Saturday, March 03, 2007

Arena Report: SEW Memphis, TN 3.2.07

---- Caperville Maniac beat Big Steve with Foxy Red. Big Steve puked after the match. [DUD]

----Crime beat Chris Lexx and Reno Diamond in a Triple Threat Street Fight to win TCW Title. This was crazy and I usually shit all over these kinds of matches, but the crowd was into it and all three guys are good at taking and giving moves. This was easily the most exciting match of the show with tables, chairs and spots everywhere. [***]

----“Family of Pain” [Sarge O’Reilly/Mickey Ray] with Coach BT beat "High Society" ["God's Gift" Jason Richards/ "Pimp Glorious" Jeremy Killz] with "Pimpin'" Antoin Smooth with Diamond. Match was not bad, but HS needs lots of work. They both are very small, but bumped pretty good. They missed 4 or 5 spots that were called on the fly. I got to bodyslam Richards on the gym floor when he was pitched to me. [**1/2]

----Snowman beat The Showstopper. Snowman has never been a great worker and never will be. Snowman had his crew all around the ring and just beat up when he was pitched out. Snowman wrestled with no shirt, slacks and dress shoes. [DUD]

----The Sniper [Charlie Parks] beat Psycho. Not a bad match, not a good match. Crowd would pop for certain spots, but since Psycho was supposed to be the heel, Parks would not even take any heat. This is my first time seeing Parks and I was not impressed. It was suppose to be a Boot Camp match, but no one used anything. [**]

----Tim Williams beat "Pimpin'" Antoin Smooth in a Fan’s Lumberjack Match - What I seen of this match as far as execution, it was horrible. The crowd was eating it up, because a lot of them were family & friends of Williams. Williams used a big fireball and pinned Smooth to win. [DUD]

----Sid Vicious beat Doug Gilbert by pinning Crime. Gilbert brought out Crime/Chris Lexx to help him beat Vicious, since it was an anything goes match. Crime/Lexx were beat up by Vicious bumping like crazy and making Sid look like a million bucks. Gilbert then called out Vicious’ “brother” Johnny Rotten. Gilbert/Rotten got the heat on Sid, until he made a big comeback with Crime/Lexx jumping back in to help. Lexx took a chokeslam and then Vicious powerbombed Crime for the pin and win. This was the only match that had perfect psychology and the match execution was on the money. I don’t know if everyone remembers this, but Vicious was never a great worker, but he had tons of charisma and had the IT factor. Gilbert did a real good job with him and this was just as good as Sid gets unless he is in the ring with Shawn Michaels. [***]

RassleNotes: 70 people in attendance with a $700 gate…This is an understatement – this was the most unorganized show I have ever been to. Lamarrus Brooks, who was in charge is like 14 years old. He has to be commended even though the show was not great – I have seen worse shows from people that have been doing it for years…I think our match was changed 3 times before deciding on the who vs who…All Pro poster for next week’s show was on our car when we got ready to leave. A great poster!!!...Parks was supposed to be the baby, but he was “hiding” a chain using it. WTF?? Psycho got more cheers than Parks…Sid is in excellent shape. He is ready for another big run and I wonder if Vince would use him??...Crime was excellent in the main event selling for Sid. He was up in the powerbomb and his arms were flying high. Crowd was really into the main event with them surrounding the barriers and popped for the finish…Shuhei Aoki came all the way from Tokyo, Japan to see Vicious wrestle. Apparently he had tried a couple of times to get Sid’s autograph and he no-showed the events in the past…Gilbert was also in good shape – looked to have lost a few pounds since I seen him live…Sid was paid $900, Doug Gilbert $250 and Snowman got $75…Great to see "Pure Destruction" [Brody & Cody Hawk] in the crowd. I know they came to just mark out for me and FOP. LOL…For shoot – thanks a ton to FOP for let me be part of one of their final matches before retirement. Thanks guys!!...Three [DUD] matches –most [DUD]s on one show since the start of the site, but it was their first show...This show was proof that ANYBODY can put on a wrestling show and be part of it without one day of training…DVD will be available ASAP here on the site…May,2007 is return date.