Took in WrestleCon Supershow
In addition to the Rev Pro show on Friday night, WrestleCon also put on a Supershow in the same room (and with a lot of the same talent). This was the definition of a supershow with a little bit of everything from comedy to violence to dueling chants. To say this was a lot more energetic than most shows is an understatement.
The show was scheduled to start at 8:30 but since Rev Pro went fairly late it wound up starting at about 8:50. There were also well over 1000 people in one room sot he place was BOILING. Prices for a bottle of water (as in a regular one) at the bar: SIX DOLLARS. Realizing this was insane, I went down the street to Walgreens and bought a liter sized bottle for $1.79. At intermission I went and got two more, with all three not combining for the cost of one. I get the idea of making money but those prices would drive customers away.
1. David Starr/Caleb Kenley/Trevor Lee vs. Michael Elgin/ACH/Mascarito Dorado
That would be El Torito at the end. To give you an idea of what we were dealing with on this card, ACH was introduced as “Mr. I Used This Booking To Pay My Bills.” The match was under Lucha rules and it was very clear that this was going to be a very Un-PG show. Dorado did a bunch of speedy stuff, causing Lee to shout the following at his partners: “WHAT IN THE F******* F*** WAS THAT???” Later, when Dorado was in a chinlock, Lee shouted at Kenley to “MAKE THAT MIDGET TAP!”
2. Low Ki vs. Shane Strickland
3. Impact Wrestling World Title: Bobby Lashley vs. Jeff Cobb
4. Flip Gordon/Sammy Guevera vs. Angleico/Jack Evans
5. Team Ricochet (Ricochet/Jason Cade/Sami Calihan/AR Fox/Desmond Xavier) vs. Team Will Ospreay (Ospreay/Marty Scurll/Lio Rush/Drew Galloway/Ryan Smile)
The captains were chosen due to a great match Ospreay and Ricochet had last year in Japan which was called choreographed nonsense. The solution? Give then four partners each (which they say they were allowed to hand pick) and TWENTY TWO MINUTES to do as much choreographed stuff as they could. This included a series of about ten straight cutters, quadruple big boots, a quintuple suplex and a dance off that has to be seen to be believed. As luck would have it, I had a camera on me and filmed the second half of said dance off. Everyone danced but I only got the last few. The one that matters is included though.
Intermission time, which again ran long as the wrestlers were running their merch tables. It also meant time for me to meet some more wrestlers, including Angelico, Lio Rush, Flip Gordon, Sammy Guevera (very nice guy), Desmond Xavier and Moose. As I was coming back from Walgreens for water, I saw Marty Jannetty in the lobby and WOW he was out of it. I shook his hand and he started walking around without letting go while hitting on a woman. As I was heading out of the arena, I also saw Donovan Dijak watching the show as a fan.
6. DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Title: WrestleCon Rumble
1. Joey Ryan (defending champion)
2. Colt Cabana
Bell rings.
Ryan to Cabana: “GRAB MY D***!”
Fans: “GRAB HIS D***! GRAB HIS D***!”
3. Kikutaro (Japanese comedy character)
4. Underground Luchador
5. Manscout Jake Manning (He reads and beats people up at the same time)
6. George South
7. Suicide (Never unmasked, apparently Caleb Konley)
8. Mr. Hughes (Down probably 100lbs from his mainstream days)
9. Zane Riley (Mr. 305 Live)
10. 2 Cold Scorpio (One of my favorites so this was a treat)
11. Billy Gunn (Easily the biggest pop of the match)
12. Moose (Who had a staredown with Gunn for a bizarre visual)
13. Swoggle
14. Shane Douglas
15. Kevin Thorn
16. Shannon Moore
17. Hurricane (With a bad limp)
18. Abyss (House was cleaned)
19. Gangrel (That music is still SWEET)
20. Marty Jannetty
7. Johnny Mundo vs. Brian Cage
8. Hardys vs. Rey Fenix/Pentagon Dark
Impact Wrestling – March 2, 2017: And So, it Ends
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Wrestling
Date: March 2, 2017
Location: Impact Zone, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: D’Angelo Dinero, Josh Matthews
Knockouts Title: Jade vs. Rosemary
Moose wants Cody.
Matt Hardy has brought the family to his zoo for a day of togetherness. On top of that though, Matt wants to see how Jeff can handle his new found powers.
James Storm vs. Jesse Godderz
X-Division Title: Trevor Lee vs. Andrew Everett
Back from a break and the Hardys arrive at an undisclosed arena.
After a look at Lashley and Barnett warming up, the Hardys are backstage and demanding a shot at the National Tag Team Titles of the World. Senor Benjamin asks the #1 contenders (apparently named the Appalachian Outlaws, who won a sixty four team tournament) for their autographs and then electrocutes them. The Hardys offer to replace them and agree to work without being paid.
The match is made and turns into a hardcore brawl in the back with Matt being left alone. Jeff is stuck in the back getting beaten down by the Outlaws but Jeff and Benjamin bust out the fireworks. The Outlaws bail and Jeff comes back to the ring for the win and the titles, setting up a big celebration.
Drew Galloway comes up to Moose in the back and offers him a shot tonight.
Laurel is in the back, crying and screaming, still wearing the wedding dress and holding the champagne.
Global Title: Moose vs. Drew Galloway
Galloway is defending and kicks Moose in the face to start before it quickly goes outside. Drew gets the better of it and sends Moose into the steps, setting up the Celtic Cross onto said steps for a near countout. The bell saves Moose but he still loses the first round. The second round begins after a break with Moose kicking Drew in the face and running him over as a bonus. A moonsault gets two on the champ so he bails up the ramp, only to get caught like you would expect.
Drew throws a chair.
We get the same Barnett video from last week.
TNA World Title: Lashley vs. Josh Barnett
Results
Rosemary b. Jade – Red Wedding on the stage
James Storm b. Jesse Godderz – Last Call
Trevor Lee b. Andrew Everett – Rollup with a handful of trunks
Moose b. Drew Galloway via split decision
Lashley b. Josh Barnett – Spear
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New Column: Exodus Stage Left
Looking at all the names to leave TNA this week, which could see more names added to the list.
Impact Wrestling – February 9, 2017: Let the Expedition Begin
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Wrestling
Date: February 9, 2017
Location: Impact Zone, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: D’Angelo Dinero, Josh Matthews
Recap of the four briefcase matches from last week.
DCC vs. Tyrus/Eli Drake
Clip of Lashley vs. Eddie Edwards in a cage. Their final showdown is tonight.
Brandi Rhodes is going to call out Rosemary.
Braxton Sutter and Allie run into each other in the back. Maria comes in and yells at Allie for wasting time and sends her away. We hear about some wedding plans and Braxton has an hour to propose to Laurel Van Ness.
Brandi and Moose want a mixed tag next week.
Aron Rex vs. Robbie E.
Before the match, Aron fails to get the audience to sing his name. Rex slaps him in the face to start and of course hides on the apron as a result. Back in and Robbie throws some right hands, which seem to tick Rex off. Robbie is thrown outside so Spud can choke with his coat. That fires Robbie up and Spud is pulled inside, allowing the loaded punch to knock Robbie cold for the pin at 4:54.
The Hardys are ready for an announcement.
Clip of Edwards winning the World Title.
The Wolves and their wives (Angelina Love and Alisha) are ready.
Grand Championship: Mahabali Shera vs. Drew Galloway
Sutter drops a water bottle cap and goes to pick it up, which Laurel interprets as a proposal. Braxton: “That is the exact opposite of what I wanted to happen.”
Lashley is ready.
Matt and Jeff meet fans in Tijuana and next week, the first challenge takes place.
TNA World Title: Lashley vs. Eddie Edwards
Davey and Angelina beat down Eddie and Alisha to end the show.
Results
DCC b. Tyrus/Eli Drake – Last Call to Tyrus
Aron Rex b. Robbie E. – Loaded punch
Drew Galloway b. Mahabali Shera – Futureshock
Lashley b. Eddie Edwards – Spear
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Impact Wrestling – January 26, 2017: Transfusion Please
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Wrestling
Date: January 26, 2017
Location: Impact Zone, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: D’Angelo Dinero, Josh Matthews
Tag Team Titles: Hardys vs. DCC vs. Decay
Grand Championship: Drew Galloway vs. Moose
Laurel continues to be a blithering idiot and Sutter drinks a lot of wine to cope.
Knockouts Title: Rosemary vs. Jade
Gail Kim comes out to check on Jade and Rosemary mists her.
Caleb Konley is making his debut and got his start watching wrestling his entire life.
X-Division Title: DJZ vs. Trevor Lee vs. Andrew Everett vs. Marshe Rockett vs. Caleb Konley
Open Fight Night video.
TNA World Title: Eddie Edwards vs. Lashley
Lashley is challenging in a thirty minute Iron Man match. Lashley starts fast with a delayed vertical suplex but Eddie avoids the spear and kicks him out to the floor. Back in and Lashley gets two off a slam and we take a break. Lashley is still in control when we come back and the spear gives him the first fall at 8:40.
With the referee checking on Eddie, Lashley takes off a turnbuckle pad. For no apparent reason, Lashley keeps going to the ropes and knocking Eddie off the apron as this just keeps going. Back from a second break with Lashley missing a spear and going into the exposed buckle, allowing Eddie to grab a rollup for a fall at 22:20.
Results
Hardys b. DCC and Decay – Twist of Fate to Kingston
Drew Galloway b. Moose – Futureshock
Rosemary b. Jade – Superplex through a table
DJZ b. Trevor Lee, Andrew Everett, Marshe Rockett and Caleb Konley – ZDT to Everett
Lashley b. Eddie Edwards three falls to two
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Impact Wrestling – January 19, 2017: Here We Go Again
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Wrestling
Date: January 19, 2017
Location: Impact Zone, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: D’Angelo Dinero, Josh Matthews
We open with a recap of Lashley becoming #1 contender again last week.
Race for the Case
Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, Mahabali Shera, Crazzy Steve, Trevor Lee, Eli Drake, Jesse Godderz, Kingston, Bram, Mike Bennett, Tyrus
Lee stomps Bennett in the chest and runs up to grab the blue briefcase. Lee dives off the top onto everyone else and escapes with his case, leaving Bennett to pull Steve down. We take a break and come back with Steve being thrown to the floor as Josh gets to say “playing defense” for the tenth time in the match. Bennett superkicks Matt but everyone keeps cutting everyone else off.
Steve starts cleaning house but Matt has a pre-mo-neetion telling him to get the green case. That sends everyone after it though, leaving Godderz to go for the gold case, which falls right into the hands of the DCC. Well Kingston that is but the DCC is credited with securing it. Matt takes Bennett out and Jeff gets the green case to end the match at 13:03.
Drew Galloway wants the Grand Championship instead of the World Title.
Lashley has a proposition for Edwards.
Another video on Lashley vs. Carter from last week.
Maria calls Braxton Sutter and tells him to see her when he gets to the arena. Brooke comes in and tells Maria to stay out of her business.
Brooke vs. Deonna Purrazzo
Post match Sienna lays Brooke out.
Tyrus tells us to stay tuned for the briefcase reveal.
Sutter comes up to see Maria and they talk about Allie, who still works for Maria. She wants Braxton to quit training Allie and whispers something in his ear, which seems to get to him. Now he agrees to quit training her and Maria sends him off to find Laurel. My goodness GET TO THE END OF THIS STORY ALREADY.
Moose beat Mike Bennett at Bound For Glory.
Braxton breaks up with Allie and ends their training.
Robbie E./Swoggle vs. Aron Rex/Rockstar Spud
We FINALLY get to something Grand Championship related with Moose winning the title from Rex.
Sutter has to escort Laurel out and open the door for her.
Video on the Grand Championship tournament.
Grand Championship: Moose vs. Drew Galloway
Round two starts after a break with both guys hitting big boots and Drew scoring with something like a Death Valley Driver onto the apron. Moose powerbombs him onto the apron as well but misses a middle rope moonsault. Galloway grabs the Iron Maiden but Moose hangs on for about forty five seconds to end the round.
Drew mocks the judges to end the show.
Results
Eli Drake, Trevor Lee, DCC and Jeff Hardy won Race for the Case
Brooke b. Deonna Purrazzo – Tesshocker
Aron Rex/Rockstar Spud b. Robbie E./Swoggle – Ring to the head
Drew Galloway b. Moose – Claymore
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Impact Wrestling – December 22, 2016 (Best of 2016): This is TNA’s New Low
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Wrestling
Date: December 22, 2016
Host: Josh Matthews
We open with about two minutes of the main event of Slammiversary 2016 with Lashley winning the World Title from Drew Galloway, five minutes of Lashley vs. Eddie Edwards from Impact, July 21 and four minutes of Lashley vs. James Storm from August 11. Lashley won all three matches.
On March 8, Angle gave his farewell speech where he talked about how much better of a person he is because of TNA.
On March 15, Drew Galloway cashed in his Feast or Fired briefcase to win the World Title from Matt Hardy in 18 seconds.
TNA World Title: Drew Galloway vs. Jeff Hardy
Hardy is challenging and gets a headlock takeover out of the corner to take over early. Drew comes back with an overhead belly to belly and Hardy is already in trouble. The champ is sent outside for a dive from Hardy and we take a break. Back with Jeff getting two off a Twist of Fate but taking too much time going up and getting superplexed down.
On April 5, Drew successfully defended the title against Matt Hardy.
We see some of her acceptance speech and about 45 seconds of her winning the Knockouts Title for s sixth time at Bound For Glory.
TNA World Title: Ethan Carter III vs. Matt Hardy
Now we look at some debuts, including Mike Bennett/Maria, Aron Rex, Moose, Cody and Brandi Rhodes. We see clips of Bennett defeating Ethan Carter III and the fairly bad mixed tag with Cody/Rhodes vs. Mike/Maria.
Off to the tag teams now as we see Decay beat Beer Money to win the Tag Team Titles on April 26.
Due to Lashley vacating the X-Division Title, there was an Ultimate X gauntlet held on September 1 and we actually see a good chunk of it.
X-Division Title: Trevor Lee vs. DJZ vs. Andrew Everett vs. Mandrews vs. Braxton Sutter vs. Rockstar Spud
The title is vacant coming in and this is a gauntlet match, meaning people are added at fixed intervals but you can pull the title down at any time. Trevor Lee and DJZ start things off and they slug it out for a bit before pulling each other down. Andrew Everett is in third and the time intervals seem to be two and a half minutes. DJZ gets double teamed so the Helms Dynasty (minus Helms showing up lately) goes up at the same time.
TNA World Title: Eddie Edwards vs. Lashley
They head outside with Eddie chopping him up against the barricade but getting dropped throat first across the steel. Some choking with a wristband takes us to the last break. Back with Lashley in full control with a chinlock and a knee to the face. The champ fights back and sends Lashley outside for a suicide dive.
A Shining Wizard gets two on Lashley, who comes right back with a Dominator for the same. They head outside for a few moments before Eddie misses a top rope double stomp. Lashley pulls the referee in the way and then hits the spear for two, earning the second referee a right hand to the face. The first referee goes to call for the DQ but the Boston Knee Party gives Eddie the fast counted pin at 18:53.
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Impact Wrestling – December 8, 2016: The Last Normal One
Impact Wrestling
Date: December 8, 2016
Location: Impact Zone, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: D’Angelo Dinero, Josh Matthews
We open with a recap of the World Title match with both guys seeming to have a lot of respect for each other.
Grand Championship: Moose vs. Aron Rex
Galloway rants about TNA not holding the tournament for him.
Mahabali Shera/Al Snow vs. Tribunal
We see Matt Hardy asleep with the Seven Deities telling him about something called Apocalypto.
Ethan is ready for the title match and makes fun of Eli Drake for not being able to talk.
Laurel Van Ness vs. Allie
Maria tries to get in and is shoved right back down.
Video on Carter vs. Edwards.
Allie is all happy and kisses Sutter in celebration.
Total Nonstop Deletion ad.
TNA World Title: Ethan Carter III vs. Eddie Edwards
Results
Moose b. Aron Rex – Game Changer
Al Snow/Mahabali Shera b. Tribunal – Snow and Shera touched all six buckles
Allie b. Laurel Van Ness – Reverse DDT
Eddie Edwards vs. Ethan Carter III went to a no contest with a double finish
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Impact Wrestling – September 29, 2016: So Close Now
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Wrestling
Date: September 29, 2016
Location: Impact Zone, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: D’Angelo Dinero, Josh Matthews
Lashley, Drew Galloway, Mike Bennett, Maria Kanellis
Carter, Aron Rex, Moose, Gail Kim
X-Division Title: Eddie Edwards vs. DJZ
Post match the Helms Dynasty comes out and beats up both guys.
Madison Rayne vs. Laurel Van Ness
Lashley offers a title shot to anyone who takes Ethan out.
Decay promises to destroy the Hardys.
Long recap of Decay vs. House Hardy.
Reby Hardy vs. Rosemary
Post match the big brawl breaks out and Rosemary gives Reby a Side Effect through a table.
Lashley wins the coin toss for his team.
Back from a break, Decay beats on Matt and Jeff even more. They fight to the back where Matt is electrocuted by a cable and we go to three camera shots at once with Steve shouting DECAY.
Cody Rhodes vignette.
Maria and Gail have another sitdown interview with Maria insisting on being introduced properly. They insult each other a few times and argue over whether the title or the Hall of Fame is more important.
Ethan gives his team a pep talk.
Team Carter vs. Team Lashley
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Impact Wrestling – September 22, 2016: Is It Too Late To Turn Around?
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Wrestling
Date: September 22, 2016
Location: Impact Zone, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: D’Angelo Dinero, Josh Matthews
Grand Championship Title Tournament Semifinals: Drew Galloway vs. Eddie Edwards
Drew wins the first round so Eddie scores with a running clothesline to start the second round. A super hurricanrana gets two on Galloway and Eddie ties him in the Tree of Woe, only to have Drew sit up into a belly to belly superplex. The Boston Knee Party sends Drew outside and back to back suicide dives has Eddie in full control to end the second round.
Aron Rex and Eli Drake are ready for their semifinal match.
Grand Championship Title Tournament Semifinals: Aron Rex vs. Eli Drake
Decay promises to destroy the Hardys in the Great War but they catch Vanguard I spying on them. A Senor Benjamin hologram pops up to laugh at them as Vanguard I flies away.
We see a man walking to his car and talking about his past being behind. He gets in his car and the reveal is Cody Rhodes (just Cody here), who will debut at Bound For Glory.
Ethan Carter III and Moose fire each other up.
X-Division Champion DJZ comes out and issues an open challenge for a title match.
X-Division Title: DJZ vs. Trevor Lee
Maria yells at Allie for being stupid like Gail Kim. Allie is crushed, again.
We run down the Bound For Glory card.
Ethan Carter III/Moose vs. Lashley/Mike Bennett
Bennett drops to the floor at the opening bell so Lashley gets beaten down by both opponents. We take a break about a minute in and come back with Bennett hitting a cutter for two on Carter. Bennett sends Carter into the corner but punches Lashley by mistake. The hot tag brings in Moose and everything breaks down. Carter grabs a quick rollup to pin Bennett at 8:35.
Results
Aron Rex b. Eli Drake – Revelator
DJZ b. Trevor Lee – ZDT
Ethan Carter III/Moose b. Lashley/Mike Bennett – Rollup to Bennett
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