Wrestling Open
4/9/26 Worcester, MA
Spotlight Match: DJ Powers vs All Go Nelli
Nelli has a good showing against Powers, who is clearly workshopping his crowd work. Powers puts Nelli away with a claymore into small package driver. Good fun little opener.
Wrestivus:
Friday WWE ID Showcase Event
Sat Blood sweat and tears 2pm / CZW / PWJunkie
Sunday: BioPro / WWR+ / WWE ID Tim Thatcher
Match 1: Tyler Jordan & Christian Darling vs The Vibe (mani Ariez & Sammy Diaz w/ Brother Greatness)
This is a HOT start. Both team absolutely kill it trying to get it done. Jordan & Darling cheat their heads off but Mani and Sammy keep coming back. Mani finally disrupts an electric chair finish and Sammy small packages Jordan for the three. Jordan and Darling are furious and hobble Sammy with a chair before Brother Greatness grabs some steel of his own to drive them off. Fantastic open.
Rich Palladino brings out Tyree Taylor ahead of his scheduled murder of Rain Conway. Rain decides his best option is to immediately disrupt Taylor’s promo. “If you got that dog in you….call me Michael Vick”. Oh S***.
Match 2: Tyree Taylor vs Rain Conway
Rain is about to take flight when he asks Tyree to let him put his mouthguard in. Taylor obliges and Rain goes FLYING. A huge chop. Big slam. Tyree isn’t even wearing gear: he’s killing this mouthy twerp in jeans. Rain avoids like the fourth slam with an eye rake and throws Taylor into the buckles. He tries the rainmaker…NO. Tyree with a high angle orton backbreaker and a discus lariat mercifully ends this for Conway.
And now Tyree is about to talk to one Ray Jaz…and now he’s DJ Powers to interrupt. He wants respect. And next week he wants a fight with Tyree. Taylor suggests Now? Nah sez Powers. Of course not.
Match 3: Kylon King vs Big Bacon Brad Hollister
Miracle Generation continues to try to make a case to challenge for the Open tag straps and THIS could really seal the deal if King can get the job done. The match is another straight banger. King going back and forth with Bacon but he gets completely derailed by the crowd and Bacon plows him over. The tornado jackhammer ends the match and Hollister calls out Dustin Waller for next week.
Match 4: Pedro Dones vs BRG (w/ Oxx Adams)
Another blast of a match. Dones and BRG go to war. Pedro is clearly ready to deal with the numbers game as he keeps Oxx out of reach through the match. There’s a brief moment where Oxx considers interference but Pedro pulls a Guerrero, Drops to his back, the crowd blames Oxx, ref bill believes is! Adams gets tossed and Dones rolls up Brett in the chaos for the win!
Match 5: Sammi Chaos & Amity Levay vs Gabby Forza & Liviyah
I swear this is supposed to be faces vs heels but Worcester loves Amity and Sammi. But we’ve also MISSED Gabby! Forza keeps trying to pick up Sammi. It doesn’t go great. Liviyah finally gets the hot tag and has Sammi ready for a double suplex. Amity runs interference and that sets up Sammi to hit a chokeslam on Gabby for the clean three! A shocker in Worcester!
We take a short intermission to deal with a small medical issue in the crowd. Props to the crowd and the crew that made sure people were properly taken care of with the quickness.
Main Event 1: Eye Black Jack vs Bear Bronson
This absolutely is a double main event. And what a hell of a test EBJ called for himself tonight. Bronson grabs the mic first. He wants to know “Are you SURE this is what you want?” Jack doesn’t step back. You gotta respect it. Bronson quickly establishes the power advantage, leaving Jack to be scrappy and try for his share of roll ups and reversals. Bear just punishes this kid. Jack keeps kicking out and will not die! He finally kips up and hits Bear with a brain buster! Jack fires up and hits his Impaler! Bear kicks out! They battle to the top. Jack fights out of the super plex and powerbombs Bronson! Olympic slam! Kick out! Jack splash! Kick out! How the pendulum has swung! Bear catches the kid running with a black hole slam! The chokebomb connects! Jack kicks out one more time before Bear uncorks the Fire Thunder Driver and gets the three. Fantastic.
Bear makes sure Jack stays in the corner for the next bit of talking. Bear says Jack got screwed by DJ Powers…but the fight Jack brought tonight? He should be able to handle that problem and get to the next stage of his career easily.
Main Event 2: Stetson Ranch (Steven Stetson, Bobby Casale & Danny Miles) vs Waves & Curls (Traevon Jordan & Jaelyn Brandyn) and Ichiban
This match is gonna be cool but the real story will be if the Ranch finally and irrevocably implodes tonight. It doesn’t START well…Danny Miles is NOT HERE. The three on two is TROUBLE for the ranch. Bobby and Stetson are getting rekt until Danny appears and makes his way to the apron. Just his presence gets the Ranch back in it. Danny finally in there and has Ichiban up but Stetson starts running his mouth and Danny takes offense. He gets face to face with Stetson and that’s when Waves & Curls strikes, leaving Ichiban to hit Bobby with the Ichi Bankai and get the three!
Stetson tries to rally Danny and Bobby to attack the winners but Danny pulls Casale away and they leave Stetson to get murdered by Ichiban and Waves & Curls. It sure looks like the Ranch is closed for business. Hell of a finish to a crazy good night.
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