: Pieces of Hate def. The Young Bucks when the Shard makes Matt Jackson tap out to win the Tag World Grand Prix. They will use their points at the iPPV.

ROH
May 18th, 2013
Richmond, VA
Estimated Attendance: 400-500

Michael Elgin def Kyle Matthews

Adam Cole def Adam Page

Mark Briscoe def Roderick Strong

Ciampa def Chris LaRusso

American Wolves (Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards) def Cliff Compton and Rhett Titus

A-1 (Jeff Early & Zak Hilton) def Aden Chambers and Brandon Day

Steve Corino announces Matt Hardy will get his World title shot on JUNE 23rd at the TV tapings in Baltimore

Jay Lethal, Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander def ROH World Tag Team Champions reDRagon (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish) & ROH World TV Champion Matt Taven

No DQ Match: Kevin Steen def Jimmy Jacobs

ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: Jay Briscoe def BJ Whitmer

Pat Buck, who is also one of the promoters, noted that he broke his nose and apologized for any blood and how he looked. He said that he doesn’t like when promoters put themselves over and he doesn’t wrestle a lot on his shows because of it. He then said they were very happy to be in NYC. He then announced that Doc and D’Lo Brown were advertised to be here but weren’t because they took another booking that was closer and didn’t want to make the drive. He buried D’Lo for treating him bad when he tried to get into WWE years ago and noted that he was proud of his students, some of whom he’s trained for nine months to get them ready for their debut.

Starman & Drunken Swashbuckler defeated Reality Check’s Devon Moore & Alex Reynolds via pin
Scott Steiner defeated Davey Boy Smith Jr. via pin
PWS Champion Kevin Matthews defeated Homicide via pin to retain the title

Gavin opens the show with a song about Tag World

The Young Bucks def The Baltic Siege: The Bucks advance, putting the Latvian Proud Oak away with a spike tombstone piledriver.

The Spectral Envoy (Hallowicked & Frightmare) def Colony: Xtreme Force (deviANT & Orbit Adventure Ant) when The Xtreme Force is DQ’d for unmasking Frightmare. The Envoy advance. – Not sure why Arctic Rescue Ant was replaced

The Batiri def The Bravado Bros when Obariyon hits the Rapture DDT on Harlem

The Daywalkers of Alex Castle and Matt Cage (with Gangrel!) def Zero Gravity with a bicycle kick into a backdrop driver to advance – Both teams making their CHIKARA debuts – The Kentucky Buffet are now called The Daywalkers.

The Colony (Fire Ant & Green Ant) def Los Ice Creams when Green Ant pinned Ice Cream Jr. with a top rope splash

The Devastation Corporation def Gary The Barn Owl and Pierre Abernathy with the Death Blow on Gary – The Heart Throbs were not there so they pulled out the hat

Arik Cannon and Darin Corbin def Saturyne and Heidi Lovelace when Cannon puts Saturyne down with a brainbuster. AC/DC advance

Main event: Pieces of Hate (Jigsaw & The Shard) def Da Soul Touchaz when The Shard grapevines Acid Jaz’s leg in an ankle lock, causing him to tap. Pieces of Hate advance

Stage two takes place tonight.

2CW “Best of What’s Around” show results
May 17, 2013
Gloversville, N.Y. at the Lexington Center
Est. Attendance: 300

The auditorium for Friday night’s 2CW show was about three-fourths-full. The wildest moment of the night was a “Shoe Incident” involving Kevin Steen and Eddie Edwards, detailed below.

(1) C.K. (Sean Carr & Kage) & I.B. Green beat “Supercop” Dick Justice & Peter D. Order & Eric M. Timmins (EMT). The losing team was dressed like the “Big Boss Man.” The guys who looked like actual wrestlers (CK) got the win via pinfall.

(2) “Slyck” Wagner Brown beat A.R. Fox. “Slyck” has the “I hail from Kingston, Jamaica” gimmick. He even came out with a cheap Jamaican-colored tapestry over his ring gear. Really good match that started off slow, and built to a solid finish. A.R. Fox worked the “face in peril” formula. He almost had a comeback at the very end with a 450 Splash, but Brown was able to get his knees up and score the victory. (***1/4)

- Bin Hamin and Milan X present “ZSIII’s Funeral.” My guess is that Bin Hamin was the guy dressed as a Middle Eastern prince. Milan X was a cocky American heel with bleach-blonde hair. He is a “bin Laden guy,” apparently. They taunted the crowd until ZSIII (I guess) came out and attacked the heels. ZSIII was sporting an eye patch because Hamin and Milan threw a fireball in his face at a previous 2CW show. ZSIII spit a fireball of his own at Milan X, but Bin Hamin made the save.

(3) Punisher Vanslyke & Kevin “The Man” Graham beat Planet Fitness to retain the 2CW Tag Titles. Team Planet Fitness’s “Muscle” Marcos came out with a shake weight. Pretty good match. The champions were good at getting the crowd behind them. Vanslyke and Graham survived a flurry of offense before putting the challengers away. (**1/2)

(4) Isis Ephex beat Eddie Edwards and Kevin Steen in a triple threat match to retain the 2CW Hvt. Title. This was supposed to be Ephex vs. Edwards, one-on-one, but Steen came out and grabbed the microphone. He said he would deal with Spike Dudley and Terry Funk later. Right now, though, he wanted another shot at the 2CW Title he recently lost. He forced himself into the match by intimidating the referee.

Shoe Incident: It started when Steen, heeling it up, decided to pick on a young girl in the crowd. She threatened to throw her shoe at him, so Steen tried to call her bluff, saying he would eat the shoe if she threw it at him. She threw it at him. Then, several fans started tossing their shoes to the ringside area. Steen started throwing the shoes in the ring. There were some “Shoe! Shoe! Shoe” chants and my personal favorite: “shoe!”-ing when a wrestler would hit his opponent with the shoe.

There was a lot of ringside brawling and a few chair shots. Isis hit his finisher on Edwards and scored the pin, as Steen was too late to break it up.

[ Intermission. I had a chance to buy a shirt from Kevin Steen. Really nice guy. ]

- Legends Segment. Several legends came out to a standing ovation. They were members of the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame’s (Amsterdam, N.Y.) Class of 2013. Among them were Dominic Denucci, Tito Santana, and “Leaping” Lanny Poffo.

(5) Guero Loco & his partner beat the French Canadians. This was an unadvertised match, so I’m unsure of the names. They did a bit before the match where the French team spoke in French, and Guero Loco responded in Spanish. Loco reminded me of a smaller El Generico. There was some good action, but the crowd was pretty dead after the intermission. (*1/2)

(6) “Party Peacock” Dalton Castle beat Colin Delaney. Yes, that Colin Delaney. He looked pretty good – short hair and beard, and he wore traditional short trunks instead of his indy-riffic tight pants. Colin had a decent following. Hailing from Rochester, N.Y., he was a hometown hero in this N.Y.-based promotion. I noticed that Castle had a hardcore following as well. He really did look like a star and probably had the most potential out of anyone on the roster tonight. Overall, a pretty good match. The crowd was still out of it, though, with some leaving after the intermission. Castle won with a German Suplex pinning combination. (**1/2)

(7) Spike Dudley (w/Terry Funk) beat “Juggernaut” Jason Axe (w/Kevin Steen). Steen came out with Axe, then Spike came out alone at first. Suspecting that Steen would interfere, Spike called for “Desperado” to start playing. Out came Terry Funk to a standing ovation. It started with some okay action. The more entertaining part was Funk stalking Steen around ringside. The match turned into a bit of a garbage match, as chairs, a ladder, and a table became involved. Steen and Funk brawled through the crowd and ended up disappearing through the emergency exit. Meanwhile, Axe put Spike through a table in the ring. All of a sudden, Funk reappeared through a different emergency exit and helped Spike get the victory. (**)

The show ended with Spike and Funk celebrating in the ring.

All in all, a good show. It definitely exceeded my expectations for an independent show. 2CW returns to Binghamton, N.Y. on June 1 for a women’s wrestling-themed show.

(1) Louis Lyndon & Marion Fontaine beat Zero Gravity.

(2) Miss Natural beat Heidi Lovelace.

(3) Jake Crist beat Jimmy Jacobs.

(4) Davey Richards beat Mixed Martial Archie by KO.

(5) Davey Richards & Kyle O’Reilly beat AAW Heritage champion A.C.H. & AAW Hvt. champion Michael Elgin.

(6) Dan Lawrence & Tweek Phoenix & Keith Walker beat Colt Cabana & Junthai Miller & Mat Fitchett in a six-man tag match.

(7) Eddie Kingston, making his debut, beat Marcus Crane.

(8) Silas Young beat Samuray Del Sol with the Stock Lock in a good match.

(9) Shane Hollister beat Sami Callihan with Shug’s Last Step through a chair in a Last Man Standing match.

Similar attendance as last time here at Haverhill High School, about 150 people.

1. Estonian Thunderfrog beat Kobald with a jackknife pin. Good opener that got the crowd in the mood for a fun night. High spots included an Irish whip that sent Kobald across the entire gym and crashing into the wall.

2. Francis O’Rourke beat Anthony Stone with a half-and-half suplex. O’Rourke works elsewhere as Biff Busick, but his WiA schtick gets great heat. Everyone chants “Francis” while he demands to be called “Frank!” Stone worked hard and was showing off some brutal looking welts at intermission.

3. Jaka (w/Sydney Bakabella) beat Brian Fury with a chokebomb. Fury was a last-minute replacement for Sugar Dunkerton, who was unable to make the event. Fury has good size and solid work-rate, which made this match better than expected.

4. Jigsaw beat Antonio Thomas with a Fujiwara armbar. This was a really awkward matchup with Jigsaw playing his heel character and the former Heart Throb playing babyface. Fans see the mask and naturally cheer Jigsaw because he can’t show a “mean face.” Thomas lost a lot of fans with some less-than-impressive attempts to connect with them.

Intermission. Gavin Loudspeaker announced that WiA would be back at Haverhill High School on August 10th.

Juan Francisco made his entrance to “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion. He said that he’s the most popular athlete in Ecuador, home of the three-sided wrestling ring. He said that he’s even sold out the Ecuadome. Hilarious stuff that earned him appreciative applause, but translated to heat in the match.

5. Juan Francisco beat Gervis Cottonbelly with a German suplex Pop of the night for Gentleman Gervis who’s gimmick is a favorite amongst the Haverhill fans. Gentlemania runnin’ wild. Very fun matchup between two guys with contrasting gimmicks.

6. The Devastation Corporation (w/Sydney Bakabella) beat The Batiri by DQ. Fun but strange heel team vs. heel team matchup. The crowd got behind the underdog Batiri. Finish came when the Batiri couldn’t overcome the size differential, so they just hit a low blow and got out of the match in one piece.

7. Funaki beat Green Ant with a rollup. Babyface vs. babyface match with the crowd split, but not wanting to boo either competitor. Funaki can still go and Green Ant works a nice fluid technical style. Green Ant teased heel by using the Michinoku Driver, but continued to play to the crowd. Post match, Francis O’Rourke hit the ring and was about to attack Funaki. Green Ant made the save with a superkick and Funaki hit a stunner to send the crowd home happy.

Overall: This was a fun show with a nicely sized crowd that seemed to enjoy themselves throughout. The workers were having a good time and it translated to the audience. My only complaint would be some of the awkward matchups with faces and heels. It made several matches hard for the crowd to get behind, but not enough where it hindered the experience. I’m looking forward to August 10, if you’re in the Boston/New Hampshire area, be sure to check out the show.