Now, as promised, a special comment about Tuesday's Dynamo Pro Wrestling show at Off Broadway in St. Louis, MO.
DISCLAIMER: I'm biased. Deal with it.
A few matches were announced earlier in the day...I jokingly brag about my high school and college Spanish courses, yet I couldn't figure out the Spanish equivalent for "Black Hand Warriors"...har har. It was a shorter show than usual, which may have been for the best since it was a weeknight. I think more audience was expected, but the show drew about the same amount of people as a standard Off Broadway show.
Your ring announcers were Chris Roedel & Luke Roberts; your referees were Michael Crase & Jay King.
Lucy Mendez vs. "The Alternative" Ozzie Gallagher: Gallagher came out in a lucha mask which he immediately discarded due to his disgust for the holiday. Lucy entered as a fan favorite for the evening and Gallagher insulted her, earning him a slap to the face that kick-started the opener. Things were shaky at first but they got it together as the match went on. There aren't as many intergender matches around here nowadays, but it's a shame that female wrestlers don't get much work since there simply aren't enough available ladies for fresh matchups. Gallagher's trash-talking finally set off Lucy's LATINA TEMPER~! as she blatantly kicked him in the lower alternatives for the DQ in 3:40. Upon recovering from the assault on his personal oasis, Gallagher dropped Mendez with a falling inverted DDT and held her in the dragon sleeper until Keon Option ran him off. This feud...MUST CONTINUE~!
The Bumrush Brothers^H^H^HHermanos("The Don Mega" Shorty Biggs & Outtkast) vs. The Bite Club(Rocket Mapache & Jackal): Shorty & Outtkast came out in lucha masks but eventually discarded them(with Shorty complaining that he could barely breathe in his :)). Mapache seems to be scaling down his name to simply "Rocket" nowadays. This was a tough call as the Bite Club lost their Tag Title shot at the Black Hand Warriors on Saturday, but the BRBs hold a recent DQ win over the champs...gotta shake up the tag division a bit, you know? Shorty and Jackal were tag partners for a short time in the GCW days, so they had a bit of history with each other. Jackal's been sporting a Dingo T-shirt recently...I remember that guy, he was a good hand. The Bite Club scored the upset win(in my book) after Rocket and then Jackal hit consecutive frog splashes on Shorty, allowing Jackal to get the three-count in 10:35. Perhaps the Bite Club will be in line for another title shot in the near future...but I should be careful, I don't think I'm supposed to talk about Bite Club...
"Dirdey" Jake Dirden(w/ Travis Cook) vs. "Risky Business" Everett Connors for the Heavyweight Title: Travis has quickly gravitated toward Dirden now that he's got the gold. This was scheduled to be non-title, but Travis graciously(har) granted Connors a title shot since preceding champion Mike Outlaw prided himself on being a fighting titleholder. Dirden took his challenger lightly, but Connors gave him far more of a fight than he was expecting. A lot of Connors' part of the match was simply surviving for as long as he did; Dirden spiked him with a swinging uranagi at one point. Everett survived Dirden's chokeslam and several other big power moves, getting in a good flurry of offense to finally knock the big man off his feet. However, the Asiatic Spike was too much for him and the arm dropped thrice in 11:50. Good week of action for Connors; I feel like his stock has gone up in the past few months.
Intermission~! No Strange Donuts on this night, tragically.
"The King Of Chaos" Ricky Cruz vs. Brandon Espinosa vs. Brandon Aarons for the IWRG Rey Del Ring Campeonato: Ricky has picked up a lot of hardware in recent travels, including the above-mentioned championship. In honor of the holiday, Ricky defended his belt against recent rival Espinosa and also Aarons. Espy & Aarons were a tag team called "Babewatch" at one time, but they've battled a few times since Aarons' most recent return to action. With two fan favorites and one rulebreaker in the matchup, Espinosa took quite a bit of abuse from both opponents. Cruz finally scored the submission win on Aarons with a hold that nearly defied description: It was a form of cross-armbreaker with both of Aarons' arms crossed over each other, plus Ricky holding him in a headscissors at the same time. Aarons had to verbally surrender since he had no free hands, allowing Cruz to retain his title in 6:33.
Mike Outlaw, Justin D'Air, & Keon Option vs. Tag Team Champions The Black Hand Warriors(Michael Magnuson, Dave DeLorean, & Jayden Fenix)(w/ Travis Cook): Travis Cook's Organization is riding high with all the gold in Dynamo Pro under his control. This was advertised as a lucha libre-style trios match; I don't know if the usual rule was in play where a legal man touching the floor meant one of his partners could enter the ring and become legal. (That rule is used in CHIKARA and Lucha Underground.) As expected, this matchup was practically non-stop action from bell to bell; the BHWs were the more experienced unit but Outlaw/D'Air/Option had their moments as well. D'Air in particular hit some spectacular aerial moves, including a killer Buff Blockbuster that nearly folded Fenix in half.
That led to a hot tag to Outlaw and a pier-six brawl breaking out...the ring was cleared and Outlaw nailed a beautiful suicide dive through the ropes, then D'Air followed up with a major somersault plancha over the turnbuckles! Outlaw's team had Fenix isolated and in trouble; D'Air scored near-wins after a 450 Splash and then a Van Terminator(!), but Magnuson and DeLorean kept breaking up the pin covers. Unfortunately, D'Air had taken the lion's share of punishment for his side and the Warriors turned the tide...DeLorean got the pin after he and Fenix hit their Tombstone/top-rope double-stomp combo on D'Air in 15:04. Good times...would have thought the fan favorites would win to end the show on a high note, but oh well.
I haven't heard any match announcements for Dynamo in Wood River; it's being advertised as a showcase for the newer guys and trainees of Michael Elgin. There are three good choices for area wrestling next Saturday and I'll miss something good no matter what, but my current decision is PWCS. Hopefully I'll get to see the other events in some form in the near future.
Thus ended my odyssey of three shows in four days...but the month isn't over by a longshot:
-Saturday 5/9: Pro Wrestling Championship Series in Granite City, IL(new venue); Dynamo Pro Wrestling in Wood River, IL; Mid-Missouri Wrestling Alliance in St. Louis, MO
-Saturday 5/16: Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling in East Carondelet, IL (Stan Hansen, Barbara Goodish, Mike McGuirk appearing)
-Sunday 5/24: High Risk Wrestling in Cahokia, IL
-Saturday 5/30: World League Wrestling in Troy, MO
-Sunday 5/31: Wrestling Invades America in Swansea, IL
Good night, good luck, and #yaywrestling.
P.S. We are all marks.
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