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6/1 WRESTLING OPEN LIVE REPORT

Wrestling Open Week 74 “Parabellum”

6/1/23 Worcester, MA

We have a brand new green canvas. We have a brand new green second rope. I love this vibe! Stanley Dragowski beats Lucas Chase in the Spotlight Match. We really need to learn to count to ten in Polish I think. Paul Crockett and Officially Sponsored by @FeedTheHeels Man Sidney Bakabella are on commentary. Rich Palladino is your announcer. We’re kicking off Parabellum with the IWTV tag title match!!

Match 1: Ray Jaz & Pedro Dones vs Miracle Generation(c) (Dustin Walker & Kylon King) for the IWTV tag team championships)

Ray Jaz is trying to show off but the crowd isn’t letting him preen. Miracle with the early combos, Ray Jaz tries a distraction knee but ref bill actually turned around and Dustin makes the save! Huge northern lights out of the corner to Pedro for two. Jaz and Dones are trying everything they can to get the advantage, Ray finally catches the leg of Kylon and Dones chop blocks it. The shot caller has a target and that leg is doomed. Kylon can’t even run through a whip. Dustin keeps getting into trouble and King is paying. Stretch muffler! King escapes and runs for the corner but Dones dropkicks the knee right out. King is just being taken apart. He desperately ducks and Jaz wipes out with a flying knee into the buckles! Dustin with the tag and he’s serving up super kicks! Jaz accidentally drops an elbow on Dones! Jaz and Dones doing dives?!? King sits up as Dones tries a flying headbutt…he rolls up Dones. Bridge! He gets the three!!!!!

Ray Jaz has LOST A MATCH!!! It’s a tag match, sure. He didn’t take the pin, sure. But tonight? Ray Jaz is a LOOOOOOOSERRRRRRRRR!

Winner: Miracle Generation

Match 2: Joe Ocasio vs Marcus Mathers 

Ocasio is just a big grumpy meaty animal and Mathers has a storm to weather in these early minutes. Marcus tries a torpedo dive but Joe catches him and sends him back in! Mathers with a PK off the apron and a moonsault but it’s cut short with a straight up overhead toss into the corner. Big splash to the back as Joe keeps getting more ragey as the crowd cheers for Mathers. Marcus fighting back and is staggering big man. Kip up cutter for two! Marcus doing a good job of slipping the power offense, great reversal to a corkscrew suplex into the buckles! Marcus up top but Joe blasts him with a headbutt and a super powerslam for the crowd shocking win. Who can stop Joe Ocasio?!? This ruled.

Winner: Joe Ocasio

Match 3: Mortar vs Brad Baylor vs Antonio Christiano Zambrano (w/ Alex Cypher) vs Percy Ryan vs 50 Cal vs Gabe Skye vs Love Doug vs Bobby Orlando (Battle Royal for the #1 contendership to the Wrestling Open Championship)

Big brawl right at the bell! The heels are starting to work together to at least get these favorite out of here. Cypher encourages ACZ to sit this out in the corner. 50 wipes ‘em all out! Bakabella is at ringside and 50 Cal is looking away as ACZ runs up and sends him over the top. Love Doug sends ACZ out quickly after. Bobby getting beat on but Gabe is right there to knock Percy’s lights out. Skye with a near miss and head kick, Bobby sends Ryan flying! Love Doug tries a slingshot but Mortar superkicks him off the apron! Mortar tries to bomb Skye out…Mortar sent out…shotgunned into the post and he’s out! Baylor firing up, Bobby wraps up a sleep on the tan man. Bobby firing up…Baylor sends him to the apron! He’s working the fingers! The fight over Suplex…both to the apron and trading! Skye is dead on the mat…Baylor kicks the ropes and shoves a crotched Bobby off the apron. He tries to get Skye out…the cat is skinned! Skye firing up! Flying forearm! Dropkicks! A hard knee connects and Skye send him flying to the floor!!! Skye is the number one contender!

Winner: Gabe Skye

Match 4: Shannon LaVangie vs Zayda Steele

Shannon with early arm drags and a backbreaker makes Zayda shriek. Steele gets the hair and slams Shannon’s face into the green mat. Zayda throwing some European uppercuts and a hangman’s backstabber for two. Shannon with a pump kick and running boot…ripcord clothesline…sparkle splash for the win!

Winner: Shannon LaVangie

Shannon’s got the mic…the lights out! Becca hits the ring and destroys a guitar on her back! No one makes her taste her own blood! She thought Shannon was just a pest…but she wants to exterminate her. It’s time for blood shed. Next week? A Lights Out Street Fight!

Match 5: Big Business (Big Bacon Brad Hollister, Julio Cruz & Victor Chase) vs Fancy Sniper Nerds (Fancy Ryan Clancy, TJ Crawford & Thomas Santell)

Bacon goes right at his corner mentor Santell. Nerd takes the beatdown until Fancy is in hot…but the number game is bad her. Big Business is operating like a gang. The crowd is behind Clancy but he can’t get out of their grasp enough to make the tag. Clancy escapes a heart attack! Rising enziguri to tag TJ! TJ in and Bacon running scared…as TJ with a spinning back kick to Clancy?!?!? Santell is furious but get beaten down as the ref calls this a no contest. Bacon embraces the newest member of Big Business. TJ hits Fancy with his own side Russian as they taunt the hell out of the booing crowd. This was an insane moment. 

Winners: No Contest

Match 6: The Mane Event (Jay Lyon and Ringleader Midas) vs Waves & Curls (Traevon Jordan and Jaelyn Brandyn)

Jaelyn caught early and Mane Event reminds us why they have always been one of the top tag teams at Open. Traevon evens the odds and Jaelyn flies out at the circus chumps. Lyon still laying a beating into Jaelyn, who has been legal for most of the contest. Jaelyn with a jawbreaker and almost gets out but Lyon baits Traevon…Brandyn with the double dropkick! Hot tag! Traevon crushing them, huge bulldog leg lariat combo! Quick reversal as Midas is back…double superkick to the big man. Jaelyn flies in to exit Midas…Wave Check to Lyon and that’s it! Fun sprint from these two units.

Winners: Waves & Curls

Match 7: Dezmond Cole vs Tyree Taylor (w/ Brother Greatness)

This is a GRUDGE match. These men are serious…as Brother Greatness yells “you asked for this!” Dezmond right on the attack! Tyree swinging wild but Cole is dodging. Tyre catches him out of the air but Cole is ready to slam his face into the apron. Tyree finally catches him with a press slam into the top rope and Cole is instantly in danger. Tyree stepping on his hands, his head, clubbing at his back. A huge chop folds him back. A huuuuuge uranage for two. Tyree is just slapping him in the face while BG taunts like mad. Cole fires up! Taylor takes his legs out and slingshots himself into a corkscrew splash for two. Cole trips up Tyree! Capo kick! Tyree spiked into the mat for two! Taylor up to kick Dezmond off the top rope…Cole slips it…superkick…German off the top! Razor thin kick out! Tyree rolls to safety, Boofa with the plancha out! Tyree back in…swanton for two! What will it take?!? Boofa going for the kill…Tyree with a torture rack! Huge lariat turns him inside out! Cole with the super close kickout! Brother Greatness screams at Tyree to break him. He’s ripping the turnbuckles off! Ref bill is distracted, Brother Greatness tosses in Taylor’s big chain….COLE CATCHES IT AND KO’S TYREE!!! The ref turns back to count the third as Brother Greatness looks in shock as his enforcer is motionless on the canvas. This was nuts.

Winner: Dezmond Cole

It’s Max Caster time! What does it mean to have a summer residency? Why is J George here?!? He’s filming for Max? This is a performance piece? He’s filming season one of his own reality show? Max runs down the crowd, the city, just everything. He’s going to give us a hat from Las Vegas? No, we don’t like this. J George wants another take. We start throwing the hat back. He starts to run down bell ringer Wild Hound Johnny Rivera. Johnny’s game for a fight, we have a match!

Match 8: Max Caster vs Johnny Rivera 

Max dances away from the wild hound. He doesn’t want the dog in this fight. Johnny just bowling him over. Huge fallaway slam! Max kicks out the leg as Johnny tries a moonsault…uh oh. Max is swarming on that knee and choking Johnny on the ropes. Caster just tormenting that limb. Rivera trying to stomp some life into it but Caster has his target. He goes for the mic drop…he hits knees! Johnny firing up! Swinging uranage! Moonsault off the second! Max with another chop block and a figure four. Johnny trying to fight it but Max cranks it back and gets the tap. Rivera is usually beaten down in situations like this but he held his own tonight, and this looked like the Wild Hound that pinned Crowbar that one time.

Winner: Max Caster

Caster continues the beatdown after the bell. He strips Rivera’s knee pad and kicks at the knee. He grabs the ring bell and goes to just kill the wild hound…Miracle Generation makes the save!  Dustin calls out Max for picking on “easy opponents”. He reminds Max how Ichiban beat him on New Years and now he wants a turn next week!

Main Event: Ichiban(c) vs Steven Stetson (w/ BRG & Alec Price) (for the Wrestling Open Championship) 

As a reminder, your main event is brought to you by DnA’s Evolution. It’s a band. It’s MY band. Here’s the website: www.dnasevolution.com - you can find all the music there. We play our damn asses off and if you are up MA way, catch us sometime.

ANYWAYS.

Stetson is worried about Price interfering. Stetson is furious at BRG for putting the tag titles on the line when he didn’t have to. Price is getting handcuffed to the corner post AGAIN…and BRG’s only job is to guard him. If Ichiban wins, Alec Price is free of the ranch. If Ichiban wins, he recovers the title that was stolen from him weeks ago. Stetson doesn’t want to take any chances. Ichiban’s music hits and he’s already off the top rope and Stetson is reeling! High crossbody and Ichiban is unloading! Stetson’s bloodied but he sends Ichiban flying. Seated saddle senton and Stetson is just taunting us now. Ichiban eats a huge fallaway slam. Hard chops to the champ. Ichiban fights off a superplex…stetson reverses to a second rope bomb…rana off the ropes! They go back and forth a lot. Hard shots, close calls. This is very even. Stetson with a spinebuster and he’s thinking about that northern jersey lariat. Ichiban with a cutter and a destroyer! Kick out! BRG is just chewing the scenery as Stetson buckle bombs Ichiban…into the ref! Ichiban hits the flatliner, visual three! Stetson pops up as BRG is knocked silly by Ichiban and turns him inside out with a lariat! Alec Price gets the key! He’s free! He’s in and hits the knee sequence on Stetson! Dive to BRG as Ichiban hits another flatliner! The ref is back up and counts the slow three! Incredible pop for this. Ichiban gets his belt back! Alec Price is free of the Stetson Ranch! Steven Stetson is now contractually obligated to pay for all of Alec Price’s grandfather’s medical bills. The crowd gives the cowboy a second spelling chant as he looks back in disbelief, taking in one of his highest profile losses…but one hell of a main event to close an absolutely bananas episode of Wrestling Open.

Winner: Ichiban

 

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