The intimate venue means that even a smaller crowd can sound great for these shows...and it definitely worked on this night with the hardcore-style main event. Fox 2 News' April Simpson was in the house to check out the show...seems like she's a bit of a wrestling fan. Woo.
Was in good company for the night with local comedy compatriots Landon Meyer and Matthew Rude of the Rude Moose Radio/Kayfabe Poker Night podcasts. I occasionally make an appearance on their shows to hype the independent scene...Landon's been to a few indy shows in the past but this was Matt's first non-Ring Of Honor indy show. They definitely had a good time and hopefully they'll be coming to more shows down the line. Check out their podcasts at:
http://rudemooseradio.podbean.com/
Your ring announcer was Chris Roedel(with Ben Simon doing a few announcements), your referees were Michael Crase and Jay King.
Absences from the announced lineup: Dan Walsh(scheduled to face Alexandre Rudolph) and Kevin X(scheduled to face Brandon Gallagher).
Everett Connors vs. Chase King: I guess this was unofficially a "dark match". MMWA/South Broadway had notable presence on the show as several guys made their Dynamo debuts, including these two. King recently returned to action after a hiatus of about a year and is now a rulebreaker at South Broadway; Connors is extremely new with only a few matches under his proverbial belt. King countered one bodyscissors victory roll attempt into a German suplex, but Connors got it on the second try for the flash pin and (I believe) his first win in 4:29.
"The Littlest Viking" Jake Parnell vs. Ace Hawkins(w/ Brandon Espinosa): Parnell may be dropping his given name completely as he's only been announced as "The Littlest Viking" lately. The undercard matches were kept relatively short on this night, as I figured they might for a midweek show. Espy's involvement led to Ace getting the win in 5:33...and Rudolph made an appearance to carry his partner away from the ringside area. Heh.
Executive Director Mark Bland made an appearance...no big angle, just general show hype.
"Night Train/Gorgeous/Great One" Gary Jackson vs. "The Alternative" Brandon Gallagher: Gallagher was hyped as being on a winning streak, but it came to an abrupt end against the local veteran. Sometimes the simple psychology works...the bad guy gets cocky, goes for the same move a second time, and gets countered. It worked in the opener and it worked here as Gary countered Gallagher's second suplex attempt into a small package at 5:24. Cue epic tantrum...bwahahaha. Gallagher's hair isn't as blue as it once was, but he still got some Katy Perry chants...
"The American Viking" Alexandre Rudolph vs. Da'Marius Jones: Travis Cook made an appearance to "scout" Jones; he had a talk with Da'Marius before the match as Rudolph was held back by the ring announcer and refs. That put Jones in the bad-guy role for the evening, but Rudolph is powered by STAG BEER~!(official sponsor of Dynamo Pro Wrestling at Off Broadway) so he was the definite crowd favorite. Landon and Matt were very impressed by Rudolph's Goozleplex finisher...it ended the match at 7:12. Travis had another talk with Jones after the match, but no tension surfaced on this evening.
Tag Team Champion "The Don Mega" Shorty Biggs vs. Brandon Espinosa(w/ Ace Hawkins): It seemed like this was just getting warmed up when Hawkins ran in for the disqualification...no match time was announced but it was a bit over five minutes. Hope to see a longer match between these two at some point. Parnell came back out to even the odds, putting Mark Bland in the Teddy Long role of booking a HOLLA HOLLA TAG MATCH, PLAYA~!
Tag Team Champion "The Don Mega" Shorty Biggs & "The Littlest Viking" Jake Parnell vs. Brandon Espinosa & Ace Hawkins: Now that Ace is a bad guy, he'd better keep a close eye on that Missouri Wrestling Revival "Sexiest Wrestler" trophy...awards don't tend to last long in wrestling environments. The good guys got some laughs by messing up the hair of the Elitism duo...heh. Shorty cleaned house after the hot tag and then brought Parnell back in to finish off Hawkins with the 450 Splash at 6:06, evening the score from the earlier singles match. (For future reference, Shorty tells me that the Bumrush Brothers' double-team finisher is called the "Order 66"...so put that in the mental Rolodex.)
They took a lengthy intermission to set up the main event...
"Dirdey" Jake Dirden vs. Tag Team Champion Outtkast, House Of Fun Hardcore Match for the Heavyweight Title: I don't think I'd ever seen this style of match before. A set of keys were suspended above the ring to be retreived via ladder. Weapons were chained to the ringposts and the keys unlocked the padlocks for each weapon. I had flashbacks to a previous gimmick match with a briefcase on a pole where the keys didn't work so well...it wasn't too bad in this case. The wrestlers simply had to try different keys until they found the one that unlocked the weapon in question.
Landon and Matt were cringing at some of the weapon spots in this one...the ladder lawndart spot was the biggest "holy $#!+" moment of the bout. People were shocked that Dirden didn't come up bloody after that one...there was no blood in this one, but certainly not for lack of effort. The table WOULD NOT BREAK...again, not for lack of effort. The metal spike never got DIRECTLY used...otherwise we would have seen some crimson for sure. I still remember the last-man-standing match that Outtkast had with Billy McNeil in the GCW days where he took TEN kendo stick shots to the head...this time around, he took five or six and it still sucked to watch. That didn't finish off Kast, but the Asiatic Spike finally sealed the deal at 27:59(!). Dirden's basically a tweener these days, so we got mutual respect after the match...yay.
Anywho, fun night of wrestling action...and the plate is full for the next month or so:
-Saturday 4/26: SICW in East Carondelet
-Friday 5/2: SLA in Alton, IL
-Saturday 5/3: DPW in Fenton, MO(Stratford Inn)
-Saturday 5/10: DPW in Glen Carbon, IL; MMWA in St. Louis, MO
-Saturday 5/17: SICW in East Carondelet(Bobby Heenan)
Good night, good luck, and #yaywrestling.
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