----John “Biscuit” Roberts beat Gaylon Ray & Shannon Lee in a triple threat match. There was very little psychology, but the moves did not look bad. At one point Gaylon Ray did a standing moonsault that looked good. Roberts pinned Ray after a “Buttermilk Biscuit” bomb. [*]
----Weasel beat “The Baron” Malkavain. Not a lot of psychology here either. Weasel has a good entrance with the American flag and “Coming to America”. No reaction to him, because no one knows him in this area. Before the match, Malkavain was in the corner hanging like a bat in the tree of woe. Malkavain finished Weasel off with the “Nail in the Coffin”, but instead of pinning him, he tried to bite Weasel – Weasel rolled him up for the win. [*1/2]
----Stan Lee beat “Southern Saint” Shawn Reed in a decent bout. This was not as good as I was expecting, but it was the first time they have ever worked each other. Reed was the first of the night to work the crowd. I didn’t think Stan was going to give Shawn anything at first. LOL Shawn put the heat on him with Lee coming out and them building for a few false finishes. Lee did a sweet flying side kick..well..the second one was good. Lee hit an Octopus slam [that is what I am calling it] for the finish after Reed missed a knee drop from the second rope. [**1/2]
----“3G” Eric Wayne/Kid Nikels beat “The Posse” [Lil Chris/Simon Reed] in the best bout of the night. Some real fun hold for hold matwork with Wayne/Chris. They worked real tight with Wayne coming out of an armbar on the mat to moving up Chris’ legs to his head. Hard to explain, but it was fun to watch. Heat was on Chris with hot tag to Simon. Simon shitcanned Wayne and they went to finish off Nikels. Kid jump outside the ring and went towards the dressing room with Simon following. Wayne rolled up Chris for the pin. [**3/4]
----PK Ripper beat Overkill. The least said about this bout the better. No psychology with a bunch of spots and a few really blotched spots. Crowd was sitting on their hands – no reaction for the spot monkeys. PK’s finisher looked good, but other than that, this bout was bad. [DUD]
----Chris O’Neal beat Jason Reed with JD Rage. Not as good as expected. Both guys seem to be off and a little rusty. Both guys are much better than this bout. O’Neal did a dive on Rage/Reed at one point. They did a few sloppy spots that including the ref catching Reed’s foot and a screwed up tornado DDT. The second try on the DDT looked real good. O’Neal won with a roll up. Rage/Reed jumped him after the match and Weasel made the save. [**]
----30 to 40 in the crowd…Shannon Lee had new gear. It looked better than the orange…Nikels worked the “strong style” during heat on Chris including some stiff looking kicks. He didn’t do his big boot though…Blaylock the Blazer was in attendance and Anita Paige. I had the pleasure of finally meeting Shawn Reed and Paige. Paige was giving me hell about the photo I used in Yearbook 2007. It is on page 125 guys! LOL…RRO Announcer of the Year 2007 Michael Ward did commentary with Just Joe. He did a good job. I can only take Joe in small doses and he did good playing off of him…The RWL arena has lots of potential. They need more chairs, but have bleacher seating. They could probably pack close to 200 with more chairs and such. The arena looks “cool” and is over with me…I like the PK Ripper gimmick and I think the guy can do some pretty impressive moves. Overkill also does some good moves. But, that match was what is WRONG with indy wrestling. You got to put the “drama” in the bout to build for the fans to actually care about you…Shawn Reed talked about being real excited about going to Philly again for the CHIKARA Trio tournament. Team Japan that they are working in the first round is known to be just a little stiff. It should be fun.
