Another great night of pro wrestling action presented by the ICW in Mathison. The night started off with ICW champion "Outlaw" J.D. McKay coming out saying he needed a "warm-up match" before getting in the ring with Trainwreck. So out comes some new guy that I didn't catch the name of - but he proceeded to hand the champs butt to him for like 10 or 12 minutes until J.D. did a Ric Flair like chop block on the guy (who was alot bigger than J.D.) and went to work on the guys legs. The champ then clamped on the figure-four and kept it on and used the ropes for leverage till this newbie passed out practically, but due to the embarrassment the guy had put on J.D. for the majority of the match, J.D. refused to break the hold.Finally the referee reversed the decision and gave the decision to the new guy - sorry can't recall his name. The crowd erupted when this happened.
Next out came the DOA and Dirty Sanchez went to running down the Bullet Bob Armstrong - talking about how he should be in a retirement home and such....well, next thing you know The Bullet is out and ready for action. The two of them hit the ring and Bob's wiping the floor with Dirty and eventually gets a sleeper on him. Then Orion hits the ring which brings about an automatic disqualification, and the two members of DOA go to work on Bullet Bob then out runs Bullet's partner The Scorpion.Now the tag match is on, and it's a great tag match....mainly with the team of Scorpion and Bullet handling Dirty and Orion with ease. The finish sees both heels submit to a double figure-four (boy those were sure popular here tonight). I looked at my watch here and an hour had gone by - couldn't believe it - three really good matches and they had been going on an hour.
After intermission, ICW champion J.D. McKay met ICW US champion with only J.D.'s belt. This was a stall-fest at the beginning by McKay but once it got started it was all-action. McKay even bloodied up Train's mouth and almost busted open his own head. It was wild-action all over the ring until McKay was choking Trainwreck down with a foreign object (couldn't make out what it was from where I was sitting) and The Convict came out. This distracted McKay and Trainwreck rolled him up from behind for a 2 and 7/8 count that almost saw McKay lose his belt. Then DOA came out which distracted Trainwreck and then McKay rolled up Train and held onto the tights to keep TW's shoulders down....man, was the crowd pissed. This match went something like 27 minutes.
DOA hit the ring and jumped on Trainwreck. McKay joined in and invited The Convict to help. Convict got in the ring and drew back his fist only to level J.D. The crowd went nuts. Convict and Trainwreck the got the upper hand on the heels for a moment. Next thing you know Ronnie Watkins is being asked by DOA to make a special handicap match with Orion, Dirty, and J.D. against Trainwreck and Convict. Watkins says only if they put up their tag belts and J.D. puts up his belt - in other words, if any member of that team gets pinned they lose their championship. DOA and JD thinking they have a 3 on2 advantage agree to this.And the match is on, but then Scorpion comes and joins the babyface team and it's three on three. This match goes for around 20 or more minutes until it breaks down with all 6 men brawling. But the two legal men are The Convict and The Outlaw....the ref is trying to get some semblance of order when Convict sneaks out his trusty set of brass knux and KOs J.D. right across the top of the head. He's down and the ref turns and makes the count....we have a new ICW champion - THE CONVICT! And you talk about a pop - I don't think I ever heard a louder cheer from a crowd of this size and as Convict celebrated his title win, they continued to yell for him.
The show was over at 10 pm straight up and it was a great two hours of wrestling....Bob Armstrong was great, looking good for a fellow as old as him...Only about 100 people with a gate close to $500..which I assume was disappointing but man, it was another great ICW show. These guys are giving the people their $5 worth each and every week. They said Tommy Rich is coming for the next show.
