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JEFF COBB VS. CHRIS DICKINSON, DAVEY BOY SMITH JR. VS. CALVIN TANKMAN & MORE: GCW PRESENTS JOSH BARNETT'S BLOODSPORT 4 REPORT

GCW “Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport 4”

2/13/21 - iPPV at Bloodsport.watch

GCW’s popular MMA-style Bloodsport show is making its first stop of the month on iPPV. Max Bretos & Josh Barnett are on commentary. The presentation around the show is very TV-style MMA done inside a warmly-lit smokey warehouse. No fans, no ropes, bare posts, all combat on the ring platform. 

Match 1: Diego Perez vs Gil Guardado

A matchup of professional MMA fighters turned pro wrestlers. Striking contest, Perez has the reach advantage so Guardano gets a single leg and takedown. Perez taking the back but Guardano flips out it. In the standup, Guardano avoid the fist and throws some leg kicks before getting another takedown. Perez gets the back and pulls him up. Testing with palm strikes in the standup, Guardano with another takedown via side suplex. Perez into the mount, throws some strikes. Guardano tries to get the leg but Perez backs out. Perez tries a cartwheel kick but it’s block. Perez charges a takedown, Guardano tries to roll through but winds up in a front choke and is forced to tap.

Winner: Diego Perez

Match 2: Royce Isaacs vs Calder McColl

Feel out briefly, Isaacs pops McColl onto his seat and backs off. Isaacs falls into McColl’s guard but it’s short-lived. McColl throws a couple of leg kicks and tries to bring Isaacs down with a headlock. No luck. Isaacs hoists McColl up with a double leg and slam him down. Isaacs fight through the guard, gets the back but McColl gets a hip toss and gets top. Isaacs reverses it into half guard and sinks in a side choke. McColl doesn’t let it lock it completely, forces Isaacs to his feet, trips him back into a rear naked choke. Isaacs struggles out and tries to work a wrist lock. McColl popping his hips to scoot out, roll into mount but Isaacs is turtles up on the strikes. McColl gets a front choke in the standup, brings it down but Isaacs pushing the face for distance. Isaacs attempts a half crab, McColls counters and leaps into a triangle choke and armbar. Isaacs with a german suplex out of it, grabs a head and arm choke but McColl sneaks out and backpacks. Back kick from McColl and he leaps up to drop Isaacs into an arm bar. Transition to a triangle choke and Isaacs is stuck. Tap.

Winner: Calder McCall

Match 3: Superbeast vs Bad Dude Tito

Superbeast is a heavily muscled lucha. Tito is no slouch though. These guys throwing bombs early. Beast throws his weight down and collapses Tito face first to the canvas. Tito with a headlock takedown. Beast with a backdrop suplex and dropping bombs. Beast with the armbar but Tito stacks it, transitions to take the back. Tito slides out, gets his own armbar but the Beast picks him up and slams him down. Beast clubs the back and tries to lay back into a front choke. Tito strikes his way out and they are trading forearms in the center. Tito with a spinning pele kick and a running boot. Tito wants a german, standing switch, Beast with the plex. Beast with a standing wrist lock, throws Tito and tightens that hold on the ground. Tito taps. 

Winner: Superbeast

Match 4: JR Kratos vs Alex Coughlin

Coughlin is making his post-injury return to the ring. He’s all energy, running to the ring ahead of his fight with the big man JR Kratos. Kratos takes his time getting to the ring but he’s right up nose-to-nose with Coughlin. Coughlin tries to use his speed, Kratos drags him down. Coughlin squirms free to take mount and Kratos throws him off. Coughlin charges a double leg but Kratos flattens him out and throws knees into the headlock. Coughlin landing a strike to the jaw and Kratos smiles. Coughlin gets the takedown finally, trying to extend Kratos’ arm into the submission. Kratos transitions up and tries a top wrist lock. Coughlin slips it, drops a knee into the back and puts some toque on the neck. Coughlin running it ahead and Kratos gets that front headlock again...pulls it into a suplex, right back to the headlock. Coughlin tries for the leg it Kratos cracking the back. Coughlin working to the feet but Kratos buckles him with a short uppercut and a kick. Coughlin eats it and fires back, trying to gutwrench deadlift suplex.....he hits it! Coughlin working the armbar. Kratos picks him up and slams him down. Running knee to Coughlin’s jaw. Kratos swarms but the ref waves it off as a KO. 

Winner: JR Kratos

Match 5: Kal Jak vs Nolan Edward

Hey kids, wanna see a murder? Nolan wants the leg but the grizzly Jak gutwrenches him up and down. Nolan tries again but eats a big powerslam. Suplex to Edward. Edward wants the leg but Jak has the front facelock. To the feet, Nolan lands a few shots to the leg and face before going on another suplex ride. Nolan switches the front facelock and head butting the back until Jak hits another suplex. Nolan slips a gutwrench and finally chops the big man with a leg kick. Strikes to the back of the head until Jak hefts him up. Jak with another gutwrench and drops him into a knee strike. The ref tries to wave it off but Jak ain’t done. He picks up Nolan Edward and yeets him at the brick wall, letting him hit and crumble to the concrete floor. That is IT for Nolan Edward. Brutal.

Winner: Kal Jak

Match 6: “Filthy” Tom Lawlor vs Simon Grimm

Feeling out period with some strikes, Grimm wants him in the guard. The scramble to the ground, Grimm trying to keep the back but Lawlor slips out. To the standup, Lawlor hits a stiff liver punch that puts Grimm on the defensive. Grimm tries an armbar while Lawlor throws some knees to the ribs. Lawlor got the ankle but eats an up kick. Grimm with the front headlock, turns to side control and wants a head triangle. Lawlor drags it up back up but Grimm tosses him down and his a big knee to the side of the head. Wrist lock on top, transition to a Fujiwara, Grimm has a head scissor, working the wrist. Lawlor finds a path to his feet and drops stomps to the ribs. Grimm crumbles him with another up kick and takes the back, transition to another armbar. Lawlor slips it and throwing more knees to the side. Grimm guts through it and reallly wants that airlock. Lawlor out again and PK’s the side. Grimm is wincing with every shot. Lawlor with a running knee to the liver again, he drops. Lawlor comes in but the ref calls it off. 

Winner: Tom Lawlor

Match 7: Davey Boy Smith Jr vs Calvin Tankman

Smith trying to get ahold of Tankman before he eats a big fist. Tankman twists and drags him right down. Tankman tries to drop fists but Smith goes for the ankle. Tankman with a waistlock, brings him down, avoids a wrist lock and drops strikes to the back. Smith tries to get back up but Tankman pulls him back and tries for the read naked choke. Smith gets the wrist and flips to top control. Smith works Tankman to the edge and shoves him to the floor. Tankman gets back in and throws hands. Smith to a knee and Tankman throws knees to the face. Tankman with a german but Smith pops back up. They are slugging in the pocket again. Tankman with leg kicks but Smith returns fire and buckles the knee of the big man. Smith hits a knee to the jaw, a back suplex and locks in a crosssface on Calvin Tankman, causing the tapout.

Winner: Davey Boy Smith Jr. 

Main Event: Chris Dickinson vs Jeff Cobb

Dickinson main events Bloodsport again against Jeff Cobb. Dickinson wants this win, aggressively going into the lockup, tossing Cobb from a wrist lock and takes the back. Cobb covered up so Dickinson goes for the arm. Cobb stacks and switches but Dickinson looking to the leg....jumps up into a head and arm choke. Cobb pushes him off. Dickinson gets the single leg takedown after a struggle. Cobb struggles but is stuck on his back, defending the wrist lock. Cobb with the turnover but Dickinson gets the wrist lock again and flips it. Dickinson back to the ankle but Cobb works to the top and lands strikes to escape. Back to the feet, Dicksinson landing a bunch of kicks and throws Cobb to the mat. Dickinson on top but Cobb has guard. Dickinson back to the wrist and Cobb uses the weight shift to flip it for strikes. Dickinson gets his legs around Cobb’s head to pull him back and expose the midsection for elbows. Dickinson with the double wristlock, takes full mount and switches to the cross arm breaker attempt. Cobb give it up but rolls through and throwing fists at the Dirty Daddy. Cobb on top but Dickinson with the omaplata. Cobb pulls Dickinson up for a powerslam. Dickinson gets the leg for a dragon screw. Dickinson trying for the wrist again but Cobb with a series of three Germans and Dickinson is KO’d

Winner: Jeff Cobb

And that’s it for Bloodsport 4! This was about 90 minutes total, the show MOVED rapidly from fight to fight. I dug the presentation of the space, the low-lit Smokey warehouse vibe felt good here. Bloodsport always rides a fine line between wrestling and mma-style. This felt like it leaned more to the latter. I don’t think I was expecting the explicitly empty arena/studio taping vibe we got but it worked as a MMA/shoot fight style presentation. This did take a few fights to get going though but Superbeast/Tito had the energy I think everyone was waiting for in this show. Coughlin was gutsy and never giving up against the monster Kratos. Nolan Edward was just....obliterated in the best way possible. Dickinson showed off his ever-improving ground game but Cobb channeled his inner Lesnar to get those big slams in to salvage the victory. My MOTN though came from Grimm & Lawlor, who told a great story in their fisticuffs.

As we close out, we get the commercial for the main event of next week’s Bloodsport 5: Davey Boy Smith Jr, fresh off his victory over Calvin Tankman, against JON MOXLEY. Until then! 

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