Thursday, May 23, 2013

SICW Special Comment

The busy wrestling weekend continued with SICW in East Carondelet. Trevor Murdoch was originally scheduled but "stepped aside" so Cowboy Bob Orton could get his hands on Ron Powers. Last Sunday's SICW Wrestling Explosion show advertised the original main event of Murdoch/Bull Schmitt vs. Powers/Flash Flanagan so I assumed Orton would simply take Murdoch's place in that one. It was changed to a singles bout...and that became an impromptu tag match with Butch Reed entering the ring as Orton's partner. As always: Card subject to change.

Classic Champion Ricky Cruz has been traveling a lot more lately and was wrestling in Puerto Rico this past weekend. His busier schedule led to speculation that his title reign may be coming to an end...especially since he recently hit the one-year mark as champion. Of course, this led to more fodder for Travis Cook to proclaim Ken Kasa(holder of the most prestigious beer pitcher in Midwest wrestling) as the true champ. Memo to self: Make a "Damn, You're Agile!" sign. Cruz's next scheduled title defense is against Powers, so we'll see how things go from there...

The undercard was solid as usual. Brandon Gallagher's in an odd spot on the proverbial ladder as he's scored a few upset wins lately, but Saturday was not one of those nights as he lost to Bobby D. Alexandre Rudolph tends to steamroll lower-card competitors but Chaz Wesson obviously doesn't fit into that particular tier. Despite the losses, "The American Viking" had good outings at both shows this past weekend.

Larry Matysik's sitdown interview with Butch Reed was fairly low-key and not always easy to hear...tough spot as Larry couldn't exactly get in the ring to do the interview.

The Big Texan has fallen out of favor with most of the resident heels around SICW...his team with Ron Powers exploded in grand fashion in Fairmont City, he indirectly cost Vaughn the tag match at Argosy, and he got pinned this week thanks to a well-timed schoolboy trip by Gary Jackson. Perhaps the new ring attire is a sign of his ongoing shift in allegiances...

Heath Hatton's developed a good following in SICW and he's been successful more often than not. He and Ace Hawkins got an indirect shoutout from Ryback on Twitter recently...the big man commented on defeating "two monstrous men" at last year's Extreme Rules pay-per-view. Bwahahaha.

Rookie Jake Parnell's already gone through a few name changes in his young career...he was "Gentleman Brad Fox" at the last Fairmont City show and he went by "Gentleman Jake Parnell" in East Carondelet. Maybe he'll embellish on the gimmick in due time...top hat and monocle, perhaps? :-D

Shorty Biggs and Max Archer weren't exactly on the same page in their handicap match against Texas last month, so they settled their issues at this show. The short-arm clothesline is a pretty cool move that doesn't get enough use these days...it was always identified with Jake "The Snake" Roberts as the setup for the DDT. Have seen Rudolph finish with it recently.

My friend Drew Abbenhaus commented on the fact that the guys in the main event are a bit(?) older but are still in far better shape than ourselves...heh. Reed competed in street clothes(he wasn't initially scheduled to wrestle) but Orton had his regular tights. Flash Flanagan nearly won the title last week but was completely left off the card this week due to the last-minute lineup change...his interruption of the show led to the impromptu tag match when Reed made the save. Powers scored a big win over Orton, giving him momentum heading into his title shot at Ricky Cruz next month...

CSCW had a show in Swansea last Saturday...I like some of the talent they're using and am planning on checking out their next show in June. The next two weekends are wrestling-free for me...for the more adventurous sorts, Pro Wrestling Collision has a show on Saturday in Carbondale. Haven't heard any updates on MECW, so June looks like this:

Saturday 6/8: MMWA in St. Louis
Friday 6/14: DPW in Glen Carbon
Saturday 6/15: SICW in East Carondelet
Saturday 6/22: CSCW in Swansea
Friday 6/28: SLA in Alton IL

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