UWA Hardcore Show

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Event Card:

 

UWA Canadian Championship

 

M-Dogg 20© vs. Chris Hero

 

UWA Lightweight Championship

 

Alex Shelley© vs. Chris Sabin

 

Jerry Lynn vs. Lionel Knight

 

Osiris vs. Chris Bishop

 

Asylum vs. Sabian

 

Beef Wellington vs. Dan Paysan

 

Nick Watts and Jeff Flury vs. The Unknown and Virus vs. Rip Impact and Matt Bison vs. Brad Martin and Phil Atlas (the quest for UWA Tag Gold begins)

 

Amazing Darkstone vs. Sweet and Sour Larry Sweeney (battle of the gay tights)

 

Prodigy vs. Devon Parkside

 

more matches will be announced soon

 

I dunno why I keep going to these shows... but SHELLY vs. SABIN~! MDOGG vs. HERO~! WELLINGTON vs. PAYSAN~! DARKSTONE vs. SWEENEY!

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I've had the pleasure of reffing a Beef/Paysan match once. Very entertaining.

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I think I may be going to this. Friend of a friend usually has extra front row seats on him.

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I think I may dropkick someone at this event.

[World's Worst Man 0]

I'll go if they ever bring Super Dragon in. I want him to shoot monkey flip me. But seriously, I should probably go to one of these shows eventually.

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I wouldn't mind Sexxxy Eddy vs. Necro Butcher and Darkstone vs. Super Dragon, should they ever make the trip with Hero (providing he comes back).

 

No Claudio Castagnoli sucks. Screw you, ROH.

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Sweeney and Beef are worth admission price alone.

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Good show. Best match was probably Petey Williams showing up to take on Josh Prohibition in a really hot contest. It was really nicely booked as Petey teased the Destroyer on Josh but didn't hit it and then lost to a cheap roll-up, then was about to attack Prohibition after the match and was unable to do it. I was worried that Prohibition would do the job two months in a row and that the promotion would blow their wad on Petey Williams in his first match (just as they did for Jerry Lynn, who got much less of a reaction at this show), but it didn't happen. Fantastic.

 

However, if you like getting involved in the action, then you got KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT tonight. Super Dragon's "shoot monkey flips" are catching on because I watched at least two fans get punched square in the face tonight in retaliation. Even Jeff Flurry got his shots in on one guy. One of the night's most disgusting moments (other than Larry Sweeney working for-ev-er with his ass hanging out) would have been that African-American gentleman spitting BLOOD at Chris Hero.

 

Rudo, I await your writeup on this. Sorry I didn't reply to your massive report last time, but I thought it was pretty much spot on regarding UWA's shitty, repetitive booking.

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Sweeney is the fucking man. That ass spot was the spot of the night, next to Chris Hero yelling "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!" at some fans. But Sweeney was the performer of the night, and damn near got the most reactions from the crowd and his biggest move was a second rope elbow drop.

 

It's so weird. The first UWA show I saw, I didn't like very much. So I went into the second show with low expectations and enjoyed it more, so my expectations were raised going into the 3rd show. And I really didn't like that show at all. But this show was really good. Like, really good. Better paced, the matches didn't go all that long, Sweeney/Darkstone was tremendous, Shelley/Sabin was great and could have even gone longer, MDogg/Hero was just surreal. Best show yet, IMO.

 

This was the biggest crowd at the show that I have seen, and they didn't start to annoy me until the second last match, so yay! Dueling chants suck. Especially when guys go "LETS GO SABIN!" one minute, and then "LETS GO SHELLEY!" the next. I hate you all. Sabin and Shelley had great chemistry and did some complex stuff and executed it well. There were 2 incidents with the crowd which reminded me of crowds of yesteryear, which I enjoyed. Watts and Flurry were egging on the crowd, spitting water and whatnot at them and the fans threw some back and they got up in each others' face. The second was much more physical with Chris Hero punching a fan, and then I guess another fan punched back and a ruckus ensued. Which was great. The crowd was buzzing and wouldn't sit down afterwards (which sucked, for me). The closer the fans are to throwing acid on wrestlers, the happier I will be about the state of professional wrestling.

 

Fucking with the crowd was the theme of the night, as Josh Prohibition came out and challenged the entire crowd to a fight. This lead to a guy in a hooded sweatshirt that turned out to be Petey Williams, which was a nice surprise.

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This was the biggest crowd at the show that I have seen, and they didn't start to annoy me until the second last match, so yay! Dueling chants suck. Especially when guys go "LETS GO SABIN!" one minute, and then "LETS GO SHELLEY!" the next. I hate you all.

 

Yeah, usually I'm concerned with "chanting ettiquette" too, but not tonight. This is mainly because I had possibly the loudest human being in the whole building screaming into my ear the entire evening. It might have been two people, actually, but they both said the exact same mindless shit ("BURGER KING EDDIE") to the point where I couldn't separate their voices. It would have been a relief to hear dueling chants over "SELLOUTSELLOUTSELLOUT" and "THAT WAS MAGIC", which is what I heard the whole night (how do they do it?) due to my proximity to the offenders. Fucking shit.

 

And what the fuck was up with Nick Watts stomping some fan's chest anyway? That was almost as ridiculous as Prohibition slugging a guy right in the face in retaliation for being slightly pushed.

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Osiris vs. Bishop was SHIT, though. It was supposed to be hatefilled and whatnot, and started out fine with Osiris jumping Bishop before he entered the ring with a kendo stick. And then they decided to ignore the hate and just have a shitty wrestling match where they did moves that had no right to be in a match where two guys hate each other. And the vast majority of the moves were contrived and could be seen a mile away. Then they went into a kobashi/misawa deal where they traded elbows for a while and then traded chops and it was retarded. Bishop does a really awful job concealing his leg slaps when he tries to make a contact-noise, which wouldn't be a terrible problem if he didn't do them a dozen times in a match. No blood either. Just rubbish.

 

The tag match with Asylum kinda sucked too. They were doing traditional tag spots that were beyond their ability. The distracting-the-ref spots didn't work very well and it was kind of a mess. But whatever, now is the time and there is the place for developing shit like that.

 

The 4 corner tag match was so much better, and they had the crowd going bonkers at one point. Not to criticise too much, but they kinda let the crowd dim down from their peak and couldn't sustain it (the crowd was waiting for a out-side dive and they prolonged it too long). They did get some of it back but I thought they waited a lil too long. Not a big criticism, but its important to strike when the iron is hot.

 

I got there a bit late (didn't want to wait in line for 45 minutes so I got there a lil after 8pm) and just caught the end of Beef/Paysan. Did I miss anything?

 

The "double knee in the corner" spot was way over-done tonight too.

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I dunno with Watts. He had this big grin on his face after he got into it with some teenagers. But when the shit was going down with Hero he seemed pissed.

 

I dunno if they can do it, but bleechers would be GREAT for that venue.

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Osiris vs. Bishop was SHIT, though.

Bishop tearing open Osiris' shirt during a slugfest only to continue forearming him in the face was hilarious. I think he's going to run into a lot of problems as a heel. His babyface performance against Steen back in October was fantastic, and the only good-to-great match I've seen him have.

 

I got there a bit late (didn't want to wait in line for 45 minutes so I got there a lil after 8pm) and just caught the end of Beef/Paysan. Did I miss anything?

 

You missed a CZW Jr. Heavyweight Title defense by Niles Young against two jobbers in a terrible match.

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I had to sign up to the UWA MB because people were like "YOU DON'T HIT WRESTLERS! DON'T BREAK THE CODE OF FANS! THIS IS NOT PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING! IT IS A DISGRACE!!"

 

Man, you guys are too used to sterilized professional wrestling. Fans and Wrestlers getting into it isn't professional wrestling????? To me, that IS professional wrestling. Before the WWE took over the world wrestlers used to get stabbed by fans, have acid thrown on them - fans wanted them DEAD.

 

"THEY ARE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS!"

 

THEY SHOULDN'T BE! Not to the fans. Wrestlers should aspire to make it as real as possible, get real reactions, real emotions - not some "LET'S GO SABIN!" (Now lets wait for other people to respond) "LET'S GO SHELLEY!" bullshit. That wasn't bad for wrestling, that was fantastic. Everyone was buzzing. There was a point where I thought shit was going to spill over and a riot would happen. Completely unpredictable, total mayhem. If that's not professional wrestling, then I hate professional wrestling. Wrestlers and Wrestling fans should not be polite. Wrestling is not white collar. It is not supposed to be refined and high class. It's trashy, it's sleazy, it's rough, it's visceral and gutteral and wild and emotional - unchained and unbound. At least, to me, that's what it is supposed to be.

 

If a wrestler does shit to fans, its the fans' responsibility as wrestling fans to get pissed and do something back.