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Beyond Wrestling “Signature Series: Episode 5”

3/24/21 - Streaming on IWTV.LIVE

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

This week continues both Greatest Rivals Round Robin, as Tony Deppen and Wheeler Yuta have unfinished business stemming from their time on “The Masked Wrestler” but also to determine who won’t go home with a 0-3 record in the tournament (if you count “The Iron Match”, Deppen is already 0-3 in this venue). Both sides of the Tag Tournament For Tomorrow Semi-Finals will both be contested tonight as well. Beyond owner Denver Colorado (the man, not the place) is your host. Rich Palladino is your announcer. Paul Crockett, since alive and breathing after a recent encounter with Dan Maff in Northeast Wrestling, and Sidney Bakabella are on commentary. 

“The Conduit of Karma” Kaia McKenna vs “The Russian Dynamite” Masha Slamovich

Masha showing power and aggression (and a disrespectful slap) early but McKenna gets the wrist and tries to wraps it up for the submission. McKennaa with a head scissors in deep but Masha with a flash pin for two. McKenna blows a kiss and hit a bulldog for two. Masha with a fireman carry takeover and a loud slap to the abs. Masha with a dropkick against the rope for two. Masha dropping clubbing blows but McKenna picks the ankle, small package for two. Masha is done with this and rains blow to the knee before sitting into a half crab with a hair pull. McKenna is up but caught with a belly to belly...for ONE. McKenna stunned with a headbutt but jacks the jaw to rock Slamovich. Kenna drops Masha with a back elbow, monkey flip and a ROUGH flying transition into a rings of Saturn style sub. Masha gets her foot to the rope, and hits a spinning back fist to crumble McKenna. Masha locks in a cloverleaf and a dazed McKenna weakly taps out of instinct. 

Winner: Masha Slamovich

Ephemera (Edith Surreal & St. Jackson Dupont) vs Milk Chocolate (Randy Summers & Brandon Watts) (TFT Semi-Finals)

Milk Chocolate argue over who has to face off against Edith Surreal. Summers gets drags right to the canvas, sending him scrambling for the rope immediately, screaming “get off get off get off”. Summers resorts to a gut kick to get the takedown but winds up trapped in Surreal long limbs again. Summers wants a test of strength...Surrreal gets those hands a drags Summers down into a STF with a fishhook. Watts gets a knee shot to the back and Summer finally drops her with a discus lariat. Watts keeps Dupont and the ref busy while Summers works more damage from the outside. Summers faceplants Surreal on a suplex attempt and double stomps. Dupont keeps getting held back by the ref, leaving Surreal open for so much double team heat. Dupont finally gets a shot in on Watts and Surreal makes the tag. Dupont with a cross body, enziguri, diving clothesline and top rope dropkick. Watts needs to save Summers after that flurry. Dupont cracks the skulls of Milk Chocolate, Surreal in to bulldog Summers but only a two. Watts cuts off Dupont, Summers with a spin out Flatliner to Surreal for two. The ref is distracted with Dupont again, Watts with a handful of powder into Surreal’s eyes and rolls her up for the pin. 

Winners: Milk Choclate

40 Acres (Tre LaMar & PB Smooth) vs The Bird & The Bee (Willow Nightingale & Solo Darling) (TFT Semi-Finals)

Solo gets that leg quick and drags Tre down for flash pin attempt. Tre trying to out grapple her but she gets the headlock and wont let it go. Willow gets the tag and hits a senton for two. Tre with an up & over but PB meets her in the corner with a boot to the face. The big man tags in, big world’s strongest slam with a hair pull for two. 40 Acres with a snake eyes/shotgun dropkick combo but Willow is still alive. Paul Crockett makes a point about 40 Acres using some dirty tactics to keep Willow grounded and Bakabella calls him a Karen. Willow makes some space and tags in Solo to beat the heck out of Tre, honey steamer suplex and a pumphandle suplex for two. Solo locking for the sharpstinger but LaMar knows that’s a dangerous place to be, he escapes and hits a Pele kick to get PB in. Willow gets the tag but walks right into a Showstopper. Smooth wraps up the arms of Willow but Solo cuts that off right away. Smooth double teamed but escapes a double pin, LaMar with a high angle elbow drop to Solo for two. Solo wraps Tre into the Sharpstinger while Willow hits a dragon screw on Smooth to send him to the floor. Tre is trapped, tap out!!!

Winners: The Bird & The Bee

Greatest Rivals Round Robin Match 5: Tony Deppen vs Wheeler Yuta

Deppen is still a little sore at Yuta for the low blow that cost him his win at “The Masked Wrestler” semi-finals. Yuta uses the anger at him to drag Tony into multiple technically bad spots full of pain. Deppen keeps coming and Yuta’s counter game is on point. Yuta gives Deppen a noogie from a headlock just to rub in that disrespect. Deppen gets a hold of the arm, Yuta wantsa springboard drag but flies into an armbar. Deppen in control of that limb and trying to wrench it from Yuta’s body. Yuta is trying to twist and flip out of it but Deppen is tenacious. Deppen gets caught on a springboard and Yuta crotches him on the top rope, using the rope to wreck the knee of Deppen further. Spinning toe hold and a figure-four too torture Tony’s knee further.  Yuta is confident in his reach advantage and taunting Deppen with the pain he’s inflicting. Bakabella sounds like he needs a sweat towel for how much he’s loving this new aggressive side of Yuta. Yuta want a PK to the knee but Deppen trips him into the buckle. Deppen wants a springboard codebreaker but falls into a sharpshooter. Deppen is screaming but drags them to the bottom rope. Deppen is able to get shots in to create space but he’s hurting his own knee at this point....but Tony is ANGRY. Deppen and Yuta trading shots in the center, Yuta spines Deppen out with a slap....but gets trapped in an octopus hold. Quick pin trades. Yuta settling up a Shattered Dreams? Vicious corner dragon screw! Yuta with a figure-eight variant and Deppen is screaming. Deppen with a few quick pin attempts, tries to lock in a cloverleaf but just double stomps Yuta in the damn throat. Deppen comes running with a knee but Yuta dodges. The ref stays out of danger but misses Yuta with a low blow from behind. Yuta pulls Deppen down to a knee bar and Tony taps

Winner: Wheeler Yuta

And that’s it for Episode 5 of the Signature Series! Another power hour of all killer, no filler from Beyond. Masha/McKenna would have been a great WWR main event in another timeline. While it was odd that Dupont was on the sidelines for almost all of that match, this was a great showcase for how good Edith Surreal is right now. Bird & Bee’s victory sets up a final bracket between them, a former TFT winner, and Milk Chocolate who have been in the most TFT tag tourneys....and never won. And like, do I NEED to tell you that Yuta/Deppen ruled? Yes, it very much did. This was the angry, predatory Wheeler Yuta we saw today, stalking and picking Deppen apart. Deppen is no slouch either, as he’s had an incredible showing through all of his matches....just you know, losing. This was super solid. Watch it. NEXT WEEK is the final episode of the Signature Series! On deck we have Robo the Punjabi Lion vs A Very Good Professional Wrestler, Matthew Justice vs SLADE, the TFT Finals of Milk Chocolate vs Bird & Bee, and the GRRR finals of Chris Dickinson vs Matt Makowski (both at 2-0, this is for the win!). Until then!

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