This is a few days late on my end (busy weekend with more than just wrestling), but I also caught most of Joey Janela’s Spring Break 2. I wasn’t able to see the main event yet because my FITE feed sadly crapped out, but I have a feeling I’ll get this and/or Matt Riddle’s Bloodsport on DVD in the near future.
As likely mentioned by more than just John & Wai, PCO vs. WALTER was amazing. My likely match of the show. PCO looks considerably older than when I last saw a match with him ten years ago, but that has not held him back.
The opener was a six-way scramble won by Eli Everfly, a younger guy from California, using a double-underhook Canadian Destroyer off the top. How he was able to get away with that was beyond me. Also in this match were DJ Z, Gringo Loco, Tony Deppen, KTB [Kyle The Beast], and Teddy Hart, seemingly sleepwalking through this match while hitting his usual amazing movez, zoned out, not as emotionally involved as the other five, and side-stepping any dives to the outside.
Matt Riddle vs. James Ellsworth was exactly what it needed to be, with Riddle getting the Bromission in short order after Ellsworth got the better of him at times, clipping his knee before the bell and avoiding a knee to the face thanks to his lack of chin.
David Starr beat Mike Quackenbush in a good match that seemed to tell a different story than I expected. A lot of technical work, but also some scary moments where Starr dropped the sporadically-wrestling Quackenbush on his head. Still, the one sane moment in the middle of a crazy wrestling hurricane.
Virgil came out at one point during the show, cutting an unintelligible promo and wandering around the ring before being called to the back by someone. This sucked, whatever it was.
Nick Gage beat Penta in a match where they threw chairs at each other and put each other through wooden doors. Then Gage yelled back at people in the crowd giving him shit, saying he’ll wait in the parking lot for anyone looking to get a piece of him.
Finally, before the main event, was the 2nd Annual Spring Break Clusterfuck. Staggered entrances at indeterminate times, eliminations via pin, submission, being thrown over the top rope, disqualification, or death. One of the people commentating on this match was Ron Funches. Order of entrants:
- Jimmy Lloyd (whom Funches said looked like if Roseanne had sex with a caveman)
- Session Moth Martina
- Orange Cassidy
- Wheeler Yuta
- Curt Stallion
- Facade
- Swoggle
- Grado
- Kikutaro
- The Invisible Man (who was your winner, even after Lloyd hit him with an illegal piledriver)
- Joe Gacy
- Earl Cooter under the name Brian Idol
- Chris Dickinson, coming out to Real American and looking like the Sandman
- Dan Severn
- Alabama Doink
- Rickey Shane Page
- Markus Crane
- Aero Boy and Crazy Boy, who came out as a team
- Rory Gulak, doing Drew Gulak’s old gimmick
- Spyder Nate Webb, who did his full Teenage Dirt Bag entrance
- Ethan Page
- Maxwell Jacob Friedman
- Mikey Whipwreck, who came out much later and looked quite good in the ring