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RPW Against All Odds

And we're back from the ads, those product and services will certainly not inject steroids into your dick unlike Matty Faith.

I still can't get over the fact that Matty Faith got busted for steroids twice in a week. What the hell is up with that? Do you think that he walked out of that testing and went “I'll show you a roid” and injected even more?

Honestly who knows, I bet his piss is molten. Now before we sign off it's that time of the month for Rapid Pro Wrestling who ran their Against All Odds show this weekend.

Now before we start a few people have been asking why we cover this promotion when it's a no-name shindy. It's because it's local and we are enjoying their shows, we wouldn't be talking about them if they were running out of New York and it was something on-demand.



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Mascara vs Infiernia


The show opens up with Infiernia taking on Mascara with Original Sinner in her corner. She actually jumps Mascara before the match even begins and delivers a huge dragon suplex before throwing him to the outside. She distracts the ref by arguing with him while Original Sinner takes the chance to slam Mascara onto the apron before rolling him back inside. It looks like it might be over early as Infiernia lifts Mascara up and goes for a hurracanrana but he drops her with a powerbomb when she gets up there.The match is then on as Mascara takes control of things while avoiding any attempt by Original Sinner to get involved.

A nice schoolboy into a one armed powerbomb by Mascara for a near fall, Infiernia escapes an armbar attempt but doesn't gain any momentum. Mascara goes for an electric chair drop but Infiernia gives him a massive poisoned rana for a nearfall. She throws Mascara to the outside again and looks like she's going for a dive but as she approaches the ropes she looks like she tweaked something and goes down. The referee goes to check on her and Original Sinner chokeslams Mascara twice, once on the floor and once onto the apron. Mascara is out of it as Original Sinner pushes him back inside and Infiernia springs off of the mat and immediately jumps on top of Mascara for the pinfall since she was obviously faking it.


A pretty drat good match all in all, both workers looked great.


Post match and Infiernia shoves Mascara under the rope and takes the microphone; she is just absolutely furious and telling Skyhawk that she made an example of Mascara and that there's going to be hell to pay next time she sees him.


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An unadvertised match next with James Diaz versus Ruby Reece. The two brawl for about 10 minutes as both are getting their licks in before Reece is distracted by Thomas Lloyd on the outside and Diaz powerbombs her for the win.

It was fine.

Yup

Totally fine

gently caress I expected so much more out of him. A bit of a blah match but not a bad match



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Bobson Dugnutt vs Arthur Glass


Now for the highest point of the show as we get Arthur Glass and Bobson Dugnutt. Let me tell you what though it's an absolute slugfest and Dugnutt looked absolutely furious as he walked from the back. I couldn't figure out why at the time but it was pretty obvious in hindsight. It's a total walk and brawl as the two of them just beat the hell out of each other throughout the crowd. Dugnutt even gets in a few hits with his bat before Glass grabs it and just hurls it over to the announcers.

They make it back into the ring and the bell finally rings because the match hadn't even started yet; Dugnutt delivers this big crunching elbow to Glass's head while Glass is down in the corner and there's some colour. I didn't even see him gig but it didn't look hardway either.

It was a pretty cool image though; his blonde hair is half red around his forehead and he strips off his bandanna. He starts throwing Dugnutt from pillar to post but gets cut off when he gets thrown headfirst into the turnbuckles. Dugnutt goes for the walk off and hits him with it but Glass kicks out at the last second. Dugnutt is furious and screaming and threatening the referee but Truk comes out from the back with a baseball bat. Dugnutt picks up Glass and goes to irish whip him into the ropes but Glass reverses it at the last second and Truk instead accidentally blasts Dugnutt with the baseball bat. Glass lariats Truk before hitting Dugnutt with the Trot to Water to win.


Great brawl between the two, both men went hard. Like you noted earlier Dugnutt looked pissed off from the word go, I guess he doesn't like being asked to lose.

Yep, it was an excellent match.

Post match and the Fighting Baseballers are still in the ring. Dugnutt has basically turned into a tomato and his face is pure red just screaming at Truk. There's a bit of pushing a shoving before Dugnutt gets frustrated and rolls out of the ring.

Still building to a breakup angle. I don't really care for Truk so whatever but I guess it's probably better to just get it over with so that Dugnutt can go solo.



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Jose Silva vs Joy Ryder


Jose Silva and Joy Ryder are up next as Joy Ryder talks to him about staying positive despite his failures; it's clearly agitating Silva more and more as he ends up delivering a big forearm that sends Ryder scrambling to the outside. She bails to the outside and is making it known to everybody at ringside that she wasn't ready yet. Silva goes to the outside and chases her around the ring, she slides back into the ring and starts stomping on him as soon as he goes in. She immediately starts gloating and pointing at her head like she outsmarted him and eats a big belly to belly suplex when she turns around.

The match is pretty solid as Silva is working the match clearly like he has gotten inside his own head. He's not letting up with the suplexes and is getting a bit frustrated whenever she kicks out. This ends up being his undoing as he turns his back on Ryder near the ropes and she rolls him up along with added leverage from the ropes for the pinfall. She powders from the ring and celebrates at ringside while Silva just kneels in the ring with his hands on his head like he can't believe it.

Solid match, not quite on the same level as the prior match but Silva looked good. I'm interested to see where the story builds; does Silva turn heel and add a more vicious side to him, does he start taking shortcuts or does he pick up a victory against someone underestimating him.

It'd kinda suck if he just keeps on losing. It's like how Joey Morgan has spent the last couple of months looking like an absolute geek in SWF at the moment. Obviously I'm not comparing Silva to Joey but it's the same thing; you can't have someone that is obviously talented just keep on losing with no payoff.



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Skyhawk vs Talia Quinzel


Oh absolutely, it's sort of like with this next match. Fresh off of picking up a win Skyhawk is wrestling the debuting Talia Quinzel. He finally beat Infiernia and is working with a main event caliber talent. They start off with a test of strength and Skyhawk is actually able to overpower her and hit a Northern Lights Suplex. She kicks out but cannot believe it and drops him with a big knee strike.

This match was kinda unusual; you know how when you have a smaller worker versus a bigger guy that isn't very safe how the smaller guy sorta bumps around the big guy?

I am aware yes

So it's like that but in this case the bigger worker is clearly also talented. So he's doing all this bumping and she's going hold for hold with him. I'm not sure if it's a great way to structure a match when both people can work but it's something alright.

Talia is mostly working a more puro style; big slams and suplexes, She does this really sweet gutbuster-backbreaker trainsition where she drops Skyhawk gut first on one knee and the lifts and slams him on his back across her other knee and it's just so quick and seamless. Meanwhile Skyhawk is working her legs and trying to ground her, he clips her knee and goes for the figure four but suddenly out comes Original Sinner who climbs up onto the apron. The ref is distracted

as refs are

yup yup. So the ref goes to remonstrate with Original Sinner and then Infiernia slides into the ring from the other side and gives Skyhawk a quite frankly disgusting spike rana. She bails and looks under the ring for something while Quinzel gets up and hits Skyhawk with her torture rack to neckbreaker thing and wins.

Another pretty solid match, it continues the Skyhawk-Infiernia feud and was a great showcase for both workers.

I quite liked it also. Post match where Skyhawk & Original Sinner are still in the ring and Sinner is just throwing down punches and elbows. Infiernia slides a table into the ring which she sets up which she and Original Sinner then put Skyhawk through with a Powerbomb-Neckbreaker combination.



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Johnny Aesthetic vs Ozzie Goldstein vs Chip Martin vs Paige Croft

Main event and Johnny Aesthetic is out first leading the crowd in a chant of GO ACE! He totally has them in the palm of his hands and even singles out individuals in the crowd to yell it out.

You were bitterly disappointed that he didn't point you out to get just you to yell it.

What can I say, I'm a bit of a mark at times. So Croft is out next and immediately gets in his face, not laying hands on him but shouting at him and calling him a never-was. Chip Martin is third in and sticks himself in between the two, essentially holding back Aesthetic. Finally Ozzie Goldstein comes in and makes a bee line for Martin and it's off to the races. Ozzie and Martin immediately brawl to the outside while Croft gets stuck into Aesthetic. She's absolutely wrestling circles around him and just cutting him down before he dances his way out of a standing arm bar. He gets Croft in position for a DDT but eats a clothesline which drops him backwards while DDT'ing Croft

Martin & Ozzie in the ring now and Martin is clearly much more eager to throw hands with Ozzie than he had been over the past few shows. Some decent babyface fire is shown and he even breaks out a springboard dropkick although it's not particularly clean. He tries to pick up Ozzie from the corner who just grabs him by the balls and slams him face first into the second turnbuckle followed by a running knee to the back of Martin's head while he's in the corner.

He really didn't let up either, it was almost uncomfortable how he was choking Martin using the second rope.

Really laid in there.

So Ozzie has Martin in a rear chinlock when out of nowhere Aesthetic comes in and slaps a rear chinlock of his own on Ozzie. Croft is meanwhile just staring at this and goes over and slaps each of them around the back of the head. All four of them are brawling and Croft gets thrown to the outside; Martin does a suicide dive onto her, Ozzie planchas onto the two of them and Aesthetic repeats the spot from the other month where he climbs onto the apron and flops on top of the pile of people before celebrating like he accomplished the most death defying dive of all time. The fans even chanted holy poo poo at it because it's all a bit of fun.

You did also

Like I said, it's all a bit of fun.

So we reach the ending sequence with everyone getting their poo poo in; Martin superkicks Aesthetic, Ozzie moonsaults onto them to break the pin, Croft puts Ozzie into the Memphis Deathlock and then Aesthetic DDT's her while she's occupied. Martin and Ozzie scramble but don't get there in time to break up the pin. Aesthetic wins the match and is apparently going to be last out in this battle royale that they're doing next month.

Good, solid match. Probably would have been better if it was just Ozzie and Croft or had more people but it was fine for what it was.

Post match promo by Aesthetic; he talks about how he plans to be the first champion and provide a real champion aesthetic. He declares that the fans will be chanting Johnny Champion at the end of next year and leads them in a chant of go ace as the show closes.

So another good show, I don't think that it reached the same height as Beer Bash but it was a consistently better and more even show. Started off hot with a great match and had an absolute banger of a brawl that was the highlight. Lowlight was James Diaz and Ruby Reece; James, I'm begging you. Get your poo poo together

Won't find a different opinion from me; good show, some really good match and nothing particularly bad.

biosterous posted:

These writeups rule

Galaga Galaxian posted:

Let's see Infiernia beat Skyhawk without being a dirty cheater.


Yup

HereticMIND posted:

Quick question: would it be ok if someone (eg me) were to submit another worker to the franchise or would that be considered gauche?

Testekill posted:

It is absolutely ok and in fact encouraged to do so since it's pretty easy for me to add new guys whenever needed.

HereticMIND posted:

—Dominant Uber Karen (if HEEL; bitchy, confrontational, expects results to be in her favor no matter the cost; her default/preferred role)

Testekill posted:

Hey thanks, so do you have a name or is it just Skyhawk?

Yes

Yes what?

I do but I just go by Skyhawk. Gotta protect kayfabe and all that.

I'm sitting in the exact same room as him and he's wearing his mask. It's audio only dude.

Yes but you can see me.

biosterous posted:

Man, can't wait until Mike Truk gets fired now

Testekill posted:

I'm in the process of writing up the show, I've just been a little distracted by the BritWres scene apparently being made of nothing but sex pests. As a palette cleanser





Shay 2000 started dating Sabrina Wells before the show. So that's the first positive relationship for a Goon created wrestler, the first negative was that Skyhawk has simmering tension with Kid Fantastic because he was nearly injured by a botch.

Testekill posted:

I'm in the process of writing up the show, I've just been a little distracted by the BritWres scene apparently being made of nothing but sex pests. As a palette cleanser





Shay 2000 started dating Sabrina Wells before the show. So that's the first positive relationship for a Goon created wrestler, the first negative was that Skyhawk has simmering tension with Kid Fantastic because he was nearly injured by a botch.

Testekill posted:

I'm in the process of writing up the show, I've just been a little distracted by the BritWres scene apparently being made of nothing but sex pests. As a palette cleanser





Shay 2000 started dating Sabrina Wells before the show. So that's the first positive relationship for a Goon created wrestler, the first negative was that Skyhawk has simmering tension with Kid Fantastic because he was nearly injured by a botch.

DelilahFlowers posted:

Aw that's nice

Don't Vince this

HereticMIND posted:

I swear to god, if you turn this into an NTR type thing, I am burning this to the ground.

DelilahFlowers posted:

Shay 2000 vs Arthur Glass in a "Sabrina on a forklift" match.