Northeast Wrestling
Wrestling Under the Stars
August 2, 2015
Lelacheur Park, Lowell, MA
Quick Results:
Chaotic Wrestling Champion: Chase Del Monte pinned Mike Webb
8 Man Tag: Cam-An Connection: Anthony Green &
Cam Zigami and Team Friendship: Mark Shurman & Scotty Slade defeated
Stamos Syndicate: Frankie Arion & Tag Team Champions: The Battle
Brothers: Chris & Anthony w/ Stevie Stamos and “Man Scout”
Jake Manning
Brian Anthony defeated Caleb Konley
Mickie James pinned Alexxis
Mick Foley cheap pop promo
Samoa Joe submitted Warbeard Hanson
Donovan Dijak pinned Flip Gordon
The Kingdom: Heavyweight Champion: Matt Taven &
Michael Bennett w/ Maria defeated The Young Bucks: Nick & Matt
Jackson with a spike piledriver on Matt
Three Way Dance: Rey Mysterio Jr. defeated Matt Hardy & Alberto El Patron when Mysterio pinned Hardy
On Sunday August 2nd Northeast Wrestling
presented “Wrestling Under the Stars” in Lowell, Ma at Lelacheur Park
where the Red Sox A ball club the Lowell Spinners play. When this show
was announced I was interested in going, not
for Rey Mysterio, but for The Young Bucks! They are so hot right now
across the country and in Japan. Also I had never been to a Northeast
Wrestling show and have wanted to for some time.
Eventually tickets were bought with Mikey, Roy, & I deciding to go to the show. We left Sunday
morning for the 2.5 hour drive not stopping until we made it to
Lowell. I had wanted to try this place called Elliot’s Lunch Cart that
is a
Hot Dog joint that has been around for years but they were closed.
We got parked back over the stadium and walked to a
place called Brother’s Pizza, it was sketchy so we settled for Lowell
Beer Works. The food was good, but my Burger was deceptively small.
Roy got the breakfast as they serve brunch until
2pm. The waitress was very slow and we didn’t get back to the park until after the gates opened.
The meet and greet was set up the worst I have ever
seen. The wrestlers were set up downstairs in a circle and I can see
why they thought it would be a good idea. That way you could go from
one person to the next to get your autographs
and photos and what not. If you wanted to get down to the meet and
greet they had one line that lead down to it and the first wrestler you
came to was Rey Mysterio Jr. Now admittedly the majority of the people
there wanted to meet Rey, however if you didn’t
want to it didn’t matter because you had to wait for everyone else that
did to get by him.
It was so dumb! At every other signing I have been
to you go into the area where the wrestlers are, they have their tables
and you go to who you want to see, not one big line for all. It took
two hours for us to get down to the meet and
greet area.
I got all my cards signed by The Young Bucks, a
picture with them. One with Michael Bennet and Maria, and one with
Dijak Nick Jackson did this video I posted a couple months back called
Nick Jackson’s Birthday Bash and when I asked him
about it he says it was an homage to a video that Kenny Omega did.
I thought the matches would start late, and they
did but only 15 minutes. They opened with a ten bell salute to “Rowdy”
Roddy Piper who had passed away Friday. The show featured 8 matches and an intermission that stretched to 30 minutes
with the show ending at 8pm.
Highspots was there with their variety of merchandise as well as a
couple other vendors. Mikey and Roy picked up 4 – 5 DVD’s each, Roy is
quite addicted to buying wrestling DVD’s.
At one point in my life I was addicted to buying
everything and anything wrestling. However, after the flood destroyed
my collection I began to realize that having anything and everything
didn’t really matter. I still have quite a nice
collection of wrestling memorabilia however I am much more selective of
what I spend my money on.
It was a great night of matches, with The Young
Bucks vs. The Kingdom & Dijak vs. Flip Gordon being the best two
matches of the evening. All the matches were very good, even though
Samoa Joe was just going through the motions. He’s got
a deal with WWE and he’s finishing up his indy bookings so I guess I
can’t blame him for not wanting to get injured in front of 2000 people
in Lowell on a one off appearance. In the ladies match Alexxis worked
her butt off playing the heal while Mickie James
was kind of going through the motion as well.
Dijak is a big dude and he’s got a great future in
wrestling. He’s agile and moves like a smaller guy. He’s gotten a lot
better in the ring and we will see him in the WWE one day. I had never
seen Flip Gordon before but he was great
in the ring with some awesome aerial offense. I’d really like to see
him again in the future.
The Young Bucks were fantastic and the hometown
boys of The Kingdom were way over. It looked like Taven got legit
injured in the match but he powered through and both team delivered.
The main event triple threat was carried by Alberto
El Patron who came out to a big ovation and when full heel on the mic
before the match. Rey won after hiding on the outside of the ring for
the majority of the match. The match was better
than I thought it would be, but Rey still managed to piss me off.
After the matches we headed a mile down the road to
Jimmy John’s to get Kate her favorite sandwich. The website said they
were open until 10pm but at 815pm the lights were off and doors locked up tight. We went to go to another place
across the street but they had no restroom, that wasn’t going to work for any of us.
We ended up jumping on 495 North and when I
realized that we would be passing the Cracker Barrel just a couple miles
down the road, and that it was Sunday
I knew that we were stopping. Not to mention that neither Mikey nor
Roy had ever
been to Cracker Barrel. Exit 39 was the exit we wanted, and of course
the ramp was closed due to construction. We had to go a few miles up
the road and exit onto 93 which looped us back onto 495 South, but I had
Mikey call to make sure they would be open.
Back in 2009 Jay, Rood, and I went to Webster, MA
to meet Ric Flair and get out picture taken with him for the first time
ever. On the way home we stopped at this very same Cracker Barrel, it
was a Sunday and that was when I learned that
the Sunday
special is home style fried chicken! Two boneless chicken breast
dipped in buttermilk and breading and fried to golden brown perfection!
It’s only available on Sunday’s which is why I made the executive decisions that this is where we were going
to eat.
Mikey also got the chicken but Roy went with the
breakfast sampler. Roy is a big fan of Breakfast and the Barrel serves
it all day every day. I brought Kate home 4 biscuits and apple butter
at her request. The chicken was so delicious!
Later Readers!
Here is the Facebook link to all my photos: Northeast Wrestling Album
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