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WRESTIVAL DAY ONE: 12/28 WRESTLING OPEN THE LAST STAND REPORT

Wrestling Open “The Last Stand”

12/28/23 - Worcester, MA

Wrestival Day 1 - 8pm

Spotlight Match: Pedro Dones vs Brian Milonas

Dones has a lot of targets and he’s calling his shot on the Kingpin’s head. Dones trying to slap on a sleeper as much as possible but Milonas just squashes back on him. Huge suplex sends the shot caller crawling for the buckles. Milonas torturing Pedro for the crowd that is still entering the venue. Supposedly this is the biggest pre-sale in Open history? They are ready for a crowd tonight, with no gimmick tables taking up valuable paying human space. Dones staggers Milonas with a series of forearms. Kick out the knees…He tries a wheel kick but bounces off the kingpin! Brian tries a sitout splash but Pedro crucifixes him and Milonas is stuck down for the three!

Winner: Pedro Dones

And we’re live! Paul Crockett and Brother Greatness are on the call! Rich Palladino is our announcer. Let’s goooooo!!!! 

Match 1: Stetson Ranch (Steven Stetson & Danny Miles) vs Alec Price & BRG

Well now! Let’s kick this offfff! The ranch immediately attacks Price and BRG. It backfires! They get tossed and eat a stereo dive to the floor! Stetson and Miles with a little distraction action to drop BRG and start giving him the beatdown. Price with the hot tag! He springboards off Miles with a tornado ddt to the cowboy. Rebound off the ropes with a blockbuster to Miles! He tries to dive on Stwtson but Miles intercepts with a lariat! Gutbuster, neckbreaker combo from The ranch for two! Stetson tries a powerbomb but Proce rana’s him into spearing Miles! Tag to BRG! Stetson is down and out on the outside but BRG can’t put Miles away. Sweet victory ripcord lariat! Price hits the emergency legdrop on Stetson and flies to the floor! BRG tries the killswitch….Miles rolls it up. Kick out! BRG rolls up the gutbuster…kick out! BRG hits the killswitch and Price finishes Miles with a suuuuuprize kick to send the ranch packing!

Winners: Price & BRG

Match 2: Channing Thomas (w/ Sidney Bakabella vs Landon Hale (w/ Love Doug) (First Blood Match)

I feel like the story here is going to be “HOW will Bakabella find a way to help Channing screw Landon out of the win?”. Channing is still carrying that towel of Landon’s blood from a few weeks back. Landon swinging for the fences immediately. Bakabella screaming that he has the razor ready. Drop toe hold to the buckle! Channing reverses in the corner, this doesn’t last. Hale grabs the rope that Bakabella uses to hold the crowd back….he starts wrapping it around Channing’s throat. It’s not enough. Channing blocks a backstabber…heavy kicks to the face! Channing continues going for the nose…he wants that blood. Hale blocks a piledriver…launches Channing into the buckles! No one is bleeding yet so Hale just goes to bite his forehead. Lawndart to the buckle! Corner 619 and a springboard forearm! High knee strikes! The ref keeps checking…no crimson. Doug gives him a fork! Time to fork Channing up! Channing shoves the ref and gets the fork. Bakabella sprays Landon with fake blood and the ref turns back to see a bloody Landon and Thomas holding the fork. Oh noooooo! Hale is upset as World Class gets the heck out of there before his ruse is uncovered. 

Winner: Channing Thomas

Match 3: Paris Van Dale, Shannon LaVangie & Zayda Steele vs Kennedi Copeland, Gabby Forza & The Notorious Mimi

Kennedi has weeks of pent up angst stored up to unload on the Mean Girls. Zayda tries to slap Mimi. Nono, the Cupid slaps right back. Big boot hart attack from Mimi and Gnomie! Press slam senton with Forza and Copeland. Zayda is having a rough time. Kennedi takes a shot to the back of the head and now Paris wants in on this fight. Shannon with a cutter and just taunts Mimi  and Gabby. Zayda can’t keep the rally going…tag to Gnomie! Triple fallaway slam! Numbers game is bad though…Kennedi tries to even the odds but Paris rips at her nose piercing again. Gnomie is waiting….SPEAR!!!! Copeland in and hits The Kennedi Assassination on Paris for the win!!! Did Gnomie lose a tooth in this match???

Winners: Copeland, Forza & Mimi

Match 4: Joe Ocasio vs Gabriel Skye

This has been brewing for a few weeks after an errant stomp got Gabe DQ’d from their last encounter. This is a FIGHT! Ocasio runs him into the buckles early but Strong Spirit starts throwing some beefy kicks and a triangle moonsault to the floor! Joe catches Gabe and hits a high velocity powerslam and launches him back into the buckles. Sick brutal spot. These two keep on clocking each other. This is the kind of hard hitting match that both these guys are VERY good at. Ocasio is wavering but he yeets Skye into the buckles again and hits a spinning side slam for the…Two! Gabe landing some hard flying knees! Ocasio won’t stay down! Gabe continuously dropping bombs and nearly gets DQ’d for not letting up. Gabe back to the top…Ocasio bumps the rope and hits a trio of running headbutts as Skye is trapped up there. A Landmine spine buster ends Skye’s night decisively.

Winner: Joe Ocasio

It’s announced that we are officially at capacity! We are sold out!!! Truly, I think this is the first time we’ve ever done that in this venue? 

It’s time to boo at Ray Jaz incessantly. But who is the Shook Crew’s secret partner???

It’s BOULDER!!!!

Match 5: Ray Jaz & Swipe Right (Brad Baylor & Ricky Smokes) vs Shook Crew (Bryce Donovan & Bobby Orlando) & Boulder

Boulder commits to shoves all his opponent’s head into his t**ies. Ricky comes running and bounces off. The crowd is here for Boulder’s t**ies. Baylor can’t lariat the big man and gets slammed for his trouble. Ray Jaz? Whipped hard and slammed. Shook crew takes over with their big combos. This is a bad time to be a Jaz guy. They take a little huddle timeout. Gotta regroup. Jaz with the shoulder block but Bryce drags him down for an anaconda vise! Swipe right getting involved so this becomes a huge brawl. Jaz and co need another huddle. Their plans are not working so far. Smokes in but he’s just a decoy for Jaz to hit Bryce from behind. Donovan taking a beating as his partners getting manhandled at ringside. Smokes off the top but Bryce blasts him with a high angle chokeslam! Bobby gets the tag! Baylor & Jaz getting mommed to death. They try to huddle again but Boulder pressslams  Bobby at them! Baylor eats a moonsault from Boulder…no, he rolls away! It’s three on one against Boulder! Triple powerbomb on Boulder! Bryce breaks up the pin! Pure chaos erupts and tag don’t really matter anymore. Baylor manages to shotgun Boulder down…Jaz tries the sunset flip backslide pin…Bryce escapes! Jaz eats a straight right! Swipe Right is sent into those t**ies! Bryce hits a black hole slam on Jaz and wraps up the anaconda vise again….RAY JAZ TAPS OUT!!!! Glorious day!!!

Winners: Boulder & Shook Crew

Match 6: Tyree Taylor (w/ Brother Greatness) vs Ichiban 

Brother Greatness is all about the Bible but it’s like he forgot about David vs Goliath? This starts as you might expect. Ichiban tries to take the legs out from under Taylor…Taylor starts to over power number one and throw and slam him with ease. Ichiban finally blocks a discus lariat….Taylor dodges a charge and hits a sick enziguri! Ichiban gets him in the corner, dodging a charge! Ten punches! Missile dropkick! Tyree eats a superkick to the gut! He lands on top of Tyree’s back and pops down into a code red for two! Awwwwesome spot! Tyree catches the Ichiban Kai into a powerslam! Hard lariat for two! Both going for the kill shot but it’s Ichiban that finally hits the flatliner! Tyree still awake enough to roll to the floor. Tyree tries to come back but Ichiban hits a 619. Huge somersault to the floor! Ichiban to the top! Tyree dodges! Discus lariat! Brooklyn Zoo bomb For the win! This was a blast and Tyree has to be thinking “what if I’d been able to do this when Ichiban was champ” 

Winner: Tyree Taylor

We take a quick break to set up for the main event! I’d say i should get a beverage but the bar line is unreal right now. Wait no…RICKY SHANE PAGE IS HERE! He’s stoked about the sell out. He wants to remind us that he is taking on Atticus Cogar on New Year’s Eve. He doesn’t like barbed wire but Atticus is forcing him to revisit that more vicious side of himself. A second point he makes about Deathmatch Wrestling…how it’s gone way too far and taken to the point of exploitation by scumbag promoters. So he is planning to run his own Deathmatch tournament in the Midwest and more news coming for that soon.

Dan Barry is out here to remind us that he’s running a comedy show tonight at Ralph’s Diner. I’ll be there. 

Main Event: Big Business (Big Bacon Brad Hollister, TJ Crawford, Victor Chase, Julio Cruz) vs Dustin Waller, Kylon King, Fancy Ryan Clancy & Dezmond Cole (Steel Cage warfare)

It’s war games rules and Big business has the advantage! Starting us off will be TJ Crawford and Fancy Ryan Clancy! These two have a lot of history and Ryan is less fancy tonight and way more serious and ready for war. The crowd is ready for a TJ beatdown! Clancy throwing hands and throws a straight jab into the nuts! TJ with a shot to the back of the head and stomps Clancy down. Hard whip to the corner shakes the steel. Crawford sent head first into the metal repeatedly. Big side slam, stomp to the throat! Crawford taking a beating and might need to be saved…but trips up Ryan on the buckles and Clancy eats buckle. Clancy still fighting as Julio Cruz makes his entrance

You know how this instantly turns. Clancy with a brief valiant flash but it’s two on one and Cruz is fresh. Clancy taking a beatdown. Big back body drop and elbow drop combo as Dustin Waller hits the ring! This feels like a three minute interval from here on after the initial five?

Blockbuster into the ring on Cruz! TJ and Julio eating the steel as Clancy recovers! Cruz trapped in the ropes as Flash snake eyes TJ right into his little business! Clancy is recovered but Victor Chase makes his entrance!

The cage door is kicked right into Clancy. Dustin sent to the corner as Clancy eats more steel. Triple bomb to Clancy as the business boys start to gloat and egg on the crowd. The bricks send Clancy into the steel as Kylon King hits the ring.

The hard hitting King throws elbows and starts suplexing bricks right into the steel. Brain bustah into the top buckle and cage. VICIOUS LANDING! Hard hits all around as everyone is left laying as. Brad Hollister enters the battlefield.

Hollister brings the chairs and garbage cans and chains and kendo sticks to the war. Big Business dishing out some wicked hits. Chairs cracking, sticks thwacking. Clancy mounts a comeback but TJ blindsides him with a chain. Spinning back kick to Clancy while he’s trapped in a garbage can!

Dezmond Cole hits the ring to officially start the match! But Victor Chase is holding the door closed? Just the moment they needed! Miracle Gen mounts a comeback, Chase cracked with a kendo stick! Boofa brings in a door! Big Business sent into those connection points of the cage walls! The crowd firing up for the BABYFACES as they set up a double doomsday? Brick City stop that! Bacon with a double saito to Miracle Gen! Fancy and boofa eats a double business is booming! 

Hollister wraps Dustin’s head in a chair. TJ is gonna jump on it as they try to force Kylon to concede. Boofa throws a chair into TJ’s head! Dezmond and Brad just throwing hands until they drop! Both teams struggle other feet and stare down. BRAWL!!!! Miracle Gen trying a double cross body but get yeeted into the cage. Cole comes flying but Bacon powerbombs him. Clancy with the side Russian! TJ with a chair! Clancy dropkicks it. Double chokeslam from Brick City! Double double chops to the IWTV champs! Kylon lands a kick! Bricks covered in garbage cans! Miracle Gen hits a double coast to coast!!!!! Boofa up to the top of the cage but TJ, now a bloody mess, intercepts. Dustin with a superkick but Backb spears him through the door! Kylon dropping Bacon with a sleeper! Kylon caught in a torture rack. Boofa is waking up as everyone is down in the center! Boofa hits a swanton off the top of the cage!!!! TJ is first one up…he’s climbing the cage??? Clancy is waiting with a chain….he intercepts and starts choking TJ off the top of the cage until he submits!!!! Big Business is out of business!!!! Well…for tonight. 

Winners: Miracle Generation, Dezmond Cole & Ryan Clancy

 

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