Pro Wrestling Fusion in Daytona Beach, August 22nd, 2009
I’m “a blatant homosexual” who “gets swing dances”?
Before I get to talking about the show from Pro Wrestling Fusion, the first one I’ve seen from them since last September, I have to talk about what I’ve done from Friday night up to Saturday night and this event. Friday night I decided to go to the theatre they have in downtown Orlando (the Plaza Cinema Café) to watch District 9, and before and after that experience I would be a patron at a certain club that happens to be nearby. Yep, I went there again. I cut it closer than I wanted to but I ended up walking into the auditorium right as the film started. This is not the time to go into detail on it, but I really didn’t care for the story. I mean, other than that the movie was really well-done for the relatively small amount of money it got. It’s just the story that made me mad; it didn’t make sense too often and the ending… the movie “stopped” rather than “ended”, I thought. I’m not quite sure why the movie is so beloved amongst most people, it seems like.
After that, I returned to the club and someone working there was obviously blowing me off. At the time, I was pretty steamed as hey, I wanted a beer from her (it’s more complicated than that, but again this isn’t the place) so I left, not happy and confused also. I griped and moaned about the movie and my experience in a blog I posted on Saturday afternoon on my MySpace/Facebook page, and in hindsight I don’t know if that was the best idea on my part. But anyway, Saturday afternoon I went to Daytona Beach and as the weather wasn’t great, instead of going to the beach I went to the cinema in town to see Inglourious Basterds. It’s a movie that I dug a hell of a lot. I mean, I’d say that it was Tarantino’s best… but one plot twist that happened, I didn’t really care for. I mean, it just didn’t seem “natural” compared to what he had just seen before. It’s unfortunate, as if it wasn’t for that, I would rate it very highly. You can read about all of that in my latest blog on MySpace here, where I talk about the events up to this past Friday night. A few hours from now I’ll post my newest blog there, where I’ll talk about this past weekend and I’ll explain just how I screwed up when it came to Friday night and I know the toadies will just squeal in glee that I made such a mistake.
Point is, I was in quite the odd mood by the time I made it to the Coliseum (or Colisevm, as it was back in those old days; I was thinking about having all my U’s in this review be V’s instead, a la History of the World Part 1, but then decided that would get old fast, so I decided against it) to see this show; the joint is actually a club and I only discovered that fact Friday afternoon, so I figured I should dress nicely for that and like I did on Friday night, I wore an Affliction shirt. On this night was the shirt for the ill-fated Affliction: Trilogy event. The Coliseum was a real nice place, as the inside had the theme-ing all going on and there were even columns all over. Pretty nice. Oddly enough, in some aspects that joint reminded me of Tabu, and I know WG will pee his pants in excitement that I made any sort of reference to his all-time favorite fed, MLW; him being that big a fan of that fed just about says it all for him, doesn’t it?
The show actually started 15 minutes early, and we got two pre-show matches.
a. Nick Primo defeated Johnny Vandal. This was fine, I guess, but this just did not engage the crowd at all. I mean, not at all. The only real noise that was made came from the section of ladies who happened to be the girlfriends of some of the wrestlers. That was it. Stuff was done, and to be honest, the only real thing I remember is that twice Vandal did the “running knees” into the corner thing.
b. Jerrelle Clark defeated Craig Classic. This was a pretty good bout and the crowd got into it. Given that for most of the night they were pretty hot… you can draw your own conclusions when it came to the previous contest. Early on, Jerrelle controlled things with a side headlock, and the audience enjoyed Classic being on the losing end of things. Fancy that, basic pro wrestling getting over. Classic gained control for a little bit and used fast-paced offense. But, Clark regained control and he used some high-flying offense to his advantage and he won with the springboard off the ropes into a moonsault that he does in most of his matches, but this time he got the win with that maneuver.
The show officially started at 8 with a fancy custom intro, ring announcer Shannon Rose coming out, and also coming out, The Fusion Bombs, who were a quartet of ladies who were wearing Fusion shirts… until they took them off! They had on clothing underneath the shirts (one, a bikini top, two had on shirts and the other was wearing a rather nice tight white dress), which is good as hey, this was still an all-ages event and quite a few kids were there. I’m sure the young boys didn’t mind hitting puberty a little early watching those ladies!
1. Steve Madison defeated Francisco Ciatso (w/ Amy Vitale and Cannon). This was pretty good. It was classic pro wrestling, and yep the crowd enjoyed it. Madison’s right hand was built up to be something that really hurt Frankie. He even asked the ref to check his teeth to make sure that they were all there. Stuff like this got the crowd to hate him. Ciatso gained control after Amy was a cheater cheater pumpkin eater and tripped Madison while the ref was distracted. More interference happened and Ciatso wore down Madison, but Steve made the comeback and the ending came when Cannon got on the apron and he was going to interfere, but Frankie almost ran into him. He stopped in time, but he got rolled up for the win. Afterwards, Madison got beat up for a bit but made his own comeback and he ended up piledriving Cannon.
Before I continue on, I just have to address something. According to this MSL board thread , I have “blatant homosexuality” and I always talk about “getting swing dances”. Swing dances? Sure, I can do a mean Charleston and I’m great at jitterbugging, but I believe he meant “Swing Rides”, which isn’t something that you should knock unless you try it. I wonder why he hasn’t ever… oh, right. I’d say more, but I already use those variety of jokes often even with Tuthill! Given that this guy is the mythical champion of… well, something or another… according to a tiny faction of dipshit people who aren’t even wrestling fans anymore, does random stuff that means nothing (hey, what happened with the feud that was supposed to happen once Demon Toro unmasked as Kentucky Jordan and turned against him? Oh right, nothing! What a brilliant booker you are, Jared David; please, someone try and defend booking like this. C’mon, humor me!) in that fed, and in a now defunct fed (weren’t they supposed to make their big comeback this month? I guess that was for naught) he did a huge “shoot” angle that proved to be a SWERVE and that did absolutely nothing to raise attendance in that fed and it was self-masturbatory BS instead… and all that, and it’s just clear he’s so much better than me, right? Hey, if he wants to have his cranium up MSL’s rectum, that’s fine with me as I can’t do anything about that. But anyway…
2. Tommy Taylor defeated Titan. Titan is known in several places now as Bishop Cross. As Titan is 7 foot tall and is just huge, he had the obvious size advantage, and for whatever reasons, the crowd seemed to cheer the heel rather than good guy Taylor. I thought it was going to be a short squash but it certainly went longer than that. Taylor tried fighting back but at first his offense had no effect. Even when he went after Titan’s leg, he didn’t have that much luck. When Titan was on offense he used what you’d expect; you know, bear hugs and whatnot. Taylor finally got control once Titan’s knee accidentally got caught on the top rope while attempting a big boot, and moments after that he won with a high crossbody off the top rope. Afterwards, Titan was a sore loser so he attacked Taylor and destroyed him, including the usage of a powerbomb. Right before that move, he delivered a thumbs down. I’ll presume that’s the reference to the old gladiator days of a fighter’s fate being decided by a thumbs up or down, in which case is an AWESOME reference to the theme of the club.
I’ll mention here that the crowd was announced online Sunday afternoon as being 400 people. I don’t know if it was that much, but then again it’s tough to judge it when there were people walking and standing around, others sitting, then there was a VIP balcony upstairs, so I can’t say for certain what I thought the attendance was. I can say, though, that one tow-haired guy there who made me think of what Mark Hamill would be like if he was a redneck. Redneck Mark Hamill (RMH for short) was pretty entertaining. He was loud and made noise but wasn’t the annoying type. He also amused me at times.
Also, they had video screens there so a few times, they showed brief clips. All in all they didn’t really do too much except to say that they had video clips. But, the clip where Awesome Kong arrives at the building and a security guard asks for ID and she just shoves him down… that was a legit lol.
3. Awesome Kong defeated Sumie Sakai. It was random seeing Sakai again as I haven’t seen her wrestle live since like 2006. As expected, early on Kong (who was over with the crowd, as she’s in TNA. Yeah, there were that many TNA fans there. Even I couldn’t believe it. Anyway, Sumie got whupped for a few minutes, but then she made a comeback and she did some moves off the top rope that knocked Kong off her feet, and then did some rollup type maneuvers, but that wasn’t enough. She even did a huracanrana off the top rope, but that still got only a 2. She tried a regular huracanrana but yep, what you’d expect to happen did happen and she was the recipient of the Awesome Bomb and as the wrestling announcer cliché goes, the ref could’ve counted to 30. RMH enjoyed cheering on Kong.
4. Chris Jones defeated TJ Perkins to retain the Fusion Junior Heavyweight Title. While this was disjointed at a time or two, I still thought this was a very good bout. Both guys were fan favorites and wrestled as such. I don’t know if it was because they liked TJ’s unique moves and offense or if they didn’t care for Jones or what, but much of the crowd ended up rooting for him by the end. It was back and forth from bell to bell, with standoffs, some Lucha style, high flying around, wrestling, working the arm… all that was there in this contest that got a good amount of time. Jones won with some sort of flash pin, and afterwards both guys were still friendly with each other.
5. Prince Iaukea defeated King Kong Fu. This was the first time I’ve seen the Prince since I went to eKlipse in April and delivered an angry review, in part due to the disrespectful rude way he treated the eKlipse fans and acted like a mark, I say. This may be sounding like I’m biased here, but honestly, I can only rate this match as “fine” and that may be stretching it. This went on for WAY too long, they didn’t look to be on the same page at times, and lest you think it’s just me, a previously hot crowd was almost silent for most of this. No kidding. Need I say more? Well, I will anyway. Fu had the early advantage, using a varied offense of… at least 4 or 5 shoulder tackles. Honest. But, the Prince then took over for most of the bout, and it was just BORING. In fact, I went and stopped drinking beer (I had two bottles of Yuengling) and started drinking rum and Coke instead, and it was during this match. True story. I only had one of that mixed drink and then stopped drinking, if you can believe it. I had enough to drink on Friday night anyway. Anyhow, King Kong (who wasn’t really that over with the crowd at all, for whatever reason; most places, the audiences go ape-shit for him, pun intended; RMH didn't care for him but at least made a joke that Awesome Kong must be his wife) finally made the comeback, and then the only interesting moment was the ending, when the Kong went for a kick, Iaukea caught it, spun the foot around to the ref, who instinctively caught it, and then Prince caught him with a kick of his own, to the head, for the pin.
6. Dark City Fight Club defeated Dagon-Sinn Bohdi to win the vacant Pro Wrestling Fusion Florida Tag Team Titles. The titles were vacant as The Sheik/Christopher Gray were the champs but then Sheik won the Florida Heavyweight Title and he couldn’t hold both belts. This was announced as a No DQ match but yet if you watched the vast majority of it… before the match they turned off most of the lights and then had green lasers shooting all around… yep, just like at the Impact Zone! What a great thing to be reminded of. In neither case did that stuff or other stuff at the IZ (such as the fireworks… who gives a shit? It’s fireworks!) impress me, but maybe that is just me. Anyway, as I saw this match be wrestled under normal tag team rules, even to the point that the ref was distracted to allow heel chicanery, that SO reminded me of an episode of Impact. I mean, honestly now. I guess this was good, but the illogic of the entire match didn’t make me too happy. At least the crowd was into it somewhat and they enjoyed yelling “Kizarny!” at Sinn, who got pissed off and kept on yelling at the crowd to *not* call him that. Anyhow, the hot tag was made and a minute or two later, the ending came. Dagon held Jon Davis (I believe) and Sinn pulled something tan-colored out of his pants and used it to try and hit Jon, but instead he nailed Dagon with it. I’m not trying to sound homoerotic here or be vulgar, but I’m not quite sure what he pulled out of his pants. It looked like a Singapore cane (but only a darker shade of brown) and believe it or not, I saw it *bend*, so for all I know it was made out of rubber! No kidding. Whatever it was, it didn’t work and DCFC won the match and the titles after their customary powerbomb/neckbreaker combo.
By the way, the next show for Fusion in this building is on Friday, October the 16th. It’s being done in part with Girls Gone Wild, of all people, so I have a feeling that it is NOT an event where you’ll see any children there. That’s rather interesting given the number of children and families here, but it is part of the town’s “Biketober” week. Not that I know too much about it as I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term “Biketober” before, so you can tell how much I care about the biker culture. When I heard Shannon Rose announce the next show (but not the tie-in with GGW) I was wondering if he was saying “Biketober” or “Bi-tober”. With the latter I was thinking, “Hey wait a minute, what exactly will be going on with THAT show?” Also, if you so desire, you can make any and all jokes concerning the terms “Shannon Rose” and “bisexual” being connected together. Just don’t connect “Blair Russell” and “bisexual”, though, as needless to say it’s not true, no matter how much the toadies wish it was.
7. The Sheik (without Fabulous Frank, Babbaras, Christopher Gray, Joey Eastman, or any other second) defeated Too Cold Scorpio to retain the Pro Wrestling Fusion Florida Heavyweight Title. This was pretty good, I thought. As I figured, when the audience saw Sheik’s schtick of the prayer rug and all that, and you heard chants of “USA!”, which got the expected reaction from Sheik. The crowd didn’t seem to really know Scorpio all that well, but at least they disliked Sheik. The Iranian had control of the first few minutes after he blindsided Scorpio. Too Cold regained control by flying around, using some jacks, and flipped and flopped around. Sheik wore down Scorpio for a few minutes but then he got control again. The ending came when the ref was knocked out accidentally by Too Cold. Sheik pulled out a table, which got the expected pop from the crowd. He set it up, but he ended up being the recipient of it after being powerbombed onto the ground and then being laid on it and Scorpio moonsaulted him. However, the ref was still out. He went to revive the ref, but Sheik managed to recover rather quickly and rolled him up for the win.
Overall, this 2 hour and 15 minute show (with no intermission and including the pre-show stuff) was pretty entertaining. The venue has a great look, the crowd was lively for the most part, and even though it was up and down, I still enjoyed the action. There isn’t much cohesion with Fusion when you look at past show results (if I call out one company for lack of cohesion, then I guess I should do it here too, no matter what reaction I may receive. Then again, I could say that about many of the wrestling companies in Florida; as I’ve said before, maybe I just ask for too much. Viewed as a singular show, though, it was a lot of fun and I’m glad I went and saw it.
I apologize for having this posted so late, but besides being busy today, I was also tied up Saturday afternoon. I won’t delve into details, but I hung out with some people at a bowling alley (I’m a better bowler than our current President, but that’s about it; then again, I haven’t bowled since 2003, no lie) and then went to a seafood restaurant. I don’t usually eat that kind of food, but I still had more than enough to eat there. Note that I said “seafood” and not “see-food”, which is another name for the buffet, i.e. David Tuthill’s favorite type of restaurant!
My next show will be the upcoming Vintage event in Sanford on the 29th. I’ll have that review posted by this time Monday night the 31st.
Before I get to talking about the show from Pro Wrestling Fusion, the first one I’ve seen from them since last September, I have to talk about what I’ve done from Friday night up to Saturday night and this event. Friday night I decided to go to the theatre they have in downtown Orlando (the Plaza Cinema Café) to watch District 9, and before and after that experience I would be a patron at a certain club that happens to be nearby. Yep, I went there again. I cut it closer than I wanted to but I ended up walking into the auditorium right as the film started. This is not the time to go into detail on it, but I really didn’t care for the story. I mean, other than that the movie was really well-done for the relatively small amount of money it got. It’s just the story that made me mad; it didn’t make sense too often and the ending… the movie “stopped” rather than “ended”, I thought. I’m not quite sure why the movie is so beloved amongst most people, it seems like.
After that, I returned to the club and someone working there was obviously blowing me off. At the time, I was pretty steamed as hey, I wanted a beer from her (it’s more complicated than that, but again this isn’t the place) so I left, not happy and confused also. I griped and moaned about the movie and my experience in a blog I posted on Saturday afternoon on my MySpace/Facebook page, and in hindsight I don’t know if that was the best idea on my part. But anyway, Saturday afternoon I went to Daytona Beach and as the weather wasn’t great, instead of going to the beach I went to the cinema in town to see Inglourious Basterds. It’s a movie that I dug a hell of a lot. I mean, I’d say that it was Tarantino’s best… but one plot twist that happened, I didn’t really care for. I mean, it just didn’t seem “natural” compared to what he had just seen before. It’s unfortunate, as if it wasn’t for that, I would rate it very highly. You can read about all of that in my latest blog on MySpace here, where I talk about the events up to this past Friday night. A few hours from now I’ll post my newest blog there, where I’ll talk about this past weekend and I’ll explain just how I screwed up when it came to Friday night and I know the toadies will just squeal in glee that I made such a mistake.
Point is, I was in quite the odd mood by the time I made it to the Coliseum (or Colisevm, as it was back in those old days; I was thinking about having all my U’s in this review be V’s instead, a la History of the World Part 1, but then decided that would get old fast, so I decided against it) to see this show; the joint is actually a club and I only discovered that fact Friday afternoon, so I figured I should dress nicely for that and like I did on Friday night, I wore an Affliction shirt. On this night was the shirt for the ill-fated Affliction: Trilogy event. The Coliseum was a real nice place, as the inside had the theme-ing all going on and there were even columns all over. Pretty nice. Oddly enough, in some aspects that joint reminded me of Tabu, and I know WG will pee his pants in excitement that I made any sort of reference to his all-time favorite fed, MLW; him being that big a fan of that fed just about says it all for him, doesn’t it?
The show actually started 15 minutes early, and we got two pre-show matches.
a. Nick Primo defeated Johnny Vandal. This was fine, I guess, but this just did not engage the crowd at all. I mean, not at all. The only real noise that was made came from the section of ladies who happened to be the girlfriends of some of the wrestlers. That was it. Stuff was done, and to be honest, the only real thing I remember is that twice Vandal did the “running knees” into the corner thing.
b. Jerrelle Clark defeated Craig Classic. This was a pretty good bout and the crowd got into it. Given that for most of the night they were pretty hot… you can draw your own conclusions when it came to the previous contest. Early on, Jerrelle controlled things with a side headlock, and the audience enjoyed Classic being on the losing end of things. Fancy that, basic pro wrestling getting over. Classic gained control for a little bit and used fast-paced offense. But, Clark regained control and he used some high-flying offense to his advantage and he won with the springboard off the ropes into a moonsault that he does in most of his matches, but this time he got the win with that maneuver.
The show officially started at 8 with a fancy custom intro, ring announcer Shannon Rose coming out, and also coming out, The Fusion Bombs, who were a quartet of ladies who were wearing Fusion shirts… until they took them off! They had on clothing underneath the shirts (one, a bikini top, two had on shirts and the other was wearing a rather nice tight white dress), which is good as hey, this was still an all-ages event and quite a few kids were there. I’m sure the young boys didn’t mind hitting puberty a little early watching those ladies!
1. Steve Madison defeated Francisco Ciatso (w/ Amy Vitale and Cannon). This was pretty good. It was classic pro wrestling, and yep the crowd enjoyed it. Madison’s right hand was built up to be something that really hurt Frankie. He even asked the ref to check his teeth to make sure that they were all there. Stuff like this got the crowd to hate him. Ciatso gained control after Amy was a cheater cheater pumpkin eater and tripped Madison while the ref was distracted. More interference happened and Ciatso wore down Madison, but Steve made the comeback and the ending came when Cannon got on the apron and he was going to interfere, but Frankie almost ran into him. He stopped in time, but he got rolled up for the win. Afterwards, Madison got beat up for a bit but made his own comeback and he ended up piledriving Cannon.
Before I continue on, I just have to address something. According to this MSL board thread , I have “blatant homosexuality” and I always talk about “getting swing dances”. Swing dances? Sure, I can do a mean Charleston and I’m great at jitterbugging, but I believe he meant “Swing Rides”, which isn’t something that you should knock unless you try it. I wonder why he hasn’t ever… oh, right. I’d say more, but I already use those variety of jokes often even with Tuthill! Given that this guy is the mythical champion of… well, something or another… according to a tiny faction of dipshit people who aren’t even wrestling fans anymore, does random stuff that means nothing (hey, what happened with the feud that was supposed to happen once Demon Toro unmasked as Kentucky Jordan and turned against him? Oh right, nothing! What a brilliant booker you are, Jared David; please, someone try and defend booking like this. C’mon, humor me!) in that fed, and in a now defunct fed (weren’t they supposed to make their big comeback this month? I guess that was for naught) he did a huge “shoot” angle that proved to be a SWERVE and that did absolutely nothing to raise attendance in that fed and it was self-masturbatory BS instead… and all that, and it’s just clear he’s so much better than me, right? Hey, if he wants to have his cranium up MSL’s rectum, that’s fine with me as I can’t do anything about that. But anyway…
2. Tommy Taylor defeated Titan. Titan is known in several places now as Bishop Cross. As Titan is 7 foot tall and is just huge, he had the obvious size advantage, and for whatever reasons, the crowd seemed to cheer the heel rather than good guy Taylor. I thought it was going to be a short squash but it certainly went longer than that. Taylor tried fighting back but at first his offense had no effect. Even when he went after Titan’s leg, he didn’t have that much luck. When Titan was on offense he used what you’d expect; you know, bear hugs and whatnot. Taylor finally got control once Titan’s knee accidentally got caught on the top rope while attempting a big boot, and moments after that he won with a high crossbody off the top rope. Afterwards, Titan was a sore loser so he attacked Taylor and destroyed him, including the usage of a powerbomb. Right before that move, he delivered a thumbs down. I’ll presume that’s the reference to the old gladiator days of a fighter’s fate being decided by a thumbs up or down, in which case is an AWESOME reference to the theme of the club.
I’ll mention here that the crowd was announced online Sunday afternoon as being 400 people. I don’t know if it was that much, but then again it’s tough to judge it when there were people walking and standing around, others sitting, then there was a VIP balcony upstairs, so I can’t say for certain what I thought the attendance was. I can say, though, that one tow-haired guy there who made me think of what Mark Hamill would be like if he was a redneck. Redneck Mark Hamill (RMH for short) was pretty entertaining. He was loud and made noise but wasn’t the annoying type. He also amused me at times.
Also, they had video screens there so a few times, they showed brief clips. All in all they didn’t really do too much except to say that they had video clips. But, the clip where Awesome Kong arrives at the building and a security guard asks for ID and she just shoves him down… that was a legit lol.
3. Awesome Kong defeated Sumie Sakai. It was random seeing Sakai again as I haven’t seen her wrestle live since like 2006. As expected, early on Kong (who was over with the crowd, as she’s in TNA. Yeah, there were that many TNA fans there. Even I couldn’t believe it. Anyway, Sumie got whupped for a few minutes, but then she made a comeback and she did some moves off the top rope that knocked Kong off her feet, and then did some rollup type maneuvers, but that wasn’t enough. She even did a huracanrana off the top rope, but that still got only a 2. She tried a regular huracanrana but yep, what you’d expect to happen did happen and she was the recipient of the Awesome Bomb and as the wrestling announcer cliché goes, the ref could’ve counted to 30. RMH enjoyed cheering on Kong.
4. Chris Jones defeated TJ Perkins to retain the Fusion Junior Heavyweight Title. While this was disjointed at a time or two, I still thought this was a very good bout. Both guys were fan favorites and wrestled as such. I don’t know if it was because they liked TJ’s unique moves and offense or if they didn’t care for Jones or what, but much of the crowd ended up rooting for him by the end. It was back and forth from bell to bell, with standoffs, some Lucha style, high flying around, wrestling, working the arm… all that was there in this contest that got a good amount of time. Jones won with some sort of flash pin, and afterwards both guys were still friendly with each other.
5. Prince Iaukea defeated King Kong Fu. This was the first time I’ve seen the Prince since I went to eKlipse in April and delivered an angry review, in part due to the disrespectful rude way he treated the eKlipse fans and acted like a mark, I say. This may be sounding like I’m biased here, but honestly, I can only rate this match as “fine” and that may be stretching it. This went on for WAY too long, they didn’t look to be on the same page at times, and lest you think it’s just me, a previously hot crowd was almost silent for most of this. No kidding. Need I say more? Well, I will anyway. Fu had the early advantage, using a varied offense of… at least 4 or 5 shoulder tackles. Honest. But, the Prince then took over for most of the bout, and it was just BORING. In fact, I went and stopped drinking beer (I had two bottles of Yuengling) and started drinking rum and Coke instead, and it was during this match. True story. I only had one of that mixed drink and then stopped drinking, if you can believe it. I had enough to drink on Friday night anyway. Anyhow, King Kong (who wasn’t really that over with the crowd at all, for whatever reason; most places, the audiences go ape-shit for him, pun intended; RMH didn't care for him but at least made a joke that Awesome Kong must be his wife) finally made the comeback, and then the only interesting moment was the ending, when the Kong went for a kick, Iaukea caught it, spun the foot around to the ref, who instinctively caught it, and then Prince caught him with a kick of his own, to the head, for the pin.
6. Dark City Fight Club defeated Dagon-Sinn Bohdi to win the vacant Pro Wrestling Fusion Florida Tag Team Titles. The titles were vacant as The Sheik/Christopher Gray were the champs but then Sheik won the Florida Heavyweight Title and he couldn’t hold both belts. This was announced as a No DQ match but yet if you watched the vast majority of it… before the match they turned off most of the lights and then had green lasers shooting all around… yep, just like at the Impact Zone! What a great thing to be reminded of. In neither case did that stuff or other stuff at the IZ (such as the fireworks… who gives a shit? It’s fireworks!) impress me, but maybe that is just me. Anyway, as I saw this match be wrestled under normal tag team rules, even to the point that the ref was distracted to allow heel chicanery, that SO reminded me of an episode of Impact. I mean, honestly now. I guess this was good, but the illogic of the entire match didn’t make me too happy. At least the crowd was into it somewhat and they enjoyed yelling “Kizarny!” at Sinn, who got pissed off and kept on yelling at the crowd to *not* call him that. Anyhow, the hot tag was made and a minute or two later, the ending came. Dagon held Jon Davis (I believe) and Sinn pulled something tan-colored out of his pants and used it to try and hit Jon, but instead he nailed Dagon with it. I’m not trying to sound homoerotic here or be vulgar, but I’m not quite sure what he pulled out of his pants. It looked like a Singapore cane (but only a darker shade of brown) and believe it or not, I saw it *bend*, so for all I know it was made out of rubber! No kidding. Whatever it was, it didn’t work and DCFC won the match and the titles after their customary powerbomb/neckbreaker combo.
By the way, the next show for Fusion in this building is on Friday, October the 16th. It’s being done in part with Girls Gone Wild, of all people, so I have a feeling that it is NOT an event where you’ll see any children there. That’s rather interesting given the number of children and families here, but it is part of the town’s “Biketober” week. Not that I know too much about it as I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term “Biketober” before, so you can tell how much I care about the biker culture. When I heard Shannon Rose announce the next show (but not the tie-in with GGW) I was wondering if he was saying “Biketober” or “Bi-tober”. With the latter I was thinking, “Hey wait a minute, what exactly will be going on with THAT show?” Also, if you so desire, you can make any and all jokes concerning the terms “Shannon Rose” and “bisexual” being connected together. Just don’t connect “Blair Russell” and “bisexual”, though, as needless to say it’s not true, no matter how much the toadies wish it was.
7. The Sheik (without Fabulous Frank, Babbaras, Christopher Gray, Joey Eastman, or any other second) defeated Too Cold Scorpio to retain the Pro Wrestling Fusion Florida Heavyweight Title. This was pretty good, I thought. As I figured, when the audience saw Sheik’s schtick of the prayer rug and all that, and you heard chants of “USA!”, which got the expected reaction from Sheik. The crowd didn’t seem to really know Scorpio all that well, but at least they disliked Sheik. The Iranian had control of the first few minutes after he blindsided Scorpio. Too Cold regained control by flying around, using some jacks, and flipped and flopped around. Sheik wore down Scorpio for a few minutes but then he got control again. The ending came when the ref was knocked out accidentally by Too Cold. Sheik pulled out a table, which got the expected pop from the crowd. He set it up, but he ended up being the recipient of it after being powerbombed onto the ground and then being laid on it and Scorpio moonsaulted him. However, the ref was still out. He went to revive the ref, but Sheik managed to recover rather quickly and rolled him up for the win.
Overall, this 2 hour and 15 minute show (with no intermission and including the pre-show stuff) was pretty entertaining. The venue has a great look, the crowd was lively for the most part, and even though it was up and down, I still enjoyed the action. There isn’t much cohesion with Fusion when you look at past show results (if I call out one company for lack of cohesion, then I guess I should do it here too, no matter what reaction I may receive. Then again, I could say that about many of the wrestling companies in Florida; as I’ve said before, maybe I just ask for too much. Viewed as a singular show, though, it was a lot of fun and I’m glad I went and saw it.
I apologize for having this posted so late, but besides being busy today, I was also tied up Saturday afternoon. I won’t delve into details, but I hung out with some people at a bowling alley (I’m a better bowler than our current President, but that’s about it; then again, I haven’t bowled since 2003, no lie) and then went to a seafood restaurant. I don’t usually eat that kind of food, but I still had more than enough to eat there. Note that I said “seafood” and not “see-food”, which is another name for the buffet, i.e. David Tuthill’s favorite type of restaurant!
My next show will be the upcoming Vintage event in Sanford on the 29th. I’ll have that review posted by this time Monday night the 31st.