MMWA Special Comment

Heavyweight Champion: Gary Jackson
Junior Heavyweight Champion: Max Archer
Television Champion: Dave Vaughn
Battle Royal Champion: Dave Osborne
Tag Team Champions: The Lumberjacks(Abe & Gabe) -> LaMarcus Clinton & Chase King

Surprisingly low crowd at South Broadway...they had been doing very well in that department for most of 2012. Wrestling attendance seems to be down during the summer months...people want to do stuff outside plus there's competition from baseball and other activities.

As previously noted, Gary Jackson regained the Heavyweight Title from Brandon Espinosa at the May show. Also, Dave Vaughn won the T.V. Title from Chase King. Don't know the circumstances surrounding either result since I was at MECW that night.

MMWA has a bit of a belt overload(Heavyweight, Junior, T.V., Battle Royal, Tag, and the inactive Women's Title) compared to SICW(just the Classic Title)...odd since you'd think SICW would have the more extensive talent pool without the constraints of Missouri licensing. I had always thought that at least one of the championships could be moved to the Illinois side for the sake of balancing things out.

I've mentioned MMWA's odd practice of putting a midcard-ish match at the end of the show...I think someone on Facebook(Mike Sharona?) referred to it as a "reverse curtain-jerker". Sadly Castaldi did NOT get his revenge for Texan injuring him in Hillsboro last year. As it turned out, this show was bookended by masked wrestlers getting squashed as Dave Osborne dominated Draco Verdadero to kick things off.

Since Jimmy D defeated LaMarcus Clinton at the last Broadway show I attended, I was wondering if that trend would continue with his match with Ace Hawkins. Howver, Ace picked up the victory...no sign of Frankie D on this night.

I have NO problem with introducing Vaughn to the Jackson-Espinosa feud...Espy and Vaughn had some great matches last year. Not sure where it leaves Vaughn's T.V. Title as he's now pursuing the Heavyweight Championship. Espinosa's in a weird tweener state right now...he's already been getting mixed reactions.

Cruz vs. Archer was a solid matchup...Ricky's momentum continues as he's rarely tasted defeat in Midwest wrestling lately. He captured the SICW Classic Title from Ron Powers and then scored a huge win over former NWA World Champion Adam Pearce in recent weeks...

Sean Vincent did a face promo before his matchup with Vaughn...this turn may take some work. He can work face, it's just a matter of whether the fans will buy into it.

The tag match got a LOT of time and was all over the place...I spent the entire match convincing myself that an upset could happen. A clean finish would have been nice, but still good to see a shakeup in the tag team ranks(such as they are).

Sounds like it'll be SICW next week for me and then MECW the week after that...did notice that IHW(Dupo) would have been running in the same general area as SICW(East Carondelet) and figured that was a factor in the IHW show's cancellation.