The main groups in the area do a really good job of catering to their target audiences...as I've said in the past, it's good that there are a few different types of wrestling product in the area. There's not as much talent crossover these days...only three wrestlers worked both Anarchy and Dynamo(Dan Walsh, Dingo, and Alexandre Rudolph). Luke Roberts had a full weekend as he was the ring announcer for both shows.
Anarchy brings in a lot of new talent...it can be tough to keep everyone straight sometimes. The in-ring product is obviously strong, but I wonder about the emotional connections when there are so many people in the mix. Just a smarky nitpick, as usual.
The Anarchy lineup was shuffled a few times due to schedule conflicts(Davey Richards) and injuries(Bolt Brady, Jojo Bravo, Angelus Layne). Brady was in attendance and Layne was in Brandon Espinosa's corner for his match with Arik Cannon.
ACW had a few championship shakeups lately: Bolt dropped the U-30 Title to Ricky Romida and "The Business" lost the Tag Titles to Paul London(!) & Jack Jameson.
Evan Gelistico is the ACW Heavyweight Champion and he declared the opening six-way dance to be a non-title bout, saying no one deserved a shot. That took out the whole mindset that Evan would "obviously" be winning. While it's a neat novelty for other promotions' belts to be defended, it's unlikely that those belts will change hands outside of the promotion. (To be fair, there is precedent: The LWA Tag Team Titles once changed hands on a non-LWA show and the ACW U-30 Title changed hands on an LWA show at least once.)
Good to see Christian Rose again. Was looking forward to seeing Matt Cage, but he had travel problems and couldn't make it to the show. I had to do some digging to find out the identity of "Not Matt Cage"...knew I had seen him before but couldn't place the name(Jeff O'Shea).
The two tag matches were among my favorite bouts of the night. No real "bad" matches on the show, in my opinion, but I guess that depends on your personal preferences.
I must note that Hardcore Andy finally got a managerial win(he was in A.C.H.'s corner for his match against Mark Andrews)...good for him.
Gerald James had told his "family" to stay away from ringside for his title shot against Darin Corbin. The main event definitely had a divided crowd as a result...I thought there was a chance of a title change but wasn't too sure. They broke a pattern as the last two title changes happened at Yuletide Terror in December, so Corbin didn't quite make it to the one-year mark as champion.
They did a fine job of setting up the top matches for Yuletide Terror...as noted on SLA's Facebook page, all title bouts will be two-out-of-three-falls in the future. It'll be Gerald James vs. Mat Fitchett for the title, plus the final match in the best-of-three series between A.C.H. and Davey Vega.
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Better turnout for Dynamo than usual, possibly due to it being a benefit show. I wonder if the show happening on Saturday instead of Friday was a factor as well.
With the heel boss overload in wrestling nowadays(Vince McMahon, Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, Brad Maddox, Vickie Guerrero, John Bradshaw Layfield, and now Dixie Carter), I'm fine with a reasonable authority figure. Mark Bland isn't playing favorites as he's been cracking down on the Nikki Strychnine/Jack Adonis/Mike Sharona group for their rulebreaking as well.
Dynamo's developing a fairly deep tag team division...the Bumrush Brothers have been champs for over a year so we may be due for a title switch in the near future.
Good to see Jeremy Wyatt back in the area; it had been a little while.
Geek Singh: An Indian tech support guy who brings a computer keyboard to the ring. Have we found Webmaster Stevie K's ideal tag partner? He's a WLW/Harley Race trainee and just started a few months ago...he's a bit green but was fortunate to be in there with two veterans. As previously noted, three-way matches can be tricky to work if you're not used to them.
Miss Natural won the previous two encounters with MsChif in Dynamo, so MsChif finally got a win in this feud. There isn't nearly enough women's wrestling in this area, in my opinion...
Ricky Cruz has had some rough luck in Dynamo. This time, it was an accidental ref bump that may have cost him a chance to beat Jake Dirden and earn another title shot.
Walsh seemed to be the subtle heel in the main event, but it was sportsmanship all around afterwards. These two have a lot of history, dating back to Walsh's GCW debut against Dingo in an "Aussie Death Match". As it stands right now, I'm not making the long trip to the Pittsfield show...it looks like Dirden's shot at Walsh will take place there.
Onward through October...this coming Saturday has SICW in Belleville with the Honky Tonk Man appearing, plus MMWA at South Broadway. The following weekend has SICW in East Carondelet with Hacksaw Jim Duggan in the house. For the last weekend of the month, it's Dynamo in Pittsfield and CSCW in Swansea...heard this past weekend that the Dynamo show at Pop's was cancelled.
As always: #yaywrestling
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