Let's Wrestle Rumble Live Report 01/11/2020

On Saturday January 11, 2020 Let's Wrestle returned to the American Legion Post 84 in Orono, Maine for Chapter 12, the Let's Wrestle Rumble! 

 

Mikey joined Canaan and myself, as well as my nephew AJ for our first wrestling live event of the year.  This is actually my nephew's first ever Indy show and also part of his Christmas present as he asked me to take him to wrestling.  I had taken him to WWE last July.

We parked at the venue then walked next door to have dinner with Roy at the OHOP before heading back to stand inline at the venue.  Because Maine winter can be very dumb at times it was 52 degrees so waiting outside for the doors to open wasn't all that bad. 

I had bought front row seats for use and Mikey was going to buy as General Admission at the door, but someone was trying to give away a front row ticket they had and Mikey was the lucky recipient. This is the third time in the last four shows he's been too that he's gotten a free ticket.

Fatal Four Way: Winner get's the number 30 spot in the Rumble match
Aiden Aggro vs. Davienne vs. Scotty Wild vs. "The Prize" Alec Price

Solid opening match with all four wrestlers giving it their all.  The action was fast paced with his great high intensity.  The crowd was really into it as well.  Aggro stole pin on Wild after Price hit his finish on Wild and Aggro threw him out of the ring.

Devin Blaze vs. Danger Kid

I haven't seen Blaze in a while and post match Kid allude to the fact that Blaze hasn't wrestled in two years.  I thought the match was very good with both guys showing us some good technical wrestling before picking up the pace.  The crowd was super quiet for this match and I can't figure out why.  Multiple times though-out the night it was be as quiet as a library in the building kind of threw me off. 

Finish came when Kid was on the apron and Blaze was suplexing him into the ring and Kid reversed it into a small package for the three count.

Post Match: Aggro came out and Kid asked General Manager Torres and Eric Johnson come to the ring.  Essentially MSP challenged The Stigma to a tag team championship match, they said that Johnson trained them, but he hasn't wrestled them in years and as they are now.  Match was made for the next show on February 8th back in Orono.

DL Hurst vs. CJ Cruz
This was a fantastic match and I'm not surprised.  Both of these guys are two to watch here in New England as these guys are going to have a big 2020.  I'm a fan of both of them, but I was hoping Hurst was going to pick up the win.

Again a fantastic match that went back and forth no one having the clear upper hand but both getting in some great moves.  In the end Hurst fell victim to that beautiful missile drop kick that Cruz has.  I don't know what he calls it but Cruz Missile would be cool.

Fan's Bring the Weapons match
Let's Wrestle Champion: "Classic" Kalvin Strange vs. "Mass Hole" Mike McCarthy

Some decent weapons including an umbrella, a couple kendo sitcks, 7 lbs of used staples, and some ass hole that brought a Dolphins helmet.  To the surprise of no one the match quickly got physical with the weapons coming into the play.  To me though the most violent spot in the match was when McCarthy was standing on the apron and suplexed Strange who was standing in the ring onto the floor.

He then  dumped the blob that was the seven pounds of used staples on the floor and bodyslammed Strange on them.  It was wicked!  The match continued back in the ring where Strange for the upper hand with a cane shot to the head and then a headbutt to McCarthy while wearing the Miami Dolphins helmet.  At this point the Mass Hole was busted open.

Strange would have been wise to keep the helmet on because in the end McCarthy jumped off the top rope finishing Strange with a DDT capturing the championship!

We then had an intermission while the ring and ringside area were cleaned up.  AJ got his photo taken with the Maine State Posse.

Ava Everett's Birthday Bash Open Challenge
Limitless Wrestling World Champion: Retro AG vs. Ava Everett

It's Ava's birthday and the open challenge was answered by her boyfriend AG who gifted her a cake that said It Is Your Birthday and a title shot for the Limitless Wrestling World Championship.  Ava used every dirty trick that she could use and cheated as much as she could, but it wasn't enough for her to win the championship as AG retained with his corner pull up piledriver. 

I know what you are thinking, there is a cake at ringside, whose face did it end up in? Why Eric Greenleaf. 

KenneLee: Alexander Lee & Kennedi Copeland vs. Harris County Club: Bret Ryan Gosselin & Malik Logan

Fun tag team match with KenneLee coming out on top when Alexander Lee pinned Logan after a splash off the top rope. I appreciated the fact that Harris Country Club wore their old school matching gear.  I've only seen Copeland live a few times over the years but I must say that she has gotten better and continues to do better.  I really dig the tag team of KenneLee.

2020 Let's Wrestle Rumble
"The Prize" Alec Price won last eliminating CJ Cruz

I think overall this years Rumble match was better than last years.  Mikey was convinced that D'Lo Brown was going to be a surprise entrant, I even brought my cards just in case, but he wasn't.  Mac Daniels was the number 1 entrant and he brought someone to watch his back just in case one of the referee's tried to get one up on him, Jon Alba.  The crowd was pissed!

We got an entrant every 90 seconds, the ring never filled up too much and once it built up kept a good number of people in the ring at a time.  Mac Daniels lasted the longest in the match with Danger Kid lasting the second longest.  Sara Teller has the distinction of lasting the least amount of time.  Daniels eliminated the most competitors with 6 eliminations.

The save of the match went to Alexander Lee who body surged over Eric Greenleaf to avoid elimination.

I loved when Cruz entered the match and he and Price squared off continuing their feud. It was also cool that it came down to the two of them.  I'm very excited that Price got the win,   I think he and McCarthy will have some great matches over the championship. 

The rumble match built two new opponents for Mac Daniels with how he eliminated Greene and how he was eliminated by Cruz. 

Order of Entry
1 Mac Daniels
2 Retro AG
3 Antoine Nicholas
4 "Iron" Rip Bison
5 Sean Vegan (not sure I got this one right)
6 Ava Everette
7 Lil Blay
8 Davienne
9 Sara Teller
10 Channing Thomas
11 Ike the Bite
12 Danger Kid
13 Jeff James
14 "The Prize" Alec Price
15 Doug Wyser
16 Alexander Lee
17 BA Tatum
18 Jacob Drifter
19 Murdock
20 "Bulldog" Dave Dyer
21 Eric Johnson
22 Bret Ryan Gosselin
23 Malik Logan
24 Dojo Student (didn't catch his name)
25 Kalvin Strange
26 Kennedi Copeland
27 Scotty Wild
28 Jon Alba
29 CJ Cruz
30 Aiden Aggro

Order or Elimination
1 Sean Vegan by Ava Everette
2 Sara Teller by Davienne
3 Rip Bison by Daniels
4 Antoine Nicholas by Thomas
5 Lil Blay by AG
6 Ava by Price
7 Ike by Daniels
8 Jeff James by AG
9 Davienne by AG
10 AG by Daniels while Alba was holding AG's leg
11 Thomas by Danger Kid
12 Doug Wyser by Murdock
13 Murdock by Eric Johnson
14 Jacob Drifter by Dyer
15 BA Tatum by BRG
16 Dojo Student by Dyer
17 Dyer by Johnson
18 Logan by Alexander Lee
19 Alexander Lee by Wild
20 Kennedi Copeland by Wild
21 Scotty Wild by Daniels
22 Kalvin Strange by Johnson
23 Eric Johnson by 7 guys left in the match
24 Jon Alba by MSP
25 Danger Kid by Daniels at the same time as Aggro
26 Aiden Aggro by Price at the same time as Kid
27 BRG by Daniels
28 Mac Daniels by CJ Cruz
29 CJ Cruz by Alec Price

Let's Wrestle returns Saturday February 8th in Orono with Maine State Pose vs. The Stigma for the Tag Team Championships and pick your poison as Mike McCarthy and Alex Price will choose each others opponents.

Also Limitless Wrestling returns January 24th in Yarmouth with Flirtin' With Disaster in Yarmouth, Maine.

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Let's Wrestle Live Report, 10/12/2019

Let's Wrestle returned to the American Legion in Orono on Saturday Night the 12th of October for Volume 10 Don't Lose Your Head.  Mikey joined Canaan, Addison, & I for a night at the matches.  This is my 20th wrestling event of year!  That pretty damn good if you ask me, but isn't as good as  Mikey as this marks his 46th show of the year.  Incidentally this is the 17th show that Mikey and I have gone to together this year.

We got up to the venue about 6pm and walked up to the Orono House of Pizza for dinner.  They have solid food and I like that we can park at the venue first and walk over to dinner.  The doors opened promptly at 7pm, I had already bought us front row seats prior to the show, Mikey got General Admission and sat behind us for the first half and then he hung out with Bradford and Roy for the second half.

Doug Wyzer with Jacob Drifter & Ike the Bite pinned Perry Von Vicious

Von Vicious jumped the Dirty Drifters sending Doug and Jacob to the floor and then pressed slammed Ike the Bite onto the them.  I fully expected Wyzer to get squashed in this match but he picked up the win.  Vicious had him up for a splash mountain and after a distraction by Jacob, he reversed it into a sunset flip style pin for the three count.

General Manager Jonny Torres brought out the tag champs for a special announcement.  On Saturday December 14th Let's Wrestle returns for a fundraiser show for former Maine wrestler Mark Godfrey.

The Syndicate: Owen Brody, BA Tatum, & Murdock defeated Tag Team Champions: The Stigma: Eric Johnson & Brandino Davis and Malik Logan

Match started with all six men in the ring brawling, it spilled to the floor and around ringside.  Eventually Bandino Davis did a somerset dive out of the ring onto the Syndicate taking them out but he injured his knee in the process.  For the next several minutes the settled into a tag and the Syndicate worked over Davis' knee.

He finally made the hot tag to Malik Logan who came in and cleaned out.  He really looked impressive.  The match broke out into a brawl again, however this time the Syndicate isolated Logan in the ring hitting him with a sky hi, falling headbutt and Brody with a nice looking elbow drop from the top rope for the win.

This has to put the Syndicate in contention for the tag team titles.

Mac Daniels pinned Scotty Wild

This was my first time seeing Wild live since October 29, 2016 at Limitless Wrestling, and he looked damn good in the ring tonight.  This match was fast paced with a lot of action.  Wild was flying around the ring with quick precision striking offense while Daniels muscled Wild with high impact moves.

Post match Daniels cut a promo challenging Luke Robinson to a match on December 14th.  Later in the night General Manager Jonny Torres came out stating that he had heard from Robinson who had accepted Daniels chhallenge for the 14th.

Brett Ryan Gosselin pinned Davienne

I really enjoyed this match, it had a quick pace with both of them laying it in to each other.  No one dominated the match for any length of time as there was a lot of back and forth.  Davienne was the heel tonight, I enjoy Davienne much better as a heel than a babyface.  BRG got the pin after a nasty looking double arm DDT.  I'm not sure at all what the intention of the move was, but from my point of view Davienne landed really rough on the top of her head.

Maine State Posse: Danger Kid & Aiden Aggro defeated "The Prize" Alec Price & Channing Thomas

This was the match of the night!  I'm not sure if Thomas and Price have teamed before but I want to see them team more in the future.  This isn't one I'm going to try to breakdown beyond when this is posted on the YouTube make it a point to go and watch it.  Everything shined in the match whether it was from selling their ass off or showing their impressive high flying offense.  At one point MSP has a bit of miscommunication and I thought Prize and Thomas were going to pick up the win.

This was another great tag team match with MSP cementing that they are not only the best tag team in Maine but possible New England.  Watching their growth in the ring over the last four years has been awesome, can't wait to see them continue to get better and branch out.

At the beginning of the match when Price was making his entrance my daughter was booing him, she's 10 she boos the bad guys and she gets very emotionally involved, very.  Well Price said something to her along the lines of "I don't like you, not one likes you, your parents don't like you."  To which my daughter cried giant alligator tears.  I told her that he was wrong, that obviously I like her, that didn't matter.  At the end of the match after MSP has won, Price was on the floor near us and my daughter just kept screaming that's what you get, that's what you get.

Post match Danger Kid and Aggro stated they wanted to have fun on December 14th and challenged the Dirty Drifters to a match.

Intermission

Inaugural Gordon Stuart Battle Royal: CJ Cruz won last eliminating Alec Price

This match featured 20 competitors, most of whom had either wrestled earlier on the card of in matches yet to come.  It was fun a fun Battle Royal with the final four being Owen Brody, Mac Daniels, CJ Cruz, & Alec Price.  Fittingly it came down to Cruz and Price who had had a great feud in Let's Wrestle.  Cruz walked away with the bragging rights and solidified his spot in the 2020 Let's Wrestle Rumble in January.

Masha Slamovich defeated Ava Everett & Angel Sinclair

At the beginning of every match my daughter would ask me who were the good guys and bad guys so she knew who to boo and cheer, after their entrances though they all appeared to be faces, but that didn't last.  After the bell Ava and Angel appeared to be plotting against Slamovich but then Ava turned on Angel with a wicked beat down that ended with Ava throwing a chair at Angel hitting her in the head area.  Angel was brought to the back.  Addison turned to me and said about Ava, "what happened, she seemed like such a sweetheart?"

Ava and Masha then had a wild brawl themselves including Masha hitting Ava with a fall away slam onto the chairs in the front row.  This was my first time seeing Masha live and I'm a fan!  I'll be honest it's because she yells in Russian and she throws a mean suplex!  Saito suplex, german suplex, and even a wicked nice looking wheelbarrow suplex, which you don't get to see often.

Angel returned mid match and it got back to being a triple threat.  What I liked the most is that it was legit each lady for herself with no one teaming up together during the match.  Ava tried to steal the win after Masha laid out Angel but she just herself tossed out of the ring.  Masha got the pin on Angel after a beautiful diving headbutt from the top rope.   I think she should go by "Dynamite" Masha Slamovich.

KenneLee: Alexander Lee & Kennedi Copeland defeated CJ Cruz & Ricky Archer

The exception to her rule, my daughter is a fan of Kennedi Copeland so in this case it was ok to cheer the bad team.  This was a fun match that I really enjoyed, I am partial as I'm a Lee fan.  Cruz looked excellent though in this match.  At one point Lee and Copeland hit a double headbutt on I think Archer. Kennedi fell in the corner after while Lee slapped his own head asking her "Didn't that feel great!?" she responded with a resounding "No!" which tickled me.

Lee got the pin on Archer after landing a top rope splash while Archer was on his hands and knees.

Let's Wrestle Champion: Kalvin Strange pinned "Masshole" Mike McCarthy

There was a lot of brawling on the floor before the bell rang.  Strange even tried to take his championship and head to the back but McCarthy chased him to the back and brought him into the ring where the referee finally called for the bell.

This was a much more serious McCarthy in the ring tonight, he wasn't picking his nose and eating it or forcing other to do it.  McCarthy dominated the match for the most part unfortunately when he got Strange up on his shoulder Strange's legs took out the referee.

McCarthy locked in the his finisher, a variation of the rings of Saturn but the referee wasn't there to see Strange tap out.  McCarthy thinking he'd won  the match relinquished the hold to celebrate.  However Strange took the opportunity to take McCarthy out with the championship, revive the ref, and score the three count to retain.

Strange attempted to leave the ringside area but Brett Ryan Gosselin attacked him throwing him back in to McCarthy.  Torres came out and made a match for December 14th, BRG & McCarthy will team against Strange and Dave Dwyer.  If Strange win then McCarthy can never challenge for the Let's Wrestle Championship if McCarthy wins he gets another shot in January and get's the pick the stipulation of the match.

What's strange to me is what does BRG get out of this?  As far as I know he's not running mates with McCarthy, I get him coming at the champion though.  Seem's a bit odd to me.

Let's Wrestle returns December 14th in Orono with three matches announced already.  In January they will be presenting the second annual Let's Wrestle Rumble.

Before, during, and after the show Addison got her picture made, as they say in the south,  with Ava Everette, Aggro, Kennedi, Scott Wild, Alexander Lee, Davienne, and others. 

Limitless Wrestling returns in under two weeks, October 25th with "Fresh Blood" at the Amvets Post 2 in Yarmouth featuring Gangrel, Limitless Champion Anthony Greene defending against Josh Briggs and more!

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