MATCH REVIEW 22ND SEPTEMBER!!

MATCH REVIEW 22ND SEPTEMBER!!

As usual, highs and lows, but I was pleasantly surprised by the night at least in terms of the wrestling if not the storyline, but that's how VPW rolls! It did feel finally that it was worth watching, though. So let's get started on the review.

1st Match: This should be bottom card w/ Yukako vs Mourn

For once Mourn actually wrestled! And did some interesting stuff! Incredible. It's almost like I fucking said: if she actually puts her mind to it, she can be a decent wrestler but most of the times, she doesn't and it's fucking irritating that she relies on shitty fallbacks/cheating/Torment rather than using her wrestling skills. I keep saying this over and over again but when she's never been fucking consistent about this!!! The match started well with some good spots even before the bell rang, with a DDT on the ramp, then it was brought to the squared circle where the referees got involved, but eventually ended up just being a brawl outside of the ring once again. They had planned some cruel looking spots and the finish was impressive to say the least (although this seemed to be a night of high-flying finishers for some reason). 

The after-match was quite hilarious since it was clear that P46 going fucked up a lot of plan and instead of Mourn teaming up with P46, she's teamed up with Yukako in pretty much a repeat of the first 'shake my hand' spot that they had done before. Also it was clear the crowd fucking hated Mourn this time around, which was great, although they were cheering her on by the end?! Marks are gonna mark, I guess. Gonna give this match a 3 out of 5 for the  Mourn tax, anyone else could have been 4 or 5. Mourners crying that I'm biased FUCK OFF AND READ MY EXTENSIVE ESSAY ON MOURN ON MY ROV BLOG!!

2nd Match: We've saved grandpa AND Christmas!! w/ Fragata/Big Bird vs Roja/Vega$(??)

Reddit idiots claimed that either Vega$ was gonna wrestle or not and turns out that the idiots that said he was gonna wrestle were right, which is a wonder all by itself. Anyway, in this match they introduced Big Bird, which made me laugh out loud the first time I saw him. I guess they wanted the fuckup from the Royal Wrangle have another chance? No idea why. The match started with the so-called faces attacking first, with Fragata giving Vega$ some blows while inside the ring, Roja and Big Bird did their best impression of a road-runner cartoon, except with the theme reversed. Anyway, this was followed by a cartoonish spot where Big Bird threw Roja into Vega$ and Roja's goons, and then Fragata dived in himself once they were back up. 

What followed was the most incredible segment I ever saw in a wrestling. By incredible I mean that I didn't fucking believe that they actually decided to run it. Basically Vega$ got quoted some contract law about being forced to be in the ring. These kind of spots are BORING AS FUCK and I still don't see why some promotions run it (although it was gonna get much worse later on). So finally Vega$ enters the ring and performs a chair shot (with the referee just chilling there? I can't remember, it was dumb anyway), before getting beat.

After this, it is finally revealed that Fragata's grandpa is finally safe, in the conclusion of a storyline that no one really gave a fuck about. At this point there's more beating on Vega$ and at least Big Bird seems to show that he learnt something, and then a big flying finish for the pin. On the one hand, finally Vega$ got beat. On the other hand, the storyline was dumb as fuck. So I guess 3 out of 5 for this one as well.

3rd Match: More endings than Return of the King w/ Shay vs Cortez

This was a decent match for Shay, which honestly coming from me, it's high praise. I honestly thought they were gonna give this to Shay in end (ooops spoilers!) but the ending was a bit of clusterfuck and honestly I don't understand why they bothered to do it this way, although I'm glad of the end result. 

The start of the match was relatively mediocre wrestling from Shay, which is his fucking staple, but at least he managed to do some things and get an offensive going. Him trying to do a spear was a good spot, I must admit, showed at least a little bit of psychology of trying to use Cortez's finisher against him. Honestly a direct comparison of the first few matches that Shay was in for VPW (before I started watching, that is), does show that at least he's improved so maybe (and this is a big MAYBE) he's not as dumb as he looks. Jury still out though. Shay was also going for Cortez's arms, which was a callback to the semis, so I think overall the ring psychology wasn't great, but it was good. I liked the bits afterwards were Cortez couldn't use his offence against the nimble Shay. They seemed to have at least thought this through at least in terms of the wrestling aspects. I also liked when Shay was finally caught, the pain was coming thick and fast, although the escape from that lock was one of the single dumbest things I've ever say. You can't completely take the dumbass out of Shay, it seems. but at least I was rewarded with one of the most brutal beatdowns that I've ever seen Cortez deliver. Just had to rewind that over and over again once the stream was over cause seeing Shay being clotheslined again and again is music to my ears.

Cortez set up for his shitty spear finisher, and Shay dodged it. The sell from crunching against the turnbuckle was sold really by Cortez. Taking the advantage, Shay went for his finishers (apparently for the first time ever, lol, just goes to show), and then the dumbness begins.

D'Angelo, who apparently was underneath the ring, came out and gave a beating to both Shay and Cortez before trying to claim the victory. Legault comes out, there's another fucking exciting legalese spot (why two in a single night?! Is this what the marks want? Being quoted a fucking rulebook?) and then when it seemed D'Angelo was going to win in order to have Legault have a pawn with the championship, Legault turned into a Face and wanted the result the fans wanted?! I really didn't understand the point of the whole exchange, but the fight then continued and Cortez got the belt in the end. Which he honestly should have, although I don't know where they are going with this because Cortez is old as fuck and probably gonna retire soon. Anyway, the storyline was dumb as fuck as per usual, but at least we had some decent wrestling to make up for it. 4 out of 5 for this one. Honestly wish the semis match between Cortez and Fragata had been the final, this one was decent but nowhere near as good as the semi.

Still, honestly, looking forward to see how it goes on after VPW comes back from the break. They have some decent wrestlers and hopefully the dumb storylines are going to be curtailed in the future. Just put on more Fragata and Cortez level matches and they should be sorted!