Normally we are all full of warmth and love. Not tonight ladies and gentleman.  I will offer this warning. We pull no punches in the horribleness that was this card.  We will transcribe things as they actually happened.  Things that were actually said. If you thing you might be offended, don't read on. In fact, if you are offended by bad wrestling, don't read on. (PR)

You guys write about the Shane Shamrock thing, you know my opinion and it is probably best kept to myself (PS)

All the wrestlers and other members of the promotion come out to offer a tribute to the fallen Shane Shamrock which was the classy thing to do. They retire the Light Heavyweight Title and give members of Brian Howser's (Shamrock's real name) family some tokens of appreciation. (PR)

I wish the rest of this card was as tasteful and restrained as this tribute.  This, the Cueball match, the Tanaka/ Herman match and a couple of other things were the only things with any semblance of a moral compass guiding it.  I don't know the facts about his death and didn't ever see him wrestle but it was still touching.  I feel for his kids- the true victims of whatever happened. (DR)

I've seen a grand total of one Shane Shamrock match, which was at the ill fated nCo Con II which ultimately led the a bunch of MEWF quitting the promotion and let to the formation of this group.  It was a good moment. (RD)

TOMMY DREAMER vs. JACK VICTORY:
The card immediately stakes out a comfortable spot in the gutter it would reside in all night. They cut an angle with Axl Rotten calling Jeff Jones some of the most vile names I have heard (cum holder, cocklicker etc.) This little monologue was going on while there were dozens of little kids in the audience, including a the two year old daughter of Shamrock.  Totally devoid of any class.  Jones calls out Jack Victory and Axl calls out Tommy Dreamer. Dreamer vs. Victory in Maryland where they ban the blade, Welcome to Hell.  Dreamer mails this baby in.  This is possibly the worst Tommy Dreamer match I have ever seen, and that is a high mountain to climb (PS)

I vividly remember Rotten telling Jones that the microphone was "not a cock, so don't suck it."  Great example for the kids.  Anyway, since Sabu didn't show up, this was considered the suitable replacement. Hey, No it's not. (PR)

Other great lines include "cum dumpster" and "Human Maxi-pad."  Man, talk about a 180 from what just happened minutes earlier.  As far as Sabu not being there and Dreamer being used as a substitute, I guess it sort of works for indies.  I didn't really care because I wasn't coming to the show to see Sabu, I was coming to see Masato Tanaka. Dreamer's a "hardcore" wrestler and a name, so having him in for a show as a draw, I don't have a problem with.  Jack Victory however really brings nothing to the table aside from being one of the few men who can give Steve Lombardi a run for his money in most gimmicks category. I got a "we want Tatum" going because at least John was a 52nd degree black belt and had the Bionic Pout.  Of course, there's only so much Dreamer and Jacko could do.  I mean, the athletic commission doesn't let you do all that much, bout guys are wearing about a roll of Bounty paper towels on their heads, probably from the previous night's festivities to make sure they don't bleed and cause problems for the rest of the show.  Mercifully short.  I look past the fact Dreamer no longer has Beulah with him because they have a waitress walking around in purple hot pants.  I use her a distraction from the horror in the ring.  (RD)

This was the worst.  The shitty wrestling I was expecting because it was frickin Tommy Dreamer and Jacko Victory, but Axel pouring verbal raw sewage on pre-teen kids was about as hideous a display as I have ever seen.  If the other two cards run by MCW were as devoid of regard for the children in the audience as this one, I'd partly blame the parents, but this shit is out of line and sheds a really sinister and ugly light on the artform I love.  I'd say that I'd never cross the Mason-Dixon again to see wrestling again, but I refuse to lump this garbage with the ECWA and IWPA- which may not be to level of OMEGA in terms of workers- but who still give a damn about people with families who just want to see some decent wrestling.  MCA delivered none of the above and these guys should be ashamed of themselves.  The match itself was pretty much exactly what I was expecting when they both showed up in the ring- I mean, Dreamer without the ability to blade and he being without the ability to bump like when he wasn't crippled, leaves us with  his wrestling ability and his ability to  work a very straight match- so JACK VICTORY was gonna have to carry him.  Yep.  Neither of these guys can work a good match or display ANY fascinating wrestling moves so welcome to the first level of Wrestling Hell.  This was mercifully short, though.  Thank God. (DR)

CUEBALL CARMICHAEL vs. THE BRUISER:
I think consistency is important in wrestling. Look at someone like Jinsei Shinzaki, who can range from spectacular to unwatchable.  Consistency is the best thing about Cueball Carmicheal, you know he will deliver the worst match of the night no matter who else is on the card or who he is wrestling. Cueball doesn't disappoint at this show. (PS)

The Bruiser sure wasn't Bruiser Brody or Dick the Bruiser; this match was UNWATCHABLE. (PR)

In retrospect, this was the fourth best match on the card and it was at the level of, say, Kurrgan wrestling Another Slightly Crappier Kurrgan. Since this was simply not executed well in the ring and didn't actually make me ashamed of being a wrestling fan - this gets the Maryland Championship Wrestling BIG THUMBS UP.(DR)

Of course, it's followed up by a truly silly finish.  After Cueball shows how great he is at taking clotheslines, he goes to the back and gets Mad Dog O'Malley.  Cueball distracts the referee so Mad Dog can hit a turn around splash off the second rope (he thought of going to the top and wised up).  Of course, Mad Dog is probably a legit 400+ pounds and must be the most stealthy man in the world.  Apparently they've hired ref's from the Helen Keller School of Refereeing.  I mean, getting snuck up on by Mad Dog O'Malley is like getting snuck up on by a guy in a semi-truck with the mufflers off and the horn stuck on.  If he's that deceptive, we should just make our bombers out of the material O'Malley's uses in his ring outfit because no radar system would ever pick them up.  (RD)

2 DOPE vs. MIKEY WHIPWRECK:
2-Dope, Sideswipe and Suckapunch are a really, really, really, really bad knockoff version of the Gangsters.  Mikey Whipwreck is a great wrestler who I wanted to see live 2 years ago.  Instead I get Whipwreck a shell of himself.  My life sucks. (PR)

Mikey Whipwreck is the first casualty of the ECW revolution.  He used to be such a great wrestler that he dragged good matches out of the motherfucking Sandman. Now he can barely walk and is a shadow of his former greatness.  Washed up at 25 or something, the victim of a hopeless quest to be "hardcore". He could have been where Billy Kidman is now, instead he wrestling some no-talent New Jack wannabe in front of 800 degenerates. ECW, ECW, ECW my ass. (PS)

Jiminy CRAP!  Mikey Whipwreck wrestles THIS choade when up-and-coming star Christian York is RIGHT THERE ready to deliver a three star match, and thus help me justify the six hours of total driving time to see this horror of a wrestling card.  But I get nothing.  Well, I get this. Mikey tried, but he's a complete physical wreck and Too Dope was too green to help much.(DR)

This was a prime example of what sort of was wrong with the card as there were a bunch of matches that could have been salvaged had they mixed up the line up a bit.  Mikey can still deliever good matches, however, I think it's now at the point where it's with someone who can deliever as well.  2 Dope didn't appear to be that guy.  Not much of note, though they did a cute spot where Dope's pals hold Mikey, Mikey kicks Dope low and Sucka and Swipe let go of Mikey to check on him, then get double Whippersnappered and then Dope gets one to end the match. (RD)

JOEY MATTHEWS/MIGHTY SEXY QUINN NASH vs. STEVIE RICHARDS/EARL THE PEARL:
Joey Matthews wrestled some pretty good matches in OMEGA.  Earl the Pearl is a lot closer to Boogie Woogie Man Valient than Kid Dynamo, so this match sort of sucked.  Nash and Joey blew some stuff too, Stevie Richards doesn't care anymore if he ever did. (PS)

I like Richards but I lost a lot of respect as he adds to the tastlessness by gay-bashing.  Fine, fine example for the kids.  I think this about the same time that I saw some 5-year bending his fingers down to give the heels the finger.  He has no idea what it means but he is doing it because everyone else around him is.  Disgusting. (PR)

Mathews- outside of OMEGA and it's coterie of really good workers- tends to be a whole lot of Memphis heel tactics that barely hint at the good lil worker that lurks beneath the tired screwjobs and crappy fourth-rate heel antics.  He needs a worker that will push him like Kid Dynamo or even Christian York.  This match was all about being a basic nontranscendent Southern Tag match and a showcase of Stevie Richards who won't gonna be doing much of anything this night.  This match should have been better, but it didn't totally turn my stomach like a lot of other moments in this night. (DR)

This was the first time I've seen Matthews, but I've heard good things about him.  Quinn is a good indy worker and usually bumps like a fiend. Earl is a bit more of a comedy wrestler, but he can still have a good match and Stevie is a guy who could have been the hottest thing in theindies had he not suffered a neck injury.  This is not a ground breaking match, but not every match has to be.  There were a few spots which were neat, like the Matthews Top Rope Rana followed by a Quinn sort of Frog Splash.  And then there were a few that not, like Matthews getting a lift from from Quinn where he's supposed to body press Earl in the corner, but it doesn't quite work and Matthews sort of ends up landing head first into Earl's stomach/crotch.  (RD)
 

MASATO TANAKA vs. ULF HERMANN:
Masato Tanaka is the only reason we came to this card and he doesn't disappoint. Him and Ulf Herman are pros and they wrestle really stiff and crisp.  Tanaka is so awesome,  Herrman is so passable.  I dug this a bunch, but it was only 8 minutes which kind of sucked.  The only highlight on this whole card. (PS)

Never in my life did I imagine that I would see Tanaka and his scars in a ring 25 feet from where I was sitting. At the time this was worth my $12. (PR)

I was into this.  Hell, I have a tape of Ulf Herman draggin Ultimate Warriors horrible ass to a watchable match in Germany so I was totally stoked about this match.  Shithead fratboys behind yell racial slurs at Tanaka and we try to drown them out but they've had a whole lot more beer tonight than we have to gear them up for their date-rape escapades for after the match (maybe this is the target audience?)  Tanaka is bigger than I thought he was (5'9-ish, 220) and he was here to wrestle and the stark contrast of these two wrestling compared to the indie chump looseness showed by everyone else on the card was pretty startling.  Hey, guys in the back, this is how actual wrestlers around the world wrestle.  They actually make a Lariat look like an offensive move.  Tanaka does the annoying spot of taking a couple of concussion-inducing stiff chairshots to the head.  A wrestler of this calibre doesn't have to resort to such bush-league tactics to get over.  Let him wrestle and the actual fans will get into him.  Let the vampires have Dreamer.  Actually, I guess they are all done with him, so they need somebody else's career to ruin.  Masato Tanaka is fucking awesome. Ulf Hermann is so much more than passable!  He's quite OKAY! (DR)

Drunk Dumbfucks calling Tanaka japanese sterio type they can think of is ultimately why I think this planet is doomed to never get along. On the plus side, their drunken feeble minds start running on empty about 5 insults in.  Aside from that, this is quite cool.  Tanaka goes a bunch of his cool stuff, minus the elbow suicida, Thunder Fire Powerbomb and Running DVD. Unfortunately, he does the ultra annoying get whacked in the head with a chair spot.  Guys, it's OK to put your hands up to block those.  It's even better if you avoid them all  together.  I was also happy to see Tanaka win with the Rolling Elbow rather than the usual swinging DDT on the chair.  Ulf was solid and showed off a neato thing or two.  Of course, he's not immune to insults as someone telling him to "Get a Haircut you redneck". Apparently, they have mistaken him for the German Prime Time Brian Lee. (RD)

MARK SHRADER vs. ROMEO VALENTINO:
They gave Mark Shrader and Romeo Valentino 2 more minutes then Masato Tanaka and Ulf Herrman. Shrader must have asthma or something, because he looks like he is good condition, but always blows up 5 minutes in to his matches.  Romeo Valentino took some bumps but it wasn't saving this thing.  Shrader needs to work out on a Stairmaster or something. (PS)

The new headlock: the pump-handle into powerslam. Wrath does it. Mark Canterbury does it. Romeo Valentino does it. (PR)

Romeo Valentino I got no beef with.  He wasn't afraid to bump a whole bunch.  Shrader is so not a superworker. (DR)

Well, at least Romeo isn't a Menance 2 Society anymore.  I dunno.  I saw Sharder have better matches a year or two ago against the likes of Knuckles Zandwich, I don't know what happened. (RD)

CHRISTIAN YORK vs. A J FRITZOID:
Christian York is a good little youngster with a big future.  But he is way too young to be able to carry the poorman's Porkchop Cash, A.J. Fritzoid, to anything.  After the match 2 Dope, Sucka Punch and Sideswipe, jump Fritzoid and Dawn Marie beating on both of them.  2 Dope gets on the mike and calls Dawn Marie a dirty whore, and exclaims that all she wants is to suck his big black Johnson, and that is what all the white girls in the audience want.  He then calls Fritzoid a house nigger and hits him with Watermelon and Fried Chicken, he asks where his white friends are and exclaims "Kill Whitey."  I have no idea why the hell they would run this gimmick on a night where there were so many kids in the audience.  This wasn't at a bar, their were six year olds running around for Christ's sake.  I can't believe that no one thought that doing a women beating angle at a show which was a tribute to Shamrock, was short sited and offensive, especially in light of the circumstances of his death.  This whole thing made me sick.  It was a low class, disgusting display and everyone involved should have been ashamed. (PS)

Dawn Marie shows all the little girls what a big role model she can be by wearing a skirt that stops at her hips which means we she enters the ring, well there you go.  She talked on the mic and it might as well been "Hey girls, the only way you will be respected is to show off everything and be really slutty.  Always say yes, men will like you." (PR)

Well, PR, that works for me, but I'm a shallow person.  Jeez, I felt like I needed a shower after this angle, it felt so dirty.  The match it's self was a not very good.  The finish looked totally screwed up as we end up the inevitiable cat fight in the ring with Dawn Marie and Bobcat.  For some unknown reason York picks up Bobcat in his arms and A.J. hits him with what I think was supposed to be an enzugiri which hits him somewhere in middle to lower back.  Anyway, 2 Dope and company hit the ring, Dawn Marie takes one of them out with a fisherman buster or something and then proceeds to get beat up and the locker room... stays in the back.  Gee, remember the days when one of the most dispicable things you could was hit a woman?  This looks real bad as not a single person comes out to the make the save and the locker room including people Dawn Marie has managed in the past. You'd think they couldn't find a more demeaning thing to do than rip her clothes off each week like they do in ECW, but they did.  And don't even get to see her get her clothes ripped off.  Can't we all just get along?  To top this all off, during the intermission, we are informed that "Dawn Marie is still getting check out by the doctors in the back... but her pictures are on sale now..."  Talk about a sales pitch.  (RD)

Ah, misogeny and racism.  God, gimme my car keys.  I'm not sure who gets into angles like this but they also probably watch snuff films, frequent adult bookstores, and own a pair of nunchuks.  This was like the Mass Transit tape in its sheer shit-headed degeneracy,  but at least there was a seven year old little girl right in row in front of me taking this all in.  Her dad was a shithead for allowing her to stay and MCW were a bunch of collective shitheads for running this angle.  This was despicable and completely morally bankrupt.  When's the next ECWA or OMEGA show?  I need to cleanse my palate of this indie shit-sandwich. (DR)

TOM BRANDI vs. ADAM FLASH:
Tom Brandi and Royce Profit cut a big shoooot interview, and wrestle Adam Flash. Both guys suck and this match sucked, Masato Tanaka needs to go back to Japan.  FMW may be bad, but this is demeaning.  We get to see Profit's fat ass, this show is awful. I hope this promotion folds. (PS)

Oh boy, Royce is back!  And the Headbangers rip his pants off twice! And Brandi knows they're gonna do it... and he doesn't stop them.  And for that, you go to hell!  You go to hell and you die!  I don't know what's more offensive, the angle I just watched or Royce's ass.  I used this as a time to inspect the bathroom, which was clean and nice.  Hey, I missed the match,  I am heartbroken. (RD)

Any goodwill that was left from seeing Masato Tanaka live was used up when Royce Profit's big fat ass was splayed naked across the ring.  What kind of degenerate thought that was going to do anything but assure this promotion that it will never get another penny from me.  YEESH.  I'm SOOOOOO tired of SHOOOT interviews that AREN'T Cactus Jack.  At least this went on for twenty-five minutes. (DR)

HEADBANGERS vs. JIMMY CICERO/JULIO SANCHEZ:
Headbangers wrestled Jimmy Cicero and Julio Sanchez. Jeff Amdur posted on the Other Arena that he wished the WWF would lets these guys show what they could do. Nothing was holding them back tonight and they delivered nothing.  This was a typical match with nothing separating it from a million matches you have watched before.  Not bad, not good just indifferent. Jimmy Cornette turns on the Headbangers and the crowd goes mild. Platnum Nat had a cool suit. (PS)

Jimmy and Julio really need to work on their team work as a few things looked flubbed.  Including one spot where Cicero went for a drop toe hold on one of the Headbangers and Julio jumped as if to do a drop kick or leg lariat.  This was one of those situations that looked real scary as I'm thinking Cicero was setting up a drop toe hold for a Julio leg drop and signals got crossed.  Had they been off by a little, Mosh (I think) would have probably had his neck broken as he was falling down and he would have had his neck jammed or whipped back at a weird angle. The finisher looked good.  Jimmy turned for no explained reason and if Nat's career as a manager doesn't pan out, all he needs is goggles and he's ready to work as the referee in an FMW exploding death match.  (RD)

You know this angle was really good 10 years ago when the teams were the Midnight Express and the Dynamic Dudes.  Not now. And if Cornette had a suit that he could wear to the ring, why didn't he have it on during the tribute instead of the FUCKING CARTMAN SHIRT.  Jim Cornette, model of class. (PR)

I was so not moved to ANYTHING by the Main Event.  They hit the finisher well and Cornette turned, thus assuring that there was only two clean finishes on this whole miserable card- and when that is the LEAST of my complaints, YOU CAN TRUST ME, this wasn't good at all.  GOD!  Welcome to hell.(DR)

EPILOGUE

MCW, I saw what your selling and I ain't buying. All the sleazy aspects of ECW, with a bunch of even shittier wrestlers.  They are going to have to book Toshiaki Kawada to get me back there. (PS)

Boy, I have never been so ashamed of being a wrestling fan.  I got that  feeling a lot during that show. I still regret not leaving early. (PR)

I'm glad I saw Masato Tanaka and Ulf Herman.  Everything else was done about as far from what I like in professional wrestling as humanly possible.  Sleazy angles, gay-baiting, misogeny and race-baiting have a place where they can be fleshed out for the pleasure of their degenerate affectionados, I guess.  This IS America where every kind of pathetic Midnight Chokercan get his rocks off.  Just hold this at a bar where impressionable children don't have to be exposed to this garbage.  And don't book guys that make me feel the need to drive three hours from Richmond to see them and then wrap it in this crap. (DR)

Well, I got to see Masato Tanaka before he leaves the US.  I dunno, I've seen a bunch of these guys in better matches.  It wasn't a very good show. Call me when the 2 Dope-Fritzoid angle is over and maybe I'll consider coming back. (RD)