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forkboy84 posted:If someone wants to do it, it's from the 18/3/2000 CZW X-Spelled show I think. Because that was the last time Ki wrestled in CZW, in a tag match with Mercury against Ric Blade & TCK. Ok early 2000s CZW, give me your grimey-rear end best. Singles Match Jon Dahmer vs Patty O'Brien It's St. Patricks Day time and CZW is ready, with the "giant leprechaun" Patty O'Brien making his way to the ring and pelting the crowd with t-shirts, frisbees and hats (or maybe more t-shirts).  A decently sized crowd is unsurprisingly into free stuff. Jon Dahmer comes out, accompanied by a valet. After a short verbal exchange the match starts. Maybe two minutes in, the valet interferes, costing Dahmer the match (and earning an elbow drop in the process).  This is not off to a great start.  Midnight (?) comes out to announce he's retiring, but his speech gets cut short when he gets jumped from behind by Mercury. Unprotected chairshots to the head follow. At the end of the segment he gets back on the mic and vows revenge. I'd stay retired after those chairshots. Some barely-out-of-his-teens goober comes out with a new wifebeater for Wifebeater and gets speared for his troubles by the ref (who almost DDTs himself in the process). Ugh... Ultra-violent Arm Wrestling Match Zandig vs Justin Case  This is just a garbage fire of a segment in the beginning and the crowd ruthlessly shits all over it. They break (or slip out) of the grip a couple of times until their hands get barb-wired and taped together. Zandig throws a headbutt (as you do in an ultra-violent arm wrestling match) and opens himself up. Wifebeater does a run-in and weed-whacks Zandig in the back (some good horrified shrieks from the audience). Lobo saves Zandig and weed-whacks Wifebeater's bare chest.  OUCH. Wifebeater with Kronus and some other dude in tow make a swift exit but not before they get challenged to a match against Lobo & Zandig. We get a backstage segment with Zandig on the hunt for Wifebeater. He finds Kronus instead and convinces him (via cash) to turn on Wifebeater later. "This muthufucka will pay" indeed. Nick Berk & Trent Acid are in the ring, talking trash about Johnny Kashmere. They get interrupted and what follows is another beatdown / save segment but this time it's with 100% more homophobic insults. Both from the workers and the crowd. Massively cringeworthy stuff. Tag Team Match Low Ki & Mercury vs Ric Blade & TCK Finally some wrestling (and we're 38 minutes into an hour and a half event). And it's time for our baby-faced assassin.  Blade and Mercury start off with chain-wrestling and end with Blade doing backflips and a few whiffed kicks. Pretty regular fare now, but I could see why he had a following back then. Low Ki gets tagged in and eats a kick from Blade. TCK tries to do a springboard something of the back of Ric but slips and eats the ropes. Crowd lets him now he hosed up just in case. Mercury does a really nice sprinboard moonsault off the ropes to the outside, Blade follows with a decent springboard senton. Low Ki sets up a ladder inside the ring: https://i.imgur.com/pMzCsgz.mp4 Just drops like a sack of potatoes, LMAO. Now, you could almost feel bad for him, but just a short while later: https://i.imgur.com/Tj7965J.mp4 JESUS, gently caress this dude. Ki and TCK end up staying in the ring while Blade and Mercury go off, probably looking for a place to pull off a dumb spot at. https://i.imgur.com/SDilJgo.mp4 NAILED IT! Meanwhile in the ring TCK tries to superplex Ki through a table but he takes the brunt of the damage in the end. Poor camera guy keeps running between the ring and the Blade / Mercury car crash. TCK covers Ki, ref counts to 3, Ki kicks out (it's loving close tbh, and the angle sucks). Ref calls for the bell. We don't get any fallout from that unfortunately, as we cut to... CZW Tag Team Title Match The Haas Brothers (c) vs The Bad Crew Bad Crew is cutting a promo, but Haas boys interrupt and a begin to brawl. Both teams trade chairshots (thankfully protected) and throw each other into chairs a bunch. After a while they venture back into the ring and a match breaks out with Charlie playing the face in peril. Some middling action follows and poo poo breaks down again and then we hit this spot: https://i.imgur.com/08Jq2Vr.mp4 Just so graceful... The Haas Brothers slowly get back into the driver seat: https://i.imgur.com/nmqVigh.mp4 Until they're able to hit an elbow drop on one of the Bad Crew and get the win. Tag Team Match Johnny Kashmere & White Lotus vs Nick Berk & Trent Acid Berk & Acid get on the mic but get shut down by Kashmere & White Lotus. Rampant homophobia from the crowd again. This also quickly turns into a brawl all around the venue. That in itself wouldn't be too bad if they all stayed in close vicinity to each other, but instead we get the camera dude trying to follow the action on both sides and making the viewer dizzy in the process. Acid and Kashmere move outside and we follow but nothing exciting happens. More homophobia. Kashmere and Lotus win via a assisted powerbomb onto a trash can. We can move onto the main event. Fans Bring The Weapons Tag Team Match Lobo & Zandig vs Kronus & Wifebeater Sooooooo looks like that weed-whacker was not gimmicked at all  https://i.imgur.com/MsopP3t.png huh? The action quickly spills to the outside:https://i.imgur.com/ETeeTkG.mp4 There goes Smack Shack. The rest of the match is your regular death match shenanigans. Kronus indeed turns on Wifebeater and Smack Shack to their huge chagrin. Zandig and Lobo are victorious. The show ends with some backstage interviews, in which surprise - more homophobia. Well... This was certainly grimey all right. The VHS tracking added a vibe to this whole experience, too. Compared to the rest the tag titles match was passable, the Low Ki tag could've been fun if it didn't crash and burn so beautifully. The rest was pure trash which I might dip back into. Maybe it gets better. Edit: I tried to make the .mp4s show up, but uhh I suck I guess so have the links instead. J-Ro fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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