RESULTS
Tag Team Gauntlet!!!
- The Immortals vs North Star Express: quick and clean, Cruz Control for the win.
- NSE vs The Kartel: god bless the Brits. NSE tap to the crossface/boston crab combo
- Kartel vs Southern Saints: wild brawling throughout the crowd when the Kartel jumped the Saints on entrance. Marcus O'Neal pins Sha Samuels with a dragonrana.
- Saints vs Las Chivas: Chivas pinned Marcus O'Neal following a Doomsday Device with the ass of the goat.
- Chivas vs Super Smash Bros: some miscommunication but eh, not horrible. An unpaused annihilation on Uno gas Las Chivas another win.
- Chivas vs Go/Shimizu: Go pinned Chiva after a Go Flash...er, alright, real result is Shimizu catching a Chiva in his Cattle Mutilationish hold for the submission.
- El Dorado vs Sara del Rey and Bobby Dempsey: Dempsey pinned Go with a Death Valley Driver. Yep. That's all I have to say.
- S&S vs The Order of the Neo Solar Temple (Hydra and Crossbones): Sara killed her some Hydra before Dempsey tapped to the Hydralock...with some help from Crossbones kicking him in the stomach.
- ONST vs Demolition: AWESOME! Demolitin Decapitation on Hydra for the victory and they are the winners of the 2008 KOT Tag Gauntlet! Demolition has one point.
Four Corner Elimination: Vin Gerard vs Martin Stone vs Reno DIAMOND vs Glacier
Again, the most over that Glacier has ever been. More chain chicanery with Reno Diamond. Great tension between Glacier and Vin. Stone eliminated Diamond early, then Glacier put Stone away. Stone got his revenge while Gerard distracted the ref, allowing Vin to get his first ever true upper hand. Fans chanted "Equinox", really getting under the creep's skin. Glacier attempted his superkick, but Vin swept the leg and grabbed a rollup with tights for the pin.
COMMENTS & PRAISE from the CHIKARA message board…
“Marcus O'neil was awesome, kinda reminded me of a young Booker T.”
“Reno Diamond = GOLD. I absolutely loved them. I was pleasantly surprised, very pleasantly surprised. Reno had that something that made you just enjoy watching him on the apron, in the ring, etc. All three were great, but Reno, man I'm glad he was tossed in.
Their entrance.... POTENTIALLY CONTROVERSIAL”
“They were wearing Choir robes, not what you were thinking. It took me a while to process that as well. And i still think Marcus Oneil was the highlight for them. His facials, bulging eyes and all were so Booker T esque”
“Also, their theme music this evening was the song [“Everybody Wants You” By Billy Squirer] formerly used by Memphis greats "The Fabulous Ones”. This was great.”
“My line: "Oh my god, Eddie Gilbert is here."
“I enjoyed these guys as well. The gimmick with all the chains in their ring gear was priceless.”
“HOLY CRAP. i completely forgot about that. A fork in the bandana, chains in various kneepads. A fork in the bandana? What, is he having a snack mid-match?”
“I loved that whole gimmick. dude came out looking like homicide and when the ref was done checking him for foreign object he looked like a normal wrestler. i dont think the robes where offensive, flags because they were southern, Choir robes because they were saints”
“Reno Diamond really shone in the trios match. His reactions on the ring apron were fantastic, and he really could go in the ring too.”
----There was a little bit of a controversy about their robes.
“They were wearing Choir robes,”
“Unfortunately not.”
“Yeah, those weren't choir robes...”
----Our very own HUMP chimed in
“Those were choir robes. I bought them on Ebay, and they zip in the front. They were $5 a piece. It was a good deal. That is all.”
“While it's possible they may have literally been choir robes, that isn't what they were necessarily supposed to convey...”
