----One of the most innovative & crazy competitors from Japan has to be Atsushi Onita. This man is considered the father of the Japanese Death Matches. Legend has it that Onita, after his career was winding down, wanted to emulate his early career doing a Memphis Wrestling style after participating in a ‘Concession stand” match. There was much criticism in his homeland for doing garbage wrestling, but he sold it to the millions. Onita won “Best Babyface” in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter 1993 and 1994 year end awards. He also won Most Charismatic Wrestling 1994 and was inducted into the WO Hall of Fame in 1996. Paul Heyman would later start ECW with influences from Memphis and Onita.
----Johnny Legend described as “Singer - actor - wrestling promoter - horror archivist - porn producer Johnny Legend exists in a bizarre cultural vortex whose undertows perpetually whirl him into an episodic cycle of shenanigans that just get curiouser and curiouser. The wild-eyed, weird-bearded, longhaired dynamo, internationally known as the Rockabilly Rasputin, is a manic force, one you can find at just about every unsavory corner of the Hollywood underground” can be blamed for bringing a cult wrestling promotion to life called Incredibly Strange Wrestling in California. They released a “best of” video titled “Blood, Sweat, and Urine” in 1995, so that might sum up the insane stuff this promotion was doing. Their roster featured names like “The Poontangler”, “Jesus Cross” and “Dennis Erectus”. I can’t remember exactly which wrestler it was, but one guy when he was down would have his valet come over and squat over his face and pee to wake him up. Yes, it was strange.
THE FACTS
----“Sex and Violence” is a mixture of everything that I have talked about above. Tony Myers is a guy who has paid his dues more than any worker in this area. I have heard some of the young guys criticize him and then when I watch them work they have no freakin idea. This brainchild is a hybrid of frustration that Myers has created from being totally sick of wrestling in general to idolizing legends like Onita and Terry Funk. And, finally, trying to bring something different to the table that draws a crowd to a bar. No it is not wrestling in its current form. It is not there to be dissected. It is there to entertain the core crowd that it will draw. 100 people packed into that building at $7 cover and a gate close to $700 to watch the bands and a death match. That is about the normal draw for traditional wrestling in this area.
THE BANDS
----Two fun bands opened the show. “The Vacant” came out first and had a colorful guitar player and the crowd seemed to really like them. “Area 69” was next and they were decent also. The lead singer looked liked an “alien” Pink with makeup of some kind making it look like she had blood coming out of her eyes. Kewl gimmick!! Apparently the Ralley Point is more of heavy metal club, which tailors to the goth crowd for these events.
THE RING
----The area that was considered “the ring” was a barbwire roped off section of the club. It was easily not even the size of a ring. They had various objects hanging from the ceiling including a skill saw, battery cables, a sword, barbwire and various other crazy stuff. On the right side of the area was florescent bulbs, boards, glass, big sheets of wood, signs and more lined up against the wall.
THE MATCHES
----Al Hall was the special ref for the main event and opened the show announcing the first match. He was funny as hell. It was almost like watching a mini comedy routine with him talking about how the goth crowd looked and what kind of people they let in the building.
----Chair vs Pepper The Dog never got started as Lance Chaser came out decked in a three piece suit with a suitcase saying that this kind of stuff would not happen. Psycho & Fort Goth followed with Psycho surprisingly talking on the mic and even getting to say “fuck”. LOL The death match was made later on for the next with Chair being added to the match. Oh yea, btw, Chair is a…chair. LOL No shit. And Chair was super over with the crowd chanting “Chair, Chair”!! Chaser was real good here on the mic. Chair came out t
o Ric Flair’s theme. Oh yea – Pepper was a real dog. LOL----Jessica “Fucks Like” Rabbit beat Synderella, Caty Boss, Cunt Face Lucy and Damian’s Little Sister in the Cereal Killer Girls Cash Prize Match. They took a kid’s swimming pool and filled it with milk & Cherrios cereal. Could they have used Fruit Loops?? LOL Cherrios just have a real weird smell. This was pretty much the T&A part of the show with slight shots every once in awhile. The girls were fighting for $100, so it was almost like a shoot. Rabbit and Sister were my two favorites.
THE DEATH MATCH
----Fort Goth beat Psycho & “the Ambu” Lance Chaser [Myers] & Chair to retain the “Sick Fuck” Title in a Death Match. Instead of describing this as a match I am just going to try to list all the crazy shit that happened during it.
-Psycho got a good pop. I guess this kind of crowd loved his freakishness.
-Goth took a bulb in Chaser’s mouth – and then slammed the end of it with it busting in the air.
-Chaser ended up wrestling without a shirt – he was covered on back, face and elbows in blood.
-Goth sent Chaser into the wall of bulbs and his whole back was cut up.
-When Psycho bladed, the crowd popped for it. And Psycho feed to all the cameras.
-The ref – Johnny Lush – took one of the nastiest bumps I have ever seen. Chaser picked him up for a powerbomb, but Lush never pulled his head up. His neck looked as if it was just broke when he went down.
-At the 30 minute mark there had only been about 3 actual wrestling moves.
-Goth took a pruning type with two sharp ends and squeezed & cut Chaser’s arm.
-Chaser lit a block of firecrackers on Goth. Smoke went everywhere.
-Chaser set it up and Psycho powerbomb Goth thru a table with bulbs and a chair.
-Goth was at one point covered with a church sign and some much other debris that you could not even see him. I thought he was dead.
-Psycho took a hard shot to the head with a wooden cross that rocked him for a while.
-Psycho down, Chaser put a satellite receiver on his back and then proceeded to take a golf club and swing as hard as he could. Psycho later said he tasted blood when that happened.
-At about the 40 minute mark [which should have been close to finish] Psycho laid down to rest stomach first. Goth and Chaser kept hitting him and wouldn’t leave him alone.
-Psycho tore a chair up over Chaser’s head.
-The crowd started disbursing around the area after about 45 minutes. There were probably about 20 left watching the match towards the end.
-Psycho ended up being put thru a table and being pinned by Goth about 50 minutes into the match.
-Goth took a panel of glass over his back.
-I think Goth got cut once with the hanging sword, which Chaser tried to get down, but couldn’t. I was glad he didn’t. I could just see someone getting stabbed.
-I swear at one point Chaser was trying to get the skill saw plugged in. Another good thing that he couldn’t get power to it.
-Finally at the 67 minute mark the finish had the announcer pour lighter fluid on a table that also had firecrackers on it. He lit it as Chaser and Goth fought for position on another table. Goth push Chaser onto the flaming table of firecrackers and then did a swanton for the pin on Chaser. He then got Chair and put it over Chaser and pinned chair to win the match.
[***1/2] – for the just brutal uniqueness of the match. It was not wrestling, but I was entertained.
AFTERMATH
----Johnny Lush was trying to find his shoes walking in glass and light bulbs looking under everything…Psycho came out of it pretty good with some scaring on his arms and neck. He was too sore to wrestle for NBW the next night…Myers’ wife was picking bulb glass all out of his back. It was nasty bad…Goth was covered in blood, but still was in gimmick. I think most of the blood with Chaser’s blood…Chair didn’t do much in the match and come of it with the least scars…I talked with Rabbit/Sister after the match and they were VERY entertaining.
FINAL NOTES
I thought I would get “looked at” in club like this with me being 40 and not Goth, but it was one of the coolest crowds of people. Totally laid back…One guy at the bar, who was much older than me, said I looked like Michael Moore…Wrestling alumni that were attendance – Michael Ward, Blalock the Blazer, Rashard Devon, Marcus O’Neil…I would like the thank the cast and crew of the The Ralley Point for their hospitality and just being really kewl group of people…Fun time was had by all.
