DWF "March Breakthrough"
A Review by Chris Crucifix
- Date: Sunday, March 14 2010
- City: Barrie, Ontario
- Venue: ANAF Building
- Ring Announcer: Gentleman Geoff
- Referee: "Old School" Eddington James
- Attendance: 50
- Notables in Attendance: Johnny Devine
"Canadian Hero" Mike Hart def. Kenneth Crises
- Small crowd was excited to see the first contest get under way, after a long delayed start. Crises had put on some mass to add to his defined physique since I had last seen him, he appeared to be sunburnt. Hart came to the ring with a Canadian flag, and was wearing goofy pink trimmed bell bottoms which look like he acquired them from Joey Valentine's wardrobe, and added pink Hart lettering at the belt line. Crises had dominated he match early on, and the crowd was rather silent. Someone made mention of Hart being Bret's nephew which then got the crowd to rally behind him. One point in the match both men hit each other with a standing high big boot, which knocked Hart off the apron to the floor, and Crises crashing to the mat. After Crises had failed a high flying attempt, Hart sprung off the ropes and hit Crises with a cross body, it rolled over twice, and the pin was made. Post Match Hart waved the Canadian flag.
"Canadian Klassic" CK (Sexx, although not announced) def. "Asian Nightmare" Kwan Chang
- These two have met each other many times, in many rings across Ontario and further. Crowd applauded both men at during the entrance, but soon favored CK, maybe one of the most vocal matches of the night. Both men sized each other up at the start, which Kwan ended up gaining the advantage early with strikes, and kicks. After he had grounded CK, he attempted to wear the popular trash talker down with a chinlock. After the crowd rallied behind the Canadian CK, and he came to, he was able to hit Kwan with a cross body press, a ddt, a slingshot which nailed Kwan's throat into the ropes and a devestating german release suplex. The Asian Nightmare was sent reeling, until he turned the tide with kicks once more. After attempting to hit his patented pump handle slam finish, CK reversed and slid out the back door, was able to attempt to pin Kwan with a sunset flip, Kwan tried to swing out with a short dropkick to the chops, CK avoided it this time, and rolled him up with a small package. Nice slow build into a great exchange between both veterans, and match length seemed to be where it needed to be, clearly where experience of both men showed.
"Canadian Crazyhorse" Michael Elgin defeated El Kicko-Asso
-Elgin squashed the popular masked comedy star in a matter of minutes. Elgin didn't take kindly to the comedy at the start, and nailed the masked youngster with many strong strikes, lariats, and finished him off with a powerbomb. Ref got in the way a few times.
Intergender Tag Team Match
Sexxxy Eddy & She-Nay-Nay def. Zaquary Springate III & Miss Danyah
- Before the match the Englishman, Springate insulted the small but vocal Barrie crowd for about 5 minutes, singling out children, seniors, and calling the crowd hillbillies, he insulted Sexxxy Eddy in what was supposed to be a rematch from the debut DWF show. He then introduced his new companion, and the "Future of Fitness" Miss Danyah and stated that there had been a change of plans and the single match with Sexxxy Eddy was now going to be a tag match. Sexxxy Eddy came to the ring, and stated that 2 on 1 just isn't how it goes down, and said he had a partner of his own and introduced She-Nay-Nay, "Oldschool" allowed for the tag match, but before hand Eddy and She-Nay-Nay then did the usual striptease dance. Springate started the match by trash talking Eddy, but everytime Eddy went to hit him, Springate tagged Danyah. Danyah would enter the ring and slap Eddy in the face, this occured twice then Danyah and Springate celebrated and hugged, meanwhile Eddy had tagged She-Nay-Nay and they were able to hit a few double teams on Springate and Danyah. After the ref "Oldschool" regained control of the match, Springate pounded on She-Nay-Nay, and the heels cut the ring in half and would not let She-Nay-Nay get to the corner for majority of the bout. Springate nailed She-Nay-Nay with a huge standing vertical suplex, and then tagged Danyah as she went for the pin, Springate laid on her legs for a double pin. Eddy was furious and desperate wanted to tag, as Springate continued to work over She-Nay-Nay with eye rakes and back rakes. Springate goes for his standing springboard back elbow, but misses, and She-Nay-Nay gets to the corner. Finally, after Eddy made the tag, Danyah refused to wrestle him. After a while Eddy was able to gain the advantage Danyah ended up getting worked over by She-Nay-Nay and laid out to which Eddy hit a split legged moonsault and landed perfectly on Danyah for the missionary position into a pin attempt, some fans who understood what they had just witness laughed tremendously, while most kids did not. Eddy and She-Nay-Nay then rode on their opponents backs like cowboys & girls much to the fans delight. She-Nay-Nay hit a ddt on Springate, and Eddy hit another split legged moonsault and the rest was history. After the match Eddy got all the children in the crowd close to the apron to call Springate a crybaby, and after this occured for a while Springate through a temper tantrum, he then got on the mic and told some kid who was fancaming the match that if he saw this on Youtube he would kick the kids' ass. Funny times, and a nice lil tag match, that had lost control a few times, but was brought back and the crowd really popped for the victory at the end.
Intermission- This was about 20 mins. Gentlemen Geoff plugged Merch.
Coming back from Intermission Geoff plugged RJ's cd, and read the liner notes, which had some insulting comments. RJ came out had a short mic spot where he plugged his album for $10, and then was de-robed by his bodyguard Chris Garvin.
"Midnight Special" RJ City w/ "C.O.D" Chris Garvin def. Hornet
- RJ controlled the bout early on trying wear the lucha star down with several arm wringers and a rear chinlock. On the outside Garvin paced around the ring insulting the Hornet. Hornet rallied back with fan support and was able to break the submission holds and used his speed to his advantage nailing RJ with several arm drags, and a dropkick. Hornet hit the ropes and was distracted by Garvin, RJ distracted the ref which allowed his bodyguard to cheapshot Hornet several times and choke him on the ropes. RJ winked at his bodyguard, but while he was gloating about his cheap tactics Hornet his an enziguri which sent the Midnight Special reeling. Hornet goes out to the apron to climb the ropes, Garvin climbs the apron while RJ regains some composure and pulls the ref aside, this allowed Garvin to nail huge big boot off on the Hornet which crumpled him in a heep. RJ hit a final cut type move to score the victory, and left arms raised with Garvin. It appeared that RJ may have hit face, smashed his teeth or something along the lines as he favored his mouth on the way out.
"Big" Brian Youngblood def. "Silvertounged Sexfiend" Jeremy Profit
- Profit hit the ring all flashy and pimp like ala Flash Funk, even doing some gigalo type dancing. Youngblood came to the ring looking like a giant cowboy with a black trenchcoat and a white cowboy hat, which I haven't seen the big guy do, he was announced from Manitoulin(sp?) Island while coming out to the Nickelback Monday Night Raw Theme. After both men were ready to get the contest underway Youngblood had the crowd behind him entirely who were much in awe of his natural size, he could use some more defininition and body tone to really look like a crazy maniac giant. Both men lock up, and Profit controlled most of the bout singling out Youngblood's leg and trying to keep the giant down. Youngblood came to, and was able to give Profit a massive gorilla press high into the air. At one point sheer power took over for Youngblood as he was able to get Profit up for an electric chair drop when both men were down on the apron, he threw Profit up a bit and nailed him with a huge powerbomb for the finish.
"Dynamito" George Terzis def Manabu Soya and Kiyoshi in a 3 Way Dance
- Terzis was announced from Tampa Bay Florida which I thought was weird considering he coulda used the whole Canadian fan support against the two Japanese stars. First time seeing Soya, I liked that he worked the crowd despite the language barriers, and his legs were thick as tree trunks. Despite Kiyoshi being announced as TNA star he came out to play a solid heel. After the two Japanese stars agreed to be on the same page, asking Terzis if he was Japanese to which Terzis said some quick Japanese shit talk which they didn't much approve of. The two Japanese worked over Terzis beating him down with fore-arms, axe-handles and sledges. Kiyoshi took off his belt and whipped "Dynamito" several times while Soya destracted the ref by getting him to look into the crowd. Both Japanese stars then nailed Terzis with double should block takedowns, and worked on his throat with thrusts and chokes. After this the two Japanese stars must've slammed Terzis at least 10-15 times in a row, and Terzis' back was jet red. They whipped Terzis into the buckles several times, and then both men kept hitting several running lariats in the corner on Terzis. The two Japanese hoisted Terzis up for a double suplex, and after Soya attempted to score the pin, Kiyoshi broke the attempt. This resulted in a shoving match, to which Dynamite was able to hit several strikes and kicks on the two. After Kiyoshi wanted to once again work with Soya, Soya was reluctant and opted to attack instead, both Japanese stars exchanged several strikes, Kiyoshi hit a dropkick, and Soya hit a backbreaker. Dynamite regained composure and entered the ring on fire. He sent Soya reeling out of the ring into the crowd, Kiyoshi tried to nail a kick of his own, Terzis countered and hoisted him up looked like he was gonna hit a TKO and spun Kiyoshi around with the gutbuster/codebreaker for the win. Strong match, good storytelling, and hard hitting. Terzis really took all the Japanese had to offer as far as strikes.
MAIN EVENT
"Textbook" Tyson Dux defeated Kushida
- Despite just watching a match with two Japanese heels, Tyson made it clear upon his entrance that it would not be the same story for this bout. Tyson was very vocal at the start talking a big game which Kushida didn't take to kindly too. Kushida just wanted to wrestle, and used his speed on the more powerful Dux. Kushida hit some arm drags, dropkicks, some chops then Tyson took a breather on the floor soaking up a referee 9 count. This angered Kushida some more, Tyson was ruthless with some aggression on Kushida and gained the advantage with hair pulling out of a side headlock. Tyson whipped Kushida into the ropes, who then was able to hit his springboard back elbow ala Tajiri. Action spilt out onto the floor, Kushida attempted a moonsault off the apron but Tyson pulls his legs out before he could springboard. Kushida gained the advantage and hit Tyson with a modified Tarantula hold in the ropes. Breaks before 5, gets Tyson in the ring nails several buzzsaw like kicks on Tyson which gets Dux down on the mat, Kushida hits a beautiful moonsault on Dux, but only gets a 2 count. Kushida climbs the ropes again, Tyson knocks him off tries to superplex him off the top rope, but Kushida puts on the breaks. Both men back to their feet Kushida tries to hit his finish, Dux reverses and hoists him up for the brainbuster, 1-2-3 and Dux gets the victory. Match of the Night
Final Thoughts
Overall the small crowd was pretty vocal, and seemingly enjoyed the action. They sold a lot of pizza at this show at one point it looked like everyone was eating some, so that might helped garner some extra cash. Talent on this card was really deep, and every match told a different story, which kept the crowd interested and involved in the matches. They announced they would be returning in the summer some time again at the ANAF club and plugged the websites for further information. Fun show, long trip for me but I did manage to score a couple of VHS at the 400 Flea Market one of XPW Baptized and Blood, and an Art Garfunkle movie.
Chris Crucifix
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