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5/17 WRESTLING REVOLVER REPORT

The Wrestling REVOLVER was back on TrillerTV, live from the Calumet Center in Dayton, Ohio on 5/17.

Bork Torkelson, Veda Scott, and Phoenix Nitro on commentary. They did okay. 

IWGP World champion Jon Moxley comes out to greet the crowd. Does some blahblahblah.  Cool. Doesn't take a lot of time.

They start the show hot with "Speedball" Mike Bailey facing "The Young GOAT" Myron Reed of the Rascalz.  Great job by Scott in pointing out these two had faced each other the night before, with Bailey picking up the win.  This was fun. Big fun. Huge athletic spots but with both guys laying in some tough kicks so it never stopped being a "fight".  Reed wins with a springboard 450. 

REVOLVER has this thing about having their top title defended early on a lot of shows and did so here withREVOLVER champion Alex Shelley retained the REVOLVER championship against the challenge of Trent Seven, making his Wrestling REVOLVER debut.  Very good match. Best I've seen of Seven since coming to the US full time this past January.  Shelley was accompanied by his Crew stablemate Rich Swann, who got caught cheating by the ref and sent to the back. They did some back and forth on the mic but it was barely audible on tv. It's REVOLVER, it was Shelley so I'm sure it was a lot of unnecessary profanity burying Dayton.  Seven went for a Burning Hammer driver on Shelley, clipping the referee with Shelley's feet, knocking him loopy for a second. A couple good false finishes as Shelley tried to take advantage.  Finish wasn't the best in my view as Shelley clobbers the ref on purpose this time, allowing Swann to try to interfere again and failing initially but succeeding just enough for Shelley to crack Seven with the title belt and hit ShellShock for the victory. How the second official didn't come out to disqualify him, I don't know. I'm not big on wrestlers being allowed to abuse officials with no consequences.
Post match beatdown by the Crew with Bailey, Seven's Speedball Mountain tag partner in TNA, making the save.

Highly entertaining 7 Way Scramble match that saw "The Inevitable" Ace Austin (w/ Gia Miller) get the win over a debuting Brett Ryan Gosselin, Brayden Lee, Jeffrey John, Landon Hale, "The Main Event Monster" Fulton and Rickey Shane Page of RED (Riches Equal Death).  This was an entertaining bout. The fast athletic guys brought the big spots while the big guys (Fulton, RSP) brought some plunder and heavy brawling. Everyone had their moments to shine. Gosselin looked good in his debut and John got the Dayton crowd behind him.  Great finish as Fulton caught Lee in a single handed choke to counter a shooting star press, nipped up without relinquishing the choke and hit a chokeslam but was then caught by his former tag partner Austin'sThe Fold neckbreaker. Good stuff.

"All Ego" Ethan Page made his REVOLVER return, defeating Damien Chambers (with John E. Bravo and Kayla Cassidy). Nice match.  Page might be better and more famous as a heel but he can be a good face when need be.  Cassidy pulled off an impressive tornado DDT on Page behind the ref's back.  Solid back and forth action with Page putting Chambers away with a Canadian version of the Border Toss.

Winning a battle of former REVOLVER champions, "All Night Long" Rich Swann defeated "Firestarter" Jake Crist in another very competitive match. This was originally scheduled to be Swann and Matthew Palmer against Crist and Austin but Palmer couldn't make it so it was made a singles match and Austin was a last minute addition to the Scramble match.   Late in the match, Crist went for a backslide when Shelley jumped on the ring apron, distracting the referee, opening the door for Swann to deliver a low kick to the groin and then hit a cutter for the win.  Attempting to take Crist out like they did his cornerman Bobby Olsen a couple months ago, they wrap a chair around Crist's knee to "Pilllmanize" him when a kendo stick wielding Naveah, Crist's wife and a wrestler in her own right, tried to make the save but ended up suffering the attack meant for her husband.  Well. This feud just got some gas poured on it.

Brett Oakley of the newly popular Alpha Sigma Sigma (w/ the Pledge) gave a nice speech, endearing ASS to the crowd and embracing their new face status. He mentions the absence of ASS member, KC Jacobs, just as there is a cut to the back showing Jacobs being stomped out by Oakley's opponent for the night, former TNA World champion Steve Maclin of RED (w/ Killer Kelly).   Maclin starts the No Disqualification match fast, attacking the young star immediately with the two brawling into the crowd.  Maclin dominated, Oakley made a valiant comeback. Some liberal interference by Kelly and the Pledge with the Pledge suckering Maclin into swinging at him with a chair, missing the Pledge but hitting the top rope, recoiling the chair back into his face. Oakley with a roll up for the huge win and even bigger pop. I liked it.

The Unit--JT Dunn, Jessicka Havok and Jake Something--faced the interesting team of Zachary Wentz of the Rascalz, Masha Slamovich, and, substituting for Trey Miguel and returning from an injury suffered in Sept, Crash Jaxon in a 6 Man match.  The fact that REVOLVER had 3 (!!) heel factions aside, this was really good.   Something looked really good in this one but got caught in a pop up powerbomb by Jaxon for the loss.   The Unit blindside the winners and look ready to smash Slamovich with a chair when REVOLVER owner, Sami Callihan, comes out and confronts them (Havok is his wife) and they lay him out.  That brings out Jon Moxley, who had no real sense of urgency in this save.  Dunn stands up to him, not knowing Havok and Something had left the ring. Moxley with a DDT to Dunn with the rest of the Unit rolling him out of the ring and taking him to the back.   Some more chit chat and Callihan, along with REVOLVER executive Phil Stamper who was the manager of the Unit until Dunn fired him, decide to fire JT Dunn.  Didn't see that coming. Someone get that guy a Midnight Rider mask.

SGC collide as the members of Second Gear Crew (the 1 Called Manders, Matthew Justice and the freshly heel "Southern Psycho" Mance Warner) fought in a 3 Way No Disqualification match.  It was what you expect from a SGC match: lots of plunder and wild brawling.  Match starts off with Manders and Justice beating the hell out of Warner, who was the MVP of this bout. Then they fell out over when to finish Warner off: Justice just wanted it to end while Manders was wanting to dish out more punishment. For some reason there was an early ref bump. It's no disqualification. Leave him alone!  This went a little long but came to a close just as it was hitting it's expiration point for me as Warner grabbed a screwdriver and tried to stab a second ref who came to help the official ref. That brought out the entire REVOLVER security team and other refs, bringing the match to a half. I guess it's a No Contest.  Camera crew missed a big Justice dive onto Warner from the top turnbuckle to the floor after the match as all three had to be separated and sent to the back individually. I expect there to be more to this on subsequent shows.  Warner being out of SGC is cemented here.

The main event was Skewers vs Staples as both men got to use their preferred weapon: the debuting Atticus Cogar (skewers) vs "The Blood Fighter" Alex Colon of RED (staples).  I'm not a death match guy but I've never seen Cogar before and I think Colon can be a very good wrestler when he wants to be so I was interested.  It was fine. I understand this match has an audience and I'm not generally in it but there plenty for those that are.  Brutal usage of skewers and staples by both men with doors and chairs making some cameos.  Rickey Shane Page came out to help his RED stablemate win but was countered by the arrival of Brent Oakley and the Pledge. Oakley sprays something in Colon's eyes while he was on the top turnbuckle, allowing Cogar to do a driver onto a skewer lacked plank.  Nope, not the finish.  After another failed pin attempt, Cogar just sits on top of Colon's back and beats him in the head with skewers until the ref brings it to an end, giving him the match by stoppage.  Whew.

Overall a very good REVOLVER show. A lot of the excess you expect from them but done this time in a way that didn't feel as repetitive as it can be.

The Real Uncle Dave grade: B (90 out of 100)

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