With the Sports Academy in Glen Carbon booked solid for the winter months, Dynamo has branched out to Missouri venues in recent months. That started with a show at this particular building last November. Despite the short notice of the show announcement and the scheduling of the show on Tuesday night, it drew a decent amount of people. This show had more advance notice and had a similar attendance situation...the audience started small but gradually grew over the course of the night.
Very cool environment for a wrestling show...as previously noted, it'd be a good setup for a TV taping if they wanted to do that. Reminds me of the old GCW garage/training center where they did tapings and "Adults F'n Only" shows.
Talked to J. Caster for a bit; hadn't seen him in a while. I had a chance to watch some of his MRW matches on the Indie Wrestling Archive YouTube channel. Also fairly sure I spotted a certain "Unbreakable" wrestler in attendance for a short portion of the show.
Your alternating ring announcers/hype guys were Ben Simon, Luke Roberts, and Chris Roedel; your referees were Jay King and Michael Crase.
The theme of the night was the six-way main event; the winners of the undercard matches advanced to the finale with the winner getting a Heavyweight Title shot at the March 1st show in Fenton. I think the original match hype suggested that the winner would get a match of his choice, but it was specifically stated at the show that the winner would get a title shot.
Andino Giovanni vs. "The Alternative" Brandon Gallagher: As previously noted, Giovanni hasn't been in too many singles matches yet. This was a solid outing with Giovanni teasing the upset only for Gallagher to CHEAT TO WIN~! Side note: Gallagher's Champagne Supernova finisher is named after an Oasis song written by guitarist...Noelle Gallagher. IIIII see what you did there. (Match time 6:52)
Heavyweight Champion Jake Dirden came out to complain about how Executive Director Mark Bland is just "handing out title shots"...this brought out Kevin X to retort, setting up their championship match later in the night.
The Bumrush Brothers(Shorty Biggs & Outtkast) vs. Alexandre Rudolph & Gentleman Jake Parnell: Rudolph and Parnell dubbed themselves "Team Stag" in honor of the sponsor for the Off Broadway shows; Rudolph even started the match wearing a Stag cap. I politely declined to wear the foam antlers. It was a battle of fan favorites though "Team Stag" isolated Shorty for a good portion of it. I thought Rudolph was legal at the end of the match but I could have missed a tag at some point...oh well. (Match time 11:28)
Mark Bland came out to hype the remainder of the card...standard-issue stuff.
"Walking Reality" Dan Walsh vs. Brandon "Espy" Espinosa: Me(to Espinosa): "Your nickname is redundant!" This was a first-ever matchup between these two; they've both wrestled in this area for quite a while but never crossed paths until now. Gallagher wasn't keen on the prospect of facing Walsh in the six-way match, so he interfered to ensure Walsh's defeat. Second match of the night with a rollup-with-tights finish, I must note. Gosh darn it, they'll have to wrestle each other again to settle this...gosh darn it. (Match time: 8:42)
WLW Tag Team Champions The Black Hand Warriors(Michael Magnuson & David DeLorean)(w/ Travis Cook) vs. High Level Enterprise(Jack Gamble & Jon Webb) for the Dynamo Tag Team Titles: These teams have been feuding over the WLW Tag Team Titles but this was the first meeting at a Dynamo show. Killer transition spot saw Magnuson block a rana off the apron by Gamble, turning it into a modified spike powerbomb onto the ring apron with DeLorean's assist. Webb got the hot tag and chaos broke loose...Gamble superkicked Magnuson to break up a Vertebreaker(!) on Webb but his partner's landing was still a bit rough...ouch. Some beltplay led to the finish as DeLorean tried to bring in the belt and Webb rolled him up, but the referee wouldn't count the pin when he saw the belt in Webb's hands. As the official was getting one belt out of the ring, Magnuson got another of the title belts and KOed Webb to give DeLorean the win. (Match time: 14:56)
"Dirdey" Jake Dirden vs. Kevin X for the Heavyweight Title: This shaped up to be Dirden's tougest test to date against a veteran who has held the GCW and MMWA Heavyweight Titles. Despite that, Dirden had the height advantage on his challenger and the power battle was about even. Kevin was still able to hit some big moves like the running powerslam and the spinebuster...he came VERY close to a win after the spinebuster but Dirden got a foot on the bottom rope. Dirden blocked the Pavement Drop(Flatliner) and, after much struggle, finally caught Kevin X in the Asiatic Spike. Kevin held on for longer than any previous opponent(surviving TWO arm checks from the referee), but he couldn't completely escape the hold in the end...chalk it up as a major win for Dirden! (Match time: 15:02)
Gallagher vs. Shorty vs. Outtkast vs. Espinosa vs. Magnuson(w/ Cook) vs. DeLorean(w/ Cook): Travis got into an argument with Bland(who was at ringside for most of the show). The good guys stood back-to-back in the ring surrounded by the four bad guys at the start of the bout...but they all stepped out to the ring apron, leaving Shorty and Outtkast to officially begin the match. The other guys kept dropping off the apron, forcing the tag partners to go through a brief exchange...after which they quickly tagged Magnuson and DeLorean into the match. Ha ha.
It turned into an expanded tag bout as Shorty took a beating from the other four participants...somewhere in the middle of it, Walsh hit the ring and chased off Gallagher, costing him his opportunity to win a title shot. It came down to the current and former tag champs; finishers were exchanged and Outtkast got the sunset flip pin on Magnuson, earning some payback for the title loss at the previous show. (Match time: 10:01)
I don't know if we'll get tension between the Bumrush Brothers due to Outtkast challenging for the big belt...but there aren't a lot of other fan favorite teams in Dynamo. With the original stipulation, I wondered if a win for Shorty or Outtkast would set up a rematch for the Tag Titles...but they have the rematch clause for that anyway. Dirden-Outtkast should be a literal "House Of Fun"...don't think I've seen Dirden in a hardcore match environment before.
(Yes, I AM trying to avoid the use of INZIDER TERMZ like "face" and "heel"...oops.)
In-ring was a lot of fun across the board...no problems from this onlooker. Woo.
A new group is starting in May called the Professional Wrestling Championship Series...it's set up with wrestlers grouped into factions and a point system to eventually determine the championship stable. Will be interesting to see how that develops.
That wraps up February for the most part...there are no area shows next weeked to my knowledge. Upcoming:
-Friday 2/28: SLA in Alton, IL
-Saturday 3/1: SLA in Alton, IL; DPW in Fenton, MO
-Saturday 3/8: MMWA in St. Louis, MO
-Saturday 3/22: SICW in East Carondelet, IL
Good night, good luck, and #yaywrestling.
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