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The Wrestling REVOLVER held the first REVOLVER Jerry Lynn Invitational at the Calumet Center at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Dayton, Oh, with featured a tournament and several title matches. They split it into afternoon and evening sessions, a format I fondly remember from the Jim Crockett Sr tag tournaments in the 80s.
Joe Dombrowski and Bork Torkelson together again on commentary. Joe can be wordy but he's been a good calming influence on the very excitable Torkelson.
The afternoon session saw "Kishin" Alan Angels of The Macabre, Rich Swann, Ninja Mack, and Zachary Wentz all advance to the semi finals of the Jerry Lynn Invitational that evening. Each man won entertaining bouts.
In non-tournament matches, Killer Kelly beat Katie Arquette and WR Tag champion "The Atrocity" Krule of The Macabre got a strong win over "Big" Dick Meyers of Alpha Sig in a Dayton Street Fight, giving the Macabre another win in their feud with Alpha Sig, a feud where they've traded the tag titles twice.
Swann defeated Mack to kick off the evening session in a competitive bout, putting Mack away with a Phoenix Splash. Code of Honor adhered.
The Macabre's "Kishin" Alan Angels (with "Mean" Gia Miller) advanced to the Finals to meet Swann, beating Zachary Wentz in another good match.
"The Atrocity" Krule (MLW's Mads Kruegger) and Dreadknot (the former Madman Fulton) defended the WR Tag titles in a Gauntlet match.
The champs came in last after Latino's Most Wanted (Koda Hernandez, Sabin Gauge) beat first Tye and Die (KJ Reynolds, Ryan Matthias), then Dante Leon and Facade then finally 2-time former WR tag champs Alpha Sig (Brent Oakley, KC Jacobs). Fantastic showing from LMW, who worked against four other teams at a strong pace throughout. But the size of the champs was too much as Dreadknot countered a double team move by chokeslam of Gauge off Hernandez' shoulders while Krule chokeslammed Hernandez at the same time.
"The Inevitable" Ace Austin beat former friend and protege Damien Chambers (with Kayla Kassidy) in a physical Last Man Standing match.
They went at it, probably a little too long and had some uncooperative doors thrown in. The door budget at REVOLVER must be astounding. They must get a discount at Home Depot. Austin went to hit The Fold neckbreaker on a door propped up between the ring and the railing but the door didn't do the job so Austin picked up Chambers and hit a back suplex from the apron through the door, sending Chambers crashing to the floor. Chambers was unable to answer the 10 count, giving the match to Austin.
Good 10 person tag match to come out of intermission that saw Team Crash--Crash Jaxon, BDE, Bigg Pound, Brayden Lee, Jeffrey John) beat Team Juni (Juni Underwood, The Production--Katie Arquette, Derek Dillinger, Amazonga, Starman Harley Rock). Everyone got to shine with a healthy dose of shenanigans. The Production, the only regular team in the match looked especially good with some sharp double team moves.
Priscilla Kelly answered the open challenge of Jessicka Havok of the Macabre (with Miller). Solid match. Kelly seems to still be finding her footing outside the WWE auspices. She caught Havok with a surprise small package to counter a vertical suplex for the win. Simple finish. I liked it.
REVOLVER champion "The Young GOAT" Myron Reed (with Killer Kelly) lacked an opponent, so WR Executive VP Phil Stamper gave him not one but 3 former champions: former WR champ "Firestarter" Jake Crist, former Remix champion Gringo Loco and former Texas champion--and making his Dayton debut--Brick Savage. Good match that could be a star turn for Savage, who looked like an absolute powerhouse but still capably sold when it was time.
Reed, with liberal help from Kelly, got the win, countering a springboard move from Crist with a blow to the back of the head with the title belt.
Securing my vote for 2025 Comeback of the Year already in August, "All Night Long" Rich Swann beats "Kishin" Alan Angels of the Macabre in the finals of the Jerry Lynn Invitational tournament. Best all-around match of the show with Swann selling a sore neck from the Mack match and Anges focused on it. Angels was probably too focused on irritating special guest ref Jerry Lynn. Swann put him away with a Phoenix Splash after a Lynn-honoring piledriver.
Some fan service as Lynn got in some shots on Angels before joining with the locker room in congratulating Swann.
A loaded, sometimes overloaded, show with a pair of strong final matches to close out a long day.
The Real Uncle Dave grade: A (93 out of 100)
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