RIOT CITY WRESTLING – POWERTRIP 2010 [Nov 6]

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RIOT CITY WRESTLING – POWERTRIP 2010

November 6, 2010

 

Good crowd in tonight. Announcers are Josh Armour and David Starr. Referees are David Starr and Dan Stazer.

Match 1: BPW’s Finest (Matt Silva and Adam Brooks) v Riot City Soldiers (TJ Rush and Luke Santamaria)
            Silva is now the BPW champ, having defeated Mimic at Ballarat two weeks ago. A good five minutes of inter-promotional rivalry/stalling to start, but it got the crowd unbelievably hot and well into the match before they even touched one another.
            Fast opening until the BPW guys take control and make Luke the face in peril. And he takes a lo-o-o-ong arse-kicking. Then a long, confusing double team series by the BPW guys where the ref loses all control. Luke finally makes a tag and TJ goes all postal. But then there’s more confusion and in the end TJ hits an SSP, then a top rope moonsault onto Brooks for the 3-count and the win.
            Look, I found it strange but the crowd were so into it that it was scary. Really hot opener, and the crowd were now primed for the rest of the show.
            Oh, and sometimes the old fashioned tag team match formula works the best, as shown here.

Match 2: Handicap Match: Mimic v Marvel and El Presidente
            We are informed that Mimic wanted this to be under handicap tag rules.
            Marvel and Mimic put on a great technical show-piece to start. Counters and counters to counters, mat-based wrestling. Real wrestling, dare I say it. And then there was the obvious botched spot (which they repeated to get right) which led to Marvel going out, Mimic going after El Presidente and Marvel taking his knee out from behind.
            This leads to a methodical dismantling of the knee, even by El Presidente.
            Mimic makes a comeback and he sets about attacking Marvel’s shoulder.
            Back and forth, knee, shoulder, knee, shoulder. Then El Presidente comes in for some weak offence. Marvel in and is suplexed onto the shoulder. Mimic then destroys El Presidente until Marvel makes the save.
            Marvel works the knee, gets a side figure-4 and gains some leverage from El Presidente, until Mimic taps out.
            Good technical match – even ignoring the error – between Marvel and Mimic. The El Presidente sections felt disjointed. Still, I could watch Marvel and Mimic twist each other like pretzels all night.

Match 3: Brad Smyth v Fuzion
            Brad’s entrance as ‘the Angel of Light’ is now so OTT it’s incredible. Oh, and it is going to offend every religious person in the audience. Amazing. And after all these months, the crowd for this one manages to amp itself up even more.
            Back and forth match as first one has the ascendency and then the other. This was well-structured in that neither man was dominant, a real student-master vibe happening.
            After a lot of this goodness, Fuzion hits a chokeslam, Savannah Summers is up on the ring apron to distract the referee. Fuzion comes over to berate her, the ref stays there with her, Smyth recovers and grabs the scales then whallops Fuzion hard in the head. One cradle brainbuster later and Smyth wins.
            And afterwards Brad does it again to completely destroy Fuzion. Ooh, you know this feud ain’t over yet.

Match 4: Key To The City 2 – Voodoo v Del Taurino (with Marvel & El Presidente)
            Marvel is still selling the shoulder. As Voodoo comes out, Del Taurino distracts the referee and Marvel kicks him down, then throws him into the ring. Despite this, Voodoo comes out fast and hard while Del Taurino goes the power route. And there is constant interference from Marvel at ringside. This enables Del Taurino to control the match until finally the ref has enough and sends Marvel and El Presidente to the back.
            This spurs Voodoo on and he explodes back, finishing with a split legged moonsault for two.
            About here, the ref gets knocked out and Marvel and El Presidente come down to triple team Voodoo. Mimic tries to make the save but Marvel cuts him off, and the ref counts Del Taurino on top for the three.
            Mimic finally gets in to the ring and a huge brawl erupts between all five men. Security rushes out to break things up, and TJ and Luke come out as well, but the brawl continues to go on as the crowd chants hugely. It takes a while to settle and finally Commissioner Jack is out. He declares that next month the final match in the Key to the City series will be a tag match, the Rude Ones against Only The Strong, with the winning team seeing their man get the key!
            And this match was a hell of a lot better than last month’s.

Match 5: Grudge Match – Elliot Sexton v Rocky Menero
            Some one in the crowd yelled out Battle of the Bodies as the two best physiques in RCW go head to head.
            A lot of stalling to start. A lot of stalling. But this just gets the crowd riled up (in a good way) and when Rocky finally jump starts the match they explode.
            This is another back and forth match, hard-hitting and stiff. Some great heel tactics by Sexton, including the good old grabbing the top rope when he has Rocky in an abdominal stretch. However when he goes all Hopoate on Rocky, Rocky loses it. He hits a rolling fireman’s carry slam then locks in the Boston crab for the submission.
            But Rocky won’t let go until two refs force him off and so the decision is reversed, giving Sexton the DQ win, so Rocky locks it on again. Strong match, and the pop for anything Rocky does is huge.

Match 6: Savannah Summers & Harley Wonderland v Eliza Sway & Miami
            Wonderland’s nineteenth century bordello look is… interesting, I’ll say that much for it.
            Sway & Miami hit some sweet double team moves as Summers takes a right ol’ beating. Heel in peril? However, a kick to the back from the apron gives the heels the upper hand and this becomes another old school tag match. And again, like the first match, it is a well-worn formula done well. Any of these women could make a go in the so-called bigger leagues. Especially Summers.
            A lot of abuse occurs to Miami’s face. No! The ending has Summers and Sway outside where Summers has the upper hand, but inside the ring Miami rolls up Wonderland for the pin. Hot ending and the crowd were amazing.
            Next month it’s already been announced that Savannah Summers is to take on new Riot City rookie Lulu. Good luck, lovely lady; against Savannah, you’re gonna need it!

Match 7: RCW Title Match – GD Grimm v Jacko Lantern ©
            Huge staredown and jawing just while the introductions are going on!
            Yet another fast-paced match, and another back-and-forth affair with neither man dominating for too long. So many ‘big’ moves were hit, but it did not become a mere spotfest. They were ready for one another’s moves and just absorbed punishment. It was a real battle of attrition, with each trying to wear the other down.
            The crowd exploded when Jacko kicked out of the nastiest curb stomp. This makes Grimm lose it. Jacko Hulks up! He mists Grimm, but Grimm then mists Jacko in return. A double kick to the face results in a double KO.
            At this point Matt Silva and Adam Brooks run in and destroy both men, ruining a great match and meaning we have a No Result. Silva on the mike saying how he wants to dominate RCW and he and Brooks continue to beat on the two giants in the ring. But they start to jaw with the fans and Jacko and Grimm come to. Silva is tossed and then Jacko and Grimm do a double border toss on Brooks over the top rope and onto Silva.
            Commissioner Jack comes out again and declares that next month Grimm and Jacko will put aside their rivalry for one night and, for the pride of RCW, they will take on Silva and Brooks. And then, I guess, they start kicking the crap out of each other again for the title.

Overall: Not a bad match on the card. Seriously. Top to bottom, good matches all round. The ending was, it must be said, dissatisfying. The show almost felt like a holding pattern for next month’s Supremacy 2010, the big show of the year.
            Having said that, it set up that show hugely. We know we have 2 tag matches, and Fuzion/Smyth have to have a feud-ending match yet, so there’s three matches guaranteed to be awesome already.
            See y’all in December!

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