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| Big Tuna | Aug 22 2014, 03:40 PM Post #1 |
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PWG World Champion: Claudio Castagnoli, Since 10/9/2010 PWG World Tag Team Champions: Peligros Abejas, Since 5/9/2010 ![]() PWG Kurt RussellReunion II: The Reunioning January 29th, 2011 Los Angeles, CA Match #1: Willie Mack/Candice LeRae/Brandon Gatson/Cedric Alexander vs. Peter Avalon/Caleb Konley/Jake Manning/ODB Cool to see young Cedric showing up here, but he's not awesome yet. Excalibur and Cabana rule it on commentary, talking about ODB's cooter and how Willie Mack allegedly named his corner Lariat the MY DICK EXPLODES~, wondering why, and classifying everyone in the match as a bear or twink. As for the match, Cedric Alexander looks good. Avalon still sucks apart from bumping, but Willie Mack is awesome. He's kind of like a weird love child of Samoa Joe, Butch Reed, and Dusty Rhodes. ODB is completely ridiculous, and at one point, smashes her vag into Candice's face. Candice then forces Manning and Avalon to double team Konley. Avalon eats a Super Ballplex from Candice, Willie's INSANE Frog Splash, and then Gatson puts on a shitty Armbar to win. In usual PWG fashion, they made something entertaining about a match full of guys who nobody cares about, and then Candice and Willie Mack. **1/4 Match #2: Mr. Aguila vs. Rey Bucanero This is a weird show for PWG as it's obviously based around the conventions, so they use a lot of different guys than usual. This is basically a seven minute lucha showcase. Bucanero is solid and pretty smooth, and Essa Rios is hit or miss as he's been for basically his entire career. They just do a lot of stuff without time to do anything substantial, and Aguila wins with his Moonsault. ** Before the next match, Shane Helms and Joey Ryan do like 5 minutes of dueling mic work. Joey is still calling himself the Hollywood Submission Machine and Helms is in his post-WWE talking shit about everyone phase where he would randomly go on long diatribes against Shawn Michaels. Which, I mean, I guess I'm a hypocrite for hating on that, but this comes off as bitter rantings of a shitty has been who was lucky to even have a midcard spot in WWE. Match #3: Joey Ryan vs. Shane Helms This is SO bad. They go 14 minutes after the actual pre-match stuff and then like five minutes at the front end is devoted to stalling. Neither man is particularly good at stalling. Helms decides to continue his hilarious one-sided beef by no selling Joey's Superkick. Joey works on the arm and then Helms totally no sells everything to come back. Joey cuts his shitty offensive off and puts his horrible Kimura Lock back on and Helms taps out. Really really bad. This will probably be the worst PWG match of 2011. 45/Poop Match #4: Low Ki vs. Davey Richards This is more like it. Low Ki drags Davey to awesome matwork to begin. Davey does stuff he stole from Low Ki, which understandably pisses Ki off, and Ki rules as the bitter veteran. This is the match you expect it to be. Lots of kicks and strikes, and Ki did an awesome job of reigning in Davey and not letting him no sell or do anything awful. Davey's still a little goofy especially as he's in the middle of his BEST IN DA WORLD run, but this is a great Ki performance. Some really cool new spots for his indy return. Since this is also the middle of the card, so they did a good job of doing a ton, but leaving enough for people to follow, which is something Ki's generation was great at, but is kind of lost today. Ki won with the Flying Double Stomp. *** Match #5: Jake Roberts vs. Sinn Bodhi [Retirement Match] I have no idea if this was his actual last match. I really hope it was, because I'd hate to have actually watched this five minute bag of shit for no reason. Jake was the best, but it's like 2011 and shit here, so this wasn't very good. Bodhi is horrible. Jake eventually gets the obvious win with a DDT. TRUST ME Match #6: LEGENDS ROYAL RUMBLE Some of the impact is lost here as PWG does their thing where they edit out all entrance music with the DVD menu song. This makes them like the last company ever that should do a Rumble style thing, so I have no idea why this got booked. I'm not going to recap the entire thing because it's like 35 minutes and the youngest dude here was either Val Venis or Shane Douglas. The best dudes are clearly Piper and funk who cheat throughout in great form and have a ton of energy compared to everyone else. Piper eventually eliminates the Funker to win. Your mileage will vary on this. I'm open to nostalgia stuff, so I enjoyed most of this, but it was probably 10-15 minutes too long. I have no idea how to rate this. Match #7: Chris Hero vs. Kevin Steen Ruled, obviously. Steen loses a slugfest to start, so he makes it his kind of a brawl on the floor and around the building, and that's awesome. Hero is a pretty underrated brawler, since he has awesome strikes and fire, which is more or less what I want in a brawl. Steen takes over after that and does some quality stuff. Lots of explosive Steen offense, and Hero fights back into a really good finishing run. Hero hits a Rolling Elbow and then the Cyclone Kill for the victory. *** Match #8: The Young Bucks vs. The Cutler Brothers vs. The RockNES Monsters vs. Brian Cage-Taylor/Ryan Taylor [DDT4 Qualifying Match] This was 15 minutes and with four teams in there, there's enough different stuff that no part of this really feels like obvious filler. The Bucks are the only actual GREAT tag team in this, and even they had their flaws, but this style hid everyone's flaws really well for the most part. It wasn't a great match, but it was better than I expected. RockNES pulls off a kind of upset win when Goodtime throws Yuma off his shoulders on the top in kind of a DVD into a senton bomb on Cage and Taylor for the win. **3/4 After the match, Kevin Steen comes and hits both Yuma and Goodtime with Package Piledrivers. He says he's finding a partner and winning DDT4. Match #9: Claudio Castagnoli [c] vs. El Generico [PWG World Championship] This is SO fucking great. Great matwork to start before Generico breaks free with the faster stuff until he's caught. Claudio goes after the knee, and it's awesome. Lots of nasty twists and holds on the leg and he adapts a lot of his usual stuff to work the leg, including the one legged Big Swing. Generico's selling was really really great. He's never really shown a lot of awesome limb selling before, while certainly passable at it, but this is some best in the world type shit. It inhibits his offense so that later on when he can fight through it to connect, it's a pretty huge victory. Big ass nearfalls, and Claudio puts on the original Neutralizer. He swings Generico around by the leg with it and then sits down on it and Generico taps. ***3/4 Post-match, Joey Ryan runs out to attack Claudio, but Chris Hero makes the save. Ryan bails out and says he'll be the next champion, and he has friends too. Claudio gets a mic too and says he's a liar, and he has no friends. That pops the crowd huge, and Claudio shakes Generico's hand and celebrates with Hero to end the show. |
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| Big Tuna | Aug 22 2014, 07:23 PM Post #2 |
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PWG World Champion: Claudio Castagnoli, Since 10/9/2010 PWG World Tag Team Champions: Peligros Abejas, Since 5/9/2010 ![]() PWG DDT4 2011 MARCH 4TH, 2011 RESEDA, CA Match #1: The Young Bucks vs. Willie Mack/Brandon Gatson [1st Round] Apart from a good dive to start this, Gatson is REALLY terrible, especialyl with his punches. he Bucks have some new spots, which will make them more entertaining for the next show or two until they kill their new spots off. There's a super embarrassing sequence where Matt Jackson forgets to cut off Gatson's tag, so he's on his knees in front of his corner, clearly able to make the tag, but he's waiting for the planned spot. Mack has an awesome hot tag, and Gatson does his other good dive. Mack & Gatson have some really awesome double teams in the finishing run, such as a Standing Blockbuster/Hart Attack fusion type thing. Mack is hit with a NASTY sounding superkick to win. **1/4 Match #2: The American Wolves vs. The RockNES Monsters [1st Round] Eddie makes his PWG debut and as this is 2011, he's now the better member of the team. I liked this more than I expected, due to the Wolves playing more of a subtly heelish role against the enjoyable undercard faces and getting to abuse Yuma a lot. Goodtime has his usual really energetic hot tag. Davey/Goodtime at the end was really good, in spite of all the usual Davey tendencies. Goodtime is great at selling a minor ankle injury, but this went on too long and it stopped being believable that he could carry on so long with a bad ankle, which meant he sort of just stopped selling it too. Goodtime got hit with the Powerbomb/Lungblower combo, and Eddie got a nasty Achilles Lock to win. **3/4 Match #3: The Kings of Wrestling vs. The Cutler Brothers [1st Round] Hero and Claudio did what they could, but also sort of exposed that the Cutlers really are not good wrestlers outside of their high spots. They isolated one of them and worked the arm. It was great since Hero and Claudio are basically the best tag team in the entire world at this point, but then the arm was no sold and the finishing run was a lot of stuff. The Cutlers, again, brought basically nothing to the table in this, but Hero and Claudio just started destroying them with stuff. This was mostly a Claudio showcase, with a bunch of amazing power spots and what not. The finish was brutal as fuck, with Hero and Claudio hitting Brandon Cutler with a Rolling Yakuza Kick from Hero at the same time as Claudio hit a Bicycle Kick on the other side. **1/2 Match #4: The Briscoes vs. Kevin Steen/Akira Tozawa [1st Round] RULED. FINALLY A GREAT MATCH. This is only 10 minutes and is a total sprint. Tozawa and Steen are just magical together, and they are dubbed the Nightmare Violence Connection on commentary. Mark and Tozawa have an insane karate showdown and shriek-off. Excalibur did a great job getting over that Steen and Tozawa aren't much of an experienced team, but they gelled really well together. A lot of really cool stuff in this combined with the frantic pace. Steen and Tozawa hit a Doomsday Shining Wizard to win. *** Match #5: The Young Bucks vs. The American Wolves [Semi-Finals] This had the exact strengths and weaknesses that you would expect. I actually loved the first portion of this. It's just the Wolves responding to the Bucks' bullshit by beating the shit out of them in amazing fashion and being pricks about it. The Bucks control segment was alright in that clearly time killing way, but then they did the Epic Finishing Run and this stopped being great. They had a lot of really cool spots, giving them credit, but fell into every weakness of both teams. Ridiculous kickouts, horribly fake Davey no-selling and yelling spots, went on too long, about 500 Superkicks, etc. Bucks get a roll up to win. **1/2 Match #6: The Kings of Wrestling vs. Nightmare Violence Connection [Semi-Finals] RULED. There's some good matwork here, and then Tozawa is isolated. It's a lot of Hero/Tozawa stuff which is great, because that match was the best. Claudio gets in on it, and both Kings really maul poor Tozawa. Steen has a really good hot tag, but Tozawa totally steals the match when he gets back in for the finishing run. TWO TOPE SUICIDAS! AND THEN A FLIP OFF THE APRON! There's some super super dramatic nearfalls, and when Hero misses a Moonsault, Tozawa gets a La Magistral cradle for the HUGE upset! YEAH! **** Joey Ryan comes out now, and says as the #1 Contender, he'll be cashing his shot on April 9th. But, he could use an exhibition, but he has to see who's worthy. He's devised a Joey Ryan Invitational Gauntlet match to see who faces him, and to see who gets to tap out to the Hollywood Submission Machine. Match #7: Brian Cage-Taylor vs. Ryan Taylor vs. Peter Avalon vs. Candice LeRae [Joey Ryan Invitational Gauntlet Match] Joey Ryan proves how terrible he really is while he's on on commentary by plugging #IWantWrestling, which only a horrible piece of shit would ever put in anything they write or say. This is a match, whatever. Nobody's really good in this, and Avalon is straight up bad. Candice won after Joey interfered, because he'd rather fight a woman. *3/4 Candice gets on the mic and talks about how ridiculous Joey looks and says she can make HIM tap out. Joey says she's a woman, so her opinion is not important, but if she can beat him, he'll give her his title shot on April 9th! Match #8: Joey Ryan vs. Candice LaRae [#1 Contender's Match] This is the closest Joey ever comes again to his sleazy 2006-8 peak. The best of this is him sticking his hand down his trunks, miming jerking off, and then rubbing his hand on her face. This was entertaining, but not really great or anything. Joey eventually comes back and kills Candice with a Superkick, and puts on a Kimura for a submssion win. **1/4 Match #9: The Young Bucks vs. Nightmare Violence Connection [2011 DDT4 FINALS] This is also awesome. They do a big crazy brawl at the start. Tozawa again has just so much fucking energy, and Steen is the best brawler. The Bucks are clearly being guided, but they contribute a good amount and there's some awesome spots. The Bucks take Tozawa out with a Hanging DDT off the apron, so Steen is isolated. They work on his knee and bust him open and it's one of the best Bucks control segments I can ever recall. TOZAWA RETURNS FOR A CRAZY ASS HOT TAG! YEAH! He is very much the 2010s Tajiri in terms of his insane energy and precision, and if a company existed in this decade like ECW in terms of taking chances on dudes AND also having a lot of exposure, he'd be a Tajiri-level star in the US. Oh well. Awesome dramatic nearfalls. Steen survives the Superkick Party that previously killed off Steen and Generico in 2009 in a great moment, AND TOZAWA COMES BACK IN AND FUCKS EVERYONE'S SHIT UP. BUT HE RUNS INTO THE DOUBLE SUPERKICK After that, they beat them with More Bang For Your Buck. I am heartbroken. **** |
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| Big Tuna | Aug 23 2014, 08:05 PM Post #3 |
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PWG World Champion: Claudio Castagnoli, Since 10/9/2010 PWG World Tag Team Champions: Peligros Abejas, Since 5/9/2010 ![]() PWG Card Subject to Change III April 9th, 2011 Reseda, CA Match #1: Johnny Yuma vs. Peter Avalon This is sort of just a thing that happens. They do a lot of stuff and like 95% of it is really sloppy and botched. Some good ideas though. These are both totally the type of new indy dudes who learn to do their big spots and flips before any kind of basics like holds (not important to PWG) or throwing a decent fucking strike (important to PWG), and just seem like they're barely trained outside their cool stuff and spotfests. See also, The Cutler Brothers. Yuma much more so than Avalon. Yuma wins with his stupid Sex Factor move. *1/4 Match #2: Candice LeRae vs. Portia Perez This was much better. On commentary, Excalibur and Joey Ryan bring up the old arm drag drinking game from early PWG commentary. This wasn't very good and was basically just an exhibition of basic things like arm drags and roll ups. LaRae wins with a Crucifix Pin. *3/4 Match #3: Willie Mack vs. Roderick Strong HERE WE GO. This is really awesome and pretty much the best Strong match so far in 2011, given his average ROH output as a heel. They do decent mat stuff and then Willie explodes with chops. He gets the best of Roddy there, which does not fly at all, SO RODDY EXPLODES WITH SOME AND SHITCANS HIM WITH A SIDEWALK SLAM THROW INTO A ROW OF CHAIRS JESUS CHRIST. They do a big slugfest and Willie shows a ton of fight and fire and all that stuff. Strong disappointingly gets the win though with the Sick Kick. ***1/4 Match #4: Low Ki vs. Akira Tozawa This is fantastic. It's a 2011 Low Ki match so he eats up a lot of it, but doesn't totally destroy Tozawa, which is a surprise and a nice surprise at that. Great mat stuff throughout, and then the finishing run was good. There's not a ton of drama because at no point do I think Low Ki won't win. Still, really good exchanges in the final run. Low Ki hits the John Woo and then the Flying Double Stomp to win. *** Match #5: Johnny Goodtime vs. Ryan Taylor Goodtime is good, but Taylor is pretty cringeworthy with how much he's clearly just aping the entire Japanese junior kind of kicky highspot type deal. First of all, this happens when Goodtime rushes the start and Taylor still has his shirt on. Portia: People aren't supposed to wrestle in t-shirts. Excalibur: Have you never seen a B Boy match? Portia: No... This goes WAY too long at like 16 minutes. Goodtime had some cool spots, but Taylor really didn't, and it dragged on a lot in the final five minutes. Portia says that most people in Kentucky are Taylors. Taylor does a really really bad Crossface sequence, and he cannot apply the hold properly at all. A small retarded child would totally be able to escape. Goodtime hits his weird DDT variant to win. ** Match #6: Claudio Castagnoli [c] vs. Joey Ryan [PWG World Championship] I do not know why this went 24 minutes. It was far too long for what it was. Joey tried to be clean and got outwrestled. We did not need 10 minutes to establish that Claudio is a better technician than Joey Ryan. Joey then cheats and works the arm. It's not very good. Claudio sells well enough and work the knee, and then Joey didn't really sell that at all. They do stuff, and Claudio retains with a Stretch Muffler. **1/4 Match #7: El Generico/Ricochet [c] vs. The Young Bucks [PWG World Tag Team Championship] Ricochet is replacing London, which makes the result super obvious. Ricochet does break dancing, and Roderick Strong is on commentary and just sadly says that he misses Jack Evans. Anyways, this is basically the match you would expect for 21 minutes. This takes a little bit to get going, but once the Bucks take over, it's good. Quality control segment, and they're getting better at that. Generico has the best hot tag. The superkick count for this match is 9. The Bucks beat Ricochet with More Bang For Your Buck to regain the belts.*** |
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| Big Tuna | Aug 23 2014, 08:51 PM Post #4 |
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PWG World Champion: Claudio Castagnoli, Since 10/9/2010 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 4/9/2011 ![]() PWG All Star Weekend 8 Night One May 27th, 2011 Reseda, CA Match #1: Kevin Steen vs. Willie Mack Steen's pulling double duty tonight. Great battle of the bulls type of thing. Steen sees someone in the crowd with an El Generico 8x10 and tears it up. Mack again wins a chop off, and Steen fakes a knee injury to take over. Steen is once again a fantastic douchebag. Awesome finishing run too. It's PWG, so maybe it went on too long, but the spots were cool enough for me to let it slide. MACK GETS AN UPSET WITH A SCHOOLBOY! YEAH! *** Match #2: Joey Ryan/Scorpio Sky vs. Ryan Taylor/Brian Cage-Taylor Taylor has gotten much more body mass in the last month and a half. I WONDER HOW? Some dcent stuff, but not exactly the most exciting thing. Scorpio looks like easily the best dude in this. In a total shocker, this went on seemingly forever. REALLY good finish though. Scorp hits a Bicycle Kick to the back of the head sending him into a Superkick by Joey, and Scorpio hit a TKO to win. ** Match #3: Chuck Taylor w/ Ryan Taylor vs. Kenny King Chuck is entertaining as usual in his laziness, but this is sort of a nothing match. Kenny King shows up to PWG to show us that yes, The Briscoes and Kings of Wrestling actually just invented the idea of King and Titus as actually improving in any way, because he sucks here. Brian Cage-Taylor runs out to shove King off the top rope when Ryan distracts the ref, and Chuck gets a cover for the win. I'm glad they're actually trying to do something with the Fighting Taylor Boys. *3/4 Match #4: The Young Bucks [c] vs. The RockNES Monsters [PWG Tag Team Championship] Monsters RULED early on. They had an awesome spot, forcing Matt Jackson to repeatedly teabag his brother. The Bucks did their usual control seg, and it's less awesome than it had been lately. Yuma is still the worst part of everything, but Goodtime works well with them in the finishing run. This goes too long at 20-21 minutes and then the Bucks beat Goodtime with the Superkick Party. **1/2 Match #5: Austin Aries/Roderick Strong vs. The Cutler Brothers Aries and Strong break out their old tag gear. The Cutlers are not at all impressive. Fine offense and all, but this felt sort of lifeless. I don't know how else to explain it, but it's the Cutlers being thrown at stuff they're not ready for, just because the Bucks carried them a few times. Usual problem of going way too long for the Cutlers' skill level. Aries and Strong really did look incredible as a team though. Several points where a finish would have been perfect, but then it kept going. Gen Next wins with Roddy's Sick Kick IN LIKE 25 FUCKING MINUTES WHAT THE SHIT STOP. **1/4 The Young Bucks run out and attack Strong and Aries before the match tomorrow. They beat on them, BUT ALEX SHELLEY RUNS OUT AND DRIVES THEM OFF! AND HE'S IN A GENERATION NEXT SHIRT! GENERATION NEXT STANDS TOGETHER! ALEX GETS ON THE MIC AND CHALLENGES THE YOUNG BUCKS TO FIND A PARTNER! YEAH! Of course, this winds up meaning nothing because someone gets hurt or something and it doesn't happen in full. Match #6: Alex Shelley vs. Eddie Edwards Really good indy style movefest. Some guy yells BORING during matwork, so Eddie mocks his Big Show shirt all match. That's kind of a shitty thing to do, Big Show is fine people. Anyways, good matwork and it escalates well in that kind of Edwards type of way. A little too much contrived bullshit before the end though. Eddie wins with the Die Hard. **3/4 Match #7: El Generico/Ricochet vs. Nightmare Violence Connection FUCK YEAH THIS MATCH! Fucking awesome match early on. Lots of angry Steen/Generico exchanges, Tozawa being AMAZING, etc. Control seg on Ricochet was good shit. Tozawa is taking to English, and yells "FUCKING STUPID" after he cuts off Ricochet going for something. Shit for really incredible with the finishing run though. A ton of crazy shit, all really crisp, hot crowd, etc. It got a little too long and overblown near the end, but all the big stuff was really really amazing. Steen hits a Steenalizer into the corner on Ricochet to win. ***1/2 Everyone shakes hands post-match, except Steen and Generico. They just stare at each other, and Generico leaves. Match #8: Claudio Castagnoli [c] vs. Chris Hero [PWG World Championship] Really perfectly done friend vs. friend match. Lots of amazing matwork early on, starting respectful, and gradually getting more and more aggressive. Some awesome lucha stuff too. Claudio struck first, and started working the right arm that Hero uses for elbows. Hero's selling was great as usual. The top rope snaps off when Claudio tries to run off for a dive, and Claudio just gets rid of the top rope AND HE HITS HIS DIVE ANYWAYS! Claudio kept up the amazing arm work. They kept going for like 40 minutes, and it was both overlong and epic. Because they did an awesome job selling the length and the brutality, but at the same time, holy shit, why was this so long? Claudio hits a series of European Uppercuts to win. ***3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Aug 23 2014, 11:34 PM Post #5 |
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PWG World Champion: Claudio Castagnoli, Since 10/9/2010 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 4/9/2011 ![]() PWG All Star Weekend 8 Night Two May 28th, 2011 Reseda, CA Match #1: Kenny King vs. Brian Cage-Taylor w/ Chuck Taylor Excalibur claims that Super Dragon watches every event via closed circuit TV in the PWG offices. Nothing amazing, but a solid match, since King now feels like trying more now that he's against a significantly worse wrestler. ** Match #2: Nightmare Violence Connection vs. The RockNES Monsters The Monsters jump them NVC after Steen jumped them a few months back. CONTINUITY! But Steen and Tozawa soon take over, and it is awesome. Tozawa is particularly amazing. Some truly fantastic violence from the NVC, and Tozawa is doing a ton more taunting now as he takes on characteristics of big brother figure Steen. Crazy ass finishing run and Tozawa brings back the REPEATED TOPE SUCIIDAS! YEAH! Steen hits a Package Piledriver on the apron for the win. *** Post-match, Steen puts Tozawa over on the mic for his farewell and he gets a standing O BUT THE YOUNG BUCKS ATTACK THEM, GOD DAMNIT! CHRIS HERO RUNS OUT FROM COMMENTARY AND RUNS THEM OFF, FUCK YEAH! Steen calls them incestual assholes, and he's going to rip their fucking dicks off and kill them with them. Hero gets the mic and he says he wanted to do commentary on Tozawa's last PWG match, and nobody's left an impact like Tozawa has in such a short amount of time. He then challenges him to one more match tonight AND TOZAWA ACCEPTS! YES! Match #3: Ricochet vs. Willie Mack Awesome match. Fantastic spotfest. Willie Mack doing a goddamn Standing SSP at his size was INSANE. They both had some really amazing spots and strikes in this. Just a ton of fun. Really crisp, perfect length, hot crowd, etc. Ricochet gets the win with a beautiful looking SSP. *** Match #4: Joey Ryan/Scorpio Sky vs. The Cutler Brothers On the bright side, this is the final Cutlers match, as they have retired apparently. Joey really sucks as a babyface. Too long, not really good at any point. Bleh. Scorpio wins with a shitty knee bar. *1/2 Match #5: El Generico vs. Eddie Edwards Kevin Steen is doing commentary, and during the intros, he loudly cheers Eddie and yells at him to kill Generico. This might be the best Edwards match ever to this point. Very much an indy epic style match, but done really well. The first half was well done "feeling each other out" stuff. EE had some quality knee work on Generico, who didn't no sell it or anything. Really fantastic finishing run. Loved that the knee work came back at the end, as Generico tapped out to the Achilles Lock. ***1/4 Match #6: The Young Bucks [c] vs. Austin Aries/Roderick Strong [PWG Tag Team Championship] Starts with a great brawl. Real good Gen Next control segment to start. They isolate Roderick Strong, and it's more of the Bucks control stuff from DDT4 and the title switch. I guess they're only doing this against great teams this year? IT's weird, but very good. Then they do a big finishing run. Many Superkicks. Big moves. Not perfect, but very good. Bucks get a fluke roll up. ![]() *** Match #7: Chris Hero vs. Akira Tozawa AWESOME match. Good matwork early on, and they did an awesome job establishing the big vs. small and veteran vs. young guy dynamics before the insane action began. HERO CATCHES TOZAWA IN MID TOPE SUICIDA WITH A FUCKING HUGE ELBOW JESUS CHRIST! Great Hero control segment. Lots of brutal strikes and awesome trash talking. Hero really looked like the best in the world in this, although because WWE gets good again in 2011, that gets taken away by Punk and Bryan. Tozawa is SUCH a likable guy, so easy to support. This isn't as good as their 2010 match, but that might be one of the best PWG matches ever, so that's no insult to this. Great finish. Tozawa gradually wears down Hero with Saito Suplexes and Hero does a great sell of getting up slower and slower each time, and Tozawa hits an arm-trap German Suplex to win! ***1/2 Steen comes out to help up Tozawa. He gets a ridiculously big ovation and is in tears at the response. He gets on the mic and says he speaks almost no English. The crowd chants that it's okay, and he yells "SHUT THE FUCK UP! FUCK YOU!" while he's near tears, but yells "THANK YOU! SO FUCK YOU!" AND A POSITIVE "FUCK YOU" CHANT BREAKS OUT! FUCK YEAH TOZAWA! Shame he's going back to Dragon Gate to become wasted. He hasn't really ever become bad, much like SHINGO, but he is wasted among awful wrestlers and has yet to really get his due there. Anyways, he hugs Hero and Steen and gets a huge ovation. Match #8: Claudio Castagnoli [c] vs. Low Ki [PWG World Championship] There were some awkward moments in this, due to these two never being booked against each other, but overall, it was really fucking good. A bunch of really amazing exchanges. They can surely do better upon repeated match ups, but this is about what you might expect from this. Also, Low Ki wasn't winning, so he probably tried less, because Low Ki is a real asshole. Some amazing counters near the end. Claudio pins Ki with the Pop Up European Uppercut. HOLY SHIT LOW KI LOST A THING. *** |
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| Big Tuna | Aug 24 2014, 07:35 PM Post #6 |
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PWG World Champion: Claudio Castagnoli, Since 10/9/2010 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 4/9/2011 ![]() PWG EIGHT JULY 23RD, 2011 RESEDA, CA Match #1: Kevin Steen vs. PAC This is basically the match you'd expect and want. Steen is a big asshol and a bully, but he's basically the new Super Dragon, as he's a horrible and mean spirited person, but is the most over babyface in all of PWG, so nobody really boos him. They kind of just go with it. Also, this: Hero: And that's Mr. Kennedy's old finisher, but he sucks, so PAC can kick out. Excalibur: What'd he call it? The Kamikaze? Hero: No idea. Excalibur: The Steamroller? Hero: Now it's the STEENroller! Excalibur: We invented it! Hero: High five! Excalibur: Go Team Venture! PAC makes his comeback with all of his fun flippy dos. This isn't amazing or anything on the level of their killer 2007 match, but it's a fine opener and still a great match. *** Match #2: Brandon Gatson vs. Brian Cage-Taylor They try a lot of stuff here. Some of it is awesome and works well and is really fucking spectacular, some of it is not and looks awful. Hero and Excalibur make it worth sticking out by telling stories about wrestlers fighting retarded fans. Cage has some great strikes. Big bumps by Gatson near the end. Cage-Taylor wins with a Gory Bomb/Flatliner thing. **1/2 Match #3: Alex Shelley/Roderick Strong vs. El Generico/Ricochet This took a weirdly long time to get going, but at least a lot of the matwork was good. Once they got going, it was pretty fucking awesome and the nutty match you'd expect. Generico and Ricochet took some crazy bumps for Roddy. The control segment on Ricochet went on too long, but once the finishing run started, it was great. Strong beats Ricochet with the End of Heartache. *** Match #4: Ryan Taylor vs. Peter Avalon Meh. Not much here. They do some spots, whatever. Avalon wins. Went on too long, because it is PWG. *1/2 Match #5: The RockNES Monsters vs. Joey Ryan/Scorpio Sky Better than I expected, but still not great. Sky looked great. Lots of great dives and spots, but it still ended up going on too long. The PWG special, I guess. Nobody cares about Joey Ryan, and he keeps trying to do epics so he can stay over, because he assumes doing Superkicks and a million nearfalls is how you stay over now. RockNES monsters actually pulled out the win, which was a great surprise. **1/2 Match #6: Kevin Steen/CIMA vs. The Young Bucks Fun brawl early on. The Bucks took over and that was perfectly fine as well. This isn't the craziest thing these four could do, which means it's a rare example of people in PWG actually working smart and saving some stuff for later on/for the main event. Finishing run happens and it's surprisingly tame. Steen gets Matt Jackson in the Sharpshooter. CIMA hits him in the back with the Meteora and cuts off Nick, so Matt taps. **3/4 Match #7: Claudio Castagnoli [c] vs. Chris Hero [PWG World Championship] MOTN, unsurprisingly. Lots of really great matwork early on. Hero gets moving with his great strikes after a lengthy feeling out process, and Claudio works the knee. Some really amazing work on the leg, and Hero's selling rules. Claudio gets really really vicious, more so than he may ever have been. There's a lot of Cesaro in his work here, in terms of violence and purpose. Really nasty stuff from Hero to try and get out too. Hero took off the knee pad from his good leg to double up on his bad knee, which was incredible. The knee kept coming into it, despite Hero's great comeback, so that's even better. Claudio got a NASTY looking Standing Neutralizer for the win. **** Steen gets up from commentary and walks to the ring. He says that was a hell of a match and says he's been promised a title match, but he doesn't want to wait any longer, and he challenges him now. Claudio says no, and Steen says he can't avoid him for long. AND THEN CLAUDIO CHEAP SHOTS HIM WHEN HE TURNS AROUND AGAIN! CLAUDIO SAYS TO RING THE BELL! Match #8: Claudio Castagnoli [c] vs. Kevin Steen [PWG World Championship] Awesome 2 minute sprint. The ref is knocked down when Claudio barged in, and The Young Bucks come in to attack Steen! They leave after a Double Superkick and CC covers as a new ref runs out, BUT STEEN KICKS OUT! Claudio hits a HUGE Lariat and tries the Riccola Bomb, BUT STEEN DOES THE YOSHI TONIC COUNTER HOLY SHIT! PACKAGE PILEDRIVER AND STEEN WINS THE BELT! AWESOME ENDING TO THE SHOW! ** Edited by Big Tuna, Sep 6 2014, 01:15 AM.
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| Big Tuna | Aug 29 2014, 08:52 PM Post #7 |
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PWG World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 7/23/2011 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 4/9/2011 ![]() PWG BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES 2011 AUGUST 20TH, 2011 RESEDA, CA Match #1: Chris Hero vs. Willie Mack [BOLA Quarterfinals] Classic Hero vs. a young guy, and it is stiff as all hell. Hero obviously hit super fucking hard, but Willie Mack did really bring it almost on his level, so good for him. And holy shit, on a card with Fit Finlay (and to a lesser extent, Eddie/Roddy), being in the hardest hitting match of the night is a HUGE accomplishment. They started with great matwork before they got into all of that, so that also appealed to me a lot. After the respectful opening stuff, Mack actually outchopped Hero, which led to Hero punishing him with some amazing stuff. Dueling chants happened, but it felt like two groups of people yelling at each other in support of their guy, rather than robotic dueling chants. This was on par with the awesome Hero/Bonham match, which was the first of these matches. AND MACK GETS A BACKSLIDE OUT OF THE HERO'S WELCOME FOR THE WIN! HOLY SHIT! ***1/2 Match #2: Fit Finlay vs. Kevin Steen [BOLA Quarterfinals] This is fucking great, but in a different way than Finlay's other 2011 stuff. Finlay elbows Steen in the face on his knees in a trademark spot, and Steen gets up and says he's fine, by the way. Which is incredibly stupid of him, BECAUSE FINLAY DOES IT AGAIN, AND NOW RIGHT TO THE NOSE. SO STEEN SLAPS HIM! AND FINLAY KILLS HIM MORE! This goes on like this. Not as good as Finlay/Sami, since this is a first round match and they don't get COMPLETELY insane, but it still delivers on everything you want Steen vs. Finlay to be. Just this awesome violent match. It's kind of respectful too, weirdly. Like, they're laying it all in, sure, but it's note as hateful or spiteful as you might expect. Steen eventually works the leg with some great stuff. Finlay's selling rules. Steen wins with the Sharpshooter. ***1/2 Match #3: Claudio Castagnoli vs. El Generico [BOLA Quarterfinals] Another beautiful match between these two. Great matwork to begin for the third match in a row. I love 2010s PWG, but this is such a wonderfully non-PWG style show so far. Claudio dominates and is mean about it while he uses his power with some great catches, throws, and part spots. Generico botched a springboard Rana in a rare thing for him, SO CLAUDIO JUST STARTED BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF HIM! AWESOME! Not like, Finlay/Lorenzo style actually beating him up for a slight mistake, but ramping up his intensity and throwing him around in even crazier ways and throwing insane European Uppercuts. Absolutely crazy finishing run to this. Generico counters a Super Ricola Bomb into a Frankensteiner. Claudio rolls through to a sunset flip, but Generico gets out and gets a Jackknife Pin to win. **** Match #4: Roderick Strong vs. Eddie Edwards [BOLA Quarterfinals] This happened. It's more of a go-go-go movefest, but these two work better together building up from nothing, like their ROH matches in the first part of 2011. This had a lot of bullshit that Roddy began to exemplify in ROH at this point and that Eddie Edwards can get dragged down into by guys like Roddy and Davey. Shrugging off Superkicks, lots of shitty selling and transitions, etc. They do a really bad RVD/Lynn roll up spot too. Eddie counters one into the Achilles Lock. Strong tries a cradle out of it, but Eddie blocks with his own to win. **1/4 Match #5: The RockNES Monsters vs. Joey Ryan/Scorpio Sky A lot like their match last month in that it's just constant fucking action all the way through. Which on one hand, is good, since I didn't want to see this as a basic formula tag. They have some nice stuff, and about 70% of it is crisp and looks awesome. The rest is sort of just not that great. They also wind up going too long. Sky gets a roll up on Yuma to win. COOL IT WITH THE FUCKING ROLL UPS AND CRADLES GUYS. ** The Young Bucks attack both teams and a "BOOKER T" chant happens. They brag about not shaking hands. They cut a long heel promo about that and saying other stuff. Anyways, they say they've beaten everyone, I think, AND HERO AND CLAUDIO COME OUT! YES! This sets up Bucks/KOW later as the farewell for both dudes. Claudio, forever (fingers crossed). Hero, for a few months, then a few years. Match #6: El Generico vs. Willie Mack [BOLA Semi-Finals] Good comedy early on with the dancing. A lot of Human Tornado tribute stuff. They did eventually get going with the match and it was a really fun face/face match. Mack controlled due to his size, and him doing the crazy AJ Styles jumping and sort of stalling in mid-air kneedrop was insane considering that he is a fat man. Generico pulls off the win with a Brainbuster, which is also impressive due to Mack's size. **3/4 Match #7: Kevin Steen vs. Eddie Edwards [BOLA Semi-Finals] Another poor showing from Eddie. I presented a theory on Trillian a few months ago about how PWG is like college for a lot of ROH guys. Coming from ROH's increasingly structured environment, they're in a place with ZERO real restrictions on content or time or moves or stories or whatever. Some guys can't handle this and just do WAY too much initially or often (Eddie on this show, Tommaso Ciampa, Kyle O'Reilly, probably others). Eddie does way too much compared to his more restrained and logically progressing ROH stuff from this team. After a whole lot of stuff and no set up like in the previous Steen match, Steen wins with the Sharpshooter. **1/4 Match #8: The Young Bucks [c] vs. The Kings of Wrestling [PWG Tag Team Championship] This was great, but in sort of a low level way, and I liked their ROH match in 2010 more. The Bucks do their thing and it meshes pretty well with the KOW's thing. Bucks have some good stooging and stalling early on, and they work a super entertaining 10ish minutes on groin work to the Bucks. They take over and do stuff and then the finishing run is big and epic. Lots of cool moves and counters and stuff. Superkick count is only 3, as this ends SUPER abruptly when one of them rolls up Claudio using the ropes to win. *** Post-match, both Bucks get the KRS-ONE. They get a big ovation on their way out. Match #9: Kevin Steen vs. El Generico [2011 BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES FINALS] DIS PAIRING. Like 12 minutes tops, but a total fucking war. Starts with a wild brawl around the venue. Steen takes time to talk shit to kids in Generico masks. Huge dives here. The hate is still very much alive here. Big moves, kickouts, etc. Ridiculously hot crowd and I don't know what else to write really. This is exactly the kind of match it should be to get the most out of it. It loses SOME luster on a repeat viewing, but it's still killer and the second best BOLA final ever, only topped by Hero/Ki. Generico hits the Brainbuster on the apron to win AND GENERICO FINALLY WINS BOLA! FUCK YEAH! ***3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Aug 29 2014, 11:33 PM Post #8 |
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PWG World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 7/23/2011 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 4/9/2011 ![]() PWG The Perils of Rock n' Roll Decadence September 10th, 2011 Reseda, CA Match #1: Brian Cage-Taylor vs. Peter Avalon This is an obvious Cage showcase that goes on FAR too long. Avalon throws some of the worst strikes of all time, and a dude Cage's size selling them at all is ludicrous. Cage eventually kills him and puts on a Torture Texas Cloverleaf to finally end it at 11 minutes. *1/2 Match #2: Willie Mack vs. Ryan Taylor Another too long Ryan Taylor match, as he tries for 16 minutes and does not quite make it. Taylor is decent at kicking (although awful at disguising the thigh slap) but throws some really terrible forearms. Willie Mack was dumb if he laid this out, because Taylor is a perennial lower midcarder and Mack had a starmaking performance at BOLA, but Taylor controls most of this. Mack finally comes back for an overlong finishing run, and he wins with a Frog Splash. ** Match #3: The Super Smash Bros vs. The RockNES Monsters SSB make their debut. RockNES team again goes WAY too long. They try and work an even 17 minute back and forth thing and it just doesn't work. Both teams have too much schtick that doesn't work well against the other teams' schtick and they don't do cool enough stuff until the last few minutes to overcome it. SSB have tons of cool stuff. RockNES still wins with the cool thing where Goodtime DVDs Yuma off the top onto Uno. **1/2 Match #4: Eddie Edwards vs. TJ Perkins This is less wild than Eddie tried to be in BOLA, because TJ Perkins rarely actually does wild in PWG, but it was a lot of fun. Your standard good but not great TJ Perkins PWG midcard deal. They don't do big moves, but there's a lot of smooth submission trading stuff and some quality dives. Eddie blocks a Cross Armbreaker ands up stacking Perkins down on his shoulders in the kind of prawn hold block to the Cross Armbreaker for the win. **3/4 Match #5: El Generico vs. Rocky Romero HERE WE GO. Generico is now firmly entrenched ins his run where the only times he didn't have a great match were against scrubs like Bennett or when booking interrupted the match. Romero is a flawed wrestler that can often be accused of trying more to do cool spots for a highlight reel than on actually making them work well in a match (it helps that the spots aren't actually THAT cool anymore, since he stopped adding stuff in like 2007), but Generico does what he can to guide him. Romero can be great in singles matches against guys who will guide him. Samoa Joe, Bryan Danielson, and now El Generico. Romero does his usual sort of arm work and Generico sells pretty well relative to how much work Rocky did. Generico hits the BRAINBUSTAAAAAAH for the win. *** Match #6: The Young Bucks [c] vs. Joey Ryan/Scorpio Sky [PWG World Tag Team Championship] The Young Bucks are now good enough for me to comfortably say that this is a waste of them. I guess they need some filler defenses every now and then, and this is an obvious filler show, but this is super super obvious that they have no real shot of losing the belts. This goes a few minutes too long, but they're slowly improving. Joey and Sky have some good finishing run stuff anyways and Sky gets beaten after a low blow and More Bang For Your Buck. **3/4 Post-match, Steen comes out to save and run off the Bucks. Match #7: Kevin Steen [c] vs. Davey Richards [PWG World Championship] In the tradition of AJ Styles vs. James Gibson and I believe literally only that (as far as PWG shows go), the PWG champion defends against the ROH champion. These two work together pretty well, especially in PWG where there isn't a lot of pressure on Davey to try and be THE BEST IN THE WORLD and Cornette's wet dream. There are five dudes in the crowd chanting for Davey all match. It is super annoying, and I wish you-know-who would have returned a show earlier to deal with them like he dealt with some other terrible fans in the past. Anyways, they have their fun low-level great move fest deal. Steen hits a Package Piledriver and then puts on a rear naked choke in an odd choice for the win. *** Post-match, The Young Bucks run out to return the favor and they attack Steen. El Generico surprisingly makes the save to run them off, and then Steen kicks him in the dick. He says their match in October for the title is going to be a Ladder Match! |
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| Big Tuna | Aug 31 2014, 10:35 PM Post #9 |
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PWG World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 7/23/2011 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 4/9/2011 ![]() ![]() PWG STEEN WOLF OCTOBER 22ND, 2011 RESEDA, CA Match #1: Peter Avalon/Ray Rosa/Freddy Bravo vs. Candice LeRae/Famous B/Chris Kadillak This was a ton of fun. One of those classic kinds of PWG locals opening matches. There's a lot of attempted ambitious stuff and super cool ideas, but only like 50% of it actually works out. Famous B looked pretty good here with crisp face kicking. Kadillak and Rosa were alright, and Bravo looked pretty bad. Avalon gets hit with the Ballsplex, a Senton Bomb from B, and then a Frog Splash from Kadillak to win. **1/2 Match #2: Rocky Romero vs. TJ Perkins This is about the same level as the matches in their their seemingly infinite rivalry in 2005-6. 99% of the stuff they do is super crisp and fluid and there's some really pretty stuff going on here, but it never gets to another level besides "fun exhibition". Romero lacks any kind of real focus when he controls and keeps going to different areas of the body to work on. The referee botches the three count on TJ's Detonation Kick and they improvise stuff into TJ's Rivera Cloverleaf to win. **1/2 Match #3: The RockNES Monsters vs. Brian Cage-Taylor/Ryan Taylor w/ Chuck Taylor This is surprisingly reasonably timed out at only 12 minutes. It's a total spotfest, but it's not overlong. There's some legitimately insane stuff here like catapults into Canadian Destroyers, press slams off the top to the apron, powerbombs into the crowd, etc. IT's the sort of match that is both flawed and great, but it's ONLY great if you have a crazy ass crowd like Reseda. Somewhere with less reactions, and this would SUUUUUUUUUUUCK. Goodtime rolls up Cage for the win. *** Match #4: Davey Richards vs. Willie Mack This wasn't great. Davey tried to do an even opening thing with matwork and middling stuff, because I guess ROH Davey showed up tonight. Willie isn't able to really do that, since he's only great as striking and big spots. Once they get this more into being a Willie Mack type match and less of a Davey Epic, it got better. Still though, it came off as more of a showcase for Davey and that does no favors for a guy that PWG fans have clearly fallen in love with by now. Davey wins with the nth head kick. **3/4 Match #5: Joey Ryan/Scorpio Sky vs. Los Luchas THE DUDES LOS LUCHAS! YEAH! This is pretty average though. Sky vs. the luchas is really fast and a lot of fun, but Joey does heelish stuff sort of and there's a really weird disconnect between the ring time of Ryan and Sky. Like there were two different matches happening. This makes 13 minutes feel like kind of a chore, and it finally ends when Joey hits the Superkick on Phoenix Star, followed by Sky's TKO for the win. **1/4 Match #6: Chuck Taylor vs. Ricochet Good to see both dudes back. They have the usual entertaining match, but it's not quite great, which is weird as they're both so much better than they were in their CHIKARA feud. There are shenanigans and lucha type stuff early on and then it moves into highspots. A lot of stuff is blown and they just sort of do things. Ricochet kicks out of the Awful Waffle, which is such fucking bullshit. Nobody should ever kick out of that move unless it's a huge match. Ricochet eventually wins with the 630, because Chuck can't ever get a real push. **3/4 Match #7: The Young Bucks [c] vs. Future Shock [PWG World Tag Team Championship] As you will recall from ROH, Future Shock is Cole and O'Reilly. This is the among the best Future Shock tags I can remember, as it's a perfect blend of totally insane fucking nonsense (in a good way) and actual structure before that so it feels earned. Kyle is the only one in this who actually looks bad, but Cole gets most of the focus. The Bucks keep getting better as 2011 is apparently the year they go from passable and fun to actually very good and maybe great. They do a little too much at the end and you could have trimmed a few minutes out, but overall, really good. Cole does a better Front Guillotine than Kyle, despite that being one of Kyle's big moves and Cole never doing it. The Bucks break up Kyle's with a superkick and hit More Bang For Your Buck to retain. ***1/4 Superkick Count: 10 Match #8: Kevin Steen [c] vs. El Generico [PWG World Championship - Ladder Match] No surprise, this is incredible. GENERICO SPITS IN STEEN'S FACE TO START, HOLY SHIT. STEEN BLOWS A SNOT ROCKET AND IT IS ON. THIS...IS SERIOUS. There's a lot of hate and bad feelings to this, as they use it more to really hurt each other than to try and get the belt. Nobody even goes for the belt until like 15 minutes in. They start off with a lot of hard hitting and brawling and slowly move into more and more dangerous spots on the ladders. They sell really well and the final 5-10 minutes is so very violent and desperate. Everything here seems to be landing 10x worse than usual, and it's fantastic. The Young Bucks come out to attack Steen's legs with chairs as Generico is dead on the floor and leave. Both dudes slowly climb, but Steen can't really do it. GENERICO SUNSET FLIP POWERBOMBS STEEN OFF THE LADDER AND HEAD-FIRST INTO TWO LADDERS OVER THE BOTTOM ROPES JUEIORGHNQENRGOPERGPO'EJRNG FUCK. Generico wins after that, and completing the gritty destructive feel of this, he has to pull down the fucking ceiling tiles and vent opening becaust the belt won't come loose from the hook. **** Post-match, The Young Bucks come down and attack both guys. They get rid of Generico and then get on the mic over Steen on the mat. They say this thing between the three of them isn't over and issue a challenge to him to find a partner and face them in Guerrilla Warfare in December. They say he actually doesn't have a partner, BUT THE LIGHTS GO OUT! ![]() IT'S FUCKING SUPER DRAGON HOLY SHIT WHAT SUPER DRAGON KILLS THE YOUNG BUCKS THIS OH MY GOD THIS IS THE GREATEST. CURB STOMP TO MATT JACKSON! HE CATCHES THE SUPERKICK FROM NICK AND HITS THE PSYCHO DRIVER! SUPER DRAGON HELPS STEEN UP, AND STEEN SAYS HE HAS A PARTNER! This is probably the best individual angle/segment PWG ever did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGr_y8NxcAo |
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| Big Tuna | Sep 6 2014, 01:15 AM Post #10 |
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PWG World Champion: El Generico, Since 10/22/2011 PWG World Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks, Since 4/9/2011 ![]() This is the best poster ever pretty much. PWG FEAR DECEMBER 10TH, 2011 THE FUCKING BUILDING RESEDA, CALIFORNIA Match #1: Brian Cage-Taylor/Ryan Taylor vs. TJ Perkins/Kenny King This is better than I expected. It's not really great in any way, but it's an average match involving Kenny King, Ryan Taylor, and Brian Cage. Steen is amazing on commentary, getting infuriated that the Taylor Boys keep stealing double team ideas he had for the main event. TJ guides everyone as well as he can, and while it breaks down into contrived shit at points, it doesn't go super long at 12ish minutes. The Taylors do their assisted Canadian Destroyer thing to win. **1/4 Match #2: Roderick Strong vs. Amazing Red Red's best years are a decade past, but he's still a decent high flyer. You can see the late period ECW Mikey Whipwreck vibes, in terms of what he's capable of. There is a new bell ringer and sound guy for this show, and Excalibur wants to fire him two matches in for shitty bell ringing. Still, a really good power/speed deal here. This wasn't great, but it was super worthwhile for the ways in which Strong tried to kill Red. He hits a Reverse Death by Roderick and then the Gibson Driver to win. **3/4 Excalibur: At the last show, Kadillak asked me if he should wear shorts or trunks. I told him you should always wear trunks over shorts, so you look like a professional wrestler and not a bum like B-Boy. Then B-Boy came back. Match #3: Joey Ryan/Scorpio Sky/Peter Avalon/Ray Rosas vs. Candice LeRae/B-Boy/Famous B/Chris Kadillak Joey's team are all wearing Joey-style trunks. There's some fun stuff in here with the new kids trying hard, B-Boy being back in a fun one time novelty (I wish), and Joey vs. Candice. Scorpio even tries hard! Joey Ryan...is also in this match. This goes on too god damned long at 21 minutes, but it has a lot of really high points to make up for the lulls. Candice gets hit by Joey's Superkick and Sky again follows that with the TKO for the win. **3/4 Match #4: Chris Hero vs. Willie Mack Due to Hero's weird contract issues, he gets another run at the end of 2011, and comes back for a match to put Willie Mack over. They do 15 minutes of crazy ass strikes and mean spirited shit and it's just fantastic. Hero's now furious that Willie made a name off of him in BOLA, and makes Willie really earn an even bigger win, because this time it's not really an upset at all. Mack overwhelms Hero with his size and power and he wins with the Chocolate Thunder Driver. ***1/2 For a 6-9 month span in late 2011-mid 2012, Mack really could have become the next Samoa Joe. Then because PWG has to cater to shitty modern indy fans who would rather see Superkicks and shitty highspots instead of tough nosed and actually hard hitting manly pro fucking wrestling, Mack's push got abandoned and Adam Cole ended up becoming the new top guy instead. Can't blame PWG as much for going with guys the fans demanded, but fuck, it's a bummer. Hope Willie gets his due in WWE, but I have zero hope. Match #5: Future Shock vs. The RockNES Monsters This is shitty. Usually, Future Shock matches depend on the opponents. Kyle is horrible and Cole is good, and if a team is great, they'll reign Kyle in a lot. Goodtime and Yuma are not good. They are super super willing to play along with Kyle's bullshit, so this is what you expect. Some good stuff, but no real story and just a collection of stuff. Not laid out particularly well and overlong. The Monsters try to be more heelish as they control it, and it's super boring. Finishing run has a Tower of Doom spot. Fuck this match. One of the Monsters beats Cole with a Frog Splash. *3/4 Match #6: The American Wolves vs. The Super Smash Bros. Davey is in the running for worst wrestler alive during his ROH Title run period, so he tries his best to drag this down. He sort of succeeds. It's not bad at all, but it's a good match that might have been great if they trimmed 5 or so minutes and made it closer to 15 than 20 minutes. SSB put on a good show, and Eddie is Eddie, so you know. Good Wolves control stuff, but then the finishing run went on forever and lost me. Eddie puts Uno in the Achilles Lock and then kicks his head until he's KO'd for the win. **3/4 Match #7: El Generico vs. Dick Togo This delivers, at least. It's still a little disappointing. Togo made his reputation as the king of all asshole heels with KDX and is one of the best heels of all time, nevermind just in Japan. Weirdly, this is face vs. face. It makes no sense, but fuck it, Generico might be the best dude alive and certainly is the best wrestler on the indies by now, and Togo is one of the best of all time, so this works. Good matwork building into bigger and bigger stuff. There's a weird kind of jarring thing where Generico kicks out of a Top Rope DICK KILLER, which is the Pedigree. However, Togo's Pedigree is clearly more of a set up move, and looks and is treated as such. It's weird if you're not familiar with Togo though. Generico wins with the BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. *** Match #8: The Young Bucks [c] vs. Appetite For Destruction [Kevin Steen/Super Dragon] [PWG World Tag Team Championship - Guerrilla Warfare Match] THIS. IS SERIOUS. This is one of my favorite PWG matches ever, and a real classic. It's the kind of a reckless violent big match fight you don't see that often in today's more health conscious wrestling world. On one level, it's great that they're looking after dudes, but it hampers my enjoyment a lot. I guess what I'm trying to say is that nothing gets over raw visceral hate in a post-Benoit world like unprotected chair shots to the head. This has a lot of those. Super Dragon is the best. This is the best Bucks performance I've ever seen. Nasty strikes, insane bumps, super on point with everything, and very little wasted time. The Bucks come off as a legit dangerous team for the first time ever, instead of just smart little cowardly shitheads. The opening brawl is super wild and chaotic. Everything SD does looks vicious and nasty. Steen does his thing, and the Bucks mostly just die. It really feels like Super Dragon plans NOTHING out and just does whatever the meanest possible thing in a given situation is. Backhanding a Buck super hard against the post, whipping a trash can into someone's face at full force with the jagged end, etc. And this. ![]() STEEN DOES A FINLAY ROLL ON ONE OF THE BUCKS THROUGH SEVERAL ROWS OF CHAIRS! SUPER DRAGON BREAKS OUT A TOPE CON HILO! The Bucks FINALLY take over after Nick hits a Frog Splash to SD through a table on the floor to isolate Steen inside. They do mean and painful things. Super Dragon comes back, and the Bucks die. One of them gets the Psycho Driver off the apron through a table. The other receives a Super Dragon double stomp onto the seat of a chair and then the DOUBLE STOMP PACKAGE PILEDRIVER FOR THE WIN! That wasn't perfect and never really regained the crazy momentum of the first half's brawl, but there may not have ever been a more satisfying PWG match for me. I was always more of a fan of the 2005-8 PWG with more of the SoCal originals. It wasn't as GREAT as post-09 PWG for consistency, but it was just much more charming overall. This is a victory for the old PWG, dominating the young turks. The only way this could have been more satisfying is if it also featured run ins from Arrogance, Tornado, and Quicksilver or something. But what the fuck ever, this killed it. **** |
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| Big Tuna | Sep 6 2014, 01:54 AM Post #11 |
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AWARDS AND SHIT TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR: 2003: The X-Foundation [Scott Lost/Billy Kim] 2004: Aerial Xpress [Quicksilver/Scorpio Sky] 2005: Arrogance [Scott Lost/Chris Bosh] 2006: Cape Fear [El Generico/Quicksilver] 2007: Arrogance [Scott Lost/Chris Bosh] 2008: The Dynasty [Scott Lost/Joey Ryan] 2009: The Young Bucks 2010: The Young Bucks (2) Shocker again. ![]() 1. The Young Bucks 32 2. The RockNES Monsters 19 3. Nightmare Violence Connection 17 4. Joey Ryan/Scorpio Sky 13 5. The Kings of Wrestling 9 6. The Fighting Taylor Boys (Cage/Taylor) 9 7. The Cutler Brothers 7 8. The American Wolves 6 9. Aries & Strong 5 10. Super Smash Bros. 4 11. Future Shock 4 12. PP Ray 4 13. The Briscoes 3 14. Los Luchas 2 WRESTLER OF THE YAER: 2003: Frankie Kazarian 2004: Super Dragon 2005: Super Dragon (2) 2006: El Generico & Quicksilver 2007: El Generico (2) 2008: Chris Hero 2009: Scott Lost 2010: Chris Hero (2) 1. Kevin Steen 49 2. El Generico 34 3. The Young Bucks 32 4. Chris Hero 30 5. Claudio Castagnoli 30 6. Willie Mack 25 7. Akira Tozawa 23 8. Johnny Goodtime 21 9. Johnny Yuma 20 10. Eddie Edwards 19 11. Joey Ryan 17 12. Ricochet 15 13. Brian Cage-Taylor 15 14. Ryan Taylor 15 15. Roderick Strong 15 16. Davey Richards 14 17. Scorpio Sky 13 18. Candice LeRae 10 19. Peter Avalon 9 20. Low Ki 9 21. Alex Shelley 6 22. Brandon Gatson 6 23. TJ Perkins 6 24. Kenny King 5 25. Austin Aries 5 26. The Cutler Brothers 5 27. Rocky Romero 5 28. Super Dragon 4 29. Super Smash Bros. 4 30. Adam Cole 4 31. Kyle OReilly 4 32. Famous B 4 33. Chris Kadillak 4 34. Ray Rosas 4 35. Chuck Taylor 4 36. PAC 3 37. The Briscoes 3 38. Fit Finlay 3 39. Dick Togo 3 40. B-Boy 2 41. Amazing Red 2 42. Freddie Bravo 2 43. CIMA 2 44. Cedric Alexander 2 45. Caleb Konley 2 46. Jake Manning 2 47. ODB 2 48. Mr. Aguila 2 49. Rey Bucanero 2 50. Los Luchas 2 51. Portia Perez 1 |
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After that, they beat them with More Bang For Your Buck. I am heartbroken. 












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