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10/31 WRESTLING OPEN LIVE REPORT FROM WORCESTER, MA

Wrestling Open “The Wrestling Zone”

10/31/24 Worcester, MA

Spotlight Match: GAL vs Handyman Jake Gray 

Jake is fast and evasive, frustrating GAL early but a big boot cuts the kid in half. GAL landing big shots and demanding faster counts as Gray keeps kicking out. Jake with a rally and a sliced bread for two. Jake comes flying but GAL catches him with a blue Thunder bomb for the win.

Paul Crockett and Brother Greatness are at commentary! Rich Paladino is in the ring for announcing duties! It looks like the broadcast has a Black & White aesthetic tonight. 

Match 1: DJ Powers vs Pedro Dones 

It’s another clash of WE vs….well, EW. DJ not having a good start as a very fired up Dones pummels him to the cheers of the crowd. Powers with a go behind and German…time to annoy Worcester and steal their signs. Back body drop and superkick almost ends Dones’ night. They both try to end it until Ref Gina catches Powers trying to hold the rope for leverage, kicks it off and Dones secured the rollup for three!

Powers is furious and says this loss was a fluke. He wants an apology from “that stupid ref” and won’t leave until he gets a rematch. The Landmine Joe Ocasio comes through the curtain. He offers to help exit DJ from the ring and let US beat him up. Ocasio obliges. And at that moment, Ocasio’s opponent, Karim Brigante blindsides him to start their match.

Match 2: Joe Ocasio vs Karim Brigante

Great start from Brigante as he is just unloading heavy artillery on the Landmine. This reminds me of Ocasio’s fights with Gal, with the level of stiffness behind these shots. Karim is doing a good job of handling Ocasio’s explosive comebacks. But this is what Ocasio does and eventually the bombs land. Huge swining uranage for two! Karim hits a roaring elbow! Joe trips him into the corner. Running headbutt to the back of the skull and a fireman’s carry spine buster ends the contest. Hell of a debut from Brigante but Ocasio wasn’t being denied this one. 

Match 3: Paris Van Dale vs Tiara James vs Spike Nishimura

Well…Paris was supposed to be in this triple threat so…is she in a costume hiding in the crowd? Spike and Tiara get to work. Spike quickly taking James off her feet several times and frustrating the top tier talent. James ducks a kick, huge clubbing clothesline! Spike hanging in there as we have ourselves a really good back and forth match, as Spike is showing off some of the fire she picked up in Japan recently. Both manage to drop the other and Paris’ music hits again and she does show up finally, she gives James a look, plants spike with a short ddt and allows Tiara to pick up the three. They were in cahoots! Paris brings her personal ring announcer, Lauren St James in to announce them…and just blasts her. Paris says she wanted her redemption arc but we didn’t believe in her so she’s given up on it. Why pretend? Back to the Paris we know and hate.

 Match 4: Miracle Generation (Dustin Waller & Kylon King) vs The Shooter Boys (Anthony Vecchio & Aaron Ortiz)

Hell of an opportunity for the shooter boys to prove themselves against the former IWTV tag kings. Flash is definitely playing with Ortiz and gives him the head pat after pulling back on a superkick. He may regret that. Vecchio tries to shoot on Kylon but he gets gutwrenched and slammed down. The shooter boys try to team up on Kylon but he easily handles them and gets to his partner. MG definitely showing some disrespect to the boys and it finally catches up to them. Walker left to get double teamed, northern lights from Ortiz for two! Kylon with a blind tag and blindside and almost wipes out Ortiz with a moonsault. Aaron just isolated and getting chopped up. This is aggressive as hell and MG are really laying it in….but the shooter boys won’t stay down. Kylon misses a lariat, Vecchio tags in. Hiiiiiiigh back body drop to Waller! Takeover slam on Kylon for two! Blind tag to Waller, flying lariat in! Double knees! Vecchio kicks out! Dustin sent flying! Popup bomb to Kylon but a miscommunication makes the pin start late! Everyone going for it! King eats an exploder! We’re well past the ten minute mark and these teams are still going! Hard shitd back and forth! We devolve into a full on brawl….Vecchio blocks the powerplex….Kylon sent crashing into Dustin! Are the Shooter boys gonna get the upset?!? dustin kicks out! Kylon fighting them off two on one! Popup flapjack! Kylon blocks a hart attack! Powerplex to Vecchio ends the match at nearly 14 minutes in a f***ing barnburner. Did the Shooter Boys acquit themselves? Absolutely. Nothing but respect here from Miracle Generation and Worcester. As much as I enjoyed this, I look forward to these four exceeding this performance if (when) we run this back. 

It’s ranch time. Oh good they are back and they have it out for the church of greatness for taking the Wrestling Open tag belts from them. But tonight? It’s a ranch open range challenge? Ummmmm….answering the challenge is  Erik Chacha? He’s here to cowboy up as he baits Steve with a hard slap…and the ranch is blindsided by his partner, Wildhound Johnny Rivera!!!!

Match 5: The Stetson Ranch (Steven Stetson & Hammer Tunis) vs Erik Chacha & Johnny Rivera

Tunis and Stetson eat a fair beating in the opening minute but Steve roars out of the corner with a huge boot that folds Chacha in half. The ranch toss this kid like a salad and mash him like a potato. Finally a tag to the wild hound! Swining uranage to Tunis! Stetson blindsided him and drops fists to the back of the head. Chacha flies in and wipes them out. Rivera looks to finish Hammer but Stetson recovers and hits the northern Jersey lariat for the win. Ugh. God we hate cowboys here. 

 Match 6: 6-person Gauntlet Match

TJ Crawford vs Seabass Finn

TJ thinks he’s got an easy first round and the crowd is VERY behind Seabass. Finn is on fire from the moment go and Crawford has to put some work in here. TJ working the neck over but Finn has so much fight in him! The neck gives out at a crucial moment but TJ is still forced to kiss his bass. Brain buster! Sea bass with a slingshot into a silver bullet. TJ hits a GTK to get the three! 

 TJ Crawford vs Brother Greatness

BG is coming up from commentary! He grabs a chair and gives Crawford some pause. TJ almost runs into Ref Bill. GREATNESS DOES AN EDDIE GUERRERO CHAIR FAKE OUT. TJ gets DQ’d!!!

 Brother Greatness vs Love Doug

Doug blindsides Greatness from the crowd. A flying bulldoug stuns the preacher man. Doug holds BG while TJ tries to throw flower petals…BG reverses it! Doug eats petals! BG with the crucifix rollup for the win!

Brother Greatness vs Ricky Smokes

Greatness is game for a fight. Smokes thinks he’s gonna bully him, BG throwing hard rights! Popup into a dropkick! Smokes catches a cross body. Huge fallaway slam! BG rolls up a dvd for two! Palm Sunday strikes! Smokes pops up him for a sitout bomb for the three!

Ricky Smokes vs CPA

Smokes almost immediately succumbs to the greatest hits of CPA shenanigans. Smokes cuts that off as CPA comes flying in and goes to work on the tax man. CPA escapes a stampede…missile dropkick! Trip into the Form 1099! Cutter! Smokes kicks out! Ricky avoids getting his numbers crunched…cpa with a rana into the buckles! Shotgun! Smokes catches him running….Powerbomb! Stampede style neckbreaker and CPA is DONE. Smokes wins the gauntlet!

 Main Event: Channing Thomas vs Fancy Ryan Clancy

Channing baits Clancy into putting his “call your shot” contract on the line. A confident Fancy man gives World Class his wishes. But clancy puts Thomas on his back over and over. Channing seems to have unlocked a whole new aggressive mode of the fancy man. Channing has the brain power left to dodge the dropkick. Clancy to the top but Channing shoves him off to the floor! This match is VERY MUCH going poorly for Channing overall as he can’t even keep that advantage for long. Clancy just unloading. Channing with a snap cutter and this might be his moment to shine and get some shots in. Clancy with a splash reversal on a powerslam! Big slam! Fancy splash? Channing dropkicks him out of the air! Kick out! We just hit the 15 minute mark! These two went to a double count out last time. Are we hitting a time limit draw? Clancy with a piledriver! How world class of him! Channing kicks out! He dodges the dropkick again! Thomas hits a piledriver! Clancy kicks out! Channing has had enough and brandishes brass knuckles. Clancy gets the knuckles! He fakes out Channing! Clancy tosses the knuckles to ref Gina! Channing to confused and turns right into a KO dropkick for the three!

 

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