PWG Pimpin' in High Places Review

[Guest Jay Z. Hollywood]

In an effort to return the TSM Misc. Folder to normalcy after the Feinstein Fallout, SoCal Uncensored's Steven Bryant and I decided to present you fine folk with a lighthearted romp through sunny Southern California, with a review of PWG's "Pimpin' in High Places."

 

Link is right down below:

http://thesmartmarks.com/artman/publish/article_1367.shtml

 

PD, I know I offered you a spot for this review, but I'm booked solid with work this week and wanted to get it done really quick before I got really swamped, sorry. However, we're doing An Inch Longer than Average next, so if you write opinions up for that show now I'll definitely include it in the next PCN review.

[Michrome]

I was at this show live.

 

Cool review, but I guess I gotta say I would completely reverse your ratings for Bosh-Excalibur and Pitbulls-AXP. I thought Pitbulls-AXP was an excellent bland of the stiff hitting and matwork of the pitbulls, and the high flying of AXP. Bosh-Excalibur, on the other hand, was flat live, and had a couple blown/flubbed spots.

 

Also, the Ballards match was nothing more than a comedy match live.

[Guest Jay Z. Hollywood]

Yeah, I think it does come down to a difference of tape vs. live. On tape, the Pitbulls/AXP match comes off as very dull, and with no commentary to help tell the story of the match, you have to draw your own conclusions. Without commentary, all the first 10 minutes seem to be is 8 million reversals on the mat with no build or point whatsoever. Bosh/Excalibur did a much better job of telling a story on its own standing, and I didn't see any of the spots that were flubbed.

 

Plus I will say 2 things about my personal tastes. I tend to prefer highflying spot matches over mat matches, unless the mat matches are VERY good and tell a distinct story (most Hero, American Dragon and later Paul London matches all accomplish that quite nicely though). You'll never see a Chad Collyer match rated highly from me, on the flip side of things- an Insane Dragon/Dixie match will always blow it away on my scale.

 

The other point I prefer is having an angle behind the action- the AXP tag match had no angle and there was no clear heel/face alignment, it was simply a "skill exhibition" match, whereas Bosh/Ex had a heated angle behind it and it was very clear some motivation and hate was present. Same is true for all wrestling- if you put a good, dramatic angle behind it the wrestling becomes that much better.

Edited March 10, 2004 by DuskTillDawn

[Nevermortal]

“I’m gonna get you back. It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, it might not even be six months down the line, ‘till you wake up one morning, and you have to take the biggest shit of your life, and here I come, poppin’ out of the toilet- SURPISE N*GGA! Waiting, with a FUCKIN’ BRICK, to BASH YOUR FUCKIN’ HEADS IN! NOBODY DOES THIS TO ME, YOU HEAR THAT? NOBODY!”

 

That's like the greatest promo ever.

[PsychoDriver]

PD, I know I offered you a spot for this review, but I'm booked solid with work this week and wanted to get it done really quick before I got really swamped, sorry. However, we're doing An Inch Longer than Average next, so if you write opinions up for that show now I'll definitely include it in the next PCN review.

You bastard, expect to hear from my high priced team of lawyers....

 

Seriously, It's cool. I've been sorta busy this week and had only just started writing my part of the review so it's best you went ahead without me. Hopefully I can be apart of the next one...

 

Good review BTW... on all but the Havana Pitbulls Vs. AXP match! Come on that match was great.

[Guest Devin]

Pitbulls vs. AXP was seriously the match of the card, and I don't understand how you couldn't have liked it. I also really liked Excalibur vs. Bosh, and thought the match told a great story, and helped lay the groundwork for the biggest feud in SoCal.

[Nevermortal]

Andy_CZW over @ CZW Fan made a tribute video for this show.

 

http://s88577916.onlinehome.us/Pimpin.wmv