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Nov. 3rd, 2007 @ 02:21 am ROH Chicago Spectacular Night Two
ROH Chicago Spectacular Night Two
Date: 9th December 2006
Location: Chicago Ridge, IL

The show opened up with the Top of the Class Trophy “champ” Shane Hagadorn praising Adam Pearce’s excellent promo from the day before, and says he is exciting too see Pearce beat up Homicide in the strap match tonight. Pearce promises to finish former Commissioner Jim Cornette’s job tonight, Pearce makes fun of Pelle Primeau, and Hagadorn says he has beaten Primeau over the last couple of years, and the result will be the same tonight.

Shingo Takagi is about to cut a promo, and Lacey walks in and offers Shingo money for beating up Cabana tonight (“Do you understand, comprende?” Is Shingo Spanish now?), he seems to accept the deal.

Colt Cabana cuts a promo, and calls out Jimmy Jacobs, Jacobs and Lacey runs out, and Jacobs rolls around the mat with Cabana. Lacey helps out Jacobs, and Daizee runs down to brawl with her, Daizee takes out Lacey with a heart punch followed by some boots, Jacobs goes for Daizee, but Whitmer makes the save. All hell breaks lose and Bryan Danielson, Shingo Takagi and Jimmy Rave runs in and beats up Cabana and Whitmer, Delirious and Nigel McGuiness runs in (actually it was more of a halting Nigel) to make the save. Jacobs was bleeding like crazy from the eye area, looked scary… and cool. An 8-Man elimination tag match is announced for the main event with Cabana, Whitmer, Delirious and McGuiness against Shingo, Rave, Danielson and Jacobs. Great way to open the show…

Danielson: “Jimmy (Rave) they broke my watch those bastards!”

Cabana: “Shingo, I know Chicago wants to eliminate that Mullet!”

1. Singles Match
Tank Tolland vs. “Crazy” Ace Steel (**)
-Ace wins with a pinning combination in a half decent match, didn’t work right here, like to see Tolland’s development

The new tag champs Christopher Daniels and Matt Sydal are backstage, it is announced that Sydal has an injured knee, and he won’t be in the tag title match tonight, Sydal showed his heel side here, Matt Cross will replace Sydal in the tag match, which is now non-title.

2. Six Man Mayhem Match
Trik Davis vs. CJ Otis vs. Pelle Primeau vs. Dave Crist vs. Jake Crist vs. Kikutaro (3/4*)
-CJ Otis makes his ROH main show debut, after a huge number of pre-show matches, why is Pelle in this match doesn’t he have a top of the class trophy match? Jake Crist gets the win on CJ Otis after the Irish Air raid from Irish Airborne, CJ Otis looked really impressive, the match wasn’t good

Top of the Class Trophy holder Shane Hagadorn comes out and talks the trash to Primeau and Pearce comes and they strap Primeau and hit a spike Piledriver. Pearce gets on the stick, and calls out Homicide, Pearce leaves while Homicide beats up Hagadorn, Homicide calls for the bell and an impromptu match.

3. Singles Match
“The Notorious 187” Homicide vs. Shane Hagadorn (NR)
-Homicide beats Hagadorn in a minute or so, surprisingly Hagadorn had some offense.

The second match changed on the show after the match, the Pearce-Homicide match will now be a steel cage match.

4. Singles Match
Mark Briscoe vs. Samoa Joe (**½)
-Joe wins after a lariat in a match that should have been better

Samoa Joe cuts a promo on NOAH; Nigel comes to the ring and says if Joe wants NOAH that he is right here

5. Tag Team Match
“M-Dogg” Matt Cross & “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels vs. Austin Aries & Roderick Strong (***1/4)
-Aries pins Cross after a 450 splash

Jacobs still with the nasty scar is backstage with Prazak, and Jacobs cuts a good promo on Whitmer and Cabana

6. Steel Cage Match
“The Notorious 187” Homicide vs. “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce (***½)
-Slow build fun cage match, Homicide wins after a lariat

7. Singles Match
“Mr. Intensity” Davey Richards vs. Jay Briscoe (***3/4)
-Jay wins with the Jay Driller, super hot match

8. Eight Man Elimination Tag Match
Team Delirious (Delirious, Colt Cabana, BJ Whitmer & Nigel McGuiness) vs. Team Danielson (Jimmy Jacobs, Bryan Danielson, Jimmy Rave & Shingo Takagi) (****1/4)
-Delirious wins with the Cobra Stretch, great match

Overall: B+
-Fun show, a good mix of everything mixes with some fun
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Nov. 3rd, 2007 @ 02:16 am WCW Clash of the Champions XXXII
WCW Clash of the Champions XXXII
Date: 23rd January 1996
Location: Ceasar’s Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada

1. Tag Team Match
Public Enemy (Rocco/Grunge) vs. Nasty Boys (Saggs/Knobbs) (1/4*)
-PE is making their second appearance in WCW, after winning their debut match on Nitro against American Males (Riggs/Bagwell). The Nastys are the faces here, this was basically a quick brawl ending a double dq after the tables was brought into the match, nothing too see here, I never understood why Public Enemy was anything special.

2. Singles Match
“The Iceman” Dean Malenko vs. “Das Wunderkid” Alex Wright (**3/4)
-As much as I hate Wright’s gimmick, I have to give him credit, because he is a good wrestler, but of course nothing compared to Malenko. Some good stuff in this match, the story of the match was a bit messy, but overall a good match, which Malenko won.

“The Taskmaster” Kevin Sullivan vs. Disco Inferno didn’t really happen, Disco dressed as Elvis, Sullivan beat him, because he apparently hates Elvis, well at least we didn’t have Disco wrestling

3. Singles Match
“Flyin” Brian Pillman vs. Eddie Guerrero (**)
-Great stuff while they were wrestling, but this was more showing off the Loose Cannon character for Pillman, which was great. Pillman won with a handful of tights

4. WCW World Tag Team Championship Match
Sting & Lex Luger © vs. Blue Bloods (Regal/Eaton) (*½)
-How this fell apart I don’t have, three good workers and one that can be carried to a good match, yet it plain and simply failed, I blame Luger, Sting gets the Scorpion for the win.

5. Mexican Heavyweight Championship Match (whatever that means)
Konnan vs. Psychosis (DUD)
-Plain and simply sucking Konnan style, I like Psycho, but you know the big Mexican star Konnan controls this one and sucks the air out of anything good in wrestling, at least it was short, Konnan wins by submission.

6. Tag Team Match
Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair & The Giant (*½)
-Horsemen teaming with Dungeon of Doom, against the Artist Formerly Known as the Mega Powers, some decent stuff in this, Flair gets the win against the Mega Stars, and the show is over bam.

Overall: D+
-During this show we had the weeding of Sherri Martel and Col Robert Parker, which should just be forgotten. Which could be said about most the show, the Malenko-Wright match was good, Heenan going nuts was okay, the rest was pretty bad, not recommendable.
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Nov. 3rd, 2007 @ 01:48 am WCW Road Wild 1997
WCW Road Wild 1997
Location: The Sturgis Rally in Sturgis, SD
Date: 9th August 1997

1. Tag Team Match
Vicious & Delicious (Scott Norton/Marcus Bagwell) vs. Harlem Heat (Stevie Ray/Booker T) (*½)
-Pretty messy tag opener, where the teams went back and forth, Heat had a bit more control as they worked on Bagwell. Norton came in late in the match, and hit a devastating Shoulder Breaker on Booker, but interference from Miss Jacqueline, who had joined Harlem Heat at ringside, gave Booker the chance, and he got the win after a high impact jumping Harlem Side Kick.

2. Singles Match
"K-Dog" Konnan vs. "Flying Fury" Rey Mysterio Jr. (3/4*)
-The back-story to this was, that Konnan had turn his back on his Mexican friends and joined the NWO after taking out Rey's knee, Rey had gotten the upper hand on Konnan at Nitro, but Rey still wants revenge. Konnan did a lot of work on the previously injured leg of Mysterio, i never heard this was under no-dq or anything, but for some reason there were no rope breaks, but count-outs was in effect. Good stuff in the opening of the match, but it quickly turned slow and quite Konnanrefic, how Konnan ever became a big name is still a mystery to me, no real heat on the match even when Konnan almost ripped the mask of Mysterio, the finish didn’t help the match a cool cradle DDT and the Tequila Sunrise gave Konnan the win, in a snore fest.

3. Tag Team Elimination Match
Horsemen (Steve McMichaels/Chris Benoit) vs. Jeff Jarrett and Dean Malenko (**)
-The back-story to this one well Malenko has had problems with the Horsemen, since he was in the Dungeon of Doom, Jarrett was a short term Horsemen as Debra try to keep him in, he eventually got dropped and McMichaels wife joined Jarrett, and within the last few weeks Malenko and Jarrett joined up...sure that fits, throw out Jarrett and McMichaels and we could have a good match. Some decent action in this one, Jarrett got himself pinned on purpose for some reason, didn’t really make much sense. The Horsemen controlled the match, and Mongo eventually got the final win with a tombstone piledriver. I didn’t see the point in this match, Malenko looked really weak, Jarrett looks like a fool, and the Horsemen were just there.

4. WCW World Cruiserweight Championship Match
"Das Wunderkind" Alex Wright (c) vs. "Lionheart" Chris Jericho (**½)
-Jericho recently lost the cruiserweight title to Wright on Nitro, I don’t know why they ever put the strap on Wright, decent competitor, but there was absolutely nothing about him, where is Jim Powers title reign? Decent action back and forth, I personally expected some more from these two, i recall seeing better matches with them, Alex gets the win and retains for whatever reason with a roll up and handful of tights.

5. Singles Match
Syxx vs. Ric Flair (**)
-Syxx certainly doesn’t deserve to be in the same ring as Flair, not even the same building. Flair tries to save this match, but doesn’t succeed, I hate Syxx offense, i just hate Syxx, and Flair gets the win with his feet on the ropes in a restholdfest.

6. Singles Match
Diamond Dallas Page vs. Curt Hennig (***1/4)
-DDP had brought in Hennig as a mystery opponent, at a previous PPV, but Hennig turn on DDP right there and then, and then we got this match, as Flair is trying to make Hennig join the Horsemen, DDP is on the road to stardom. Hennig controlled the opening part, then it turned back and forth, sadly then we had the ref bumps, and interference from Ric Flair, even with that still a good match between these two, Hennig picked up the win with the Hennig Plex.

7. Singles Match
The Giant vs. "Macho Man" Randy Savage (**½)
-Another battle of WCW and NWO, Giant being one of the biggest WCW (basically him and Luger) names, of course faces off with a NWO top dude. Surprisingly decent action here and some good storytelling too fill up in this short match-up. Straight forward match, this was made all about these two and the youngster The Giants gets a big win early in his career, if he only had matches more like this later in his career.

8. WCW World Tag Team Championship Match
The Outsiders © (Kevin Nash and Scott Hall) vs. Steiners (Rick and Scott) (**)
-They had building this for a while, things you miss in the later years long feuds that actually means something down the line, at this point the Outsiders had held the titles for 10 months, as they managed to keep it with screwy tactics, as in January 97, where Steiners did defeat the Outsiders for the gold at NWO Sold Out, but the decision was reversed the day after due to a non-NWO official counting the pin, would the score finally get settle here? The short answer was no, as they continue to build this one. Hall worked most of the match with the Steiners, Nash got involved in the finish grabbing the ref causing a dq, leaving nothing settled in a decent encounter ruined by the finish.

9. WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match
Lex Luger vs. Hulk Hogan (½*)
-Less than a week away from Luger winning the WCW World title on the 100 episode on Nitro, he had to defend it against the man he defeated, would it be a short pop for the short pop alone, or the beginning of the Luger reign of doom, well since WCW was NWO country, do you really have to wonder where this is going? Hogan dominates the match, Luger gets the shine, and we then have the obvious interference, as the match isn’t bad enough, Luger gets nailed with a bat-shot from Sting real or fake who knows, and the big Legdrop, and Hogan is back on the WCW throne cause that’s how he rolls.

Overall: C-
-Nothing too see here, usually WCW PPVS in this era had a few good under-card matches, but that wasn’t really the case here, a few decent matches with DDP-Hennig leading the poll, still you didn’t really miss much. A bit story developing, but not enough that you would really miss anything, if you had missed the 100 episode of Nitro and this PPV, well everything would be the usual, there was a title change here, which probably should mean something, but really didn’t. This might as well have been a house show, no reason to recommend this one.
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Feb. 25th, 2007 @ 04:10 pm ROH Chicago Spectacular Night One
ROH Chicago Spectacular Night One
Date: 8th December 2006
Location: Chicago Ridge, IL

Brent Albright says he is not only in ROH tonight to win matches, but also to make money…

ROH World Champ Danielson talks about kicking ass in NOAH, he says tonight he will end the myth of Joe, and he picks Jimmy Jacobs for one of his partners in tomorrow’s six-man tag…

1. Singles Match
Kikutaro vs. Tank Tolland (*1/4)
-Fun opener, still it wasn’t the mix of talent, but still decent fun to open the show with Kikutaro showing of his excellent comedy skills, and Tolland showing what a powerhouse he is, Tank is slowly growing on me, I hope he stays around. I personally wouldn’t have put this in as an opener; it didn’t really have the stuff to pump up a crowd.

Kikutaro right before the end of the match: “Ladies and gentlemen thanks you for coming ROH, I am so happy because… (something)…see you tomorrow…Brainbuster”

2. Tag Team Match
Briscoes (Jay/Mark) vs. Irish Airborne (Dave/Jake) (**)
-Decent match, I personally expected more from this one, this was mostly a short squash from the Briscoes, and some of their previous matches were a lot better. Briscoes took the win with the swan dive double impact.

From the Pre-Show: Mr. Crowd Surfer Pelle Primeau challenges Shane Hagadorn to a match for the Top of the Class Trophy for tomorrow night…

3. Singles Match
“The Notorious 187” Homicide vs. “Shooter” Brent Albright (***)
-Could have been better, I miss the less brawling Homicide; Albright did a lot of work on the injured shoulder on Homicide. Albright wouldn’t break the crowbar and he got dq’ed hurting Homicide’s shoulder more, Joe made the save, and Danielson came out giving Albright some money, explaining the opening segment. It did tell a good story about Albright being the hired gun for Danielson, and I guess that was needed, but I am still a bigger fan of a great match.

4. Four Corner Survival Match
“M-Dogg” Matt Cross vs. “Mr. Intensity” Davey Richards vs. “Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels vs. BJ Whitmer (***½)
-Really strong match here, all four men gave a good showing, I still don’t see Cross being ready to be anything yet in ROH. Richards was very pissed off after the match, and almost didn’t shake hands, Whitmer got the win against Cross with the Adrenaline Spike (inverted Piledriver), fun match with a lot of false finishes.

5. Singles Match
Jimmy Rave vs. Nigel McGuinness (***½)
-Somebody tell Rave that his music is cool, but not fit for wrestling. This match was basically about Rave working Nigel’s ankle, in the end it gave the win for Rave, who got the win with the heel hook. I am guessing these two will be in the World title picture sometime late next year, and they are really trying to get the build especially for Rave here, Nigel is there, but has been a bit lost since his feud with Danielson.

Prazak with Danielson: Danielson says his match tonight will be the easiest steel cage match of his career, and he introduces his second partner for tomorrow…Jimmy Rave…

6. Tag Team Match
“Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce and Shane Hagadorn vs. “Crazy” Ace Steel and Delirious (***)
-The guy who put “Crazy” Ace and Delirious together is a genius (not like that is a surprise hehe). Good fun match here, Delirious and Ace works well as a team; same can be said about their opponents, Delirious got the win for his team with the Cobra Stretch.

7. Singles Match
“Classic” Colt Cabana vs. Jimmy Jacobs (**1/4)
-The match was mostly a brawl, telling the story after the Cabana-Jacobs-Lacey split; Cabana got the win on DQ after Lacey threw powder in the eyes of Cabana. Daizee came down and brawled with Lacey, and Albright ran down earning some more money helping out Lacey’s Angels. Lacey put a heel to the Classic regions of Cabana, and Whitmer made the save. Good stuff for the feud, but nothing special as a match.

8. Dragon Gate Rules Tag Team Match
Matt Sydal & “Pumping Hawk” Shingo Takagi vs. Austin Aries & Roderick Strong (***½)
-This was Dragon Gate Rules, which of course mean no tags are necessary, as soon as one person leaves the ring, the other one becomes legal. This was a hot match with Aries and Strong in the driver seat for a big part of the match, Sydal pulling off some impressive moves and being heelish, and Shingo just being Shingo. The match finished with Strong hitting an Alabama Slam and Aries hit the 450 Splash on Sydal for the win in a great match.

9. ROH World Championship Cage Match
“American Dragon” Bryan Danielson © vs. Samoa Joe (***1/4)
-This was way under my expectations for it, and didn’t really do what it should for being the last meeting between these two. Danielson was busted open early and tried to escape at many points, the match had a few cool spots, but overall the build of the match didn’t work. I personally found the finish kind of lame, and made Danielson look weak, Joe had the choke on Danielson, while Danielson was hanging on the outside of the cage, he eventually slipped out of it and fell to the floor, and Danielson remained champion.

Davey Richards cut a promo acting a bit heelish, and Davey want some wins…

Adam Pearce cut a great promo about the strap match against Homicide tomorrow, he promises to stop Homicide from winning the ROH World title no matter if he wins or loses, best promo I have heard from Pearce…

Overall: A-
-Very solid show with anything really blowing the roof of, the show was very much build around angles, which has certainly been a rare in case in the past. I would recommend this as a strong show, but without any matches standing out, which as I see it, the main event should have did, however that match exactly just came over disappointing in my opinion.
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Feb. 23rd, 2007 @ 11:56 pm WWE No Way Out 2007
WWE No Way Out 2007
Date: 18th February 2007
Location: Staple Center

1. 6-Man Tag Match
MVP & MNM vs. Hardy Boys & Chris Benoit (**3/4)
-They didn’t really use the time they had well, I am getting so tired of these Hardys-MNM contests. Seems like MVP is in line for a big push, Benoit got the win for his team after making Mercury tap in a decent opener.

2. Cruiserweight Open for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship
Gregory Helms © vs. Scotty 2 Hotty vs. Funaki vs. Daivari vs. Jimmy Wang Yang vs. Jamie Noble vs. Shannon Moore vs. Chavo Guerrero Jr. (*½)
-The whole thing lasted about 15 minutes giving around 1-3 minutes too each of them, some cool short matches with the mix of Helms-Yang-Moore-Noble. Helms lost already about half way thru, and a new champ was guaranteed. Chavo won the title, which I personally think is a horrible decision, but then again it’s the cruiserweight division, if we are lucky we might see the title defended five times a year.

3. “Mixed” Tag Match
Finlay & Little Bastard vs. Boogeyman & Fat Boogeymancito (Half-FUN)
-Half horrible, half fun, the best part was Little Bastard getting pissed off going for Boogeycito, and then Finlay nailing Little Boogey with a boot. At least LB and Finlay got the win, they could have made it a better comedy match tho.

4. Singles Match
King Boookkkkkkkaaaaaaaaaa! vs. Kane (*3/4)
-Kane seemed injured perhaps, and with the match not looking to good on paper before hand, this was not a good sign. They did what they could to make it a good match, but it never really got exciting, Kane wins after a choke slam, how dare he beat the king.

5. WWE Tag Team Championship Match
Brian Kendrick & Paul London vs. Deuce & Domino (½*)
-After two decent Smackdown matches, these teams really blew it here, absolutely horrible match here, at least London and Kendrick retained.

6. ECW World Championship Match
Bobby Lashley © vs. Mr. Kennedy (1/4*)
-Talk about absolutely horrible, these two were exposed as the green guys, who really needs to be carried in the ring, potential in the future, but that future is years away. Idiotic DQ finish here, and Lashley doing what would normally look like a heel turn tomorrow, but probably isn’t.

7. Diva Talent Contest
-Waste of time, Ashley did a Sable, I don’t care

8. Tag Team Match
John Cena & Shawn Michaels vs. Batista & The Undertaker (**½)
-I just didn’t care at this point, actually hadn’t for a while, and this didn’t do much to change it, decent match, and a good idea with the Batista heel turn otherwise nothing special. Cena and HBK won after the turn, decent Mania build, but I still don’t care.

Overall: D-
-Avoid this show by god, February wasn’t a good month for ppvs, I got nothing more too say here.
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Feb. 12th, 2007 @ 10:24 pm TNA Against All Odds 2007
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TNA Against All Odds 2007
Date: 11th February 2007
Location: The Impact Zone in Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida

Pre-Show

A. Pre-Show Match
“Mr. Roid Rage” Sonjay Dutt & “Mr. Lethal Injection” Jay Lethal vs. “Job Squad 2007” Serotonin (Kazarian/Devine) (*)
-If I recall correctly Serotonin hasn’t won any matches previously to this one, and quite honestly they don’t seem too matter, I have a feeling is more about giving them something to do instead of actually having a plan with it. Dutt couldn’t excite me, if his life was on the line, Lethal is good competitor, but is still at the paying his dues role in TNA. Serotonin got what I recall as their first win, after Maverick Matt interfered and gave Sonjay Spot a superkick. The match was decent enough for what it was, but Kazarian simply just not seem motivated about wrestling anymore, still fine and at least there was a match on the pre-show, one of the very few things WWE could learn from TNA.

Pre-Show Notes:
-A lot of match hype and so on as expected
-Joe and Kurt are not on the same page, Joe gets NWA title shot if Angle wins, and he is still pissed at Steiner…Personally wouldn’t mind another Steiner-Joe match, and I wouldn’t mind Joe getting the title of course
-Cornette tells Christy she got a tuxedo match…Russorefic
-Raven needs to keep his jacket on, without he just looks like a fat dude wearing suspenders
-Serotonin all got caned even with their win
-Alex Shelley informs JB that he has made a sex tape of Tracy and Eric Young, viewing party later
-Shelley’s office is in the restrooms, and Nash was taking a piss, Nash and Shelley are still gold together…GIVE SHELLEY A PUSH FFS!
-Mr. Backlund is still here, and is pissed about Shelley and Nash talking about PRO-NO-GRA-PHY…sadly Backlund isn’t really that much fun anymore
-Wonderful James Mitchell promo as always, Abyss fears Mitchell…please don’t kill Abyss…thanks…I fear what’s going to happen here, but who isn’t?
-TNA got cage dancers, is this the Asylum? No this is just Russo giving people strippers and an Italian restaurant, to show people we got the Italian street fight or whatever, I don’t know, I don’t care, actually I do care…seems like the dancers has been trained at the Kelly Kelly dance school…
-3-D vs. LAX is on first…
-Scott Steiner is gold with Tomko as his bitch…and Steiner is hungry…this little arrival segment was awesome…
-3-D makes their way out with 1:30 left, and Brother Ray wants the match to start now, some get that mic away from that fool…

PPV

Opening promo was pretty much a Christian Cage show, Christian is Instant Classic, an Instant Bogart and Instant Locomotive among other things, and this wasn’t one of their better openings…

1. Little Italy Street Fight
LAX (Homicide/Hernandez) vs. Team 3-D (Ray/Devon) (*)
-The ring was set up as an Italian restaurant, and there were cage dancers around the ring Russorefic. 3-D is the worst Italians I have ever seen, and that is just one of many things they are bad at. LAX are one of the things I actually like about TNA currently, a faction to build around, they have held the tag titles for about 5 months now, and there aren’t a better choice for anyone on the roster to hold the straps. This match would have had potential if it wasn’t for 3-D being so washed up, that they use gimmick matches to actually hide their lack of talent, which isn’t working that well. I seriously fear Brother Ray will eventually really injure somebody with his sloppy style, he got a lap dance during this match, and maybe he should cut down on them, and actually hit the gym now and then. A few nice spots during this one, but it really lacked any build whatsoever, I wonder why a lack of build never gets the “ECW” chant. 4 Latinos interfered making absolute no impact, basically just like Kai-en-tai during the Royal Rumble 2000, a few false finishes gave the match a bit, but this wasn’t really anything to excite me. I am happy too see LAX win this, I thought this was one they wouldn’t for sure, just hope this kills off 3-D.

JB interviews THE Austin Starr, nice little promo, Starr-Senshi on show actually gives me some hope, Mr. Backlund running around in the background doesn’t, he is doing absolutely nothing for TNA…

2. Singles Match
Senshi vs. THE Austin Starr (**½)
-Great too see these two actually get some PPV time, both seems lost in the shuffle most of the time, same can be said about the feud, which is basically build on nothing. Sad, this match didn’t really work, the finish was absolutely horrible, and actually horrible refereeing as Starr’s shoulder was clearly up, during the double pin with Ki getting his shoulder up. I like Starr got some mic time after the match, and it gives the character some importance, until Backlund comes out and takes him out yawn.

JB with Tomko and Christian, nice little segment with Tomko being pissed at Steiner, love the stuff with Steiner and Tomko, imagine these two being more interesting than most stuff here…

3. Tuxedo Match
Christy Hemme vs. Mystery Opponent (DUD)
-Ill quote Kip James here…Christy needs to go back to whatever strip club she came from…The mystery opponent was as rumored earlier in the day Big Fat Oily Guy, thank you Russo for more stuff I couldn’t care less about, this was horror plain horror. Christy wins, and Kip James makes his way out to strip the shirt off Christy…

We get the first part of the Paparazzi Productions sex tape of Tracy and Eric Young…I want Shelley wrestling damn it…Shelley saying he will choke slam Tracy was fun…

4. Basebrawl Match
Lance Hoyt w/ David Eckstein vs. Dale Torborg w/ AJ Pierzynski (DUD)
-Would anybody pay too see this, I get TNA can get media attention for this, but there is a much bigger chance, that baseball fans would turn on SpikeTV instead of buying a PPV for this. This was a five star classic so obviously, Torborg and Hoyt it just can’t get better. Eckstein looks like a kid; at least AJ P looks like a cocky jerk. Baseball sucks chants are great, but I am missing the Baseball’s fake chants. What a great finish, incredible…my ass…

We get the second part of the Paparazzi Productions sex tape of Tracy and Eric Young…Great stuff with Nash and Shelley before they air it…”Get her done” chocolates, do they exist?…Tracy wants Eric to sign the contract to sign with Roode enterprises, before getting to the action…

5. Motor City Chain Match
Rhino vs. AJ Styles (**)
-I really liked this feud, and I really dig AJ as a heel, it seems to be an unpopular choice, but I personally like him a lot better in this role. This is likely to be the feud ender here with AJ and Rhino with one victory a piece at the two previous PPVs it all comes down to this, whatever Russorefic invention this is, Russo and his pole matches, but this time with a mix of a chain/Strap match hmm. AJ got some nice heat during the match, and Hebner sucks, I didn’t really feel this match worked, probably mostly due to the rules, but nice to see AJ get the win here.

We get the third and final part of the Paparazzi Productions sex tape of Tracy and Eric Young…EY signs the contract…no reason for this…Backlund comes in the viewer room and goes nuts…he isn’t even president material anymore…

6. TNA X-Division Championship Match
Chris Sabin (c) vs. Jerry Lynn (*3/4)
-Highlights are shown of the embarrassing last weeks of Impact, whose idea was that? Wow this was worse than I expected, not really because of the feud, but these two have worked a bunch of times in the past, and Lynn used to be able to carry anybody to a good match. Sabin wins in another “dirty” finish, the first 1½ hours of this show had nothing, hopefully something will come, but I doubt it.

Destination X…Ultimate X…Elimination X…My Ass X…

Robert Roode with Miss Brooks enters the Impact Zone…Eric Young is introduced as the newest member of Robert Roode inc, and who gives a rats ass…please fire Eric…Nothing interesting here…

JB interview Christian…At least Christian is beginning to cut better promos again over the last few months, Corny tells Christian to remember that the title can change hands on DQs, but my question is, how much does it take to get a dq, look at the Jarrett matches interference and weapon shots, and never dqs, good old TNA using rules whenever they want…

7. Mixed Tag Match
Petey Williams & Gail Kim vs. James Storm & Jacqueline Moore (*3/4)
-Is anybody interested in this match? I like short shorts, and with that said, I do like that Gail is finally in some matches. This match was better than expected, but I have yet too see the real purpose of the match, Storm and Jackie gets the win here. Chris Harris makes his return after the match...surprise...surprise…

8. Prison Yard Match
Sting vs. Abyss (**)
-I fear this match and the outcome, actually I fear this match on many levels, but hopefully it will end with Abyss still having a mask, still being managed by Jim Mitchell and still being a “monster”. Sting is certainly involved in some hardcore matches since his comeback, never thought Sting would have been in a match with barbed wire, before his return. I would say the match was better than expected, but still it wasn’t too pretty, but decent fun, Sting won it after a powerbomb to a barbed wire board onto of a table and then he got him in the cage.

JB interviews Kurt Angle…yeah he wants the title; he puts over Joe a bit, and so on…

9. NWA World Championship Match with Special Ringside Enforcer Samoa Joe
“The Instant Classic” Christian Cage © vs. Kurt Angle (**3/4)
-How nice a WWE main event, I wonder if this is another VKM segment. “Joe Acting like a Cheerleader” (Tenay) try and say that to his face Tenay. Man just as I thought we could see a clean match, ref bump and interference Russorefic. It was a good match, but the last part of it was fucked up as usual, at least Angle didn’t win the belt.

Overall: D-
-Let’s see what we got here, almost no clean finishes, a bunch of gimmick matches who didn’t deliver anything good. The Harris-Storm feud is about to take off, not that I care; maybe we have a Starr-Backlund feud, but probably and hopefully not. The Lynn-Sabin and Rhino-AJ feuds are likely over, the Sting-Abyss and 3D-LAX could be over, but I have a feeling they will continue. We Basebrawl thing should be over, we will likely still hear Christy whine and feud with Kippy James, nothing new, nothing interesting. We will likely see the Christian-Angle feud continue with yet another match next month, if they aren’t going for a multi-person match. Unless you just watch anything from TNA and/or WWE like me, then there is no reason too watch this one. This was a 9 on the Russo Meter, it just didn’t have enough gimmick matches and interferences for the beloved New Yorker.
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Feb. 4th, 2007 @ 11:34 am WWE Royal Rumble 2007
WWE Royal Rumble 2007
Date: 28th January 2007
Location: AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas

1. Tag Team Grudge Match
The Hardy Boys (Matt/Jeff) vs. MNM (Mercury/Nitro) (**3/4)
-One night only return my ass! The never ending over-pushed feud between these two teams continue, of course they did need to continue it after Mercury got his face busted at Armageddon, I have to agree with that, but these two teams aren’t really getting any matches above average in this feud, and they face off all the time. This match was good for some points, but like previous matches they didn’t have a good build in this one, and except for the work on Matt, and the finish, it really didn’t do any wonder. The match did have a nice finish, and would almost look like a masterpiece compared to the matches than followed.

Nice little backstage rumble segment with Edge making fun of Kelly Kelly like he should, “the ill show you mine (number), if you show you me yours” came over as ridicules and typical childish McMahon humor, and King Booker totally went out of his normal character in his cameo here

Wrestlemania All Grown Up? Well it’s about f’n time!

2. ECW Championship Match
Bobby Lashley © vs. Test (½*)
-Rest holds Mania to the max! Except for the overkill of rest holds, they did some good stuff in the minutes they wrestled, but it did mostly come over as another one of their half assed ECW matches. Test got himself counted out, and the bookers certainly made sense here, “Hey I got a title shot, let me waste it!”, but of course we are talking about ECW, so maybe he could know in a kayfabe way, ill get a new shot anyways. But why did Lashley attack Test after the match? Did this make sense? WWE creative wins again

Short segment with McMahon and Cena, pointing at another Cena vs. Boss angle, finally a new thing to offer us, I guess not

3. World Heavyweight Championship Match
Batista © vs. Ken Kennedy (½*)
-Borefest! Kennedy has stepped up his game a bit, after really disappointing me after his promising debut, I still think they should go back and watch OVW shows to see how Kennedy’s character should be used, even stepping up his game, he still cant carry people, and especially not a tool like Batista. How anyone can see Batista as championship material or wrestling material is beyond me, hell ill prefer Warrior any day of the week over this fruit. Kennedy did try working his best here, but it didn’t change the fact the match was horrible, Kennedy even got cheered near the end after a ref bump, Batista “woke up” and won. Thank god it’s done!

Thorn picks a number and him and Ariel talks a bit, this guy is so going to win the rumble. The Little Bastard! Little Bastard biting Coach, now this is money, Little Bastard and Khali has a “face-off” (more like face to groin “off”), bingo here is the Mania main event. Khali picks three balls, which leads into Kelly doing the “this is the biggest balls I have ever held” bit, and Simmons with a “Damn!”…YAWN!

4. WWE Championship Last Man Standing Match
John Cena © vs. Umaga (**3/4)
-I personally wasn’t too high on this; I probably should have given it a second chance, but yeah. The opening minutes of the match really annoyed me, seemed like Cena went down every 30 seconds for the count, and made him look weak. The overuse of the steel steps annoyed me as well; they did have a lot of innovated spots, some of them worked great, some of them not so much. The finish was innovative too some degree, but it didn’t look all that impressive, but realistic however, but men worked hard, but I felt this match was booked wrong, and could have been the 4 star match, if booked otherwise, JBL-Cena was way better, same goes for other Cena matches as well.

Sandman sucks, Flair gets the last ball, which soon after could be seem as being number 1, what’s the odds, ECW’s horrible version of the Nitro Girl danced with Flair, and Flair quickly left, and I can’t blame him.

5. 30-Man Royal Rumble Match (***½)
-Leetttt’s ggggeeeettttt rrrrreeeaaaadddddyyyyy ttooo rrrruuuuuummmmmbbbbllllleee! Lawler, JBL and Cole called this match, and did a good job on it; I was a bit surprised JR didn’t call his one, and no big surprise ECW was left out of this one. Finlay and Flair started it off; they both lasted for awhile, and shined well in the rumble. I thought Dykstra would have been in longer, like so many others did. Many people got a nice rub with staying in for long, and this wasn’t your typical rumble, as there were probably 6 people at least in the ring for most of it. Punk made his way in as number 11, and I probably followed his process more than anybody else in here. He quickly squares off against Edge, which is absolutely one of my dream matches; he later went on to face off against people like Finlay, Booker, Benoit and others which I really enjoyed. He did well, even if he was in the defensive role throe much of this, before getting eliminated my Khali like many others. The beat-down from Booker on Kane after the elimination looked great, not sure I want a feud here, but it did look great and real. Khali cleaned house, and except for MVP, we were left with the final four in the ring, as Undertaker entered as number 30 and eliminated Khali right away. From here we had a great battle between the final four, Edge, Orton, HBK and Undertaker. They went awhile with it, until they got Edge and Orton out, and we were down to the favorites and the two Texans. This was a great finish, they went awhile with some nice false finishes, and the San Antonio went as far and turned against Taker a bit here. Taker won it eventually and we had the nice little respect stare down between the two, and Taker is going to Mania

Overall: B
-Fun rumble here and that is what is really is all about. The under-card certainly wasn’t great, decent opener, and WWE title match, the World and ECW title matches was horror as expected, still a fun rumble match.
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Feb. 4th, 2007 @ 10:44 am WWF In Your House 27 St. Valentines Day Massacre
WWF In Your House 27 St. Valentines Day Massacre
Date: 14th February 1999
Location: The Pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee

1. Grudge Match
Golddust vs. Bluedust (Blue Meanie) (1/4*)
-The build up to this one had Head, a naked Blue Meanie, and Gillberg getting his first win and what not. Just like in the Royal Rumble Lawler talked about how Blue Meanie was an ECW reject, ECW was certainly getting some promotion from WWF during this time, very unlike WWF. Golddust was basically in the driver seat in this whole match, it didn’t go too long, and after a missed Moonsault from Bluedust, Golddust got the win with the curtain call, Bluedust got his dreams shattered after the match.

2. Hardcore Match for the Vacant WWF Hardcore Title
Al Snow vs. Bob Holly (*½)
-Road Dogg got “injured” on Raw, and this match was for the vacant Hardcore title, this is JOB Squad members going at it, this was basically build on the Raw the night before, where after Al Snow had his famous match against himself, Holly attacked him. Well this match quickly went to the crowd, then to the back, and went outside the arena. The match really didn’t have too much build, it was hitting each other with weapons, while moving down to the Mississippi river, where both got thrown in, they fought on and Holly punned Snow, as Snow was wrapped in a chain link fence, and Holly becomes the Hardcore champ.

Cole: “Maybe this could erase the memory of Sparky Plug”…not bloody likely

3. Singles Match
Big Boss Man vs. Mideon (DUD)
-Corporation’s Big Boss Man takes on the Ministry of Darkness’ Mideon, sounds exciting; Mideon got his glass jar with an eye in it. This match got a well deserved boring chant, with these two and the fact that it was basically heel vs. heel, how exactly could the crowd get into it. They went back and forth during the match, and Boss Man finished off Mideon with a Boss Man Slam. The Ministry made their way out after the match, and attacked Boss Man, as Taker made his way down, looking at the recent beat-downs it could seem like Boss Man would be a new Ministry member.

4. WWF Tag Team Championship Match
Owen Hart & Jeff Jarrett © vs. Mark Henry & D-Lo Brown (*½)
-Ivory got introduced on Raw and was in the corner of Brown and Henry; she had gotten in the face of Debra on Heat, who of course is the valet of the champs. I miss Owen, but this wasn’t a match that proves why, even tho it wasn’t his fault, the match pretty much didn’t click, and came over as a match without any intensity. After some interaction with Debra and Ivory, a guitar shot to the knee of Henry while the ref was distracted, and Jarrett slaps on the figure-4 and the champs retain, and one hour into the show this looks like a train wreck.

5. WWF Intercontinental Championship Match with Special Ref: Billy Gunn
Ken Shamrock © vs. Val Venis (*½)
-This one has been building since a few weeks before the Rumble, the whole feud surrounding over Shamrock’s sister Ryan. Gunn faced Shamrock at the rumble after mooning Ryan, and then became the special ref for this match, as the referee’s refused to ref this match due to Shamrock’s actions against a number of refs. Venis had gotten into this feud shortly after the rumble, as he showed the ”sex tape” of him and Ryan, Shamrock was pissed, but promised his sister he wouldn’t touch Venis, but that didn’t last long, and eventually led to this match. The underrated Val Venis tried to drag the best out of this match, but he couldn’t really pull out anything good out of Shamrock. A few funny notes about this match, Shamrock twice yelled “what the fuck?” to Billy Gunn, and a spot outside where he yelled at his sister, you could hear Shamrock say slap me to Ryan…bravo. Venis got the win with a small package, after Shamrock had shoved Gunn, and Gunn did a fast count, and Val won the IC belt. Gunn attacked Venis after the match getting the pop, and likely a title match down the line.

6. Tag Team Match
Kane & Chyna vs. Triple H & X-Pac (**3/4)
-Chyna turned against DX and joined Cooperation, and that’s basically the history behind this one, I think there is a history between X-Pac and Kane as well, but it could have been later. A few things really didn’t click here, which of course hurt the match, but the match wasn’t that bad despite that. Chyna pinned Triple H here, man imagine to have lost to JR, Chyna and Ultimate Warrior, well at least it paid off in the end.

7. WWF World Heavyweight Championship Last Man Standing Match
Mankind © vs. The Rock (***½)
-This was really a great feud with some great payoff in the matches, this all started back around Survivor Series 98, where Mankind was screwed in the title tournament final, the worked version of the Montreal Screwjob. Another screwjob occurred as Mankind had defeated Rock, but Vinnie Mac made the decision that Rock was still champ due to Rocky never tapping or submitting in the mandible claw (yawn!). Mankind then took the belt on a later Raw after some help from Austin (setting up for Mania), another screwjob occurred at the Rumble, the taped “I quit” deal, this later led to the super bowl halftime heat empty arena show, where Mankind won the belt back, and now another match this time in a last man standing match. This was a very good match, which could easily lead into a Mania main event, but I guess they wanted either a fresh match or didn’t see Rock-Mankind as too much as a selling point for a Mania. This match ended in a double count-out, and the crowd shit on it, naturally, both men got wheeled away.

8. Steel Cage Match
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin vs. Vince McMahon (**3/4)
-If I remember correctly this was the first one-on-one meeting between McMahon and Austin. This one doesn’t need much introduction, the long popular feud at this time, leading into this match, where they are fighting for the Mania title shot. This one had some nice psychology, and actually most of this match happened outside the ring, and McMahon took a bump from the cage to the announce table. After McMahon was about to get stretched away, Austin attacked him, and finally brought him to the ring. Austin basically just beat up McMahon, and won it easily, this went over much better than expected. Paul Wight (The Giant/Big Show) made his debut here, “King, he is huge!”, and he gave a short beating to Austin, and tossed Austin out of a cage wall, and Austin went out and won it.

Overall: C
-First of all just a small note, I really miss the old arena set ups without the big stage, it looked so much better. Absolutely horrible under-card for this one, the final three made it better, but still far from being it’s moneys worth. Rock-Mankind was easily the best match on the card, but they had better matches before this one. I wouldn’t recommend this, unless you are really a mark for the McMahon-Austin and Rock-Mankind feud, probably still wouldn’t recommend it too much.
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Jan. 10th, 2007 @ 10:50 pm WWF Royal Rumble 1999 Review
WWF Royal Rumble 1999 – No Chance in Hell
Date: 24th January 1999
Location: Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California

1. Special Challenge Match
Big Boss Man vs. “Road Dogg” Jesse James (½*)
-Boss Man represents Cooperation here and is one half of the tag team champions (with Ken Shamrock) and Road Dogg represents DX and is the hardcore champion, none of the titles are on the line. This was your slow paced bore-fest, not really a surprise if you think of the combatants. The crowd popped for every offensive move by Roadie, but was pretty much dead otherwise. This about 10 minute opener ended as Boss Man out of nowhere hit the Boss Man slam on Roadie, after Roadie made his comeback and dominated, but one move and the Boss Man wins clean.

2. WWF Intercontinental Championship Match
“The World’s Most Dangerous Man” Ken Shamrock © vs. “Mr. Ass” Billy Gunn (*1/4)
-Shamrock represents Cooperation and is the Intercontinental and Tag Team Champion, Gunn represents DX, the build up to this match began with Gunn mooning Ken’s “sister” Ryan Shamrock (Alicia Webb/ Symphony), and then lured him into a title match (two week build up wiipee). I had forgotten Gunn was such a bad worker back then, somewhat decent match, which was more or less a brawl. The ending stunk up the place, the good old ref bump followed by Venis laying out Shamrock with a weak DDT (if I recall correctly these two had beef over Val dating Shamrock’s sister, Gunn didn’t get the win here, Gunn missed a top rope double axe handle and hurt his ankle, and a ankle lock later, Shamrock had won the match.

3. WWF European Championship Match
X-Pac © vs. Gangrel (**½)
-Pac represents DX and is the European Champion; Gangrel is the leader of the Brood with Edge and Christian. Decent little encounter with a nice pace, wouldn’t mind if it had gone longer, both men did a good showing here. Teddy Long was ref, and proved once again, why he shouldn’t be a referee, good old Long and his fast counts, which actually made Gangrel look like the better, but the match continue. X-Pac picked up the win and retained, after a nice looking X-Factor, certainly a lot better match than the previous and it didn’t need half the time to show it.

4. WWF Women’s Championship Strap Match
Sable © vs. Luna Vachon (3/4*)
-Luna attacked Sable on Heat before the PPV, so Sable had a bad back, Shane McMahon wanted her to forfeit the belt to Luna, but Sable wanted to fight. Shane did a nice job on guest commentary, cheering for Luna during this match-up. Not that bad really, decent build, but basically had the same finish as all strap matches, but the overbooked finish annoyed me. Shane’O’Mac interfered, a secret stalker from the audience or whatever they called it, how later became known as Tori, got involved, and Sable got the win.

5. WWF World Heavyweight Championship I Quit Match
Mankind © vs. The Rock (***3/4)
-Rocky represent Cooperation at this time, this one had a nice build up. Great brawl with Mankind taking some punishment, including some stiff chair shots, this one had the classic finish with the audio playing from Heat, where Foley screaming “I Quit, I Quit, I Quit”, this of course led into the historic empty arena Halftime Heat match, great drama and Rocky is the new champion.

A nice highlight video from the McMahon-Austin feud was shown; however something that sounded like Alex Wright’s entrance themed played along with it, and that put me in a horrible mood

6. 30-Man Royal Rumble Match
Stone Cold, Mr. McMahon, Golga, Droz, Edge, Gillberg, Steve Blackman, Dan Severn, Tiger Ali Singh, The Blue Meanie, Mabel, Road Dogg, Gangrel, Kurrgan, Al Snow, Goldust, Godfather, Kane, Ken Shamrock, Billy Gunn, Test, Big Boss Man, Triple H, Val Venis, X-Pac, Mark Henry, Jeff Jarrett, D-Lo Brown, Owen Hart, Chyna (**)
-It’s not easy to put on a bad Rumble match, but WWF certainly gave it their best here. From start too finish it was all about McMahon and Austin, WWF made it look like they actually gave a rats ass about what happened in the match itself, which was btw filled with mid-carders with no chance of winning.. When the final five are Vince, Austin, D-Lo, Owen and Boss Man, who do you think is winning this one? Certainly not D-Lo or Boss Man, and Owen hadn’t received a push that made him look like a possible winner. The Rock interfered when it came down to Vince and Austin, and Vince won the Rumble and the world title shot at Mania.

Just some random notes
-Austin is number one, McMahon is number two
-The person who eliminates Austin gets 100.000 $
-Chyna is the first women in a royal rumble match, sad day and more too come
-Sign of the Night “McMahon on Juice”
-Golga (Earthquake) was over huge, when he made his entrance, but not so much after attacking Austin, and getting eliminated right away, poor guy
-McMahon and Austin battled to the back not eliminated between the 3rd and 4th entrant
-Gillberg (Duane Gill) was so much better than Goldberg
-10 of these guys still works for the WWE in January 2007 (Vince McMahon, Edge, Mable (Viscera), Gangrel (Deep South), Al Snow (something), Kane, Test, Triple H, Val Venis, Mark Henry)

Overall: C
-Pretty disappointing show, I can live with Royal Rumble shows, where only the rumble is good, but that wasn’t the case here. The Rock-Mankind match was pretty good, and brutal if you know the story behind it, Gangrel-Pac could have been better just given some time from some of the other matches, and basically the rest was skip worthy. Ill recommend the Rock-Mankind match skip the rest, one of the worst WWF PPVs of 1999, but there was a lot of good stuff to come in the future.
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Sep. 20th, 2006 @ 05:59 pm Dragon Gate Truth Gate PPV
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Dragon Gate Truth Gate PPV
Date: 24th February 2006
Location: Korakuen Hall

1. Six Man Tag Match
Kenichiro Arai, Jack Evans & Magnum TOKYO vs. BxB Hulk, Genki Horiguchi & Anthony W. Mori (**1/4)
-This was basically your typical Dragon Gate opener with loads of comedy spots, which got the crowd hot. Except for a fast paced finish, the match was really hurt by the comedy, as when things look to get going, they went and brought a bit down with some comedy. The match was acceptable and served its purpose, but I think these six could have brought something quite good to the table. Except for the weird teamwork between BxB, Genki and More, Evans was given a good deal of spotlight with some of his insane offense, he eventually got the win for his team after hitting the 630.

2. Singles Match
Shingo Takagi vs. Katsuo (*½)
-Fun little match, where the bigger and stronger Shingo basically tossed around Katsuo. Katsuo had a few signs of comeback, but the Shingo overpowered him. Shingo won the match with vicious lariat, and plain and simple looked strong here.

3. Open the Brave Gate League Match
Super Shisa vs. Tozawa (*)
-This was a short and unimpressive match; Shisa had the upper hand a lot during the match. Shisa won the match with a pinning combination.

4. Open the Brave Gate League Match
Naoki Tanisaki vs. Dragon Kid (**1/4)
-This was a heated battle between two members of the Do Fixer stable. Naoki continues to impress me here with a nice vicious streak; he controlled the opening phase beating the shit out of Dragon Kid. Dragon Kid came back mid-match and used his speed to hold the control, until Naoki came back and once again beat up him up once again. Naoki got the win by count-out, as they went into the fans, and Naoki nailed Dragon Kid with a wicked ‘U-Tube’ (Sterling James Keenan’s MK Ultra) on some chairs.

5. Open the Brave Gate League Match
Naruki Doi vs. Masato Yoshino (***½)
-Like the last match, this was a battle between two stable mates. The two Blood Generation members gave it there all in wonderful slowly build battle, it was pretty even at had its high impact moves during the match to get the crowd on their feet. The finishing minutes of this encounter, really made this match memorable with a lot of false finishes, and a nice pace, really well done. The contest ended in a time limit draw, which really served well for both of these competitors.

6. Tag Team Match
CIMA & Don Fujii vs. Masaaki Mochizuki & Susumu Yokosuka (***1/4)
-This was Blood Generation going against Final M2K in a fun and crazy battle. After a opening with fighting in the crowd, and some jump rope whipping fun, Blood Generation slowly gained control. They had the upper hand, until the match exploded, where it just turned into the crazy insane paced fun that Dragon Gate is known for. BG got the win, after Fujii hit the second ‘Nice German’ (German Suplex with a bridge) for the pin.

7. Open the Dream Gate Championship Match
Magnitude Kishiwada © vs. Ryo Saito (***½)
-This is Blood Generation’s Kishiwada’s 3rd title defense against Do Fixer member Saito. This was a long hard fought dramatic battle, where the bigger and stronger champion dominated Saito. Saito took a huge beating, before in a hot finish, Saito hit the Premium Suplex (modified Dragon Suplex) and pinned Kishiwada to become the 4th Open the Dream Gate Champion.

Overall: B
-Typical build for a Dragon Gate show with the shorter and more comedy like openers, and the show slowly builds up for some hot matches at the end. Overall it was a fun show, nothing really horrible and a couple of good matches.
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