| Simon Watches PWG - 2009 | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 13 2012, 06:53 PM (1,111 Views) | |
| Big Tuna | Apr 13 2012, 06:53 PM Post #1 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
PWG World Champion: Chris Hero, Since 7/6/2008 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 8/31/2008 ![]() PWG The Gentle Art of Making Enemies January 10th, 2009 Reseda, CA Match #1: Los Luchas vs. The Cutler Brothers This happens. The Cutlers are still really inexperienced and a little off (which I guess they never really grew out of), so it's not great. Los Luchas have a ton of cool offense though. They make me look like an asshole by botching up their usually crisp and great Olimpico Slam finish double team thing for the win. **1/2 Match #2: Austin Aries vs. TJ Perkins Aries is beginning his awesome heel run and dressed as one, so it's a little awkward to see him work face. TJ is an awesome heel though, and Aries has fiery comebacks. Realy good finishing run, and Aries wins with the Horns of Aries. Shame they didn't use this to finally elevate TJ after his recent great run, but he's moving to Florida around this time anyways, so I get it. *** Match #3: Joey Ryan vs. Bobby Quance FUCK BOBBY QUANCE. He continues to be mediocre and this is after four 4+ years out of the sport, so it's especially unremarkable. Joey is Joey. He wins with a Pedigree. **1/4 Match #4: Bryan Danielson vs. Scott Lost This is AMAZING! Lost jumps Danielson at the bell, and unloads on him with some really inventive and awesome offense. If there's any justice, Lost will go down as one of the most underrated guys of this generation for his ability to constantly come up with inventive stuff while also making everything look super crisp and not at all contrived. Anyways, Danielson survives the flurry and goes NUTS with strikes. They have a great brawl on the floor, and go back in for an awesome exchange of bombs. Danielson wins with the Cattle Mutilation. Wouldn't be shocked if this wins MOTY. **** Match #5: El Generico vs. Chuck Taylor Taylor hates orphans and Generico runs an orphanage in Tijuana named Los Angelitos Del El Generico, and Taylor wants to stop him from getting a winner's bonus here. Good Chuck bullshit before he takes over. Generico sells well on his awesome comeback, and they have a great finishing run. Generico cuts off a Plancha with a Helluva Kick on the floor, and he then hits the Brainbuster on the apron for the win. *** Match #6: The Young Bucks [c] vs. Roderick Strong/Davey Richards [PWG World Tag Team Championship] NO REMORSE! This is whatever. It's typical Bucks and what will become typical Davey and Strong, in that the first half is mostly meaningless. Has some cool spots, but it's mostly just time killing until a finishing run that goes on too long. Like always, it's a little upsetting, since they could have a great 15 minute match, but 25 minutes is too much. One of the Bucks cradles Davey to win. **3/4 |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 14 2012, 09:12 PM Post #2 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
PWG World Champion: Chris Hero, Since 7/6/2008 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 8/31/2008 ![]() PWG Express Written Consent February 21st, 2010 Reseda, CA Match #1: Scorpio Sky vs. Zokre Good spotfest to start the show. They do a lot of cool stuff, but it ends prematurely after the ref accidentally counts to three when Sky is rolled up, and the bell is rung. **3/4 Match #2: B-Boy vs. TJ Perkins Ugh, fucking B-Boy. TJ works the arm all match, and it is pretty great arm work. Of course, B-Boy refuses to sell any of it. They go on way too long, and keep going back to the arm, so hey, why not sell it? B-Boy then wins with a shitty Rear Naked Choke. **1/2 Match #3: El Generico vs. Kenny Omega Kenny Omega also hates orphans, so he wants to kill the orphanage too. They have some good comedy early on, but then they turn it up and it is great. Omega shows shocking proficiency at control segments, and Generico is the best babyface on the indies, so it works. Then a big awesome finishing run and the BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ends it. *** Match #4: Austin Aries vs. Necro Butcher [Necro Butcher's Rules] Aries is now working heel, and this is fucking great. Aries bumps big and stooges and makes Necro look amazing. Necro actually IS amazing, so it works a lot better than most of Aries' output in ROH 2009. Weapons get introduced and Necro also takes some insane Necro bumps. Aries wins with a Brainbuster onto an open chair. *** Hero/Tornado is scheduled for the PWG Title and Tornado gets on the mic. He says over the last two years, he's done a lot of stuff and then just says "MY BAD, GUYS!" Everyone is cool with this because nobody ever really stopped loving Tornado, he's just so charismatic and fun. Hero and Candice are not cool with this. BUT NEVERMIND THAT, COLT CABANA MAKES HIS RETURN AND CHALLENGES THEM TO MAKE IT A THREE WAY! AND THEY DO! Match #5: Chris Hero [c] w/ Candice LaRae vs. Human Tornado vs. Colt Cabana [PWG World Championship] Super enjoyable action packed match. Super super hot crowd, and every pairing delivers here. No wasted time, and just a ton of cool shit. Hero beats Tornado with the Rolling Yakuza Kick that will later be named the Cyclone Kill. *** Match #6: Paul London/The Young Bucks vs. Joey Ryan/Scott Lost/Karl Anderson London's NASA suit is amazing. This is way better than it should have been for these guys for some 25-30 minutes. But that being said, all three heels were fantastic in this, and this might be London's last really great performance and his first one since 2007. Of course, that's not fair, since he stopped being given chances to show his talent once he got sent to Raw. Several good control segs, and then an awesome finishing run. Since it is his return, London gets the win with the London Star Press/London Calling/SSP on Lost. ***1/4 |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 15 2012, 11:38 PM Post #3 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
PWG World Champion: Chris Hero, Since 7/6/2008 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 8/31/2008 ![]() PWG 99 April 11th, 2009 Reseda, CA Match #1: Scott Lost/The Cutler Brothers vs. Scorpio Sky/Los Luchas Awesome spotfest opener. The Cutlers get guided by the others, who are pros at this kind of PWG spotfest. This also has two Excalibur gems of calling Spanish "moon speak" and saying Filipinos are like minorities but worse. Heels have a great control seg and then a big huge finishing run happens. They end it at a reasonable time and Lost beats Phoenix Star with the Big Fat Kill. *** Match #2: Bryan Danielson vs. Chuck Taylor Amazing comedy match, but sort of a waste of Danielson. He keeps mocking Taylor's feeble attempts at matwork and then they do some stuff. Danielson wins with the Cattle Mutilation. **3/4 Match #3: Joey Ryan vs. B-Boy Horrible B-Boy performance as usual. Joey is dragged down to his level and they get none of the smoke and mirrors that made their 2006 main event so great. They do stuff for a while and it's really mediocre. Joey gets a schoolboy to win. ** Match #4: Davey Richards vs. Kenny Omega This is sort of just a prototype for their future matches. Good comedy with Omega refusing to run off the ropes out of fear but then they go in and just do a lot of stuff, with nothing until the last few minutes really being of any real value. Omega gets the win with Croyt's Wrath. **1/2 Match #5: Roderick Strong vs. Sonjay Dutt I have no idea why this happens. Strong tries to work his Sydal/Jack Evans/random flippy guy match formula with him, but Dutt is the worst seller on the show tonight, which is really saying something, and none of his spots are really impressive, and let's be fair, he's just fucking annoying. He horribly wins with a 450 Splash. **1/4 Match #6: El Generico vs. Tyler Black Waste of Generico, but still decent enough. They do some stuff and then have a big finishing run. Black continues to not really be impressive at all, and Generico does his best to be awesome in the face of this. He wins with the Brainbuster, because fuck a Tyler Black. **3/4 Match #7: Chris Hero [c] w/ Candice LaRae vs. Austin Aries [PWG World Championship] Awesome matwork to begin and then they do the Punk/Strong story of avoiding the big strike and being a huge dick about it, but with Hero's elbow. Aries then works the right arm to prevent more elbows. His selling is pretty fucking awesome and he switches to using the other arm and some kicks. He gets a left armed Rolling Elbow after blocking a Tope with an elbow for the win. *** Match #8: The Young Bucks [c] vs. MCMG [PWG World Tag Team Championship] This is really perfect for this style of match. MCMG, and by that I mean primarily Alex Shelley, are awesome as vaguely dickish invaders trying to take the belts. Everything is crisp, and they keep it at like 15 minutes, so this doesn't overstay its welcome. They do a lot of big spots and what not. Bucks win with the More Bang For Your Buck. *** |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 20 2012, 06:25 PM Post #4 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
![]() PWG 100 April 12th, 2009 Reseda, CA Accidentally x'd out. Oh well. The Young Bucks [c] vs. The Cutler Brothers [PWG World Tag Team Championship]: **3/4 Roderick Strong vs. Scott Lost: ***1/4 Bryan Danielson vs. Kenny Omega: **3/4 Joey Ryan vs. Paul London: **1/2 Austin Aries/Human Tornado/Chuck Taylor vs. Scorpio Sky/Candice LaRae/B-Boy: **1/2 Davey Richards vs. Tyler Black: **3/4 El Generico vs. Sonjay Dutt: **3/4 Chris Hero [c] vs. Colt Cabana [PWG World Championship]: *** |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 21 2012, 10:42 AM Post #5 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
PWG World Champion: Chris Hero, Since 7/6/2008 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 8/31/2008 ![]() PWG DDT4 2009 May 22nd, 2009 Reseda, CA Promo from the last show announcing the HYBRID DOLPHINS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSh2s_lmthI Match #1: Bryan Danielson/Roderick Strong w/ Paul London vs. Joey Ryan/Scott Lost [Quarterfinals] It was supposed to be Danielson/London in here and Strong/someone else. London got hurt somehow, so it got shuffled into Strong/Danielson and then MCMG got a bye. This is an AWESOME 12 minute sprint. Lots and lots of energy from The Dynasty. They have a crazy crazy good finishing run and this is just a perfect formula tag. Strong beats Lost with the Stronghold. ***1/4 Match #2: THE MEN OF LOW MORAL FIBER [Chuck Taylor/Kenny Omega] vs. Human Tornado/Scorpio Sky [Quarterfinals] Another killer match. MOLMF is one of my favorite short-lived tag teams ever. They just meshed SO well, and it is the only time I've ever found Omega to be actually great. Lots of really fast and crisp stuff early on, and then the Men have a great control seg. Crazy final moments. TORNADO SAYS FUCK THAT TO OMEGA'S STOP ENZUIGURI AND HITS A PIMP SLAP! SKY WITH AN INSANE DIVE TO OMEGA! HE TRIES TO GET BACK IN, BUT OMEGA HITS A RELEASE GERMAN SUPLEX INTO A ROW OF CHAIRS HOLY SHIIIIIIIT. CROYT'S WRATH FOLLOWED BY THE AWFUL WAFFLE GIVES MOLMF THE WIN! FUCK YEAH! *** Match #3: The Young Bucks [c] vs. The Cutler Brothers [Quarterfinals - PWG World Tag Team Championship] The Bucks are going to defend the belts through the tournament. This is pretty decent, but not on the level of the first two matches. The Cutlers have a control seg that is generally alright. The Bucks come back with some of their offense, and they win with More Bang For Your Buck. **3/4 Match #4: Phoenix Star vs. Malachi Jackson Malachi is THE WORST. He's the Bucks' brother, and he is really skinny and inexperienced and just a stupid faced little piece of shit. Phoenix Star does what he can with him. Phoenix Star wins with the Olimpico Slam. ** Match #5: The Young Bucks [c] vs. Men of Low Moral Fiber [Semi-Finals - PWG World Tag Team Championship] This was great. Shockingly so. The Men isolate one of the Bucks, and it is great. Then they have an absolutely fucking killer finishing run. It's kept at like 15 minutes, so there's not much wasted time doing bullshit by the Bucks. INCREDIBLE finishing run of nearfalls, AND THE CROWD TURNS ON THE YOUNG BUCKS! FINALLY! They win with More Bang For Your Buck, and the crowd responds with chants of "BULLSHIT" and "FUCK THE YOUNG BUCKS". ***1/4 Match #6: Bryan Danielson/Roderick Strong vs. MCMG [Semi-Finals] Obviously, this was great, but could have been a lot tighter and not 25 minutes long. They start off with crazy spots and dives, and then the MCMG take over. Lots of cool double teams and shit, and then Danielson and Strong isolate Shelley. Awesome punishing Danielson matwork. Finishing run goes on way too long at like 10 minutes, before Danielson gets Sabin with the Triangle Choke to win. *** Chris Hero comes out and issues an open challenge for the belt, and Joey Ryan comes out to accept! Match #7: Chris Hero [c] w/ Candice LaRae vs. Joey Ryan [PWG World Championship] Fantastic slugfest. It's a credit to Hero and Joey that Excalibur and Chuck on commentary DIDN'T steal the match with hems like Taylor saying he wrestled Denzel Washington and Malcom X tonight because all black people look the same to him, Excalibur saying B-Boy canceled on the show to play the UFC game on XBox Live and giving out B-Boy's live name as punishment, and saying everyone in New Jersey secretly wants to be murdered. Joey takes over for a while after Superkicking Hero off the apron, and Hero takes a nutty back-first bump off of it. Joey works the back. Hero's selling is awesome, but he manages to draw Joey into a strikefest to get him off the back. Hero has a CRAAAAAAAAAAAZY bump to the floor when he botches jumping to the top and tumbles to the floor to sell the back. Genius/insane. Joey gets too confident and hits a Rolling Elbow of his own, but it is not that powerful, and Hero destroys him with one of his own to win. ***1/2 Match #8: The Young Bucks [c] vs. Bryan Danielson/Roderick Strong [DDT4 2009 Finals - PWG World Tag Team Championship] This is great, almost entirely due to Danielson and Strong. The Bucks get cocky with them, so they start just beating the fuck out of them. Really violent stuff going on here. The Bucks obviously can't match them strike for strike or on the mat, and the crowd now HATES the Young Bucks, so it's a really unique situation. They still play faces though, so that's weird. They pull it together with a flurry at the end and win with More Bang For Your Buck, which is most unfortunate. *** |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 21 2012, 03:18 PM Post #6 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
PWG World Champion: Chris Hero, Since 7/6/2008 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 8/31/2008 ![]() PWG The Secret of Guerrilla Island June 28th, 2009 Reseda, CA Total filler show, so no need to really review it: Johnny Goodtime vs. Charles Mercury: **3/4 Chuck Taylor vs. Human Tornado: *** The Cutler Brothers vs. Jerome Robinson/Malachi Jackson: **1/2 Kenny Omega vs. Roderick Strong: **1/2 Davey Richards vs. Nick Jackson: **1/2 Scott Lost vs. El Generico: *** Joey Ryan vs. Necro Butcher: *** |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 21 2012, 09:44 PM Post #7 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
PWG World Champion: Chris Hero, Since 7/6/2008 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 8/31/2008 ![]() PWG THREEMENDOUS II July 31st, 2009 Reseda, CA Match #1: Johnny Goodtime/Jerome "LTP" Robinson/Brandon Gatson vs. The Cutler Brothers/Charles Mercury Gatson has a great dive, and that's really all he brings to the table, but LTP and Goodtime are both really great and absolutely in the realm of being MAH NIGGAS. This is really amazing spotfest. Excalibur is incredible again, dubbing the face team SS The Good Ship Her Majesty's Near Corner and talking about Nazi time travel. Goodtime is a good time as a face in peril! FUCK YOU, I'M THROWING OUT PUNS! Big big finishing run. Some totally insane spots and all the faces have AWESOME dives. Goodtime gets beat after the Cutlers' Double Spike Tombstone. ***1/4 Match #2: Alex Shelley vs. Scott Lost They had a great match in 2005, but Lost has grown so much since then. Shelley kind of peaked early in his career as a result of being mostly in TNA after 2006, but he still has the ability he had then. Unfortunately, they base the match around Shelley working the arm, and Lost kind of ignores it. Not outright no-selling, since he had some nice subtle sells and they kept going back to it, but I expected a little more. Still great, just not as great as expected. Lost kicks out of two Frog Splashes, and a third Frog Splash ends it. Wish the finish would have had something to do with the arm, for how much they did with that, but whatevs. *** Match #3: Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Sabin I might discover something I overlooked in TNA, like finding out Joe/Sabin is WAY better on rewatch, but this is probably Sabin's best singles match ever. Just textbook Danielson, carrying a guy on the mat and then beating the fuck out of him to control, then a big finishing run. Danielson gets the win with the Cattle Mutilation. ***1/4 Match #4: Colt Cabana vs. Chuck Taylor After those three big matches, they're smart to put a pure comedy match in the middle. Lots of awesome stalling and hilarious matwork. Taylor bribes Cabana to let him put on holds. It ends up getting serious and it's good, and Taylor blocks a sunset flip using the ropes for the win. **3/4 Match #5: Roderick Strong vs. Davey Richards I've written a lot about how great these two in a match could be if they ditched the time wasting bullshit and just went out for like 12 minutes and did a ton of insane stuff, and this is that perfect match they are capable of, as they do just that. There's no real story, but they just do their stuff really crisply with no real awful selling or contrived things. Gibson Driver puts Davey down and Strong gets the win. *** Match #6: The Young Bucks vs. 2 Skinny Black Guys GENERICO AND TORNADO BACK TOGETHER! FUCK YEAH! This is pretty goddamned good too. It's the first heel performance by the Bucks, and they're actually pretty awesome at it on this night. They follow "SAME OLD SHIT" chants with repeating whatever move they just did, which is pretty great. Chuck Taylor is on commentary and keeps calling them These California Faggots. Really really great finishing run. Went a little long in the middle, but it picked up big by the end. One of them gets hit with DAT NIGGA DEAD and the other eats the BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH for the win. *** Match #7: Chris Hero [c] w. Candice LaRae vs. Joey Ryan [PWG World Championship - Guerrilla Warfare Match] This is really fucking awesome. Hero is getting a Cena response now, since some of the crowd hates him for some reason. If Hero wins here, he will eclipse the length of Joey Ryan's reign and become the longest reigning champion ever. Awesome slugfest to start out, and Hero obviously gets the best of it. Joey has awesome uppercut right hands too, nearly Jarrett-esque. Not Lawler level, but yeah, duh. Hero bleed and Joey works on it. Hero makes an awesome fiery comeback, but Joey attacks the forearm to take away the elbow! great and violent armwork, and Hero's selling is great. Hero on the mat with one arm and using a chair to try and block Joey's weapon use was fantastic. This is 43 minutes, so around 25-35 minutes, there were lulls in the action. If this is trimmed down to 30, it's really amazing and a clear MOTY. Hero's performance and selling is still enough to make it almost at that level. He hits an elbow with the chain around his arm and then chokes Joey with the chain in a modified Hangman's Clutch for the win. ***3/4 |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 27 2012, 01:29 PM Post #8 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
PWG World Champion: Chris Hero, Since 7/6/2008 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 8/31/2008 ![]() PWG Speed of Sound August 28th, 2009 Reseda, CA Match #1: The Cutler Brothers vs. Johnny Goodtime/Brandon Gatson ANOTHER awesome PWG spotfest opener. For whatever reason, this is a show without commentary. Awful. The Cutlers have their best control segment ever, and then Goodtime has just a fucking incredible hot tag. Awesome finishing run for the most part too. Gatson has nothing to offer outside of his dive, which becomes apparent when all he can kill time with is awful kicks and punches. He gets beaten with the Spike Tombstone. ***1/4 Match #2: Human Tornado vs. Jerome "LTP" Robinson vs. Charles Mercury vs. Shane Haste Pretty much everyone but Chuck was impressive here. Not quite great, but really good. Tornado beats Haste with DAT NIGGA DEAD. **3/4 Match #3: Colt Cabana vs. Scott Lost Lost delivers again. Great matwork from Cabana, and they transition really well from the light hearted stuff into Lost dishing out his amazing offense on the control segment. Big awesome finishing run too, and Lost wins with the Big Fat Kill. *** Match #4: The Young Bucks [c] vs. Joey Ryan/Karl Anderson [PWG World Tag Team Championship] This sort of just happens. Blatant time killing in the first half, and then a finishing run that goes on way too long. Joey and Karl were forced into being babyfaces here too, and they both pretty much suck at it. The Bucks eventually win with More Bang For Your Buck on Joey. **1/2 Match #5: El Generico vs. Chuck Taylor [Reseda Street Fight] This took a while to get going, but once they got out of the opening few minutes, it was awesome. Some really awesome dives and spots using the walls and the stage. Chuck gets the win with the Awful Waffle. *** Match #6: Bryan Danielson vs. Brian Kendrick This is not a total movefest like maybe you might expect with these two, and it's totally different than their face/face 25 minute match in 2005 that was incredible. Kendrick is super aggressive to Danielson's arm early on, and his selling is awesome too. Danielson then destroys him on the mat. Nice story where they're prepared for each other's old finishes, but not the stuff each man has developed since they last met, like the Crucifix Elbows, or Kendrick using a lot more kicks now. Kendrick gets a low blow out of sight of the ref, and then a roll up for the win. It's kind of been disappointing overall due to how little he's given a shit about his matches after these two PWG shows he's on in the fall, but this made Kendrick's indy comeback seem really promising. ***1/4 Match #7: Chris Hero [c] vs. Roderick Strong [PWG World Championship] Hero once again delivers on a huge slugfest. Hero guides Roddy through matwork, and they work a little with the idea of Hero getting strikes off easier because he's taller and thus has a longer reach, where as he was able to dodge Strong's stuff. Hero's control seg was full of awesome shit. They could have trimmed off maybe 5 minutes of the finishing run, but it had enough unique and cool stuff to not be a total waste of time. Hero hits the Death Blow for the win. ***1/2 |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 27 2012, 09:25 PM Post #9 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
PWG World Champion: Chris Hero, Since 7/6/2008 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 8/31/2008 ![]() PWG Guerre Sans Frontiéres September 4th, 2009 Reseda, CA Match #1: The Cutler Brothers/Charles Mercury vs. Johnny Goodtime/Jerome Robinson/Shane Haste vs. Los Luchas/Malachi Jackson THE SPOTFEST OF ALL PWG OPENING SPOTFESTS! They only go like 8 minutes and keep a ridiculous pace with a ton of incredible moves and dives, all really crisp, and building upon each other. Really perfect example of just how great a pure spotfest can be. There were at least 5 things here that were completely fucking insane and made me yell "FUCK!", even on the rewatch here. Goodtime beats a Cutler with his Cradle DDT. ***1/2 Match #2: Candice LaRae vs. Christina Von Eerie This was actually good! CVE hits hard and is all punky and shit and is a perfect contrast to Candice's more wholesome pure babyface shtick. Lots of big spots and hard strikes from both, and Candice has a pretty great Tope Suicida. Candice gets the win with a Victory Roll. **3/4 Match #3: Scott Lost vs. Human Tornado God damn, this was also fucking great. Lost delivers yet again. They have an awesome kung fu sequence that ends with the Pounce. Tornado has a huge dive, and then Lost's control seg delivers. Awesome Tornado comeback with his usual spots, and Lost kills him with the Big Fat Kill. *** Match #4: Roderick Strong vs. Karl Anderson This soured me on Karl Anderson for a long long time, until I started watching his tag team with Giant Bernard. It's because it's a logical story with both men working on the back and having the same finish, but it goes on WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too long at 20+ minutes, when they clearly ran out of stuff to do after the first 10-12 minutes. Roderick finally just ends it with the Sick Kick. **1/2 Match #5: Naruki Doi vs. Joey Ryan Oh goddamnit, I fucking hate Naruki Doi. He is the WORST. Half the crowd does a USA! USA! USA! chant, which is awesome, AND HALF THE CROWD BOOS! TAKE SOME FUCKING PRIDE IN YOUR COUNTRY AND BOO THE HORRIBLE SLANT EYE. As it was, this was disappointing. Joey got corrupted by the stench of Dragon Gate, and Doi spent half the match working Joey's leg, and then Joey completely no-sold it as soon as he got back on offense, I guess because he's trying to fit in with Doi's style. They then did a finishing run with nothing fresh or original at all, in addition to the no-selling. Doi wins with the Sliding Kick. **1/4 Match #6: El Generico vs. SHINGO This show is like a reverse sandwich, in that the bread is fucking amazing. Great opening three matches and closing three matches, but the meat is below average and not what you wanted out of this. So perhaps, this show is a Double Down from KFC. Anyways, this is fucking great. Power vs. speed. SHINGO's stuff all looks brutal, and he has great work on the back after fucking catching Generico on the through the post Tornado DDT and deadlifting him into a throw on the floor. Generico sells it all really well. Goddamn phenomenal finishing run too. Generico is outgunned at the end, but SHINGO basically has to kill him with Lariats and the Last Falconry to win. ***3/4 Match #7: CIMA/MCMG vs. Brian Kendrick/The Young Bucks This is unbelievably good, considering the bad tendencies of most of these dudes. Kendrick is able to channel the Bucks' heel potential into something great, and the MCMG seem to focus CIMA as well. Great matwork to begin, led mostly by Shelley and Kendrick, but Sabin and CIMA also carry the Bucks well. Awesome face control seg early on, torturing one of the Bucks. CIMA is then isolated, and the heels have a great control seg too. Lots of really nasty and violent moments from Kendrick. It's a shame PWG didn't run with the idea of Kendrick mentoring the Bucks, but this is Kendrick's last great performance on the indies, so whatevs. Really awesome finishing run. Lots of counters of usual MCMG and Bucks double teams, and they avoided the more contrived ones. Good mix of usual indy spots with MCMG/Bucks, heeling and cheating from Kendrick, and puro style offense and headdrops from CIMA. CIMA gets the win after hitting Kendrick with the Schwein and the Meteora. This would be a career match for the Bucks, until the match against Steen and Super Dragon. **** Match #8: Chris Hero [c] vs. Bryan Danielson [PWG World Championship] Hero asked for this match with Danielson, so he could beat him a second time in PWG to prove that he's actually the best in the world. So Hero wants the title of BITW, and Danielson wants the actual PWG title. Really amazing matwork to begin, which makes sense since they're the two best matworkers in the US. When Danielson has the advantage, he plays with the crowd like he did in some of the comedy matches earlier this year, threatening an ear punch, BUT HERO ISN'T CHUCK TAYLOR OR KENNY OMEGA, AND HE GETS OUT AND PUNCHES DANIELSON IN THE FUCKING EAR! FUCK YEAH! DANIELSON RETURNS THE FAVOR! THIS. IS. SERIOUS. After another stalemate on the mat, Hero gets the first elbow and has a great control seg. Since they go 40+ minutes, there's a bit of a lull in the middle, but it picks up huge once Hero throws a chair at AmDrag to block a dive. He's busted open and Hero has awesome work on the cut. Big awesome finishing run, and Danielson wins the title with the Crossface Chickenwing! Not as good as their BOLA 2008 match, but still really great. ***3/4 Danielson gives a speech post-match thanking everyone and telling people to support indy wrestling. He vacates the belt and asks PWG to put this on the line in Battle of Los Angeles, so the most fitting man comes out as the new champion. I have mixed feelings on this. BOLA for the vacant title adds a lot of intrigue to the tournament, for sure. But the person who won BOLA lost the belt in his first defense, and the person who he lost it to continually blew off PWG for other places and defended the belt like once before vacating it after the 2010 BOLA. So there really would have been no harm in Hero hanging onto the belt until fall 2010, given that he stuck around PWG all of 2010 and still had a ton of fresh title defenses possible against Generico, Omega, Davey, Bonham, Gatson, etc. Of course, hindsight is 20/20 and all. |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 27 2012, 10:35 PM Post #10 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
PWG World Champion: Vacant PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 8/31/2008 ![]() PWG Against The Grain October 2nd, 2009 Reseda, CA Match #1: Johnny Goodtime vs. Brandon Gatson vs. Brandon Cutler vs. Malachi Jackson [BOLA Qualifying Match] CRAZY SPOTFEST OPENER DELIVERS AGAIN! They went out and did a ton of insane spots, all really crisply. Big dives too. Everything built up and up as it went on, and Gatson wins with maybe the craziest fucking spot ever. Malachi tries a Crossbody to Gatson, BUT HE JUMPS AND IN MID-AIR, HITS A BACKFLIP FALLAWAY SLAM WITH HIM! JEEEEEEEEEEEESUS CHRIST! ***1/4 Match #2: Davey Richards vs. Kenny King Typical Davey fare, and King absolutely cannot hang on the level of the other PWG guys in the ring, and is pretty exposed here. Davey wins with his shitty Texas Cloverleaf. **1/2 Match #3: Scott Lost vs. Joey Ryan SCOTT MOTHERFUCKING LOST, DOING IT AGAIN! Incredible 2009 for him, and he might finally get that WOTY award he's deserved for a long time. They take a little bit to get going as Joey works the arm a bit to begin, but Lost takes over and they transition out. Awesome Lost offense, and then a really killer finishing run. Joey keeps dodging the Big Fat Kill, but Lost keeps throwing bombs at him until he can't block it, and Lost wins with the Big Fat Kill. ***1/4 Match #4: Roderick Strong vs. Brian Kendrick Nevermind what I said on the last show, THIS is the last great Kendrick performance. Kendrick continues the cool subtle thing of wanting to be a normal technician, but when he's even remotely matched on the mat, he snaps and gets violent. BRUTAL spot where Kendrick hurls a chair at Strong's hand to block a running chop. He then works the hand all match to take the chop away from it. Strong keeps hurting his hand when he tries to chop his way back into it, and it allows Kendrick to take control back. There's not a ton of overkill or no-selling. Strong sucks it up and hits a few chops to start a flurry, which is a few Backbreakers, the Death by Roderick, the Sick Kick, and then the Gibson Driver for the win. This was so fucking simple and really shows how less can be so much more. ***3/4 Match #5: Jerome Robinson vs. Charles Mercury vs. Dustin Cutler vs. Shane Haste [BOLA Qualifying Match] Similar structure as the first four way, but with less insane and cool spots and longer, so it's not quite great. LTP brings a ton to this though. He wins with the African American Destroyer, which is like a Tombstone version of a Canadian Destroyer, and looks somewhat realistic, as far as versions of horribly contrived moves go. **3/4 Match #6: Chris Hero vs. El Generico Excalibur says that after losing the title when the KO strategy failed, Hero said he's going to change his gameplan a bit. The crowd hates Hero for whatever reason, so he plays up to it with a ton of great stuff. They obviously have awesome matwork, and then Hero takes over. Awesome awesome control segment. Lots of power stuff, and just slapping Generico around. Awesome finishing run and after not doing one all match, Hero gets a nasty forearm and then the Hero's Welcome for the win. ***1/2 Match #7: The Young Bucks [c] vs. The Men of Low Moral Fiber [PWG World Tag Team Championship] This would be so much better with 15 minutes than it was with the 25 minutes it actually got. The first 10 minutes are blatantly obvious time killing. They do have a really cool finishing run with lots of big moves and counters, so it wasn't bad or anything, just frustrating. The Bucks win with a schoolboy using the ropes on Omega. **3/4 |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 28 2012, 09:10 PM Post #11 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
PWG World Champion: Vacant PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 8/31/2008 ![]() PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2009 Night One November 20th, 2009 Reseda, CA Match #1: The Cutler Brothers vs. Ryan Taylor/Malachi Jackson The Cutlers get a showcase against two shitty inexperienced guys. Nothing special here. Spike Tombstone does the deal. ** Match #2: Scott Lost vs. Jerome Robinson [1st Round] Lost fucking does it again. So many insanely inventive counters and spots by Lost. He jumped LTP to open it up, and had his big great control seg. LTP is a total bump freak. Lost gets too confident, and LTP can make a big fucking comeback. Lots of really amazing spots, before Lost wins with the Big Fat Kill. ***1/4 Match #3: Human Tornado vs. Matt Jackson w/ Nick Jackson [1st Round] This is whatever. It's not bad and had some fun spots. Referee Rick Knox has enough of Nick's interference and clotheslines him, and Tornado hits Matt with DAT NIGGA DEAD for the win. **1/2 Match #4: Colt Cabana vs. Joey Ryan [1st Round] Lots of fun to begin. Great Cabana matwork and comedy for the most part. Joey worked the arm, but uncharacteristically, Cabana refused to really sell it at all. Nice finishing run nonetheless. Joey catches Cabana in mid-Flying Asshole with That 70's Kick for the win. **3/4 Match #5: Roderick Strong vs. Johnny Goodtime [1st Round] Really good for the most part, but it going on too long and getting sloppy at the end held it back from being great. Strong delivered really nasty beating for most of the match. Goodtime had mostly good comebacks, apart from a weird one in the middle where he really didn't sell at all. Strong wins with the Stronghold. **3/4 Match #6: Brandon Gatson vs. Nick Jackson w/ Matt Jackson [1st Round] Same deal as the first singles Buck match on this show, decent but nothing special. Gatson is no Tornado, so this is the worst of the tournament matches so far. Gatson wins with this stupid move where he has a Sidewalk Slam set up, and then rolls forward so the opponent takes a face bump. Looks super contrived. **1/4 Match #7: Austin Aries vs. Brian Kendrick [1st Round] Both men decide to take an off night and have an entertaining heel vs. heel bullshit festival instead of a great match. Which is fine, this worked for what it was. Kendrick uses brass knucks at the same time as Aries used the ROH Title belt. Kendrick falls on top for the win. **1/2 Match #8: Kevin Steen vs. Kenny Omega [1st Round] STEEN IS BACK! YEAH! This was a lot of fun, but not great. Omega has had his flaws hidden all year in a tag team for the most part, so he gets super exposed in this tournament, having to wrestle many singles matches. They sort of just do stuff without much of a story. They had a little bit of one with Steen trying to ground him so as to not use any energy because he's fat and lazy, but then they sort of just abandoned that to do a lot of moves. HORRIBLE finish too. Steen hits the Package Piledriver, but does a lazy pin, and Omega gets a crucifix pin out of the lazy pin to win. Not a bad finish, but it's awful when it follows a brutal brutal move like that. **3/4 Match #9: Alex Shelley vs. El Generico [1st Round] Finally, another match delivers. Scary thing is that this could have been even greater. Shelley wastes time working on the leg, and while Generico doesn't ignore it, it plays absolutely no role in anything after it's done, and is clearly just used to kill time. They build up key moves really well and do a great job gradually getting more and more aggressive. Shelley gets the win with a Super Sliced Bread #2. *** |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 28 2012, 10:44 PM Post #12 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
PWG World Champion: Vacant PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 8/31/2008 ![]() PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2009 Night Two November 21st, 2009 Reseda, CA Match #1: Brian Kendrick vs. Joey Ryan [Quarterfinals] Fun stuff. Joey plays accidental babyface again. Kendrick had some great moments on offense, but this got cut off seemingly right as it was really becoming great. Joey barely had any comeback in him before he got off That 70's Kick for the win. **3/4 Match #2: Scott Lost vs. Kenny Omega [Quarterfinals] Fucking Scott Lost gets the best singles match out of Omega yet in PWG. Lost channels him into a pure spotfest, but one without bullshit contrived stuff or awful comedy attempts and just into awesome shit. Lost is almost disgustingly crisp and smooth on everything he does. I can't wait to give him a bunch of belts in WCW. He has nice work on the ribs, focusing all his spots at the end on them. Omega ends up blocking a Victory Roll out of the corner with a Running Croyt's Wrath to win. SO disappointing as a result. Lost totally carrying this and then having to put over this flavor of the month mediocre spot guy is depressing. ***1/4 Match #3: Alex Shelley vs. Brandon Gatson [Quarterfinals] Shelley looked awesome here, totally dismantling Gatson. Great vet vs. rookie match, with Shelley treating Gatson like shit and gradually taking him more and more seriously, until he's just killing him at the end. It's an even more impressive performance when you realize that Gatson literally brings nothing to the table apart from a cool dive. Best Shelley performance in ages, surely at least since he left ROH in 2006. Really makes you miss Shelley as a singles wrestler. It's a shame Shelley is probably going to be best known for being half of a babyface flippy team. After a flurry of Superkicks to the face, Shelley gets too cocky before the last one, and Gatson gets a roll up for a big upset. No idea why Gatson is the one who got this spot over LTP or Goodtime, or why they didn't do Shelley vs. Strong or Tornado. *** Match #4: Roderick Strong vs. Human Tornado [Quarterfinals] This is perfectly fine and has cool spots, but not really great. Strong works the back, but Tornado pretty much completely ignores it. They do a lot of spots and it's fun, and then Strong wins with the Sick Kick. **3/4 Match #5: Austin Aries/The Cutler Brothers vs. Colt Cabana/Johnny Goodtime/Jerome Robinson The Cutlers and LTP/Goodtime have their usual amazing barely controlled spotfest. Aries and Cabana add a lot of entertaining stuff to it. Aries guides the Cutlers to a better control segment than usual. Big awesome dives and finishing run, and LTP beats one of them with the African-American Destroyer. *** Match #6: Kenny Omega vs. Joey Ryan [Semi-Finals] This is mediocre. Joey works on the back injury that Lost theoretically created earlier. Omega decided to not sell it until after the match, continuing to be horribly exposed as a shitty singles wrestler in actual matches. Omega wins with Croyt's Wrath. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. **1/4 Match #7: Roderick Strong vs. Brandon Gatson [Semi-Finals] Awesome sprint! Gatson is worn out and hurt, so he immediately tries flash pins, which causes Strong to murder him. Classic kind of an underdog story, a lot like Owen/Kid from the 1994 KOTR, but 6-7 minutes instead of 4. Strong just DESTROYS Gatson's back in the final moments. Gatson kicks out of the Gibson Driver, so Strong gets the Sick Kick for the win. *** Match #8: The Young Bucks [c] vs. Kevin Steen/El Generico [PWG World Tag Team Championship] This is the only time they met with the Bucks as heels, since Steenerico have yet to team up again since the end of 2009. Still had the problem with most Bucks matches, in that the first 10 minutes is totally useless filler, but Generico and Steen can carry almost any tag team at this point. Generico is a great FIP, and the finishing run is AMAZING. They had 3-4 matches in 2009, all very similar, but this may be the best, just for having the best crowd. Same finish as their Final Battle 2009 match with Steen getting destroyed with like 10,000 Superkicks. *** Match #9: Kenny Omega vs. Roderick Strong [2009 BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES FINALS - PWG WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP] This was super disappointing. Omega comes in with hurt ribs and back, and Strong won his match earlier by destroying the back. So the story is obvious, right? WRONG, THEY DO SPOTS FOR 20 MINUTES. They had an awesome first half of brawling on the floor, but then they went in and did a bunch of shit. Lots of egregious kickouts and Omega, now left to his own devices, does a lot of stupid and contrived shit. Omega wins with the second Croyt's Wrath. **1/2 |
![]() |
|
| Big Tuna | Apr 28 2012, 10:48 PM Post #13 |
![]()
The Master and Ruler Of The World
![]()
|
2009 Results: Wrestler of the Year: Scott Lost (38 Points) (FUCK YEAH!) Tag Team of the Year: The Young Bucks (32 Points) ![]() Match of the Year: Bryan Danielson vs. Scott Lost, 1/10/2009 Show of the Year: Guerre Sans Frontieres (3.188) |
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
| « Previous Topic · Simon Reviews... · Next Topic » |





















7:12 PM Jul 10