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BEYOND WRESTLING SIGNATURE SERIES EPISODE 4 REPORT

Beyond Wrestling “Signature Series: Episode 4”

3/18/21 - Streaming on IWTV.LIVE

Last time on Beyond Wrestling’s “Signature Series” - 

This week continues both the Tag Tournament For Tomorrow and the Greatest Rivals Round Robin after Milk Chocolate got an upset win over Faith in Nothing and Matt Makowski notched his second win with a banger against Tony Deppen. Beyond owner Denver Colorado (the man, not the place) is your host. Rich Palladino is your announcer. Paul Crockett and Twitter’s best CGI promo, Sidney Bakabella, are on commentary. 

Megabyte Ronnie vs “The Air Pod God” Richard Holliday

Competitive eater Megabyte Ronnie has been calling this his “Eat The Rich” match leading up to tonight. Holliday doesn’t care much for that and drags the open of the match out to take his Air Pods out, as he always does. Ronnie is wearing a Chekov’s fannypack on the front. Tie up and Ronnie has the power advantage. Holliday gets the worse end of a trust of strength. Holliday takes a cheap sweep and both guys are trying to out-brute each other with shoulder blocks. Holliday tries a fallout but eat a slam. Holliday with a slam of his own but gets launched from the cover almost out of the ring. Holliday staying ahead with strikes and kicks. Ronnie drops Holliday and pulls a hot dog out of his front-facing fannypack. Holliday is confused since he’s never had a hot dog before. Ronnie is mind blown and offers his hot dog to Richard Holliday. “Eat that Meat!” Chants the ringside wrestlers. Holliday takes a baby bite, smashes it into Megabyte’s surprised face and stomps him out. Kicks to the gut and a cover for two. Holliday tries the 2008 neckbreaker but Ronnie reverses into a delayed verticals suplex. Ronnie with a ripcord but Holliday hits a superkick and sitout powerbomb for two. Holliday kicking Ronnie from corner to corner but Megabyte is back with a clothesline. Richard tries a double axe handle but gets belly-to-bellied and powerbombed. Ronnie pulls out ANOTHER hot dog to hit his People’s Elbow style hot dog eating move. Holliday dodges and tries to roll him up with a rope grab. Holliday arguing with the ref, sends a low kick back to Megabyte’s nethers and hits the 2008 for the pin.

Winner: Richard Holliday

A solid matchup here with Ronnie falling victim to that classic gimmick problem: Needing to get your S*** in. Holliday used that (and a d*** kick) to get out of there with the win and a low opinion of hot dogs. Good fun energy throughout this opener, even if Holliday is amazingly hateable.

Tournament For Tomorrow Quarterfinals Match: “Man of Steel” Mike Verna & “The Pectoral Poseidon” Rex Lawless vs The Bird & The Bee (Willow Nightingale & Solo Darling)

Solo wants Verna’s leg but the Man of Steel overpowers and hits a slingshot suplex. Lawless into crush Solo but she’s pisssssed and serving up leg kicks. Willow in to rana Lawless to the buckles. Willow caught in a full Nelson, decked with a forearm and slammed for two. Lawless with a giant larait and Verna makes the cover for two. Verna with a suplex side slam but Willow powers into a fisherman’s suplex to get Solo in. Clothesline/sweep combo from B&B on Verna for two. Solo going for the legs against but Verna buckle bombs and slams her for two. That was a rough landing for Solo. Verna whiffs a Swanton, double tag and Lawless in with Willow. Half Nelson backbreaker, Verna in to double team, Lawless with a sitout powerbomb for two. Solo in to make the save but stuns Lawless with a code breaker. Verna in and Willow powerbombs him for thr...Lawless makes the save! Solo and Willow in to chop down Lawless. Willow hits a DVD on the big man.Verna gets both B&B up but they comes crashing down for a two count. Solo slips right into her sharpstinger  submission and Verna immediately taps out!

Winners: The Bird & The Bee

Verna and Lawless worked power on power here but it was the teamwork of Solo & Willow that helped them endure some brutal looking bumps and punch their ticket to the semi’s. Despite the hard hits, these two teams clearly had a good time in the ring together and showed respect after the bell. Solid contest. 

We have another good video segment from Joseph Montecillio, highlighting the history of the previous Greatest Rivals Round Robin tournaments. 

Greatest Rivals Round Robin Match 4: “Dirty Daddy” Chris Dickinson vs Wheeler YUTA

This is do-or-die for YUTA, who needs this win to stay in contention to win the GRRR. Yuta ambushes Dickinson during his intro. Dickinson to the outside and YUTA dives right after. Wheeler wants that loss back but runs right into a high kick and back suplex from the Dirty Daddy. Yuta throwing shots but Dickinson hits a clubbing forearm that crumbles Yuta. Deep Boston crab but Yuta won’t give up....he crawls into mount and lands a few shots but Dickinson powers up and back into that crab. Yuta dodges a charge and hits a arm breaker from the second rope into a Fujiwara armbar. Dickinson won’t quit so Yuta stomps that limb out and tears at it on the ropes. Yuta not giving up that arm and shoulder attack, Dickinson becoming less able to defend himself against the highly motivation Wheeler. Dickinson powers out of a butterfly locks to trade chops but he’s hurting himself in the exchange. Dickinson. Resorts to a spinning back kick, enziguri and....Yuta with a backslide reversal for two! Dickinson firing up with more kicks but Yuta stuns with a german for two. Yuta puts him in the Fujiwara again! Dickinson out with a sitout tiger bomb for two. Dickinson with a deeeeeeep STF....Yuta gets the rope! Dickinson firing up and getting that blood pumping. Yuta getting crumbled by strikes in the corner. Yuta firing back with forearms again and jumps into an armbar....Dickinson hits a DVD but Yuta kicks outs. Dickinson immediately with a brain buster, Yuta goes limp and stays down for the three.

Winner: Chris Dickinson

Dickinson hangs back in the ring as Yuta recovers and puts him WAY over. “You wanna know where the talent is? It’s right here.” Dirty Daddy offers his hand and wishes him luck against  Yuta says Dickinson better win and declines the handshake. GRRR continues to deliver great matches. Dickinson had all he could handle from a VERY aggressive, VERY hungry, VERY desperate Wheeler Yuta. I loved the storytelling through this. Dickinson’s great. Yuta’s great. Just watch it.

And that’s it for Episode 4 of the “Signature Series”! Beyond continues to deliver great wrestle content on Thursdays, featuring some of the best and upcoming talent on the indies right now. Paul Crockett and Sidney Bakabella are easily one of (if not the) best commentary pairings on the indies. The chemistry, energy, insight, storytelling and infighting are all there bell to bell, making a great experience for the viewers at home (which they also carry through to their entertaining Twitter banter).

Rich Palladino is the steady voice of indie wrestling in the Northeast and it’s great to see him back where he belongs week after week. Beyond doesn’t normally have a host but Denver Colorado is bringing that good MTV VJ energy to the interludes between the action. A great presentation package week to week, with only two episodes left before Beyond starts working live shows again.

Next week’s card is stacked with Masha Slamovich returning to face the debuting Kaia McKenna. Both T4T semifinals will take place with Ephemera facing Milk Chocolate and Bird & Bee taking on 40 Acres. Finally, Tony Deppen and Wheeler Yuta battle in a “Masked Wrestler” rematch to determine who doesn’t end the round robin without a win to their name. Until then!

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