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10/19 WRESTLING OPEN WEEK 94 LIVE REPORT FROM WORCESTER, MA

Wrestling Open Week 94

10/19/23 Worcester, MA

This is going to be a real stream of consciousness kind of writeup. Just feeling like giving you that “what it’s like to stand ringside and be in my head” vibe. Lol. I’m not sure where my normal corner crew is tonight. I’m unwilling to stand in another spot. It’s like that time we all had to stand in different spots and the show was just weird for everyone. I belong in my corner. Rubes over there. Tall Guy over there. Corn Guy over there. Tim in his front row throne. At 7:45 it seems VERY light based on who is here right now but the walk up between 8-9pm has been really good lately. Rich Palladino is out here to introduce the spotlight match at 7:45. I see Paul Crockett and…did I just notice that Ref Scott does commentary for the spotlight? Neat. 

 Spotlight Match: Church of Greatness (Sammy Diaz & Tyree Taylor) vs The Collective (Devin Justin & Reilly O’Neal)

After a fist bump to Ref Bill. The first words out of our mouths were “What’d you do with Brother Greatness?” Tyree quickly yells “WE DON’T NEED HIM” -> take note, good brother. Anyways, Collective is a kinda primal punk looking team. Makes me think of a smaller Primal Fear? Diaz in hard but he’s getting tag teamed to death. Sorry, someone just snuggled into my shoulder…this just happens. I don’t entirely know who it was. I look back at ring and Tyree is killing people, as he should. He uses Diaz as a weapon to uranage splash him into Devin for a two. Crowd trying to rally Devin but he’s getting martyred. This is a long heat segment but Devin hip tosses Sammy out and he pulls O’Neal off the apron. Huge Tyree lariat and they hit a two man Righteous Judgement bomb for the win. Tyree just uses Devin as a stepping stone in his way out. Was O’Neal IN the match past a brief double team spot? Someone yells “Sammy is poop!”. 

Winners: Church of Greatness

The BIOPro students are tasked with cleaning the ropes. Why do they never clean the bottom rope? Rich reads the code of conduct which is basically DON’T BE S***TY PEOPLE. You may not be surprised to know that people have violated this CoC…..but you may be surprised that Open WILL ban you if you f*** around like that. Also, stay of the wi-fi! We’re raffling off a bong from one of the sponsors, a local dispensary. Also, I think we’re giving away oil change coupons for the other sponsor. We have a fundraiser going for pizza shop owner who lost his home this week so everyone is buying pizza and making donations. I heard the guy lost 4 pets in the fire. I lost one last week out of the blue, I can’t imagine taking that hit 4x at once. I just noticed there’s a grill over by the merch tables. Why? We got three minutes before we go live on IWTV. Looks like Paul and Drew on commentary tonight. There’s a dude here dressed like a pack of Newports, too bad Bakabella isn’t here. People slowly filtering in. Was that a Newports joke? I don’t even know. Let’s get weird, Worcester.

Match 1: Brad Baylor (w/ Ricky Smokes) vs Nick Robles

The Baylor Brigade is overjoyed to see their weird self-tanned hero. “Baylor! Your four fans are rooting for you!” This isn’t a good night for Nick Robles, who is just getting beat post to post. Smokes is walking around and yelling at people who refuse to respect Baylor, so I guess he’s getting his steps in. Robles has a brief moment of hope and Baylor shotguns him into the second buckle. Gross. Baylor is gross. He has the most punchable face this side of Ray Jaz. Nick can’t hit two moves in a row. He gets a we will rock you stomp going but Baylor takes his head off with a lariat. I think the finish was a suplex cutter combo but I suddenly had Ref Tyler’s butt in my face so I can’t be sure. The Brigade was happy. 

Winner: Brad Baylor

They gave Baylor a mic but we got too into singing “Go f*** yourself bayyyyloooorrrr” to catch what he was saying. Prolly something about sweat. Or self-tanner. Or dumb hair. I could try harder to listen for the content of these promos but that’s less fun, especially when you’re in the room and work was a f***in’ day. 

Match 2: JGeorge vs Bobby Buffet

What does the J in JGeorge stand for? My autocorrect hates him so much. What is tonight’s film about? The crowd thinks it’s about Eat Eat Eat Eat. JGeorge with a great heel spot, trying to kicks fans who are holding drinks at ringside. It looks mean but I think he’s just protecting the beautiful green canvas. Buffet almost kills JGeeoge with a body splash that sends him face first into the second buckle. Yikes! Great looking pounce, JGeorge can bump. Buffet caught in the corner and eating knees to the gut. Bobby rolls to the apron and is looking dazed? People definitely asking the work or shoot question around me. JGeorge pulls him back in and hits a double leg drop to the gut. Bobby throwing hands but JGeorge guts him again. Abdominal stretch has him screaming in pain. JGeorge tries a killswitch but Bobby twists it to a uranage. He goes for the  discus lariat but JGeorge superkicks him in the gut. JGeorge coming in…Bobby back up. LARRRRRIATIOOOOOOOOO! JGeroge is toast. F*** you autocorrect, I’m not fixing that. Live with your shame. 

Winner: Bobby Buffet

 Ray Jaz is here. Why. Why is Ray here? He’s not supposed to be here. We chant some stuff to that effect. I’m sure he’s talking about how he’s a better dad than Pedro Dones but I’m getting lightheaded and sweaty from the sheer act of booing this man. Seriously, this segment is like an exorcism for me and a lot of people. F*** Ray Jaz and throw him in a well. Thursdays rule. 

Match 3: Paris Van Dale vs Kennedi Copeland

Someday I’m going to learn the actual words to Kennedi’s song. We all sing along enthusiastically but it also sounds like no one knows the words either, MY PEOPLE! Paris is walking around with more swagger than she deserves and Kennedi is absolutely using that against her. A quick roll up and a short arm clothesline nearly end this in under a minute. Paris eats a baseball slide but manages to post Copeland before dragging her inside for the beatdown. Vegetable David is behind me and he is one of the loudest voices here rallying Copeland as Paris hits a split leg drop for two. She hits the stuff ddt which could end it but Kennedi kicks out. Trading chops and Kennedi unloads! Lariats! Swinging neckbreaker! Ken-ne-di! Ken-ne-di! Ken-ne-di! She hits a page turner but Paris kicks out. V trigger! Kennedi going for the win but Paris reaches him and tears out her septum piercing, Jesus Christ! 

Winner: Kennedi Copeland (by DQ)

Ref Bill immediately disqualifies Paris and the medic attends to a bloody Copeland. Again, we have the work or shoot question tonight. If that was a work, well executed. Damn. I suspect it may have been a bit of both. 

 I hear the terrible familiar twang of the Stetson Ranch and we all turn around and throw up our middle fingers. This is the way. I guess BRG has to work his way up to fighting the king of cows. Seriously, I love this crowd reaction and how even the new people in the room are like “YEAH F*** THIS GUY” and turn right around on him too. 

Match 4: Brett Ryan Gosselin vs Hammer Tunis

Stetson’s presence at ringside just means the crowd will yell at him when they don’t have any other reason to yell. He’s also good at timing that call and response of “For the Ranch” with “F*** the Ranch!”. BRG is taking Tunis apart. Huge sweet victory ripcord clothesline! Stetson with a distraction, this is what he does. Tunis tosses BRG from the top. For the ranch? F*** the ranch! Hammer grinding BRG down with strikes and holds as we mock. Mockingly. Haaaaaammmmeeeeeerrrrr… looked around, it’s filling up. The room, I mean. We’re getting the good crowd after all. BRG with a reversal and a dropkick off the top. I think Ref Tyler kicks the most ringside people. Him and Bill. Lol Tunis tries a rollup but BRG stuffs it. Alligator clutch for the win!

Winner: BRG

Stetson asks Tunis what THAT was.  He instructs Hammer to GO FETCH his opponent Gal Barkay. He says “Gall Barky” lol.

Match 5: Steven Stetson vs Gal

Hey hey! Hoho! Steven stetsons got to go! Rich Palladino is dancing at the bell table to this one. GOT ‘EM. Stetson trying to disrespect Gal but he must have forgotten the action figure has been in a series of hoss fights recently. Stetson throwing some weak chops and Gal gives back heavy artillery. Stetson dodges a charge and gets a huge backbreaker in. This is some King Kong Godzilla s***. Stetson keeps trying the north jersey lariat but missing. Gal clotheslines him into the ring. Double lariat drop them both. Gal hitting more lariats but Stetson won’t stay down. Gal hits a spine buster in a nod to Joe Ocasio. Stetson posted and eats a spear for two! Stetson flips out of the pendulum chokeslam, posts Gal and hits the jersey lariat for the win. I’m so tired! I’ve yelled at so many people in the last hour. Someone bring me water. This was a good one. Gal’s had a series of bangers lately but this might have been a top 3 Stetson match for me. 

Winner: Steven Stetson

Match 6: Landon Hale vs Loveless Douglas vs Joe Ocasio 

I’ve been looking forward to this one. I like everyone in this match even though I am morally required to bark angrily at Landmine Joe. Good pop and crowd fire for Landon too. Gimme a HALE YEAH! Doug is still sad. We love Doug. Landon leads the chants. Doug grabs the mic and says he hasn’t been able to get over having his heartbroken at Americanrana. He walks over to the crowd and sits in the chairs. Landon tries to bring him back but Joe blindsides him. This is turning into a great part two of their war from last week. Great reversal to an electric chair. As an aside, Landon really gotta stop cupping. IYKYK. Joe is ramming Hale’s back hard but Landon won’t stay down. Joe with a huge uranage for another near fall while Doug just cries in his seat. Hale firing back but Joe takes his head off. Joe tosses Landon to the floor. Hale tries to will Doug back into the fight but Joe follows and pummels him on the floor. Hale hits a handspring stunner! Fisherman’s suplex for two! Joe rolls out to yell at Doug. Hale follows with a suicide dive! Hale with a poisonrana! He goes for another handspring but Joel headbutts him out of the air! Doug slowly working his way to the top rope…he hits a double cross body! Doug puts up his dukes and challenges Hale! Hale tries to hug Doug, Joe comes running in…Hale pushes Doug out of the way and takes the flying knee. Ocasio hits the fireman’s carry spine buster for the win. Lot of good action and storytelling here. 

Winner: Joe Ocasio 

Doug says he’s sorry to Landon. Hale is angry and says he just took a bullet for Doug. He’s DONE with Loveless Douglas and he storms out. Is THIS what Doug wanted?

 I love it that Ref Bill shakes hands and gives fist bumps to everyone when he hits the ring. We should appreciate our refs/announcers and crew more when the camera is live. Anyways, Brian Milonas is out here. He did his damndest to win the IWTV belt last Friday…but didn’t. Now he’s out here to face…Raw dog? Red dog? Red Dawg. I can read his butt. Thank you for having your name on your butt. 

Match 7: Brian Milonas vs Red Dawg

Red Dawg gets raw dogged by a very angry Kingpin. He pulls the pin when it should be a three. It’s torture time. He hits the earthquake splash and steps on his chest for the final pin. 

Winner: Brian Milonas

 Brian has the mic. Yep, he’s mad that he lost on Friday. He could say more but Mortar runs it, opens his special mortar umbrella and hits a Mary Poppins dropkick to send Mikonas flying! Mortar’s back! He’s angry! Mortar makes us f***ing WET!

Match 8: Ricky Smokes (w/ Brad Baylor) vs Dustin Waller (w/ Kylon King)

Oh why does Baylor have a microphone again? Booooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Ever boo so hard your ear drums vibrate and tickle? I think he’s saying that he’s progressed past Kylon and Dustin and it’s their time to take the IWTV tag belts. Also he hits the gym every day to get the kind of body that gives Jay Rubin the cold sweats. King says they don’t need the gym because they are grinding in the ring every night. Ring the bell. Smokes trying to overpower Flash easily but the champ is DONE with this joker. Kylon is hanging in our corner. Great dude. Meanwhile Baylor is a distraction and Ricky dropkicks Dustin off the top. He eats the stairs on the way down. Kylon runs over to check on his partner and the count begins. Flash makes the ten count but Smokes knows it was close. Smokes has the third most punchable face on open. Huge backbreaker to Waller. Ash slides in to smack the apron with all of us. Seriously, this s*** is therapy. Mizline and a HIIIIIIIIIGH cross body! Running shooting star for two. Steve brings me a water. Thank god for Steve. Flash and Smokes trading…Smokes reverses a handspring into a back body toss cutter for two. I hate how good this was. Dustin with a dodge and dive out to Baylor. Smokes stunned and Dustin tries a sunset flip into the ring. Baylor pulls the arm as Snokes sits into the pin and steals the win. The champs are NOT happy.

Winner: Ricky Smokes

We need to eat more pizza I hear. I don’t think I need pizza right now but I’m pretty much dropping my wallet in there. Poor guy. Also, XFL guy has been the one randomly snuggling on my shoulder all night. Love these weirdos. 

Main Event: Big Business (Brad Hollister, TJ Crawford, Victor Chase & Julio Cruz) vs Ichiban, Alec Price, Dezmond Cole & Fancy Ryan Clancy)

I just realized that “Alec Price Sucks” guy is right behind me. F***. We have the IWTV champ, the Open champ, the Call Your Shot Contract holder and Big Boofa on this all-star team. Woooooo Alec Price Sucks Guy really hates Alec Price on this, a day that ends in Y. This room LOVES Ichiban. I still marvel at how that dude rose. Anyways, this is a big f***ing brawl at the bell. 4-way single ten punches! Clancy tries to get APS guy to calm down a little but his crew is undeterred. Big Business is getting beat up. Victor in to save TJ. As an aside, Chase is an underrated talker and should cut more promos. We sure love seeing Big Business deliver embarrassing numbers. Bacon with the clutch German after TJ distracts Boofa. Big Business laying in on Cole hard and mocking his partners. Boofa with a rebound spinning head kicks drops TJ! Tag to Fancy! Fancy monkey flip to Cruz! Crowd getting that 7NA Fancy Ryan Clancy song going. Clancy sneaks into a big business pose down and wipes out everyone with a crossbody. Price tags in but his cross body gets caught…Ichiban flies in! Bacon dropped! TJ eats a rebound lariat! The Bricks run in on Price but Boofa and Clancy are right there. 4-way running knees! One more time cause they’re all trash!!! Ichiban set up for the Ichiban Kai but TJ blast a running knee. Everyone on the baby team getting posted, Ichiban is alone with Bacon. These two can fight forever. Bacon knees him out of the air! Twisting jackhammer! Ichiban kicks out! Tag to TJ…he tries to set up Bacon to give the kill shot…the Bricks are there to cut off price! Huge rally as everyone goes 4 on 1 and beats the s*** out of Hollister! Wrestling Open! Huge dive party! Boofa with a triangle somersault to the floor! Cruz thrown back in for a Fancy Clancy top rope splash for the win! This was great fun and a wild chaos ending.

Winners: Team Wrestling Open

Ichiban gets his Wrestling Open belt and is ready to deliver a night ending promo but TJ steals the mic away. Bacon trying to call TJ back but he won’t stop staring a hole in Ichiban’s forehead. Next week: TJ gets his shot for the title!

 Thanks for reading this one. By the way, in recent months DC has been having Beyond photographer Jon Washer come out and take photos all over the building. It is a great little extra THING that just  SHOWS the experience you miss when you can’t be here: https://x.com/beyondwrestling/status/1715405844819358019?s=20

You really should be here. 

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