RD: Pre-show, I milled around and saw some people from my old job. I meet up with Pete and we get our usual balcony seats. The show starts about 10-15 minutes late. We're already start considering when we're bailing from this show because we know Goodman's going to run long.

PP: I make the trek out from work and roll into the Lodge around 6:15 for a 7pm start. I find Ray and am about to say something to the effect of "You don't suppose Sugaa Boy made the trip again..." when I see him. You can always tell him as he's the Stanley lookalike asking random people if they've ever seen WXW.

MATCH 1: THE BOOGIE KNIGHTS (Mike Tobin/Danny Drake) w/ Matt Striker & Billy Reil vs. ALL MONEY IS LEGAL (Kayotik Kyd Kaos/Luda-Kash) vs. TEAM CORONA (Guy with MM on his pants/Guy with Spyder on his tights) vs. THE SOLUTION (Papadon & Havok)
RD: This was the start of the trend of 4 ways of the night. Drake and Tobin come out and are nice enough to point out that, yes, last month they did win the #1 Contendership match and yes, they're mad they don't have their title shot. At least this was acknowledged. Tobin had the Macho Man shirt again and did the promo as Randy Savage as to why he was mad. Anyway, they say they're not concerned as they will win this match and get their title shot anyway. AMIL started out with the guy with the "MM" on his pants, who I'm not sure but appeared to be doing some sort of wasted gimmick. Well, he screwed up something early and one of AMIL just went off on him and started lighting him up with chops and forearms. "MM" unfortunately seemed to be in the ring the most of the time and he seemed out of it after getting beat up. AMIL were the first to go as the Tobin hit a top rope splash with the Macho Man shirt on for the pin. The Solution took out "MM" of Team Corona with their Lygerbomb/Blockbuster move, though it looked like Papadon didn't fully clear him so it was sort of like a clothesline instead. The end was the Knights facing off against the Solution again which was the last two in the tag gauntlet fiasco from the last show. And once again, The Solution were in control when Striker and Reil started interfering. Havok ended up getting pinned after Striker and Reil pulled out his leg and held him down so he could be pinned. Post match, the Boogie Knights spike piledriver one of the ring security guys on the floor for no apparent reason. He lays on the floor until Hanson props him up in a chair in the corner he was guarding.

PP: I wouldn't go so far as to call the tag gauntlet a "fiasco" as it definitely had its moments. Tobin is a freaking riot here doing the Savage gimmick, although he probably has to stop hanging out with Billy Reil as he referred to DRS as "dishwashers" in the pre-match stickwork. MM may have been the epitome of everything I hate about indy wrestlers as all he did was bump and do spots the whole time he was in, with literally nothing in-between, and kept on hurting himself in the process. He was a danger to himself and others in the truest sense of the word. His partner seemed reasonably competent, which made it all the more aggravating that a) MM did the lion's share of the work for his team and b) AMIL were eliminated first before they finally got put out.

MATCH 2: THE TREKKIE (w/ Tribble) vs. JOSH DEELEY (w/ some other ticket seller) vs. TONY LOWE vs. THE MASKED MANIAC
RD: Good, was this awful and decided to go on for 80 hours. It started as a 3 way with Trekkie, Deeley and Lowe. So after they were looking terrible (when the Trekkie is carrying the match...), they announce the Masked Maniac is the 4th guy, he's in the balcony. I unsuccessfully try to convince him to jump down from there. Anyway, Maniac pantsed the co-announcer or a tech guy. So Maniac walks down to the floor, walks around the ring and does mic work. While this is going on Trekkie takes out Deeley with the Spock Bottom. The Boogie Knights run in to help Lowe and take out Trekkie with I think the Macho Man Elbow from Tobin to eliminate him. I think the Boogies get thrown out leaving Lowe to be eliminated by the Maniac with the cobra clutch again. Before leaving, Maniac pantsed the piledriven security guy and kicked him in the nuts. I think the Maniac mentioned something about the crowd only being half of what it was the last show. I don't know, think it could have something to do with matches like this?

PP: Trekkie gets all the credit in the world for using "Star Trekkin"' as his entrance music ("There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow..."), but the credit ends right there as this match was absolutely gawd-awful. When Trekkie is the best worker in a match... *shudder*. Lowe is brand-new so he at least has that in his defense and Trekkie has the gimmick, but Deeley is out of excuses. We were actually cheering for Maniac until he pantsed the commentator and gave the guy's ass a chairshot for good measure. "ZE GOGGLES, ZEY DO NOTHING!!!" Shoot me a third time.

MATCH 3: JAV of the Darknights vs. JOHNNY TNT of the Darknights vs. JAMES NEWBLOOD vs. TAKASHIITA vs. CHUWI
RD: I'm guessing James Newblood is the kid with JNB on the back of his shirt. I'm guessing Takashiita was the guy in the Phantasma mask and I'm guessing Chuwi was the guy in the polo shirt I kept on referring to as Robert "The Preppie Killer" Chambers. These guys did a lot of spectacular and crazy spots, but it doesn't seem like they've been wrestling all that long as they've got the indy rookie punching and kicking going, but are doing the crazy high spots. There also wasn't a whole lot of selling in this. They did a couple segments like a dive sequence to the floor. They were going for the 5 guys go for a dive onto someone on the mat from to the rope, but miss, and then the next guy would try something but that stopped at 3 as someone ended up out of position. Newblood ended up missing a shooting star press at one point and did a crazy bump where I think Jav went for something similar to the Skeledriver that Jose Maximo would do and Newblood did like a total somersault in the air after getting flipped up and landed on his back. The real crazy spot was on the dive train where I think Jav gave Newblood a 1 man Spanish Fly from the top rope to the floor onto the other 3 guys. They did a triple superplex where 3 guys superplexed two from the top rope in the same corner. The finisher was TNT giving Takashiita an air raid crash from the second rope. Nice spots, but they need to work on the selling and punches and inbetween in case they knock themselves goofy on their high spots.

PP: You could tell that these guys all trained together and wanted to go out there and just tear the house down. They sort of did the Mexico sequence where everyone misses a dive and gets laid out on the mat at the same time, although they didn't do the good thing of all getting up and running the ring ropes at once. Jav and Newblood were easily the class of the match as Jav seemed like the most rock-solid of the five while Newblood was pulling out some jaw-dropping spots during the match. OTOH Chuwi had no business being in that ring just for his outfit, which consisted of sweatpants and the aforementioned polo shirt. The ultra-creepy Robert Chambers vibe didn't help either (Chambers actually being a fellow high school alumni of mine). At Ray's request, if I ever run the Lodge I will add a rule that all rookies must wear outfits that prominently display their name somewhere. Call it the Darkknights Rule. I love indy wrestling for stuff like the gigantic Darknights cheering section with their friends in "JAV" shirts and TNT's mom wearing the "TNT" shirt.

MATCH 4: AZRAEL vs. DAN BARRY vs. WAYNE THE CONVIENCE STORE GUY
RD: There were some rough spots in part of this. At one point, Barry was out on the floor and Azrael was down on all fours, and Wayne was supposed to vault off of him into a dive, but Wayne paused before doing it and Azrael was down sort of selling that he didn't know Wayne was supposed to do the vault off him. This was ok, but nothing really note worthy. Azrael hit Barry with the electric chair driver move, but Wayne broke up the pin. The finish was Wayne catching Azrael's cross body and turning it into a DDT from the position of holding him up in the air.

PP: I actually liked the vault spot since Azrael seemed to play it for comedy, as he tossed Barry to the floor and suddenly "had a seizure," melodramatically dropping onto all fours so Wayne could do his spot. The only thing that would've made it better would be if Wayne walked over to Azrael, stopped, climbed onto Azrael's back and then did his dive. Wayne was entirely serviceable here and I could almost see him sneaking onto the 500 at this rate.

MATCH 5: THE DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELZ (KC Blade/EC Negro) w/ Deranged vs. QUIET STORM/MIKEY WHIPWRECK - USA Pro Tag Team Titles
RD: Deranged has joined the group and was wearing one of their old shirts and pants and did the pose with them at the start. The DRS come out and put out an open challenge to anyone in the back to face them. Quiet Storm comes out and says since he's going to be going to Japan for 3 months, before he goes there's one person he'd like to team with and he calls out Whipwreck. We were trying to figure out if this would be another match were Whipwreck turned against his students, but he didn't. This was pretty good, but after spending around 20 hours at and going to and from wrestling events, this got a little fuzzy. Storm worked most of the match for his team. I know the DRS would bait him to double team on Storm. Storm made a few come backs, but eventually the DRS catch him with their tornado ddt/Death Valley Driver double team and get the pin. I think it was clean, though Deranged might have baited Mikey to chase him opening up the finish. Post match, Whipwreck hit the whippersnapper on Deranged who did the full moonsault bump on it was has selling it in a hilarious way as the DRS carried him to the back.

PP: For some reason I thought Devine was the one in Japan, which was why Quiet Storm was without his partner. Deranged is hysterical as the Littlest Scoundrel and has more charisma and personality than anyone else on the whole show except for maybe a handful of guys. At one point both Ray and I swore we saw him slip something like a gimmick to Mikey for him to turn on Storm at the end, but it never materialized and this was a straight match. Mikey eventually gets the hot tag and cleans house only for Deranged to distract him long enough for DRS to hit the DDT/DVD combo on Storm to retain the titles. Deranged takes the Whippersnapper and does the full 360-degree bump for it, then gets carried to the back by the DRS while mugging all the way.

MATCH 6: "FALLEN ANGEL" CHRISTOPHER DANIELS v. HOMICIDE - USA Pro X-Treme Title & US Title
RD: Daniels comes out and points out that in the past, Homicide has always done things "his way", with multiple matches with different stips to defend his title. Daniels insisted that they were going to do things his way, which was one fall for both titles. This was a good match as I expected it would be. They went about 20-25 minutes. Homicide hit his tope con hilo. Daniels hit a nice flatliner into something that sort of looked like the sleeper with a leg on the back of neck submission that Mariko Yoshida uses. There were some good counters in this as Homicide went for his running knee in the corner and Daniels blocked it by intercepting him with a clothesline. In the end, Homicide flattened Daniels with a lariat and pinned him for the win. Post match, Goodman came out and said since Homicide had commitments for the next two months (a tour of Japan and I think I ROH booking), they were going to hold up the two titles in different matches later that night. Homicide said fine, but he coming for the titles as soon as he got back. Goodman promised him that he could challenge for both titles in the same night as soon as he was back.

PP: "You can have two matches for the titles... but since I'm a Jew, you only get paid once." Hahahahahahaha. I missed the very beginning of this as either me or the person next to me accidentally knocked over the honey mustard sauce for my Wendy's chicken nuggets (the standard Lodge pre-show meal) and had to explain myself to the man sitting directly underneath us after he ran upstairs to investigate. This was really good as Homicide finally got to work the technical match we've been waiting to see him have in USAPW for a while. Each guy counters out of the other's finisher before Homicide cracks Daniels with the lariat from out of nowhere for the pin.

MATCH 7: SIMON DIAMOND/MATT STRIKER vs. THE CHRISTOPHER STREET CONNECTION (Buff E./Mace Mendoza) in an Indecent Proposal Match
RD: The stips of this match had that if Striker and Simon lost, they had to be the CSC's dates to the wedding, if the CSC lost, they had to take women to the ceremony. God, the CSC are the best gimmick around. During the pre-match stuff, the Buff E did something with someone's hot dog during the ring entrance. There was the a few spots where they would tease Striker doing things that would make Simon convinced Striker was gay like a spot where both Simon and Striker are running the ropes, the CSC turn to them and present their asses, Simon and Striker try to stop but Striker ends up grabbing Mace's ass. At some point, Becky Bayless runs in to interfere to help the CSC. They hit their vertical splash version of the Veg-o-matic for a near fall. Striker ends up KO'ing Mace with a chain and goes for the pin. With Becky distracting everyone, Buff E pulls a switch-a-roo, which is funny because they don't look alike. And Striker ends up getting rolled up and pinned. Post match, Simon's upset because he's sure Striker lost on purpose.

PP: The CSC have to have the best entrance in the business right now as their shtick is too good not to love, what with the pimp hats and the party poppers for the fans. This is essentially the same match as last month, right down to Striker and Diamond breaking up the Teabagger Vance, although now you've got Striker starting to play up the angle about his confused sexuality. Between this idea, him as the Sheik in JAPW and him about to "go native" in ECWA, he's turning into quite the character. I can't wait for him to camp it up with the CSC down the line.

MATCH 8: THE ELM STREET KIDS (Psycho/Rayza) vs. LOWLIFE LOUIE RAMOS
RD: This is a handicap death match. There's a barbed wire board, a florescent tube board, a plain wooden board and Louie carries out a board with a mix of light bulbs and barbed wire. All 3 guys bleed. Weapons used included a hatchet, a barbed wire dildo, which Louie ended up with it in his mouth. They ended up using thumbtacks on the regular board. They did one glass bump on the floor. The Kids ended up stapling "E", "S" and "K" letters onto his face. The finish was the ESK setting up something but Rayza getting crotched on the top rope. Louie then set up Psycho for the Death Valley Driver, then walked over to the corner and puts Rayza on top of Psycho and then DVD'ed them both through the mixed board for the win. Louie is over, but I'd like to see the ESK in a straight wrestling match to get a better gauge on them.

PP: Agreed with Ray that the ESK should get a straight match in USAPW at some point, as I enjoyed what I saw of them when they were on offense and they also have a cool gimmick. I enjoyed the absurdities of all three guys feeling the need to blade off weapon shots. "Does someone have a blade for me to cut myself with?" "How about the hatchet we just pretended to rake across your forehead?" It was beyond idiotic to use all of the gimmicked boards in the ring leaving glass, thumbtacks et al everywhere, but the one saving grace was that it allowed me to hit the KFC across the street for something to drink while they were cleaning everything up.

MATCH 9: ROYAL RUMBLE for the USA Pro America's Title with : DANNY DEMANTO, JUSTIN CAGE, "II Cocky" KEVIN MATTHEWS, POPPALICIOUS (w/ Miss Sinful), J-TRAIN, SOUTHERN SUPREMICE, PAT GUNNER, BAD BOY KRACKA, SLUGGER, JAY STATIC & SKINHEAD IVAN
RD: From what I've gathered, apparently they've dumped the Gauntlet title in favor of the America's Title. This was sort of odd as they had a few "iffy" eliminations. Demanto got tossed out and it really looked like both feet hit the floor, but he was allowed to stay in, only to get thrown out a few minutes later anyway. Matthews eliminated himself doing his top rope leg drop while someone was throat first across the top rope. This ended up coming down to Ivan, Slugger, J-Train & Kracka. Ivan tried to convince Kracka to join him again after he had turned on him on the last show. So Kracka would do the Nazi salute, then Slugger and J-Train would pull him over and yell at him and then they'd do the black power salute. Ivan tossed Kracka, but J-Train and Slugger beat him down. It seemed like Slugger and J-Train were setting something up, Slugger stepped over the top rope on the apron, Ivan pushed J-Train into him knocking Slugger to the floor and used a hand full of pants to pin Train to win the title. Go figure, a pinfall in a battle royal. Anyway, Ivan wins the belt which when the flag fell off of it revealed a WWF Tag title. This would have worked better if Ivan didn't win this by overcoming the odds.

PP: It would've worked even better if they didn't let Ivan to do his poopy racist micwork after he won the match. Train continued his streak of looking entirely fine and not getting in the way of anyone else. I also dug the Matthews cameo as he was a favorite target of ours during ICW's halcyon days.

MATCH 10: XAVIER w/Allison Danger vs. "CROWBAR" DEVON STORM w/Serena
RD: There wasn't anything really bad in this match, but there's something about Storm's matches that just sort lack fire. The last time I really saw him fired up was against Eddy last year. Serena yelled a bunch of stuff and a really weird pitch so she sort of sounded like Maryanne from Brooklyn who calls up the Stern show from time to time. Xavier eventually got the win with the 450 splash.

PP: "HOWARD I LOVE YOUR SHOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!" I think Devon's starting to take Tom Marquez' spot in the "Was there a match here?" pantheon of wrestlers. There's something about his style that doesn't really do anything for me anymore for some reason. Xavier was on fire here and was working total babyface for once, as he was the hometown boy. He just chopped the crap out of Devon to the point where Devon's chest was lit up almost as much as MM Boy in the opener.

MATCH 11: 3 WAY DANCE FOR THE U.S. TITLE: TIM ARSON vs. BILLY REIL w/ The Boogie Knights, Tony Lowe & Simply Luscious vs. "SHOOTER" MIKE KRUEL w/ Becky Bayless
RD: The Knight Life guys have a stool and water and Reil strikes a deal with Arson where they agree they're going to work to eliminate Kruel. Arson works a lot of the early portion of the match as Reil sits on the outside sitting on the stool, drinking water and getting neck massages from Lowe and Luscious. Kruel takes the beating for the early part and ends up bleeding from the nose. At one point, Arson is climbing up for some move and Lowe is trying to take the stool out of the ring as Reil was sitting on it in the corner, causing Arson to crotch himself. This ends up breaking up the alliance as Arson now starts going after Reil, only to get drop kicked in the back by Luscious into a super kick by Reil to get pinned. I think prior to the break up, Arson pressed Lowe over his head and threw them out onto the Boogies on the floor. This comes down to the two guys who were feuding. There was one spot where Becky was chasing Luscious around and as she was running past Kruel who was hung out on the ropes Luscious got in a good drive by slap on him. Kruel ended up getting Reil into a wakigatame and got him to tap to win the belt.

PP: I excuse myself at the start to freshen up and wind up walking directly between two guys in the middle of their conversation. I head back and interrupt them a second time only to realize that the two guys were Chris Candido and Malice. You really do lose a foot of height when you're not on TV. Regarding the match proper, I remember Reil sitting on the stool smoking a cigarette while Arson puts Kruel through his paces. This leads to him doing the coolest thing I've seen from him since he came in, as he hits the superkick on Arson and makes the pin while keep the lit cigarette in his mouth the entire time. Luscious' slap on Kruel is really great as far as heel moves go as she really nailed him with the slap without breaking stride.

MATCH 12: MONSTA MACK w/ Homicide vs. THE SANDMAN
RD: Sandman came out with a huge piece of guardrail with him. He did his pre-match lap of the ring and the greatest part of him carding people if he thought they were borderline in age. It was funny watching one girl go all the way back to her seat to get her pocket book so she could show her idea and drink the beer. This match was pretty short as I was surprised Sandman was even working because I had heard he was injured. Pretty early in the match, he pulls the guardrail into the ring and suplexes Monsta on it, breaking one of the spokes on it. At some point, Sandman seemed to be favoring his neck, and it was pretty noticeable. Trinity ran out for the distraction followed by Raven hitting the DDT and Monsta pinning him for the pin. Post match, Monsta said he didn't have anything to do with it and said Sandman should give the fans what they want and go kick Raven's ass. Sandman got the mic and said that he was sorry but that his neck was killing him and he left.

PP: Sandman is a riot as the alcoholic with a conscience. At one point Homicide is totally losing it while Sander makes the girl run for her purse so she can get the sweet sweet booze. They do some matwork at the beginning and we start another "Holy Shit" chant, leading to Sandman yelling at us "You didn't think I could wrestle, did you?" Both guys get knocked out at the end, leading Raven and Trinity to come in so Raven can spike Sandman with the DDT. Monsta revives and pins Sander, then does his Burgess Meredith impression as he gives Sandman the big Rocky-level pep talk. "YOU'RE THE SANDMAN!"

MATCH 13: For the Vacant X-Treme Title : GHOST SHADOW vs. REEFER vs. BRIAN XL vs. DERANGED w/ EC Negro & KC Blade
RD: The rules to the match were that you had to pin the other 3 guys in the match to win the title. They said "consecutive", but I'll let them slide on this as the matches were going way long at this point. This was pretty good and for the most part, everyone looked good. Early on Shadow had Reefer in some sort of stretch hold and Deranged came off the top and double stomped Reefer. XL got the first pin on Reefer by hitting sort of a tiger driver move where he let him go and then pinned him. Reefer got XL after someone hit XL down with something and then Reefer did his rope walk into a somersault senton. I think Deranged got in his pin on XL in here, through I don't remember how. Ghost Shadow took 2 straight falls, putting Deranged away after hitting his corner knee, a version of the muscle buster where it looked like he dropped forward dropping Deranged on his head on the mat followed by the Mad Scientist Bomb to pin him, pretty quickly following that up by catching XL has he charged and caught him in a cradle type move for the pin. I think Deranged came back to pin Ghost Shadow. XL got Deranged with his twisting inverted facelock suplex to get another fall. Reefer got Ghost Shadow with his cross face out of the tilt-a-whirl move. With everyone even, it was a race to see who was going to get the final fall. Reefer and Deranged were the two left in the ring. Deranged was setting him up for his high speed sunset flip move, but Reefer stood up and sat down on his head similar to how Deranged countered Red doing his move on him last month to score the win. This worked out well. Reefer seems to get a good reaction from the crowd and they have been giving him the quasi push as he gets through a lot of people in the past few gauntlet matches he's been in. Deranged cuts a promo post match all upset about the fact this couldn't have happened since he just beat Red last month and he's at the top of his game. He promises this isn't over.

RD: The next they did the wedding. This turned out to be pretty great and was one of the better wrestling weddings I've seen. First off, they had Daniels come out to be the priest in his garb which was pretty funny. Striker and Simon were out in drag and wigs as the dates of the CSC and Simon did a pretty great slow burn of being upset about the situation. Some of the fans were chanting "Show your tits" at Striker. Kruel came out in jeans and a black sweat shirt. Good to see he got dressed up for this, though he did get a bloody nose earlier in the evening, so maybe they decided not to risk losing a deposit on one for bleeding on it. Becky came out with Pete's future trophy wife Michelle holding her train. We realized that she was wearing black Converse sneakers as she walked down the steps to the ring. Daniels runs the ceremony pretty straight and gets to the point where they ask if any objects and out come Knight Life. Drake has the classy line about Becky wearing a white dress, "the only white you should be wearing is a load across your forehead". Anyway, Becky explains why she didn't want to get married and why the police didn't look for her when she was "abducted". She said she voluntarily left with Knight Life because Mike was "and idiot" and boring. She said she'd lose her mind if she had to watch another tape of Kruel and Little Guido. She also said that Striker was the guy who got her pregnant. We end up with a brawl with Kruel and the CSC with Knight Life. At some point, Daniels just walks away. Striker ends up getting kissed by both Becky and Luscious, so I guess he gets all the chicks. Becky ended up getting northern lights suplexed by Kruel. Post match, the CSC try to console Kruel much to his chagrin.

PP: I was disappointed at the start of this once I realized that they weren't going to have a Jewish wedding as Joanne had insinuated... I think the CSC underneath the chupah while Kruel smashed the wine glass would be win, place & show for greatest wrestling visual ever. The disappointment doesn't last long as this whole angle is one of the funniest things I've ever seen live. Daniels comes out first in full gimmick and says something to the effect of "Who else could they possibly have to officiate this?" CSC enter next (I'd say "come out" but, well...) with Simon and Striker as the butchest bridesmaids ever. Kruel comes out dressed like he was going for the quickie Vegas wedding. Finally Becky comes out with Michelle and Ray gets off the great line that she should've used the wedding music from Flash Gordon. Daniels throws himself right into this by playing the priest gimmick totally straight up to the point where Knight Life make their entrance and he stands by, shocked- shocked! - that they would upstage the bride and groom in such an uncouth manner. Of course, their entrance comes after Daniels hits the "...speak now or forever hold your peace" line, at which point EVERYONE in the building starts speaking up. Becky's explanation for ditching Kruel is classic as she accuses Kruel of being dull and uninteresting and complains about having to stay home while Kruel and Guido watched wrestling tapes. She eventually pegs THE STRIKER! as the father of her child (ignoring our attempts to finger Mace or Buff E) and it's on like Donkey Kong as we get a mass brawl to close the wedding. Daniels takes a powder and the heels bail out, at which point they play "YMCA" for the CSC, since it isn't an official wedding until they play that.

MATCH 14: MAFIA vs. CHRIS CANDIDO w/ Tammy Sytch
RD: Well, two note worthy things. The kids sitting next to us in the balcony not even recognizing who Tammy was. Drugs are bad kids. The other was the goofy angle of turning Mafia against Monsta Mack on the last show was even further convoluted on this show. So, Mafia is setting up Candido for the finish and Tammy distracts Hanson. At this point, Balls runs in and you would think he would be there to help out the guy he just got to join him last month, right? So, Balls super kicks Mafia and joins forces with Candido. Riiiiiiight. What's even sadder is when I asked Mafia what was up with the finish to this match the next night, he didn't know either. Post match, Tammy and Chris get into some arguments with some fans as Security gets between Chris and the guy and Tammy runs over and pushes the guy.

PP: Tammy also takes the opportunity to do a bump-and-grind dance over the fallen Mafia after the match ends. Note to Tammy: this isn't 1996 anymore, and you were the eighth-most attractive woman on the entire show tonight. Match proper is perfectly fine as Mafia's really starting to break out as a singles wrestler and Candido was solid. I take it Goodman took "inspiration" from Tammy and Candido (nudgenudge winkwink) for the recent booking of Mafia.

MATCH 15: PERRY SATURN vs. BALLS MAHONEY for the USA Pro Heavyweight Title
RD: This was at the point where we were preparing to bail on the show. I know Mahoney got into an argument with someone in the crowd about showing some respect to Saturn early in the match. This was kind of there. Nothing that really stood out. Balls didn't get pins off of a Nut Cracker Suite or a Frog Splash. Chris and Tammy did a run in and filled up the ring with chairs. Saturn hit something onto the chairs first, I think the Death Valley Driver, but didn't get the pin I think because of Chris and Tammy. Mahoney eventually got the win with the Nut Cracker Suite onto the chairs.

PP: This was there as we were pretty much planning an escape route for after the match ended. Balls has looked really good as of late but this was a step back for him, although Saturn is super-freaky now in person with all that new ink. A bunch of folks started a "Moppy" chant for him which went over about as well as you might expect. Balls finally cashiers Saturn with the Nutcracker Suite and we bail out.

RD: This was the last match we stayed for. Considering I had to get up early to get into the city to catch the bus for the Super 8, I didn't feel the great need to stick around to see Justin Credible v. Raven. Post show we saw a bunch of the workers who also had decided to get a jump on the traffic and we got to compliment the Christopher Street Connection on the beautiful ceremony as we passed them on the street. Goodman has some good stuff, but once again, he's got to trim down his shows. This one went 5 hours before we bailed on it. He needs to find a way to stream line them. I would probably suggest cutting out the matches with the Masked Maniac. That would be a good start.

PP: The Christopher Street Connection... and their wives and children. Somewhere Jim Crockett smacks his forehead. We walk out with Kruel's family and Ray has to restrain me from joking with Kruel's dad (the omnipresent Bodyguard for Hire) about how Kruel and Becky would've been such a cute couple. This was the typical Frank show... The Good, The Green and The Ugly. Nothing on the show was quite as good as Deranged/Red or Xavier/CW, but Daniels/Homicide was really good and there's no denying you get your money's worth at a USAPW for sheer volume if nothing else.