#15) Reckless Youth vs. Lance Diamond vs. Cheetah Master
NWA 2nd Gilbert Memorial (4/12/97)

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DVDVR #82 (Phil Rippa)
"Reckless Youth vs Lance Diamond vs The Cheetah Master:
After all that garbage, I was dying for some wrestling. And my lord delivered, as he gives me this Triangle Match for the North American Heavyweight title. I am a huge Reckless Youth fan but it is hard not to love one of the best Indy wrestlers around. With Diamond you never know what you are going to get- but in this case you get the inspired, hard-working Lance Diamond. Cheetah Master is quite carryable and can supply some flashes like his no-hands plancha that he entered the match with. The pace and flow of the match worked as there is almost no lack of action with two guys wrestling while the third catches a breather. There is zero rest holds with
a big batch of funky double team moves. Youth brings his whole bag of aerial moves with him including a giant quebrada, a slightshot sommersault plancha, and his really big moonsault. Everyone bumped and sold in great quantities which you can never be upset about. There was some nonsense as there was too much of preventing someone from pinning someone so you can pin them instead which makes absoutely no sense when it is an elimination match. Plus there was too much Royce Profit and Miss Patricia. Anyway, Cheetah Master gets eliminated first, as he should when Youth does a version of the face front DDT, kinda like Edge's Downward Spiral only Cheetah Master lands right on top of his head. Hey! look at that. Diamond and Youth work a couple more minutes with Diamond kicking out of Youth's Art Barr level Frog Splash. The end is really goofy and out of nowhere as Diamond does a sloppy La Magistrel for the win. Oh well, there is way too much good to focus on the bad."