RD:  Pre-show I try to load up on fluids as it's been pretty hot the past week in the NYC area and it's a USA Pro show which will go a billion hours long and the Lodge, which despite being a great building for wrestling, doesn't have air conditioning.  I meet up with Pete in Queens.  We go to the Lodge and Atlas screws up the lines as usual by telling everyone with tickets to go to the right and everyone without to go to the left, but not saying if it was our right or his right.  Pre-show we speculate if the Elk will stay out front when it gets converted into the Korean church.  And if it stays, what changes will occur to it.  I think we were guessing the horns would be replaced with two crosses.  We get our usual seats in the balcony.  When I went down stairs, get hit in the crossfi...cross water of an angle where Saturn threw water at Homicide to set up their match later that night.  Dexter Weiner comes out to do the ring announcing but Stephen DeAngelis interrupts him and informs him he's been named the commissioner of USA Pro and he's going to clean up some of the problems.  One of which was getting rid of the America's Title that Skinhead Ivan had won.

PP:  A pox on the NYC Roads Commission as they've now erected a large fence going down Queens Boulevard, meaning I can no longer just run across the street and grab a drink during the show.  As I'm walking back over to Wendy's to meet with Ray a homeless deaf-mute motions me over and asks what's going on at the Lodge.  I attempt to mime a wrestling match but he doesn't understand, so he offers his hand to me and I spell "W-R-E-S-T-L" on his palm at which point he gets the idea.  In retrospect I probably should've mimed passing out since it was a Goodman show.  It's a million degrees inside the building and we all immediately run around opening all the windows... belltime sees the smallest crowd I've seen here in a long time, and the heat probably had something to do with it.  Ray mentions that it could've been infinitely worse as he and I both remember those ECW shows in the middle of August with 800 people crammed inside and a heat index of 120.  I swing by the DOI table and pick up their 250 issue... it's a fun companion piece to the 500, and I give them all the credit in the world for trying to make some money off of it.  Regarding the Saturn/Homicide, it looked like it might've been a shoot at the time but later events on the night would put paid to that theory.

MATCH 1 :  TEAM TARGET (Tekno Heat & Devious) vs. THE SOLUTION (Papadon & Havok) w/ Miss Michelle
RD:  This was pretty good for an opener, but it had more of the feel of a competitive squash.  The Solution looked good here as for the last few times I've seen them they've been on.  The only real rough spot on their side was Papadon's tope suicida, but even that wasn't too bad because Team Target was close enough to catch him.  For the most part, the Solution controlled with Team Target getting in a few spots when Tekno Heat hit a satellite head scissors and tagged to Devious who hit a few nice yakuza kicks.  Eventually, the Solution took over again and hit the Problem Solver (their name for the Lyger Bomb by Havok and the Buff Blockbuster) on Tekno Heat.  I'm surprised they didn't use the chance to plug that Michelle is on the wwe diva search website.  Hanson ended up getting a kiss from Michelle and sold it big time.

PP:  They do a cute bit at the start as Michelle holds the ropes open for (I think) Papadon, then Team Target convince her to do it a second time so they can surreptitiously get a gander of her Premium Members' section... she obliges only to make this hysterical face as she realizes what they were up to.  Solution attack at that point and the match is on.  This is your basic TV-level squash with Team Target getting just enough offense to keep things interesting.  Hanson swaps spit with Michelle post-match and we figure he's working free tonight.

MATCH 2:  DAN BARRY vs. XAVIER
RD:  This was kind of a surprise as Xavier was supposed to be in some complicated match later in the evening (two singles matches in the ring at the same time with the winners facing each other), but he ended up getting pulled into this, I think partially because Mafia wasn't at the show, which we learned after the fact was due to his father passing away.  Anyway, this was a fun match mostly because X beat the crap out of Barry.  Plus he busted out the el paso del muerte which is great.  This was veteran pounds plucky youngster with Dan getting in some nice hope spots.  Xavier's mix of strikes are great, I think he also busted out a pretty sweet move in the corner where he was standing on the second rope and jumps and pendulums in and drives his knee if Barry's face.  Dan got in some good stuff.  One of the great things was somehow Xavier fell out of the ring and Dan who was selling the beating, gets up all groggy and asks Hanson "Did I get 'em?"  They did a big tease sequence at the end.  I think Xavier hit the "Kiss Your X Goodbye", his pumphandle face first slam move and Barry kicked out.  Barry got on offense, goes for the Shooting Star Press and misses.  Xavier goes up for the 450, but Barry recovers and crotches him.  Barry goes for his "Irish Car Bomb" which is like a second rope blockbuster suplex where Barry moonsaults with the guy in is arms and lands on him.   Xavier is able to block it and hits the KYXG from the second rope to score the pin.  I think this was probably my second or third favorite match of the night.  Xavier gave Dan enough in this that it looked good and Dan for the post part sold the beating great except for one or two moments of quickly popping up for the finish, but that's minor quibbles.  A good match.

PP:  This is fun as Xavier brings the ROOKIE DISCIPLINE to young Barry, now back to his "gay Tiger Mask" outfit.  They keep things on the mat for the most part which X predictably dominates... he also gets to bust out some power moves like the old Takaiwa Double Bomb, but they get the idea over that he's more vulernable to Barry's aerial moves.  Fine match overall, which is high praise considering that it had to be almost 100 degrees in the building and they could've mailed it in.

RD:  Up next they had Tony Lowe come out to do some mic work and was supposed to intro the Boogie Knights.  He comes out and does some cheap heat stuff and as he's talking, eventually, the DRS run out and whack him with chairs and then hit a neat double team where they put him on KC Blade's shoulders as he's sitting on the top rope.  EC Negro climbs onto the second rope, puts Lowe in a cravate and they both dive off hitting a diamond cutter and an electric chair face buster at the same time.  The Boogie Knights run out to make the save, but the DRS beat it.  A good tease for their match later in the night.

PP:  It's pretty hysterical seeing the Shiny Happy Scoundrels work babyface and do it as well as they did here.  It's good to see that they can work both sides equally effectively.  Blade styles away in the Sacramento Kings #4 jersey with "SCOUNDREL" on the back instead of "WEBBER."

MATCH 3:  Lord of the Ring Match:  J-KRONIC vs. DARKSYDE vs. JOSH DEELEY vs. J-TRAIN vs. JIMMY HUSTLER vs. ZENA vs. JOHNNY BRAVADO vs. THE MOTIVATOR vs. NUKE vs. MONSTA MACK vs. "SOUTHERN" VINNY STYLIN vs. PRINCE NANA vs. J-BUSTA vs. TIM ARSON vs. AZRAEL vs. POPPALICIOUS vs. TRIPLE B vs. R.G.
RD:  USA Pro is always out there to make it fucking impossible to figure out who the hell is in their match.  Especially since you could barely make out the names when they were called out and they generally were only said once.  The rules were it was an elimination match, 6 guys are "legal" at once, 4 on the apron, 2 inside fighting.  Everyone else stays at ringside as lumberjacks.... well, more or less, staying at ringside amusing themselves before they're in.  Most notable things going on at ringside are everyone beating up the guy who was known as "Adolf" (aka the guy that took the burning body slam from Norman Smiley and that the Masked Maniac is always sexually molesting) and Azrael stealing everyone's gear.  Azrael I think had stolen the Motivator's army hat, Stylin's flag and someone's jacket.  Anyway, onto the match.  J-Kronic got the fall on either Triple B or R.G. since those are the two names on the USA Pro site that I don't recognize with a flatliner.  Deeley came in and hit some sub Luger level clotheslines on Kronik before Darksyde came in.  Darksyde can best be described as if Mabel and Ruckus had a love child.  He's a stocky/heavy looking guy who does some moonsaults and other agile moves, but he sort of has the Mabel as Viscera look with the dyed hair (albeit blue).  The fans chant "Mabel" out him and he responds right away by hitting a leg lariat.  Anyway, Darksyde does some nice looking spots on Deeley before going for a missing a moonsault only to be pinned.  Kronic did us all a favor and got Deeley out of there next.  J-Train eliminated Kronic next.  Train continues his stretch of being really fun in these gauntlet/battle royal type matches as he was hitting some evil chops on guys.  He ended up getting Kronic out with a flashing elbow.  Zena ended up eliminating Jimmy Hustler I think, but I don't remember who eliminated him, of course it could have been vice verse.... damn 80 people in a match.  Bravado eliminated The Motivator, who was doing a marine/army gimmick with camo pants and face paint who I initially listed as General Admission since I didn't know his name.  Bravado got put out by either R.G. or Triple B who then got put out by Nuke.  Nuke should really consider getting new tights because a mushroom cloud right on your ass will probably not get you over with the LAAAAAAADIES.  Hopefully, there's no truth in that advertising.  Anyway, Nuke gets put out by J-Train.  They did a bit where Monsta Mack and J-Train were slapping away at each other at one point before Monsta eventually got in with Stylin.  I forget how he put out Stylin, but he dragged in Adolf and killed him dead with a second rope fire thunder.  Nana used an Implant DDT to take out J-Busta who I think showed up late as he was the one person who I didn't see at ringside the whole time and for some reason I thought he was a security guy before the finally put him in the match.  Arson took out J-Train with a TKO.  Azrael used a blind tag to hit Monsta Mack with a springboard clothesline as he was facing someone else and get the pin.  Poppalicous took out Azrael and Nana in straight falls, which kind of sucked because if I was given a choice of who I wanted to see go over, it would have been either of them.  Poppalicious did hit a nice gatorbuster into a reverse DDT to eliminate Nana.  Anyway, Poppalicious and Arson are fighting and Matt Zombie, who runs a local hotline, hits the ringside area and slips Arson a rubber hammer which gets used as a weapon, but doesn't get the fall.  The finish was sort of fucked up as it seemed like the interference was kind of obvious or miss timed, but in the end, Arson gets the pin after another TKO.  Post match, Arson has the hammer and I figure maybe he'll be the Canadian Game-eh.  But instead, Zombie gives him a Nazi flag and  Arson ends up joining up with Skinhead Ivan.

PP:  After this match, I honestly think Goodman should take 2-3 of the group's belts and consolidate all of them into the USAPW Clusterfuck Championship.  I mean talk about truth in advertising.  Regarding the match proper, Darksyde is quite the World's Greatest Ruckus as he looked fine out there and his spots all looked good.  Also this kind of setting allows him to hit his stuff and tag out without getting exposed.  Motivator does an Army gimmick... as we had no idea who he was until checking the USAPW site after the show ended, Ray proceeds to dub him "General Admission."  J-Train has truly found his niche in USA as he's more fun in this group than I can ever remember him before.  Monsta hits the Van Monstanator on Poppalicious near the end only for Azrael to slither in and eliminate him via schoolboy.  The match comes down to Arson and Poppalicious, and the finish is a must-see as EVERYONE contrives to botch the ending to this until Arson finally puts Poppalicious away with the Ontario Smasher.  Stop the motherfreaking insanity. 

MATCH 4 :  SKINHEAD IVAN v. SLYK WAGNER BROWN w/ April Hunter
RD:  Pre-match, Ivan's new Nazi group do promo work and drop a bunch of F-bombs and N-bombs.  DeAngelis asks everyone to turn their backs on them.  Ivan I think said he wasn't going to wrestle, but the sound system wasn't that good.  DeAngelis tells him he's going to have to wrestle or he's going to be suspended.  He managed to get Ivan's belt, which he had painted swastikas on, and get it to someone to "throw in the garbage".  He also threw Zombie and Arson out from ringside.  Ivan made some comments about April and Slyk threatened to kick his ass.  Slyk's stuff looked sharp in this and hit a really great looking drop kick.  They did a bunch of fighting on the floor and ended up going into the crowd twice, to which DeAngelis told them to get back in the ring or he was throwing the match out.  I missed the finish to this as I went on another water run, but apparently Ivan got caught up top and Slyk hit him with sort of a reverse version of an iconoclasm (Ivan facing away from the ring, Slyk throws him over so Ivan lands face first).  Slyk continues to look good in the last few times I've seen him.

PP:  I am all for DeAngelis' "shut up and wrestle" initiative... I just wish he'd picked a cooler night to debut this and get all of the expositionary micwork out of the way.  I also enjoyed the moment where Slyk and Ivan were brawling in the crowd and he demanded that they return, at which point they dropped what they were doing and RAN back to ringside.  Classic.  Slyk's stuff was really crisp including this amazing standing dropkick he hit... maybe he's installed little trampolines in those giant lifts.  Slyk goes over after catching Ivan on the ropes and hitting the inverted Iconoclasm.

MATCH 5:  THE CHRISTOPHER ST. CONNECTION (Mace Mendoza & Buff E) v. THE FLOCK (Mikey Whipwreck & Wayne)
RD:  I think they announced Wayne as "Sick and Twisted" Wayne, so I'm guessing he's dropping the Convinence Store Guy monnicker.  Anyway, the CSC come out first, Mace wearing a "Queen" shirt and Buff wearing a "Butch" shirt with rainbows under them.  Buff E says that he's not concerned about the match, he's more concerned if Mikey and Wayne will be their dates for the Gay Pride March which was this past weekend.  This match was really great shtick wise as the CSC is so awesome and they worked some great spots in it.  At one point, the CSC pantsed the Flock and both Mikey and Wayne were wearing shorts with "Do Not Enter" on the ass.  They did a funny bit where Mikey or Wayne was chopping Mace in the corner and Mace stopped him and told him "DON'T WASTE IT", so Mace turned around so they could chop his ass.  Buff E then got pissed and insisted it was his turn and he took his chops.  The finish was the CSC kissing each other and then eventually kiss both Wayne and Mikey.  Wayne sold it great, Mikey got pissed and hit a quick whippersnapper for the win.  I thought the work in this was a little off as it seemed like there was some problems clicking, but the comedy in it made up for it.  Eh, it could have been the heat.  Fun match though.  I think post match, Hanson ended up getting kissed again and had a great mortified look on his face.

PP:  Buff and Mace actually wore those shirts into the building.  I DEMAND~! that someone (JAPW, USAPW, ROH, etc) film a vignette of them in character taking the subway (or the light rail in JAPW's case) to a show.  It would be the greatest video ever, and it isn't like they couldn't take care of themselves in the event someone tried to get cute with them.  Wayne comes out wearing a bowling shirt ala Mikey and truly looks like his bastard stepbrother now.  It's a good gimmick change for him.

MATCH 6:  JUSTIN CAGE/JAY STATIC vs. STORMIN' NORMAN/MCKENNY
RD:  I think this is the first time McKenny and Norman had been back in USA Pro in a while.  The match started off with some big dives early on, one with Cage taking out everyone but also splattering himself pretty good.  This was kind of there, but Norman and McKenny had a nice finisher sequence with a double hip toss lift up, into a double back breaker and then chaining it right into a York and Matthews style double powerbomb (the Future Shock) which looked really good.  Post match they teased problems between Static and Cage.

PP:  Really short match as I excused myself at the start to get refreshed and they went to the finish before I got back.  Norman/McKenny looked good from what I saw of them.

MATCH 7:  GRIM REEFER vs. DERANGED for the X-Treme Title in a Ladder Match
RD:  Deranged came out with the DRS who acted heelish at the start as Deranged was the heel in the match.  I joked with Pete that they fell off the wagon.  After all, they're new to this babyface thing.  Anyway, Hanson eventually threw them out from ringside.  To their credit, they actually gave them a ladder that wasn't falling apart at the start of the match.  Deranged and Reefer made sure it wasn't in that condition when the match ended.  This wasn't the best ladder match I've seen, but it was pretty good, but I'm pretty burned out on these.  I really don't enjoy watching guys who can go do amazingly stupid things when they're this young.  Deranged doing a swanton bomb onto the ladder on top of Reefer had me wincing and bent a few of the rungs.  At one point Reefer did a dive from the top of a ladder on the floor to put Deranged through a table.  Deranged hit a top rope version of his high speed sunset flip.  Eventually Reefer climbed up and got the belt.  Post match, he and Deranged shook hands, so I'm guessing the whole DRS crew are now faces, which is sort of a shame because I think Deranged and the DRS are really great rudos.

PP:  DRS interfere at the start a bit before Hanson throws them out for the rest of the match.  This is OK as far as ladder matches go, but I'm with Ray in that neither of these guys need to be wrecking their bodies like this.  I mean Deranged/Red was off the charts and I don't remember any plunder coming into play during the course of their match.  Reefer's swanton off the ladder to the floor was the spot of the night.  FWIW I thought the handshake was more of the "hail fellow well met" variety than any inkling that Deranged is going back full-fledged babyface.

MATCH 8:  THE MASKED MANIAC/BAM BAM BIGELOW/CROWBAR (w/ Serena) vs. THE ELM STREET KIDS (Psycho & Rayza & Danny Yams)
RD:  This was started as an angle where I think the ESK made fun of the comic book someone had done which has Crowbar and The Maniac in it. (Marvel comics presents... Hot Dog Ass Rape Man!)  This was supposed to be a tag match, but the ESK said since Maniac and Crowbar were the super heroes, they would be the Super Villains and brought out Danny Yams to give them the 3 on 2 advantage, before Crowbar brought out Bam Bam to even up the sides.  Eh, this was kind of there.  Maniac is terrible and got in his usual pantsing spot on Rayza.  They did a big build up with Crowbar setting up both Rayza and Psycho in chairs for his plancha on them, only to offer it to Maniac, who teased a dive, then stepped through the ropes and jumped and sort of hit them both but landed mostly on one, resulting in Crowbar hitting the Pescado onto the other.  This took way too long to set up.  The finish was I think Maniac putting the Figure Four on either Psycho or Rayza and Crowbar I think hitting a top rope splash on them for the eventually submission.  Post match, Crowbar said he had been taken notes from the Maniac and goes to the back and drags out Adolf who they ended up cutting part of his hair with an electric clipper.  Then Maniac puts his hands down his pants and I cover my eyes with my bandana to stop the hurting.

PP:  Workers were starting to stream in from the Prime Time Wrestling show in Staten Island as this match was coming to the ring so I thankfully used this opportunity to go downstairs and pass THE STRIKER! the DVDVR shirt he asked us for (making Jim Brambilla's head explode soon at an indy show near you).  As I'm heading back I look to the ring... say, what's Maniac doing to Adolf... GAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH THE GOGGLES THEY DO NOTHING! Shoot me 4 times.  ESK have a fun gimmick but they were out of costume and basically got wasted for the third Lodge show in a row.

MATCH 9:  DANNY DEMANTO vs. "LOW LIFE" LOUIE RAMOS
RD:  I think Louie was wearing a kaffiyeh on his head and I joke with Pete that he's Abdullah the Third Ramos.  Anyway, this was a bunch of stabby stabby, and hit each other with objects.  They used a barbed Wire Bat, a barbeque fork, a thumb tack wiffleball bat.  Demanto got a near fall with a frog splash with barbed wire around his body.  The finish was Louie hitting the death valley driver through a barbed wire board set up on two chairs.  Post match, Louie was going to jam a dildo up Demanto's ass, but Kevin Matthews, who was on crutches and had a big brace on his knee, hit the ring to make the save, only to be bladed with a kitchen knife.

PP:  I don't know what I would've done if you'd told me 3 years ago that Louie Ramos was going to be one of the most over guys in NYC, especially since back in 2001 he was having problems just getting licensed to work in the state.  He's booked to work Abdullah the Butcher on the 18th here and he's starting to do an Abby-aping gimmick with the towel on his head... if he comes out with the pointy boots that match will be # 1 and the best.  ;)

MATCH 10:  THE BOOGIE KNIGHTS (Danny Drake & Mike Tobin) w/ Simply Luscious vs. THE DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELZ (EC Negro & KC Blade)
RD:  This was sort of back and forth, as I think the biggest problem I have with the BK's is their general lack of offense that they use in matches.  But this played out well because the DRS have a lot of double teams.  This was fun.  The DRS debuted their shirts which has their logo on the front and both their pics on the back like their shirts which they used to wear about a year ago.  It was odd seeing the DRS work face, but they were pretty over, including everyone doing the "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" when EC set up a big corner knee spot.  The finish was the DRS hitting a spiked brainbuster on Tobin, Reil, who had snuck out near the finish and eventually ran in to distract EC Negro and Hanson.  Drake got knucks and KO'ed Blade and the BK's won. 

PP:  Man alive but the DRS are over like total fiends in the Lodge... I would've been all over their t-shirt if I'd known they were going to be bringing them.  As it was there had to be at least 20-30 of those shirts floating around the crowd.  BKs don't have the flashiest offense in the world but they are YOUR Indy Gods of Selling and Bumping.  Tony Lo comes out with the old-school Savage shirt again only for the DRS to take him out and steal the shirt; later on Negro dons the shirt and hits a <I>pristine</i> Savage top-rope elbow where he goes totally horizontal.  Awe-inspiring.

RD:  After the match, Lowe, Luscious and Reil join the BK's in the ring.  Reil starts to do a promo congratulating them, and basically turns it into something that they're men but that women were pretty much useless.  So, Luscious out of the blue gets dumped from the group I'm guessing out the blue as the last Lodge show there was nothing to build to this like Luscious blowing a match for someone.  At any rate, Luscious gets upset and they end up with a challenge...

MATCH 11:  BILLY REIL vs. SIMPLY LUSCIOUS 
RD:  It appears they've transitioned Reil from getting cheap heat on minorities to getting cheap heat by beating women.  And Reil is no Andy Kaufman.  And cheap heat is still cheap heat.  At any rate, Luscious' work has improved a bit and this is passable wrestling wise, though Luscious cannot kick Reil in the face hard enough for my liking.  Anyway, the finish is Luscious trying to do a top rope rana on Reil, who turns it into a superbomb, but it looks like Luscious got hurt, though I'm not sure if it was an angle or not.  As Reil got up and had a shoving bit with Hanson where he sort of fell back to leg drop on Luscious which is what I'm guessing would have been a school boy spot, but Luscious appeared out and Hanson calls for the bell.  Kruel and some staff and the Doctor run out to check on her and since Reil didn't put the boots to her after that, I'm guess it was legit.  At any rate, she was eventually able to get back up and with a little help she was helped to the back.

PP:  This was a lot better than it had any right to be as this was the best Luscious has looked since I started to see her matches.  Reil was wearing his old "D-SEX" gear (from his JAPW days teaming with Nick Berk and Flash Wheeler IMSMR) and looked OK too once you got past the misogynistic aspects of this deal.  Finish is screwy as Reil hits the Superbomb on Luscious and appears to KO her legit.  After some confusion Hanson basically tells Reil to end the match so he gives her a one-finger pin and bails out as everyone comes out to check on her.

MATCH 12:  "FALLEN ANGEL" CHRISTOPHER DANIELS vs. "SHOOTER" MIKE KRUEL for the USA Pro U.S. Title
RD:  Daniels came out first and got a good amount of reaction, so he immediately told everyone he didn't need their cheers and giving him the XXX hand sign.  This was a good match, though the crowd heat wasn't really there.  Basic story was each guy picked something to work on.  Daniels worked over Kruel's ribs and Kruel worked over Daniels' arm.  Kruel would be on offense and Daniels would use a knee or kick or punch to the guts and would transition over to offense.  Good match,  Daniels went for his jump up moonsault once, but Kruel moved and Daniels landed on his feet.  Later, Daniels would hit it, but Kruel was able to hit Daniels with a key lock while he was on the bottom and eventually got Daniels to tape.  Good match, probably the match of the night, though it was hurt by a dead crowd.

PP:  I finally tapped out to the heat at this point and dozed off, which is NO reflection whatsoever on Messrs. Daniels or Kruel.  I really feel sorry for Daniels as in almost every match he's had for USAPW he comes on in Hour 4 of a 5-6 hour show and the crowd is just mentally exhausted by that point.  Somehow I manage to revive right at the finish as Kruel taps Daniels with the keylock.

MATCH 13:  THE S.A.T. (Jose & Joel Maximo) vs. SIMON DIAMOND & MATT STRIKER w/ Becky Bayless
RD:  Becky came out wearing ridiculously huge lift shoes, to the point it seemed like she was having problems walking.  It also resulted in a ton of Herman Munster jokes between me and Pete.  This was a good match.  Striker and Simon looked like a good combination and it was another solid performance for the SAT, something which sort of has been a rarity lately.  Simon and Striker worked well as a team and did a neat Striker Gory Catapult into a Simon Diamond Cutter.  The finish was a cluster with the rest of Knight Life interfering and the DRS running in too.  Becky did a run in, but eventually had to ditch her shoes so she could actually move.  I think they teased the Spanish Fly on her, but a save was made.  The SAT's hit their Sky High Swinging DDT on Simon or Swinger.  They did a bunch of teases on the finish with the DRS accidentally clotheslining the SAT and the Boogie Knights accidentally double super kicking Simon or Swinger.  Eventually, the SAT's got the pin.  Post match, the DRS had the belts in the ring and they did the "faces back into each other" spot, and the DRS handed over the titles reluctantly, setting up a 3 way on a future show.  Somehow the "worthless woman" Becky was not kicked out of the group.

PP:  Anyone here remember when Goodman said he wasn't going to book the SATs anymore?  Me neither. BECKY BAYLESS VS. HER GARGANTUAN SHOES might as well have been a special added attraction based on the pitched battle going on here as she has problems just staying upright throughout.  Endless Herman Munster impressions abound.  "Why thank you Lillian.  HUHR HUHR HUHR HUHR!"  They NWATNA the hell out of the finish to this as the BKs, the DRS, Reil, Lo etc all hit the ring and run interference for each team until the SATs finally get the win.  Considering the gimmick Becky is working I perfectly understand why Knightlife would let her hang around... let's just say I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers.

MATCH 14:  HOMICIDE vs. PERRY SATURN
RD:  I missed part of this match because I needed to do another water run.  This was kind of short and the parts I saw were eh.  Not the best Homicide outing I've seen, though I don't really think that was on him. 

PP:  I was hourglassing big-time by this point to where all I can remember is the finish (Saturn goes over clean via powerbomb) and a bunch of micwork at the start where Saturn offers to let Homicide cancel the match and spare a beating.  I will say that Saturn is hysterical cutting promos in that milquetoast "Bahstin" voice of his while sporting the gazillion tattoos.

MATCH 15:  BALLS MAHONEY (w/ girlfriend) vs. JUSTIN CREDIBLE
RD:  Balls came out and did a make shift challenge as originally supposed to have Balls face Mafia.  They had Balls come out and say that he was pissed that he lost his title to Raven, but it was Justin's fault for not making their title match on the anniversary show.  Justin comes out and is wearing work boots instead of wrestling boots and I joke that it's Justin Timberlands.  This went back and forth.  Both guys bled.  Justin tried to do some heel mic work but couldn't get the mic to work.  Near the end, Louie ran out and tried to attack Balls.  He stopped him from hitting the chair shot, Justin recovered and rolled up Balls with a handful of tights.  Post match, Balls went after Louie and was setting up for something off the stage through a table, but Louie fought back and pushed Balls off the stage through the table.  Louie got on the mic and challenge Balls to a match at a future show.

PP:  I missed most of this as I went to get rehydrated for the last time on the night.  It looked like Balls was going to go for the Nutcracker Suite off the stage when Louie reversed it and put him through the table to the floor

MATCH 16:  THE SANDMAN vs. RAVEN (w/ Trinity, Mikey Whipwreck & Wayne)
RD :  I think this is like the 100th time I've seen this match from ECW and indys.  Anyway, Raven complains about having to be in the match since he was injured, but says he'll win.  He has Mikey run the mic back and forth to him a few times, one time Whipwreck yells out "HORSHACK" at DeAngelis.  Raven favors his leg and has the Flock take a lot of bumps and interfere a bunch.  There was a great spot where Sandman caught Trinity and started spanking her and Whipwreck pulled off a Shining Enzugiri off her onto Sandman.  Raven eventually got the win with the DDT.  Post match he gets on the mic and let's everyone know that he's available for photographs for $20 a pop.

PP:  Raven comes out to his old WWE music sequeing into "Come Out And Play" and I blame the heat and exhaustion for my doing an impromptu TNR dance as he hits the ring.  You can tell he's having problems with his ankle although he guts it out and it isn't as bad as the time in ECW when he had gout and literally worked a match or two on crutches.  It also helped that he had Mikey, Wayne and Trinity all running interference for him.  Mikey's Shining Enzuigiri off Trinity's rump was a really great spot that came out of nowhere.  Sandman kicks out of two DDTs before finally falling to the third and Raven retains the title.  He puts up a convinving argument for getting his merch but we really have to get home before we collapse.

RD:  All and all, it was a pretty good show, but once again, they go way too fucking long and with the summer season upon us, if it's a hot day, it will test you as a wrestling fan.  A pretty solid showing overall though.

PP:  The first step I do when I buy the Lodge from the Korean Church will be to kick the Koreans out.  The second will be to install air conditioning... that or a couple of those giant fans like you see on the sidelines at football games to keep the teams cool.