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| Big Tuna | Dec 10 2011, 10:30 AM Post #1 |
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PWG Champion: Joey Ryan, Since 12/3/2005 PWG Tag Team Champions: Cape Fear, Since 12/2/2006 ![]() PWG Based On a True Story January 13th, 2007 Reseda, CA Match #1: Frankie Kazarian vs. Scorpio Sky w/ Jade Chung [Loser Leaves PWG] This is pretty good. They got the full on war type feel that you want from a LLT match while also not doing a ridiculous amount of stuff in the opening match. Lots of interference and bullshit. Dragged a little bit in the middle and had some Frankie Kazarian type bullshit, but it was mostly really quality stuff. Jade accidentally crotches Sky up top and Frankie wins with the Flux Capacitor. **3/4 Hilariously, this is Kazarian's final match in PWG, so him winning this is a horrible idea in retrospect. Post-match, Jade yells at him for losing and kicks him in the ribs. Match #2: Colt Cabana vs. Rocky Romero Very enjoyable 10 minutes. Cabana brought a bunch of awesome comedy and Romero played the straight man. They also did some great matwork, and Romero wins with a roll up. **3/4 Match #3: Scott Lost/Karl Anderson/Bino Gambino vs. TJ Perkins/Disco Machine/Nemesis 18 minutes was ridiculous for this, despite Lost, TJ, and Karl being good. Karl impressed on his debut, doing a lot of basic heel stuff very well and throwing good chops. The TJ matwork was all good. Lost ruled at everything. Disco beats Bino with the Chokebreaker. Disco needs to take the hint that most of his contemporaries are taking and just go away. ** Before the match, Bosh and Steen agree to make their #1 Contender's Match into a SUCK MY COCK MATCH as well! Match #4: Kevin Steen vs. Chris Bosh [#1 Contender's "SUCK MY COCK" Match] Since they don't go like 25 minutes, this is their best match together. Bosh randomly breaks out lucha and a crazy dive. Steen then does his own crazy dive. It broke down into an awesome brawl. Bosh took some amazing bumps in the second half of the match. Steen absolutely kills Bosh with the Steenalizer into the turnbuckles. *** Match #5: Super Dragon vs. Ronin This goes 21 minutes, which is totally ridiculous. SD is not the same anymore, and the tag match at Passive Hostility was basically his coup de grace in terms of being an elite level wrestler. There's still some good stuff, but way too much filler. Horribly, Ronin beats SD fairly clean with the DVD. **1/4 Match #6: Cape Fear [c] vs. Los Luchas [PWG Tag Team Championship] Good spotfest. Los Luchas are hit and miss, but Generico and Quicksilver look absolutely amazing. Generico did his stuff well, but Quicksilver spent the match pulling off a bunch of ridiculously intricate spots and doing them totally clean. Cape Fear is absolutely the great lost tag team of the 2000s. CRAAAAAZY finishing run. They told a nice little story where Phoenix Star kept dodging the Helluva Kick, so Quicksilver held him for it, and then the Brainbuster won. *** Match #7: Joey Ryan [c] w/ Jade Chung vs. Human Tornado w/ Candice LaRae [PWG World Championship - Guerrilla Warfare Match] Takes a while to get going, but when they do, it's awesome. 35 minutes is ridiculously long when they could have done this exact same match with a lot less filler in 20-25 minutes. Still, a lot of awesome spots and Tornado takes a ton of ridiculous bumps. Joey countering Candice's presence by putting thumbtacks down her top and dropkicking her in the chest was amazing. Arrogance comes out to help, but Cape Fear and Steen come out to take them to the back. Tornado hits the DAT NIGGA DEAD into thumbtacks AND PINS JOEY! THE REIGN OF TERROR IS OVER! Shame Joey's title reign didn't go out with more of a bang. **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Dec 10 2011, 06:43 PM Post #2 |
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PWG Champion: Human Tornado, Since 1/13/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Cape Fear, Since 12/2/2006 ![]() PWG Guitarmageddon II: Armoryageddon February 10th, 2007 Van Nuys, CA Match #1: Scott Lost w/ Jade Chung vs. Ronin This is another match where Ronin wins clean over someone way better than him, but Lost does a good job carrying it. His offense is all awesome and he takes huge bumps for Ronin. Ronin wins with a cradle. ![]() **1/2 Match #2: Karl Anderson vs. Disco Machine Karl looks good again with great chops and power offense. Disco doesn't bring a ton to this, but generally does his job well and doesn't botch a whole lot. Karl does a great looking Double A Spinebuster and wins with the Boston Crab. **1/2 Match #3: Joey Ryan vs. Frankie Kazarian Well shit, I was wrong. Apparently he's on a good amount of shows through the spring. Kazarian looks even worse than usual here, really dragging this down hugely. Karl Anderson comes out for a distraction and Joey gets a low blow and a roll up to win. *3/4 Match #4: Super Dragon/Rocky Romero/Bino Gambino vs. TJ Perkins/Los Luchas TJ/Romero is great and Los Luchas are on their A game. Some nice moments of Super Dragon being Super Dragon. Los Luchas and Rocky had shockingly good matwork together. Great dives and control segments, and this is shockingly good. Zokre gets a HUGE upset on SD with a Reverse Rana. *** Match #5: Chris Bosh w/ Jade Chung vs. Claudio Castagnoli This ruled. Tons of epic Claudio power spots, and since it's 2007, Claudio is reaching his full power. Bosh starts breaking out a ton of insane high risk spots to combat the power. Bosh ends up getting a roll up for the win. FUCK YEAH BOSH! *** Match #6: Human Tornado [c] w/ Candice LaRae vs. Kevin Steen [PWG World Championship] Steen works heel in this since Tornado is such a babyface, and it is awesome. Steen's a fun babyface and all, but working as a piece of shit violent heel is truly his calling. Tornado gets to do his awesome dive as he makes his comeback. Steen seems about to maybe win, but then The Dynasty attacks him and Tornado, so the ref throws it out. **3/4 Joey gets on the mic and says he's using his rematch clause right now! Match #7: Human Tornado [c] w/ Candice LaRae vs. Joey Ryan [PWG World Championship] TOP GUN TALWAR RUNS OUT IN TURBAN AND WITH A SWORD TO DISTRACT JOEY IN REVENGE FOR INJURING HIM, AND TORNADO GETS A SCHOOLBOY TO WIN! AMAZING Match #8: Cape Fear [c] vs. Roderick Strong/Davey Richards [PWG Tag Team Championship] The NRC works heel, so this rules. Classic high flyers vs. strikers style affair. NRC absolutely brutalizes Generico and Quicksilver who take insane bumps all match. Quicksilver in particular takes a pounding as the face in peril for most of the match. They abuse the fuck out of him and Davey occasionally tries to fight fans. Generico has the hot tag and Roddy's eye gets busted open bad, as seen on the DVD cover. Seemed like they lost it a bit dealing with this, but then they pulled a great finishing run together. Generico hits the Helluva Kick, followed by a Reverse Rana by Quick, and then Generico hits the Brainbuster to retain. ***1/4 Due to a multitude of concussions in his career, and a big one here leading to post-concussion syndrome, this is Quicksilver's last match. I didn't think much of it at the time, but the dude has grown hugely on me. Maybe the biggest discovery out of any of the promotions I've reviewed. The guy took insane bumps, had a bunch of really crisp offense and great strikes, was a great face in peril and a great selling babyface in general, and unlike a lot of other guys on the indies who can do all that, he was also a magnificent seller and had a way of getting me into matches that I knew the result of and were at least 5 years old. When the time comes, he's getting a good run in WCW. |
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| Big Tuna | Dec 11 2011, 10:24 AM Post #3 |
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PWG Champion: Human Tornado, Since 1/13/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Cape Fear, Since 12/2/2006 ![]() PWG Holy Diver Down February 24th, 2007 Van Nuys, CA Match #1: Joey Ryan vs. Top Gun Talwar A ton of ridiculous gay comedy with Talwar working on Joey's bare ass over and over again. JYD HEADBUTTS TO THE ASS! Joey blinds Talwar with the inhaler to the eyes, and he works the eyes. Then they do dueling low blows and this is the best comedy ever and the single gayest match ever. Jesus Christ. This is gayer than 8 guys blowing 9 guys. After like 10 minutes of ass based work by Talwar and stimulated sodomy and anal rape, Joey goes to the eyes and hits the That 70's Kick to win. TEN MILLION STARS Match #2: Ronin vs. Ricky Reyes OH GOD NO. FUCK YOU. This sucked. Ronin won. *3/4 Match #3: Karl Anderson vs. Frankie Kazarian Karl was again awesome against a shitty opponent. Awesome heelish taunting and stooging and bumping. Offense all looked great. A man in a Scorpio Sky mask who is probably Scorpio Sky ran out to distract Frankie and Karl Anderson got a roll up for the win. **1/2 Match #4: MCMG vs. Arrogance w/ Jade Chung Great match. The opening sequences of Shelley/Bosh and Sabin/Lost have a bunch of really crisp and inventive stuff going on before the Guns take over. Bosh finally gets the LIONCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK punch and they take over. Usual awesome Arrogance control seg on Sabin. Finishing run was awesome, but they got a little too cute at points near the end. MCMG wins with a stereo inside cradle, which is exactly what I meant. *** Match #5: Disco Machine vs. Bino Gambino [Best of Three Falls] They both get roll ups within a minute to make it 1-1. They then had a good match, which was shocking since neither man is really someone I'd call good. Disco wins and we move on to awesome stuff. **1/4 Match #6: Kevin Steen vs. PAC Wonderful match. Steen is again a huge piece of shit bully heel. They have some good matwork to begin, before Steen starts being a dick. Lots of violent stuff in addition to him abusing his weight advantage and mocking PAC's overly flippy and spinny bullshit. PAC took a ton of insane bumps too, to his credit. Some incredible stuff in the finishing run. PAC counters a Super Package Piledriver into a Frankensteiner and hits a SSP Senton and a Corkscrew SSP for the win. ***1/2 Match #7: Human Tornado [c] w/ Candice LaRae vs. El Generico [PWG World Championship] Tornado is shockingly aggressive to start and arrogant throughout. Generico is an awesome babyface in peril with his bumping and selling, and Tornado has a ton of cool offense. They got going with a really awesome back and forth match. Great offense and bumps from both men. Generico had a great Tope Suicida. Tornado was a dick and did the Brainbuster, so Generico then hit him with DAT NIGGA DEAD. Generico won the belt with the BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. *** Generico offers a handshake, but Tornado walks out on him. |
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| Big Tuna | Dec 16 2011, 12:56 PM Post #4 |
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PWG Champion: Human Tornado, Since 1/13/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Vacant ![]() PWG Album of the Year March 10th, 2007 Van Nuys, CA The tag titles are declared vacant to open the show, and a tag title tournament is announced for May. Match #1: Frankie Kazarian vs. Disco Machine This was nothing much. There is a ref bump and Dino comes out to try and wake up the ref. Kazarian yells at him and Disco dropkicks him into it, and wins with the Chokebreaker. *3/4 Match #2: Arrogance w/ Jade Chung vs. Kevin Steen/Franky The Mobster Franky is the worst. The other three were fine though and carried it. Lots of good Arrogance stuff, but the finishing run dragged a lot since Franky had to do stuff. Steen walks into the cock punch from Bosh and Lost rolls Steen up for the win. **1/2 Match #3: Ronin vs. TJ Perkins Ronin is again carried by a superior wrestler and goes over. TJ carries him through matwork and bumps around well for him. Ronin then wins with the DVD. **1/2 Match #4: Nemesis vs. Phoenix Star I guess Zokre missed? This isn't good. Nemesis sucks dick. There is some painfully awkward lucha in this before Star wins. *3/4 Match #5: Joey Ryan vs. Top Gun Talwar [Tuxedo Match] TEN MILLION STARS Match #6: Colt Cabana vs. Karl Anderson This was awesome. Cabana is again so goddamned entertaining. He makes a fool out of Anderson and it is great. Anderson's control seg was great. He works the back and Cabana sells very well. Karl gets the Anderson Spinebuster and the Boston Crab for a shockingly clean win. **3/4 Match #7: Claudio Castagnoli vs. Rocky Romero Basically the same match they had in ROH in April 2007, except Rocky is more ambiguous in his heel/face positioning in PWG, so the big/little babyface spots he does don't seem as out of place. Nice finishing run, and Claudio wins with the Ricola Bomb. **3/4 Match #8: El Generico [c] vs. Davey Richards [PWG World Championship] They have a good match in them, absolutely, but not when they work a 30 minute match. Both of these men are best in fast matches around 20 minutes, and them trying to work this long building epic just doesn't work. They were clearly struggling to fill time in the middle as a result of this. El Generico makes the comeback going into your big finishing run, and he wins with the BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Dec 18 2011, 04:56 PM Post #5 |
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PWG Champion: El Generico, Since 2/24/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Vacant ![]() PWG 70/30 March 24th, 2007 Van Nuys, CA Match #1: Joey Ryan vs. TJ Perkins Joey is baffled by TJ's tricky matwork and lucha stuff and it provides a great contrast. Unfortunately, it lacked focus once Joey took over. He went to both the arm and the knee at points and TJ sold neither. Joey gets a roll through of a roll up with the tights to win. **1/2 Match #2: Alex Shelley vs. Rocky Romero Lot s of awesome matwork to begin. It's basically just a collection of spots, but they're all really crisp and they go in a good and logical order. There's some issues with Romero's logic, but it mostly works. Shelley keeps avoiding arm work but Romero starts getting in arm stuff near the end. He went for the Cross Armbreaker too many times though and Shelley was able to counter it into the Border City Stretch to win. *** Post-match, Romero challenges Shelley to get Sabin and to face the Havana Pitbulls in the first round of DDT4. Shelley accepts. Unfortunately, TNA would have a fit about their guys working indies from May until August 2007 and the MCMG would get pulled. They'd ease up and let Shelley in BOLA. LOLTNA. Match #3: Kevin Steen vs. Ronin [#1 Contender's Match] Ronin drags this down. Steen is fine, but this is more a Ronin match than a Steen one. Joey Ryan comes out to continue his issue with Ronin by costing him the match as he hits Steen with a chair for the DQ. ** Joey quickly leaves. Steen gets up and gets the mic and says to quote a great one, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE! He says he wants to talk to whoever's in charge this week. Dino and Excalibur, newly appointed Commissioner of Food and Beverage. He says he's had enough of this bullshit and he wants Joey Ryan at All Star Weekend, and he's willing to wait until May for his title shot if he has to do it. They approve it. Steen leaves and they have other announcements for All Star Weekend V: -SAMOA JOE VS. LOW KI ON NIGHT 2 -KAZ HAYASHI VS. ALEX SHELLEY ON NIGHT 1 -EL GENERICO/PAC II ON NIGHT 1 -STRONG/EVANS VS. ARROGANCE ON NIGHT 2 -MOTHERFUCK!!!!!!!! They then talk about DDT4. They each pick 4 teams. Excalibur picks the Briscoes, and Dino picks the Kings of Wrestling. Excalibur picks Davey Richards and Roderick Strong, and Davey Richards comes out. He says nobody tells him who to tag with and he's already won belts with Strong, and he will be in the tournament, but he's not telling anyone who his partner is yet. Excalibur says he already booked Roderick's flight but Davey gives him the up yours sign and leaves. Dino picks SPEED MUSCLE FROM DRAGON GATE! Excalibur is pissed at being shown up and leaves. Match #4: Top Gun Talwar vs. "Scorpio Sky" It is not the real Sky at all. Sort of like NWO Sting. This sucked. Fake Sky gets a horrible looking roll up in the ropes. *3/4 Match #5: Chris Sabin vs. Scott Lost w/ Jade Chung Great matwork to begin. Lots of fast and smooth counters and shit. Lost works the midsection and it is quite good. He doesn't really sell it at any point but they have a nice variety of spots in the finishing run. Jade Chung pushes Lost over on an inside cradle from Sabin behind the ref's back and it gets three. **3/4 Match #6: Davey Richards vs. SHINGO They do a lot of big moves without much of a story. It is what it is. Davey gets a low blow and a roll up to win. **3/4 Match #7: Human Tornado w/ Candice LaRae vs. Disco Machine This is the beginning of Tornado's incredible heel run. He keeps pulling Candice in the way of stuff to escape it. Still though, it's Tornado in a serious match so it's not great. Tornado wins with DAT NIGGA DEAD. ** Post-match, he hits Candice with the DND too. Match #8: El Generico [c] vs. Christopher Daniels [PWG World Championship] Daniels tries to work heel, but the crowd isn't playing along. However, it gave them something more than standard face/face back and forth structure. Daniels failed to outwrestle Generico, so he got a cheap shot to take over. Unfortunately, his control seg was painfully average. Finishing run was fine enough. Generico wins with the Brainbuster. **1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Dec 29 2011, 10:39 PM Post #6 |
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PWG Champion: El Generico, Since 2/24/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Vacant ![]() PWG All Star Weekend V Night One April 7th, 2007 Van Nuys, CA Match #1: Disco Machine vs. NOSAWA This was not good, which makes sense, since these are two bad wrestlers. Disco wins with the Chokebreaker. *1/2 Match #2: Roderick Strong vs. Rocky Romero This was great. Total slugfest early on, before Strong went nuts with a ton of crazy power offense on the back. He spent most of the match just hurling Romero around and then kicking him really fucking hard in the head. Normally, I'd shit on them for losing focus, but the spots and strikes they pulled off here were absolutely sick, so this was wildly entertaining. Romero eventually wins with the Jujigatame. *** Match #3: Claudio Castagnoli vs. Human Tornado w/ Candice LaRae Heel Tornado is amazing again as an evil sleazy pimp. He keeps using Candice as a shield to escape stuff and was an awesome chickenshit. Claudio has entered the peak of his powers now, and Tornado is a smaller athletic guy, which fits perfectly against Claudio. Tornado took some amazing bumps on Claudio's stuff. Tornado gets a low blow and a roll up to win after Claudio accidentally knocks Candice off the apron. *** Tornado helps Candice up on the floor, AND THEN HE SHOVES HER BACK INTO THE RAILING AND LAUGHS! Match #4: Matt Classic vs. Kikutaro One of the greatest pure comedy matches of the 2000s, holy shit. Fucking indescribable. TEN MILLION STARS Match #5: Kevin Steen vs. Jack Evans ANOTHER awesome match! Lots of nifty power vs. speed spots and Jack's offense all looked amazing. Steen's control seg was brutal and great and Jack's comeback looked really great. All his stuff connected, which is where he improved a ton in 2007. Evans is totally insane and decides, for his dive, to do a SPRINGBOARD SHOOTING STAR PRESS DOUBLE KNEES TO THE CHEST. Jack then started taking some lunatic bumps before Steen wins with the FUCKING TURNBUCKLE STEENALIZER YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES. ***1/4 Before the next match, Scorpio Sky runs out to attack The Dynasty, but is taken out by security. Match #6: Joey Ryan/Arrogance/Karl Anderson w/ Jade Chung vs. Frankie Kazarian/TJ Perkins/Ronin/Top Gun Talwar This has no business going 20 minutes, but The Dynasty were all amazing. Early on, Bosh yells at fans "I CAN SMELL THE JEW ON YOU! WE ARE NAZIS!" TJ pretty much carries his team, but Talwar and Kazarian delivered at some points too. Ronin was absolutely the fucking worst. Doesn't really got BAD at any point, but never really gets great. Arrogance beats Talwar with the Northern Lights Backbreaker. **1/2 Match #7: Alex Shelley vs. Kaz Hayashi Oh my god, just typing that gave me a boner. Perfect junior heavyweight movefest style match. Really crisp and fast matwork and lucha exchanges early on, and then they traded a bunch of amazing offense and shit. This match is pretty much responsible for KDX being in my WCW, as I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVED Hayashi's PWG showings and started tracking down more of his stuff, leading to finding his awesome WCW run irl and all the awesome Michinoku Pro stuff from the 90s, which led me to DICK MOTHERFUCKING TOGO. So yeah, thanks PWG! Shelley worked on the neck and Kaz worked the knee. Selling was good from both. EPIC finishing run of stuff. Hayashi wins with the Final Cut. *** Match #8: Low Ki vs. Davey Richards This went how you'd expect. Many kicks and strikes. Ki was fantastic as always and Davey did an acceptable job of being a warm body in a Low Ki match. It really dragged on during Davey's control seg and the finishing run since it was like 25-30 minutes of kicks and shit. Ki ends up winning with the Ghetto Stomp. If this was 15 minutes instead of 25-30, it would have been great. **3/4 Match #9: El Generico [c] vs. PAC [PWG World Championship] This had 26 minutes or so, longer than the first match, so I was worried. While it's not as great as the first match, it is still great. Surprisingly good matwork for two flippy guys not known for that. They eventually got going as you would expect and want, and it ruled. Everything went really well in terms of their execution on big spots and both men took huge bumps. They broke out some great new spots and Generico got the win with the BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. *** |
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| Big Tuna | Dec 30 2011, 02:31 PM Post #7 |
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PWG Champion: El Generico, Since 2/24/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Vacant ![]() PWG All Star Weekend V Night Two April 8th, 2007 Van Nuys, CA Match #1: Kevin Steen vs. Joey Ryan [No DQ] Good brawl to open the show without doing anything so crazy that nothing could follow it. Steen wins with the Package Piledriver through two chairs. *** Match #2: TJ Perkins/Rocky Romero/Ronin vs. Karl Anderson/Lil Cholo/NOSAWA No idea why the fuck Cholo is back. He sucked and still does. TJ, Romero, and Karl all look good though. This was generally alright for the 11 minutes or so it lasted, with it getting good when it was Karl vs. TJ or Romero. It ends when Ronin pins, of all people, Anderson with a roll up. **1/4 Match #3: Chris Hero vs. Davey Richards Good not great. Hero guides Davey through the matwork and makes it all look great. Davey has a meandering control segment, and has entered his 2007 decline in PWG as well, it seems. They do stuff, and Davey eventually wins with the 14:59. **1/2 Match #4: Colt Cabana/Top Gun Talwar vs. Disco Machine/Kikutaro[Special Referee: TARO] As Cabana's PWG farewell, they have another amazing comedy match. Although not quite as good as Classic/Kikutaro from the night before. So much hilarious and ridiculous shit here. Cabana ends up beating Disco with the Colt 45. **3/4 Match #5: Claudio Castagnoli vs. Alex Shelley SO FUCKING GREAT! Sooooooo much better than their 2005 match. That was good, but was just an imitation Claudio/Quack match. Here, Claudio is at the height of his powers and they put on a masterpiece of a showcase cool spots match. Awesome matwork to begin, then lucha, dives, big offense, etc. I was particularly impressed with how they did it without really killing any of their finishers. The ref blew the count on a Ricola Bomb, where it was supposed to be 3, but he botched it, so they then improvised a bit. They di some more awesome lucha stuff before Claudio then won with a Springboard Diving European Uppercut. ***1/2 Match #6: Kaz Hayashi vs. PAC This was good, but not great. Not Kaz's fault at all. He tried to work a coherent match where he worked on PAC's shoulder, but PAC refused to sell once the finishing run hit and it was time to do his big spots. Kaz's arm work ruled though. The finishing run was really awesome, but it would not have gotten in the way if PAC just held his arm every other move or something. Hayashi wins with the Final Cut. **3/4 Match #7: Arrogance w/ Jade Chung vs. Roderick Strong/Jack Evans Legitimate fucking dream match, and it absolutely delivers. Lost and Evans have a crazy kung fu exchange. Evans is isolated, it's great, Strong then has a killer hot tag and the finishing run is gangbusters, etc. Unfortunately, before it can get into classic territory, A MUCH FATTER SUPER DRAGON AND DAVEY RICHARDS RUN IN AND THEY KILL THEM ALL! *** Davey gets on the mic and says Super Dragon will be his partner for DDT4! Before the title match, Tornado tells Candice that he's sorry he had to take his anger out on her, and she made him do it, and tells her not to do anything wrong tonight now that he has a shot at his belt. Match #8: El Generico [c] vs. Human Tornado w/ Candice LaRae [PWG World Championship] Tornado is again amazing as an evil pimp and uses Candice for offense. They have some awesome spots in the finishing run too. Great nearfalls based on the abuse of Candice, and Generico gets the win with the Brainbuster. *** Match #9: Samoa Joe vs. Low Ki I will forever love PWG for picking up the ball that Gabe dropped by booking Joe/Ki II. And they do a lot of stuff based off the first match from 2002, like both men being more tentative and trying matwork and avoiding big strikes, where as they just immediately went at it last time. The matwork is all amazing and really tight. They do start to throw strikes, and it's amazing. A bunch of different strikes and moments that either made me cringe or scream in joy. Ki managed to ground Joe for a period this time, learning from their first match. Really good finishing run, but it never quite got to that point of sheer insanity that their first match did. Joe wins with the Muscle Buster. ***1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Jan 6 2012, 11:24 PM Post #8 |
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PWG Champion: El Generico, Since 2/24/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Vacant ![]() PWG DDT4 2007 Night One May 19th, 2007 Burbank, CA Match #1: Don Fuji vs. Stalker Ichikawa Z These two came over with the other Dragon Gate guys to work their comedy match to open the show. Stalker is your classic bumbling idiot fool, and Fuji is acceptable. Stalker accidentally hits himself with a chair and Fuji covers for the win. *1/2 Match #2: The Kings of Wrestling vs. The Briscoes [DDT4 - Quarterfinals] The Kings guide the Briscoes through matwork. The Briscoes then had a pretty good control seg on Claudio. There wasn't really any heel/face divide here, since both teams were being dicks. Hero has a great hot tag and does a really good Chokeslam. Finishing run was basically these two teams unloading huge double teams, so it was great. The Briscoes beat Hero with the Springboard Doomsday Device. *** Match #3: TJ Perkins vs. Bino Gambino This is obvious filler, but TJ impresses as usual. Bino allows himself to be carried, and it's a fine little midcard affair. Perkins wins with the La Magistral cradle. **1/2 Match #4: The Havana Pitbulls vs. The Trailer Park Boyz w/ Johnny Webb [DDT4 - Quarterfinals] The TPB is Josh Abercrombie and Nate Webb, and they were on WSX and a fun team, although I question even bringing in Nate Webb when PWG cuts out entrances. This isn't great or anything, but it is highly enjoyable. The Pitbulls hit hard and the faces have some fun spots. Reyes makes Josh tap to the Dragon Sleeper. **1/2 Match #5: Bryan Danielson vs. CIMA AAAAAAAAAW YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. This qualifies as a legitimate dream match, so them taking a while to really feel each other out makes a lot of sense. CIMA had some awesome work on Danielson's knee for a little bit. Danielson then worked on CIMA's arm. CIMA didn't really sell a god damn thing, and the finishing run was good. A lot of arm based stuff by Danielson, so what the fuck? Fucking sell CIMA, you hack. Really frustrating match. They go a to a 30:00 draw. **3/4 Match #6: Arrogance vs. Speed Muscle [DDT4 - Quarterfinals] Awesome match. Doi and Yoshino have a fun control segment early on before Arrogance heels it up to take over. Many great Bosh/Lost double teams based around moves over Lost's knee. They're often JUST enough on the right side of that believable/contrived line that they come off as really cool. Doi had the hot tag, and they had a good finishing run of big moves. Yoshino beats Bosh with the Sol Nacietne. *** Match #7: Joey Ryan vs. Ronin [Hair vs. BOLA 2007 Spot] This is a Ronin match, so it's not good. But, it's one of the last Ronin matches if not THE last, and marks the end of his push, so it's great to finally get to. Joey wins with some manner of cheating. *3/4 Scorpio Sky comes out through the crowd post-match and Joey gets on the mic. He says it was nothing personal, but he couldn't cut it against Frankie Kazarian, and he had to be replaced. He apologizes if Sky felt slighted but he let The Dynasty down first. On second thought, when he lost the PWG Title that night, Sky was the only one who didn't help, so in his eyes, Scorpio is a real piece of shit. Sky then lays him out with his Implant DDT. Match #8: Roderick Strong/PAC vs. Super Dragon/Davey Richards [DDT4 - Quarterfinals] PAC is replacing Jack Evans. SD is fat and increasingly out of shape, but he still provides some moments of fantastic Super Dragon badassery. This could have used with some trimming of the fat, as a lot of the middle of this was blatant filler, and they wasted a lot of time before actually focusing on isolating PAC. They do some stuff for a while and PAC rolls up Davey to win. **3/4 Match #9: El Generico [c] vs. Kevin Steen [PWG World Championship] It's these two together, so it's awesome. Lots of brutal Steen offense when he's in control. Generico is a perfect babyface once again. Sort of weird match in that Generico got like no offense until the last 5 minutes, and these two usually have a more even first third or so. Usual great finishing run from them and they had some really awesome newer spots. Generico kicking out of Steen stealing the BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAH was a bit much, since that's like the biggest kill move of this generation. Generico responded by hitting Steen with the Package Piledriver for the win. *** |
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| Big Tuna | Jan 7 2012, 07:41 PM Post #9 |
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PWG Champion: El Generico, Since 2/24/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Vacant ![]() PWG DDT4 2007 Night Two May 20th, 2007 Burbank, CA Match #1: Top Gun Talwar vs. Stalker Ichikawa Z Highly entertaining bullshit comedy match. Lots of hilarious ass based comedy from Talwar before he wins with the DANGAH ZONE. ** Match #2: The Briscoes vs. The Havana Pitbulls [DDT4 - Semi-Finals] This was much better than I expected from these teams in 2007. Not as good as their 2004 ROH match, but this lacks that sort of Midas touch of 2004-6 ROH going for it, as well as Ricky Reyes sort of not sucking in 2004. Still though, a lot of good and violent matwork and strikes. Briscoes were behaving more heelishly, which is the best kind of Briscoes. Romero had an awesome finishing run against one of the Briscoes. The Briscoes beat Reyes after the Redneck Event Omega. *** Match #3: Kevin Steen vs. Ronin Man, fuck Ronin. Steen did what he could, but the combination of Ronin being totally worthless and the crowd being burned out after the last match really sort of doomed this. Steen eventually won with the Package Piledriver. ** Match #4: Roderick Strong/PAC vs. Speed Muscle [DDT4 - Semi-Finals] Story here is that Strong and PAC have like no experience at all and Speed Muscle have a ton. They played on the power/speed vs. power/speed dynamic well. PAC and Strong keep miscommunicating and the opponents continually string together a ton of double teams. PAC does manage to take out Doi long enough with a dive for Strong to kill Yoshino with power moves and Strong hits the Gibson Driver to win. ***1/4 Match #5: El Generico [c] vs. CIMA [PWG World Championship] The file is corrupted from here on out. I redownloaded it, and the same thing happened. Can't find a link to this anywhere else, so I will merely say that Strong and PAC beat the Briscoes in the finals to win the vacant tag titles. Was awesome iirc. |
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| Big Tuna | Jan 7 2012, 10:40 PM Post #10 |
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PWG Champion: El Generico, Since 2/24/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Roderick Strong/PAC, Since 5/20/2007 ![]() PWG Roger Dorn Night June 10th, 2007 Burbank, CA To open the show, Davey Richards is on the mic. He says due to the horrible gash on his head suffered last night in Philadelphia (against Nigel McGuinness in ROH), Bryan Danielson will not be challenging El Generico for the PWG Title tonight. The good news is that he's taking his place! Bryan Danielson comes out to the ring and says three staples in his head won't stop him from competing for the title and Davey knows that, so he doesn't know what he's trying to pull. But if he wants a shot so badly, he's the best in the world, so he'll take a three way PWG Title match. Kevin Steen comes out and also wants in, so it is now a four way. Match #1: Top Gun Talwar vs. Bino Gambino Fine enough opening comedy bullshit match. Bino wins with sort of this Ace Crusher into a Codebreaker type move. ** Match #2: TJ Perkins vs. Tony Kozina Really impressive, kind of out of nowhere, great match. Lots of really awesome matwork here. Kozina randomly started breaking out a ton of impossibly crisp and beautiful spots for a guy his size. Kozina injured his neck after a Hilo over the top to Perkins on the floor underneath several chairs. His selling of it was awesome and TJ hammered him with neck based offense until he won with a Super Falcon Arrow. *** Match #3: Human Tornado w/ Candice LaRae vs. Ronin Tornado throws Candice at Ronin to open this up, and it lets him take over. This is all of 7 minutes, so it's the best Ronin match since they flew in Matt Sydal to carry him. Tornado had some awesome highspots as usual. Tornado demands Candice hits Ronin with a chair when he holds him, BUT CANDICE HITS TORNADO WITH THE CHAIR! RONIN WINS WITH THE DVD! **1/2 Candice walks out on Tornado post-match, but then comes back. He threatens her again, BUT SHE KICKS HIM IN THE BALLS! BUT IT'S HUMAN TORNADO AND THAT DOESN'T WORK, EVEN AS A HEEL! TORNADO BACKHANDS THE FUCK OUT OF HER! HE HITS CANDICE WITH THE DAT NIGGA DEAD! All credit to her for taking just a ridiculous bump off of the DND. Match #4: Roderick Strong/PAC [c] vs. The Havana Pitbulls [PWG Tag Team Championship] This took a while to get going, like half the match, but it picked up huge when the Pitbulls started working on PAC's leg. His selling during the actual beating was fantastic and the Pitbulls were really brutal. Strong had a ton of energy trying to get in and when he finally made the hot tag, shit ruled. PAC did actually sell the knee well at the finish too, and he hits Romero with a Corkscrew SSP to retain. **3/4 Match #5: Joey Ryan vs. Tyler Black No idea why they brought Black on for one show and gave him a clean win over one of the top heels, but whatever. Joey has good work on the ribs, but Black doesn't sell a fucking bit of it, of course. Black does his bullshit and wins with God's Last Gift after Scorpio Sky runs out to distract Joey. **1/2 Match #6: Arrogance vs. The Young Bucks Really good 9 minutes. The Bucks show off all their cool shit in their debut and Arrogance makes them look amazing. Arrogance has their usual amazing control segment and the Bucks get to do all their flippy bullshit in the finishing run. Arrogance hits Matt Jackson with the Hart Attack Backbreaker thing and Lost puts on the Sharpshooter to win. **3/4 In absolutely horrible news, news that is just as bad as Quicksilver's retirement, Chris Bosh would retire after this match for reasons that have not been made public. He has a final farewell match, but this is it. One of the guys I think of when I think of PWG, along with Super Dragon, Generico, Steen, Lost, Joey Ryan, and Quicksilver. Arrogance was a really really amazing tag team. The rare tag team that has chemistry from their very first match together. Not a GOAT all time indy tag team or anything, but one of the most purely enjoyable tag teams. Probably the best tag team in PWG history too. Fuck the Young Bucks. Match #7: El Generico [c] vs. Bryan Danielson vs. Kevin Steen vs. Davey Richards [PWG World Championship] Really good main event while still remaining low key. Danielson carried everyone on the mat to begin, and then Generico got isolated by everyone. Dude took a ton of insane and awesome bumps. Finishing run was good stuff from the three that weren't Generico. At the end, Generico snuck back in with the Helluva Kick and BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH to Davey for the win. *** |
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| Big Tuna | Jan 8 2012, 02:01 AM Post #11 |
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PWG Champion: El Generico, Since 2/24/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Roderick Strong/PAC, Since 5/20/2007 ![]() PWG Giant Sized Annual #4 July 29th, 2007 Burbank, CA Match #1: Top Gun Talwar vs. Ronin This was really the only bad match on the show, so that's good. Sloppy, not much going on, whatevs. Ronin wins. *3/4 Before the next match, Human Tornado calls Candice out to the ring. She comes out and is upset with him and he says she showed a lot of guts last month and he was just upset because she cost him the match. He offers a handshake and she tentatively accepts. He then says to get in his corner, bitch. <3 Evil Pimp Tornado. Match #2: Human Tornado w/ Candice LaRae vs. Tony Kozina Kozina again inexplicably delivers through virtue of insane bumps. Got kind of sloppy at the end unfortunately. Candice refused to get Tornado a chair, and he dragged her in the ring. She went to slap him, but he ducked and she hit Kozina, and Tornado then won with the DND. **3/4 Post-match, Tornado high fives Candice and says he's winning BOLA. He goes to hit her, but she hugs him and leaves before he can do anything and Tornado is mad. Match #3: TJ Perkins/The Young Bucks vs. Scott Lost/Karl Anderson/Bino Gambino w/ Jade Chung Bino is replacing Bosh, and does not fit in. However, this match is still way more awesome than I would have expected. The Bucks do all their shit crisply and what not. TJ, Lost, and Karl deliver on offense and bumping and selling as usual. Karl in particular took some awesome lucha style bumps. Finishing run was good, although not as good as I remembered. The faces get a really spectacular looking Triple 450 Splash and then a triple pin on each man for the win. *** Match #4: Davey Richards vs. Prince Devitt During this, Excalibur says 89% of PWG's budget is set aside for various investigations into referee corruption. This is a shockingly good mat based match. Lots of really awesome counters and little things. Davey wins with the 14:59. **3/4 Match #5: Joey Ryan vs. Scorpio Sky [Street Fight - If Sky Wins, He is Reinstated] This generally just happened. Nobody's really given a shit about this feud, so the blowoff here has like no heat at all. It doesn't help that most of the non-Reseda venues for PWG at this point don't come off well on DVD in terms of crowd response. Anyways, they did some stuff and it was average. Sky wins. **1/2 Match #6: Austin Aries vs. Rocky Romero [BOLA 2007 Qualifying Match] This is generally average. Rocky does arm work, Aries does rib work, and neither man sells anything once the finishing run begins. A fine enough finishing run, but really nothing special. About the same as all the other painfully average NRC/Resilience matches in 2007. Aries wins with the 450 Splash. **1/2 Before the next match, Bryan Danielson is on the mic. He says apparently the Briscoes were too drunk to get on a plane and to substitute, PWG has booked Strong/PAC vs. Steenerico tonight, so that means his ONE ON ONE title shot has been stolen from him once again. He says he's pissed off and challenges anyone to come out and fight AND OH HOLY SHIT, IT'S THE FUCKING NECRO BUTCHER! OH MY GOD YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! Match #7: Bryan Danielson vs. Necro Butcher [Necro Butcher Rules Match] This is....fucking everything you'd want from this match. It's weird to compare the two pairings, but this reminds me a lot of a Benoit/Regal match. Everything is really crisp and stiff and hard fought, it's only around 10 minutes or so, and literally every piece of this makes sense, has purpose, and is essential to the match. Perfect kind of grappler vs. fighter match. Necro bleeds a lot, and the visual of Danielson with Necro's blood all over his arms and chest as he fights this homeless man is incredible. Necro has an amazing Necro moment when he randomly pulls a plastic bag out of his jean pockets to suffocate AmDrag with. Danielson also bleeds. Necro has this amazing flurry of punches, but Danielson takes him down and does maybe his most violent Crucifix Elbows ever to win by ref stoppage. Every so often, there's a Necro match that goes beyond pro wrestling and becomes just a fucking spectacle of violence. Necro/Joe, Necro/Super Dragon, Necro/Ki, and this. Must-see shit. **** Match #8: Roderick Strong/PAC [c] vs. Kevin Steen/El Generico [PWG Tag Team Championship] Shockingly great. I mean, I like babyface Roderick Strong and I love Steenerico and I think PAC is acceptable, but I didn't see them meshing together since both are usually face teams. Steen was more willing to heel it up against PAC though, and that helped. PAC was isolated with some good stuff and Strong had a great hot tag. Really crazy finishing run of offense, with a ton of stuff that caught me off guard. PAC is hit with the Package Piledriver and Brainbuster in succession and Steenerico wins the belts. ***1/4 Bryan Danielson comes out to the ring now with his forehead bandaged and wrapped up, and he gets on the mic. He says this has nothing to do with Steen, so he's asking him to leave, and he does. Danielson says the advertised main event was El Generico vs. Bryan Danielson for the PWG Title. Danielson says he was a World Champion for over a year, and when you're the champion, sometimes you have to fight when you don't feel like fighting and you're hurt. He says they've both been through fights tonight and if he wants to be considered a real champion, he challenges him to have their match right now! AND DANIELSON SLAPS HIM! GENERICO ACCEPTS! Match #9: El Generico [c] vs. Bryan Danielson [PWG World Championship] AMAZING sprint of a match. Generico is super fiery early on, and Danielson is just such a huge dick once he takes over. Slapping, taking cheap shots, standing on Generico's head, etc. All while continually yelling "COME ON CHAMP!" and mockingly applauding. It helps a ton that the crowd is RIDICULOUSLY hot. Really really fantastic finishing run as well. Danielson kills Generico with a ton of elbows and knees and puts on the Cattle Mutilation for the win. ***3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jan 28 2012, 09:36 PM Post #12 |
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PWG Champion: Bryan Danielson, Since 7/29/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Kevin Steen/El Generico, Since 7/29/2007 ![]() PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2007 Night One August 31st, 2007 Burbank, CA All the BOLA participants get brought out to pose in the ring for a group photo. Match #1: The Young Bucks vs. Los Luchas Really good spotfest opener. Just a festival of amazing double teams, dives, spots, etc. Managed to not get contrived at all, and the Bucks win with the debut of More Bang For Your Buck. *** Match #2: Chris Hero vs. Joey Ryan w/ Jade Chung [1st Round] Really fun match. They do an inexplicable lucha sequence that is actually great. Joey controls with awesome sleazy bullshit. Hero makes a great comeback, and they have an awesome finishing run. Scott Lost runs out to throw Joey some brass knucks, but Hero gets them. He has them on his hand, but Joey avoids it. Hero hits the Hero's Welcome and covers to win. *** Referee Rick Knox sees the knucks on his hand though, AND HE REVERSES THE DECISION AND JOEY ADVANCES! Fantastic bullshit finish. Match #3: Roderick Strong vs. Austin Aries [1st Round] This simply is not a pairing that worked in 2007. Worked great in 2009 and 2010, love both guys, but this just isn't clicking in 2007. Strong wins with the Gibson Driver. **1/2 Match #4: Matt Sydal vs. Jimmy Rave [1st Round] No idea what exactly was up with bringing in Rave, since he doesn't fit in PWG at all, but I enjoy this pairing. Rave is in decline by this point, but this was mostly about showcasing Sydal, and Rave is a great base for high flyers. Not incredible or anything though. Sydal wins with the SSP. **1/2 Match #5: Alex Shelley vs. Tyler Black [1st Round] Very much your stereotypical kicks and spots indy match. Shelley is good at that though, so he generally makes it work. He guides him through matwork and shit. Awesome dickish Shelley control segment. Black sort of comes back, but it isn't much. Starts to drag by the end, and Shelley finally ends it with the Sliced Bread #2. **3/4 Match #6: Claudio Castagnoli vs. Doug Williams [1st Round] This was awesome! Lots of great matwork, European Uppercuts, etc. LOTS of European Uppercuts. But Claudio throws the best Europeans on the indies and I'd put Doug at #5 in the top 5 (after Regal and Danielson and Dave Taylor, although if Finlay threw them regularly, who knows?). This was to European Uppercuts what Kobashi vs. Kensuke was to chops or what Lawler vs. Funk was for right hands. It was told you can't build a match around guys trading mostly one strike in different ways and then was like "FUCK YOU, WATCH THIS." and then did that. Claudio gets a deadlift Ricola Bomb to win and to continue his amazing 2007. *** Match #7: PAC vs. Jack Evans [1st Round] Amazing flippy guy vs. flippy guy match, and shockingly strong in psychology. They add in a nice veteran vs. new guy dynamic with Evans being a dick to PAC and outmaneuvering him and taking mad shit about how he owns the top rope. Jack gets too cocky though and takes an insane bump on the apron to let PAC come back. PAC makes a mistake due to inexperience though, and Evans gets the first insane dive. Great finishing run with them trying to top each other and failing when they tried completely insane shit that neither has tried before. PAC ends up hitting the Corkscrew SSP to win. ***1/4 Match #8: Kevin Steen/El Generico [c] vs. Dragon Kid/Susumu Yokosuka [PWG Tag Team Championship] Good match, but not great. Generico and Steen are really amazing at carrying DG guys, but seemed to just give in here and let this be merely good. Blatant time killing in the first 10 minutes or before it broke down into spots. They hit DK with the Package Piledriver and Brainbuster for the win. **1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Jan 29 2012, 03:22 AM Post #13 |
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PWG Champion: Bryan Danielson, Since 7/29/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Kevin Steen/El Generico, Since 7/29/2007 ![]() PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2007 Night Two September 1st, 2007 Burbank, CA Match #1: TJ Perkins/Ronin vs. Karl Anderson/Bino Gambino This was whatever. TJ and Karl looked good. The other two were hit and miss. Mostly miss. Ronin beats Bino with the DVD. ** Match #2: CIMA vs. Human Tornado w/ Candice LaRae [1st Round] Enjoyable spotfest, but not quite great. Candice got abused a lot. CIMA wins with the Schwein. **1/2 Tornado gets up post-match, and teases hitting Candice, but then hugs her. They go to leave and he punches her in the face. He starts unloading with nasty kicks to the ribs, and he hits DAT NIGGA DEAD. And then only some 2 months after the incident, TORNADO PUTS HER INTO THE CRIPPLER CROSSFACE HOLY SHIT! CHRIS HERO RUNS OUT AND THROWS TORNADO OUT! Hero calls him a piece of shit, and they have an awesome pull apart brawl. Match #3: SHINGO vs. Scott Lost w/ Jade Chung [1st Round] Real enjoyable stuff, but again, something just wasn't clicking and it never got to become great until the finishing run. Lots of great Lost stuff. SHINGO wins with the Last Falconry. **3/4 Match #4: Kevin Steen vs. Necro Butcher [1st Round] This is the good shit. Not a total brawl and instead based on a bad knee on Necro. Great work from Steen and selling from Necro. Steen got too cocky though and started a slugfest with Necro, but it's fucking Necro and he got the better of it. Steen went back to the leg to try and stop it at points. Necro gets a flurry of punches to the face and then wins with a fucking O'Connor Roll. *** Match #5: Nigel McGuinness vs. Davey Richards [1st Round] Entertaining, but flawed. Davey's stooging around was entertaining, but then he did some armwork on Nigel that went nowhere and was no-sold. Nigel still has actual finishers at this point, so the finishing run is good. He wins with the Rebound Lariat. **3/4 Match #6: El Generico vs. Tony Kozina [1st Round] Kozina is replacing someone. I don't remember who. This is good, but not really anything special, and both men take some crazy stuff. Some of it is botched, but most of it isn't. Generico wins with the Brainbuster. **1/2 Match #7: Dragon Kid vs. Susumu Yokosuka [1st Round] Dragon Gate bullshit. DK wins. **1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Feb 4 2012, 12:07 PM Post #14 |
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PWG Champion: Bryan Danielson, Since 7/29/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Kevin Steen/El Generico, Since 7/29/2007 ![]() PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2007 Night Three September 2nd, 2007 Burbank, CA Match #1: Roderick Strong vs. Joey Ryan w/ Jade Chung [Quarterfinals] Good basic stuff. Joey is a piece of shit and cheats a ton, and Strong is Strong. He has a real fiery comeback after Joey's stuff. Good amount of bullshit at the end, but not too much for the opener. Strong puts on the Stronghold and Joey taps. **3/4 Match #2: Alex Shelley vs. Matt Sydal [Quarterfinals] This is almost a perfection of the indy spotfest style. Not totally perfect because some stuff wasn't necessary and they didn't immediately start just killing it, but it's still two really skilled guys doing some cool spots and matwork. Shelley catches the SSP into an Ace Crusher (FUCK YOU ORTON), then hits a Tiger Suplex and the 2K1 Bomb for the win. *** Match #3: Claudio Castagnoli vs. PAC [Quarterfinals] CLAUDIO DELIVERS AGAIN! I wasn't willing to go this far at the time, but apart from Cena and Matt Hardy, I think Claudio was the 3rd best wrestler in the world in 2007. Just insane how he was churning out great matches almost every week when you factor in CHIKARA, ROH, and PWG. Great power vs. speed stuff here. Claudio's Bridging Snap Suplex is INSANE. Absolutely insane finishing run and even like 4 years later, my jaw dropped at some of this shit. PAC wins with the Corkscrew SSP. ***1/4 Match #4: CIMA vs. SHINGO [Quarterfinals] This was whatever. They sort of just did stuff and really saved a lot for matches in their home promotion against each other. I guess that makes sense, but is quite lame. CIMA wins with the Schwein. **1/2 Match #5: Nigel McGuinness vs. Necro Butcher [Quarterfinals] AWESOME MATCH! Necro's knee is hurt from last night, which is why he jumps Nigel and tries to keep it as a brawl. But Nigel hurts the knee during the brawl and turns it into a wrestling match, where he is able to focus on the leg. Turns into a crazy slugfest of lariats vs. punches after this and oh my god, it is great. Nigel KILLS Necro with a Rebound Lariat for the win after going back to the knee. Mother of fuck. ***1/2 Match #6: El Generico vs. Dragon Kid [Quarterfinals] Generico did well, but this wasn't a great match. Generico has some awesome bumps and then offense, but this just wasn't all there. Generico wins with the Brainbuster. **1/2 Match #7: Roderick Strong vs. Alex Shelley [Semi-Finals] Great stuff once again. Shelley had some awesome work on the neck. They then got going into a really awesome finishing run of offense and counters. Not as amazing as their 2005 ROH stuff, but neither man is as good in 2007 PWG as they were then, so whatever. I could see an argument that both men peaked way too early, but I think a lot of that was helped by the environment they were in at the time. Not like it's Randy Orton where there's no real doubt in my mind that his peak as a worker was 2004. Strong wins with the Gibson Driver. *** Match #8: PAC vs. CIMA [Semi-Finals] This was fun, but not outright amazing. The crowd seemed somewhat subdued after Strong/Shelley, which is not shocking. Some cool offense, but not cool enough to override the lack of any real story or focus or selling. CIMA wins with a Super Schwein. **3/4 Match #9: Nigel McGuinness vs. El Generico [Semi-Finals] This was awesome. Nigel was being a subtle heel about it and working the arm, without getting as annoying as he got with that in 08-09. Part of that was that he went back to the arm during the finishing run and Generico's selling ruled. Awesome finishing run and Generico ducks the Rebound Lariat and gets a schoolboy for the upset! *** Match #10: Chris Hero/Kevin Steen/Jack Evans/Doug Williams/Susumu Yokosuka/Tyler Black w/ Candice LaRae vs. Human Tornado/Scott Lost/Austin Aries/Karl Anderson/Davey Richards/Jimmy Rave w/ Jade Chung Good 12 man tag. The Hero/Tornado issue is the main focus, since Candice is now at Hero's side. Not really amazing, since the amount of people makes it hard to really get any kind of narrative going, but a lot of great pairings. Hero gets a backslide on Tornado to win. **3/4 Match #11: Roderick Strong vs. CIMA vs. El Generico [2007 BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES FINALS - Elimination Match] This was really good, but not quite great for whatever reason. Some really good spots, but not a lot of a story. Probably the best BOLA final yet, although that's not saying a ton given that Bosh/AJ was 5 minutes and Davey/CIMA was very average. Generico took some insane bumps. Generico goes out first after a Schwein on the apron and the crowd just starts booing fucking horribly. Everyone, EVERYONE, wanted Generico to win, and the crowd gets much quieter for the CIMA/Strong finishing section. CIMA then beats Strong with the Schwein to win BOLA. Lame. **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Feb 5 2012, 03:15 AM Post #15 |
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PWG Champion: Bryan Danielson, Since 7/29/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Kevin Steen/El Generico, Since 7/29/2007 ![]() PWG Schadenfreude October 14th, 2007 Van Nuys, CA Match #1: Ronin vs. Bino Gambino This was what it was, I guess. Nothing awful, nothing great. Ronin wins with the DVD. ** Match #2: Davey Richards vs. Scott Lost w/ Jade Chung Fucking great. Classic PWG stuff. Cool matwork, some insane Scott Lost offense, big dives, finishing run, etc. Just a really enjoyable match. Davey gets distracted trying to make Jade Chung fuck him and Lost debuts the Big Fat Kill, followed by the Sharpshooter to win. *** Match #3: Scorpio Sky/The Young Bucks vs. Nemesis/Los Luchas This was fun. The Bucks are still bearable here, and the only outright bad wrestler in this is Nemesis. Bucks/Luchas is fun and hasn't been killed off yet. They do stuff and dives, and yeah. The Bucks win with their move. **3/4 Match #4: Chris Hero w/ Candice LaRae vs. Human Tornado Tornado attacks Hero while he's signing autographs during intermission to start this and they have this sweet brawl. It goes to the ring and is a good match with some nice hate, but the brawl was really the best part of this. Good Hero comeback and finishing run, etc. Tornado gets a low blow and a roll up using the ropes to steal it. *** In the back, Chris Hero cuts a promo with Candice. He says he's done a lot, but this isn't about what he's done in wrestling, this is about him as a person. He says Tornado has shown his true character. He says he got one up on him, but it was dirty, and he's coming for him in Europe and back in California, and they're both going to get revenge. Match #5: El Generico vs. Jack Evans Shocker, this ruled. Lots of crazy Jack Evans acrobatic matwork. Both men take some just ridiculously dangerous bumps and they tell a great flyer vs. flyer story of whoever shows caution is able to control. It breaks down into a huge finishing run, and they do some insane stuff. Evans wins with the 630. ***1/4 Match #6: Bryan Danielson [c] vs. Roderick Strong [PWG World Championship] This was good and all, but sort of just Danielson/Strong by the numbers. Legwork from Danielson that goes nowhere, no selling from Strong, etc. Danielson wins with Cattle Mutilation. **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Feb 11 2012, 07:53 PM Post #16 |
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PWG Champion: Bryan Danielson, Since 7/29/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Kevin Steen/El Generico, Since 7/29/2007 ![]() PWG European Vacation II - France October 26th, 2007 Paris, France Match #1: Steve Douglas vs. Thumbtack Jack Really nothing special here. Neither man is really impressive. Douglas wins. *1/2 Match #2: Kenichiro Arai vs. Lupin Matsutani These are both young DG guys. I enjoy Arai, generally speaking. Arai unloads a completely rigoddamnridiculous headbutt. Arai wins with a Double Stomp off the top, except he just sort of stepped off the top rope to do it and it looked brutal as hell. **1/4 Match #3: Chris Hero vs. Human Tornado Hero jumps Tornado in the crowd in revenge. Lots of hate and energy in this, and it was awesome. Tornado had an awesome control seg before it broke down again into a big fight. Hero manages a leverage pin for the win. *** Tornado gets a low blow post-match, and he hits the DAT NIGGA DEAD. Match #4: Jazzy B vs. Jetta European woman's match? No thanks! Match #5: Joey Ryan vs. PAC This was good fun. Joey is once again a fantastic sleazy heel, and it emphasizes PAC's more spectacular athletic feats. He fakes a knee injury to take over, and then works PAC's knee, which seems like a horrible plan. Except what the fuck, PAC actually sold the knee really well. I don't understand. PAC sucks it up and hits the Corkscrew SSP to win. *** Match #6: Kevin Steen/El Generico [c] vs. Super Dragon/Davey Richards [PWG Tag Team Championship] This was great. SD let Davey do most of the work, but he still had some awesome Super Dragon moments. They had a great story of SD having ring rust and being worn down and old and fat but still being a badass. Davey worked most of it and managed to not make it too Davey-ish. Generico is a great face in peril, Steen has a killer hot tag, etc. Great finishing run and Davey is beat after the Package Piledriver and Brainbuster. *** Match #7: Bryan Danielson [c] vs. Austin Aries [PWG World Championship] I've seen this match over 10 times in various places, and the matwork in here is their best matwork together since their incredible first two matches in 2004. Same flaw as their other 2007 matches where the matwork goes nowhere and lacks focus, but Danielson does have some awesome things. They do their finishing run as usual and Danielson wins with the Cattle Mutilation. **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Feb 12 2012, 10:41 AM Post #17 |
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PWG Champion: Bryan Danielson, Since 7/29/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Kevin Steen/El Generico, Since 7/29/2007 ![]() PWG European Championship II: England October 27th, 2007 Portsmouth, England Match #1: Joey Ryan vs. Spud UGH SPUD. He's the worst. Joey does what he can and bumps around really well for him, but whatever. Joey wins with That 70s Kick. **1/2 Match #2: Austin Aries vs. Zebra Kid Zebra is now a cheating brawler, so this was shockingly good. Some awesome brawling in the crowd and both men were pretty intense and yeah. Zebra shockingly wins with a Flying Elbow. **3/4 Match #3: Bryan Danielson [c] vs. Martin Stone [PWG World Championship] Good Danielson carryjob. Stone isn't bad, but isn't really great. Stone worked on the neck and Danielson's selling was awesome, despite Stone's stuff being really really pedestrian. Danielson doesn't get much offense, but goes nuts at the end with the head stomps and puts on the Cattle Mutilation to win. **3/4 Match #4: Andy Simmonz vs. James Tighe Good not great. Some good matwork, but it seemed to drag in for a while before they got going. The work after that was pretty average, although they did try hard. Simmonz won. **1/2 Match #5: Human Tornado vs. PAC This ruled. Some really neat athletic stuff before Tornado took over. Lots of cool and nasty offense, and PAC makes a comeback. Dives, strikes, big offense. Not a ton here psychologically, but just a really fun explosion of offense from both guys. Tornado gets a Super Tornado DDT, and he follows with the DAT NIGGA DEAD for the win. *** Match #6: Kevin Steen/El Generico [c] vs. Super Dragon/Davey Richards [PWG Tag Team Championship] SD is being a huge dick during intros to Generico, and Steen is a dick back to him because they hate each other still. Generico and Davey have good matwork, BUT SUPER DRAGON GETS IN AND THROWS GENERICO OUT BY HIS THROAT, GOES TO THE FLOOR, HURLS A TABLE ON TOP OF HIM, AND STARTS BEATING HIM WITH THE TIMEKEEPER'S HAMMER! I LOVE SUPER DRAGON HOLY SHIT! That's pretty much the best transition in a tag match ever, as it leads to SD/DR taking over. Brutal control segment as usual from them. Super Dragon is so great he makes me look forward to Davey Richards matches. Davey, to his credit, is insanely violent as well. KILLER finishing run, absolutely insane stuff going on. Super Dragon makes with some insane bumps and dives, and yeah. He hits Generico with the PSYCHO DRIVER ON THE FLOOR and Davey hits Steen with the SSP to regain the titles. Played really well off last night's match with SD/DR failing to get the belts when working a normal match, so they got super violent and insane in the rematch to do the job. ***3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Feb 12 2012, 04:00 PM Post #18 |
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PWG Champion: Bryan Danielson, Since 7/29/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Super Dragon/Davey Richards, Since 10/27/2007 ![]() PWG European Vacation II: Germany October 28th, 2007 Essen, Germany Match #1: Kenichiro Arai/Lupin Matsutani vs. Bad Bones/Thumbtack Jack Generally alright. Bad Bones is a good power/bruiser type guy. Arai has some awesome headbutts and head based offense again. The German dudes win with a Double Brainbuster type thing. **1/4 Match #2: Chris Hero vs. Wesley Croton/Marc Slater/Steve Douglas [Gauntlet Match] This is Hero testing 3 of his students. It's a really amazing Hero matwork showcase for the first two guys. Each match got given time and Hero let the kids shine before he eventually shut them down. Steve Douglas is in last and he and Hero are, I guess, feuding in WXW. They have a big brawl and it goes to a double count out. LAME. **1/2 They keep fighting, and Human Tornado comes out to help Douglas beat down Hero. Some dude named Marc Roudin comes out to save, and Excalibur says Hero also trained him. He challenges Tornado to a match, and that happens. Match #3: Human Tornado vs. Marc Roudin Tornado rules here. Roudin isn't much and botches a lot. Tornado wins with the DAT NIGGA DEAD. ** Match #4: Bryan Danielson [c] vs. El Generico [PWG World Championship] Generico has a hurt arm and head from last night, and as a result, this is pretty heated. Generico's selling was really amazing as usual, and Danielson works the arm. Generico has an awesome comeback and dive, and the finishing run is great. Danielson stomps his head in and wins with the Cattle Mutilation. ***1/4 Match #5: Austin Aries vs. Emil Sitoci Generic workrate-y type stuff with nothing really unique or special. Aries wins with the Horns of Aries. **1/4 Match #6: Are$ [c] vs. Joey Ryan [WXW Championship] Fuck you, Ares. You're the worst. You infinitely boring motherfucker. You killed my interest in CHIKARA with that whole BDK thing, which would have been fine if it didn't mean your horrible ass got main event opportunities. This pretty much blew and Ares retains. *3/4 Match #7: Super Dragon/Davey Richards [c] vs. Kevin Steen/PAC [PWG Tag Team Championship] The worst of the SD/DR matches on this tour. Just kind of off for the first half, due to PAC being nowhere as good as Generico at bumping, selling, getting sympathy, etc. Good finishing run though, and SD/DR hits PAC with the Powerbomb/Lungblower combo to win. **3/4 |
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| Big Evil | Feb 13 2012, 05:47 AM Post #19 |
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On TBS. Very Funny.
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| Big Tuna | Feb 14 2012, 09:57 PM Post #20 |
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PWG Champion: Bryan Danielson, Since 7/29/2007 PWG Tag Team Champions: Super Dragon/Davey Richards, Since 10/27/2007 ![]() PWG The High Cost of Doing Business November 11th, 2007 Burbank, CA Dino and Excalibur open the show in the ring. They say Davey Richards and Super Dragon are not here tonight and are in jail, but Dino says he doesn't want to bail them out, so there is no tag title match. Match #1: Karl Anderson vs. Ronin Fuck you Ronin. This is only like 4 minutes and pretty dull before Anderson wins with the Boston Crab. *1/2 Match #2: Claudio Castagnoli vs. TJ Perkins Really fun match as usual for Claudio in 2007. Great matwork and then Claudio takes some amazing lucha bumps. They get moving with back and forth, and it's really awesome. Claudio wins with the Pop Up European Uppercut. *** Match #3: The Young Bucks vs. Joey Ryan/Scott Lost w/ Jade Chung Good, but not overly great. Lost was clearly the best guy in this since he was the only one who had great bumping, selling, and offense. Joey randomly breaks out an awesome Tope Suicida near the end. The Dynasty wins when they break out the old Xtinction Agenda from their X-Foundation days. Lost's elbow is a thing of beauty. **3/4 In the back, Joey Ryan and Scott Lost say Super Dragon and Davey Richards are ducking them. Match #4: El Generico vs. Roderick Strong Good, but not great. Really slow first half with Strong controlling on the mat, but it wasn't particularly exciting or interesting. Finishing run had some cool stuff, but it just wasn't clicking like it probably should have. Strong wins with the Gibson Driver. **3/4 Match #5: Rocky Romero vs. Scorpio Sky Another good and inoffensive match that isn't quite great. But given that neither is really a great wrestler at this point in time, that's not shocking. Some cool sequences and what not, but it never really comes together as a great match due it really just being a lot of spots. Sky wins with a Dragon Sleeper. **1/2 It is supposed to be Tornado and a partner of his choice vs. Hero and a partner of his choice next. Hero says he wanted the absolute toughest man he's ever fought to be his partner for this war, so he's swallowed his pride and asked a man he hates to be his partner, AND HE BRINGS OUT EDDIE KINGSTON! YES! Tornado gets on the mic and says he ALSO got a partner that hates Chris Hero, AND EDDIE KINGSTON TURNS AND HITS HERO! IT'S A HANDICAP MATCH NOW! AWESOME ANGLE! Match #6: Chris Hero w/ Candice LaRae vs. Human Tornado/Eddie Kingston While really good, this isn't a really great in-ring match or anything, but the angle puts it over the top. Hero is getting pure babyface responses from EVERYONE in the crowd for the first time in like 5 years, and it's due to both his strong babyface performance, but King and Tornado being amazing heels. King is a great hateful bully and Tornado is Tornado. Some awesome cut offs and hope spots here. The King/Hero stuff is amazing. Hero finally fights back, but is thrown out. They go after Candice and Tornado keeps shoving her. Hero gets back in but is beaten down, AND CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI RUNS OUT! CLAUDIO IS THERE FOR THE TAG! FUCK YEAH! BUT CLAUDIO TURNS AND EUROPEAN UPPERCUTS HERO! That's a DQ BUT FUCK THAT THIS IS AMAZING! *** ALL THREE BEAT DOWN ON HERO NOW! RICOLA BOMB ON HERO! TORNADO GETS CANDICE WITH THE DND AGAIN! Claudio, Tornado, and Kingston all hug and they stomp on them more. Hero tries to cover up Candice, so King kicks him in the face. Kingston gets the mic and says he should know better than to play with fire and says this slit's going to get him killed. Claudio gets on the mic and asks why he, his best friend and usual tag team partner, wasn't the one he picked and says Hero did this to himself. Tornado says he done told Hero not to get involved in his fucking business and he kicks Candice in the ribs while Claudio and King hold Hero back. Fuck, that was an incredible angle. Match #7: Bryan Danielson [c] vs. Jack Evans [PWG World Championship] By far their best match together. AND YOU KNOW THIS....MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN. Evans uses some of his funky new kung fu matwork and offense and Danielson then stretches and beats the fuck out of him like in all their matches. JACK EVANS DOES A CHOKESLAM!? WHAT?! Really violent and torturous beating from Danielson. Good comeback from Jack, big dive, etc. Danielson kills him with the head stomps and puts on this NASTY Triangle Choke where he pushes up and forces Evans to bridge back against his will and the ref calls it. ***1/4 |
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