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Pro Wrestling REVOLVER held their scariest show of the year, Tales From the Ring, live on TrillerTV from the Horizon Event Center in Clive, Iowa.
5 title matches.
Bork Torkelson and Veda Scott on commentary. They're okay.
For the second show in a row, they open with a "Speedball" Mike Bailey match. This time he defended his newly regained TNA X Division title against former REVOLVER champion Matthew Palmer of The Crew (one of the many heel groups in this company, along with Rich Swann and Alex Shelley, both absent for different reasons).
Great match with Palmer showing some awesome intensity, targeting Bailey's neck with some brutal offense. At one point, he even menaced Scott at the desk, Bailey's wife. Bailey put him away with Flamingo Driver. Palmer took the loss poorly, attacking Bailey and nailing some stiff shots on the ref and security sent to stop him. He even gave the ringside photographer a piledriver on a ringside table (that did not break so it looked even more savage). He even grabbed Scott and threatened to piledrive her until a member of security pulled her away. Hot angle with Palmer after the match.
Accompanied by Kayla Cassidy, Damien Chambers beat Brayden Lee. Chambers got in some solid heel promo work, celebrating winning the Noble Champions Group North American title the night before. Nice match.
Lince Dorado successfully defended the Remix title against Jake Crist. Some good action, if a bit overbooked. Dorado was working heel, something he doesn't usually do, and had a pair of "kittens" with him (guys in similar masks). The Remix champion gets to pick the stipulations and he chose 2 out of 3 falls. Crist beat him very quickly with a backslide so he decided each fall would have it's own stip and made the next one a No Disqualification, allowing his seconds to attack Crist, leading to his winning the second fall with a Shooting Star Press while still wearing the title belt. The third fall was by far the longest and still No DQ but he got to pick the ref and chose one of his "kittens". This is where the actual match was good but a ton of shenanigans that included the new ref being taken out and the original referee coming back and even getting physically involved.
Dorado won, blowing some mist or water or something in Crist' eyes then pinning him with another SSP.
RED (Riches Equal Death members Alex Colon and the Dark Pledge) won the vacant PWR Tag titles, defeating the Rascalz (Trey Miguel and Zachary Wentz), Alpha Sigma Sigma (Brent Oakley and KC Jacobs, a pair of promising young stars) and the debuting Dub Club (Miguel trainees KJ Reynolds and Ryan Matthias). Promo from the Dark Pledge before the match. He betrayed the Alphas a couple shows before in a heel turn, just as the Alphas were getting over as faces. A lot of high flying action as expected. A door was used, as expected. They got caught up in doing beer spittakes for a minute. Pledge got the win for his team, pinning Jacobs.
Vincent Nothing had a successful REVOLVER debut, beating out Matt Diesel , Ozzy Kilmeiser, JJ Garrett, Victor Iniestra (all four making their PWR debuts as well, I think), Dante Leon and Jessicka Havok of the Unit in a Sudden Death Scramble match. This was where they started to feel repetitive. As with the previous 3 matches, the heel--this time Havok--cut a profanity laced promo on her opponents and the audience. There were also doors brought in for them to crash through...like the previous two matches. A lot of fast action that had some rough spots (probably the first time many of them had been in the ring together) with Nothing pinning Diesel with a devastating driver. That might be the start of a new contender in REVOLVER.
Elijah (the former Elias in WWE) got his first PWR victory (he lost his debut to Bailey back in Feb), beating "The Young GOAT" Myron Reed in the match I most enjoyed up to this point since the X Division title match. I was never a big Elias fan but I've enjoyed what I've seen from Elijah. A very good match up with Elijah relying on his superior size and strength to ground the smaller but faster Reed, who was great fighting uphill most of the match. Odd finish where Reed rushed in on Elijah in the corner and Elijah hit him in the face with the head of his guitar RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE REF, then pinning him after a tombstone piledriver.
Impressive match with a somewhat sloppy ending.
"The Inevitable" Ace Austin (with a very determined and darker Gia Miller) successfully defended the PWR title, beating Robbie Eagle of New Japan Pro Wrestling's The Mighty Don't Kneel.
This was another great wrestling match with Eagles focusing his attack on Austin's left leg, which had them working on the mat more than you would expect. Eagles missed a springboard attack, Austin responded with The Fold neckbreaker for the win. Nicely done. Great bout and broke some of the monotony going into the Death match main event.
In his PWR debut,"The Atrocity" Krule (Mads Krugger in Major League Wrestling) beat Atticus Cogar, Ricky Shane Page of RED and Crash Jaxon in a Monster's Brawl death match. I was looking for Big Man Hoss Fighting with bloodletting and they did not let me down. All the normal plunder: tables, doors, tacks, barbed wire contraptions. All four guys looked tough but this was a coming out party for Krule, who looked like a monster fighting men. Highlight was his powerslamming Cogar while chokeslamming RSP and Jaxon with dozens of skewers in his head and shoulders from Cogar. Sickening (in any way you want to see it) visual.
RSP and Cogar tried settling their years-long issues and ended up taking each other out, leaving Jaxon along with "The Atrocity", who powerbombed him into a fence section covered in barbed wire for the win. Wow. This felt different than most PWR death matches since Krule was so dominant and I enjoyed it more than usual.
Another good show for them but REVOLVER could still use from fine tuning for my tastes.
The Real Uncle Dave grade: B (90 out of 100)
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