Re-Post: Big Time Wrestling results, Augusta, Maine 3/27/2011

Re-Posted from my original blog as I am removing all wrestling references off of it making it a family blog.

The crowd was a legit 1300 - 1400 people and boy did they LOVE "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan!!

The meet & greet got started a little late, but once it got rolling it went very smooth.

Toro Loco pinned Cameron Matthews with a sick DDT

The Scuffling Hillbillies: Cousin Larry & Uncle Sonny defeated Black Talented Wrestlers: Slyck Wagner Brown & Bobby Ocean with a roll up after Slyck accidentally hit Ocean with a foreign object

Interview with Johnny Fabulous & Mr. TA setting up an Augusta Street Fight vs. "Diamond Back" Jack Maverick later in the evening

Amber w/ Playboy Jimmy James defeated Barbie with a school girl while holding the tights

Extreme Rules: Heavyweight Champion: "The Franchise" Shane Douglas pinned Tommy Dreamer after a while match with a Belly to Belly Suplex. The wrestled all over the civic center, through the crowd, up the stairs, and more. Dreamer exploded several beverages all over Douglas but mostly the crowd. The Delfonzo's ran in causing the distraction which lead to the Belly to Belly, then Douglas declared the new Triple Threat was born. Pre-match Douglas cut a promo in his usually style, Vince sucks, Dixie sucks, I revolutionalzied the business in the 90's.

Intermission time with photo's in the ring with Dreamer & Hacksaw plus everyone came back out around the civic center and signed autographs, took pictures, and what not.

Tag Team Champions: Hot Commodity: Scott Reed & Danny Miles defeated The Delfonzo Brothers: Tony & Bam Bam by disqualification when Bam Bam pulled the ref out of the ring as Scott Reed had Tony pinned for the 3 count

"Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase & Virgil come to the ring and cut a promo. "Playboy" Jimmy James et all come out and challenge Dibiase to a match to which Dibiase replied that he doesn't need to break a sweat on these guys, when you have money you can pay people to do it for you, hahahahahaha. Which lead to:

"Mr. USA" Tony Atlas, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan & Rush defeated "Playboy" Jimmy James, Antoine Roy, & Benny Juxx w/ Amber & Lord Weatherbee when Hacksaw pinned Juxx after his 3 point stance clothesline.

Main Event
Augusta Street Fight: "Diamond Back" Jack Maverick defeated Mr. TA w/ Johnny Fabulous in a wild brawl. These guys brought out the trashcans, cookie sheets, frying pans and cheese graters blooding each other, then battled all around the civic center. The finish came when the camera man, revealing himself to be AJ Mitrano, attacked Jack Maverick laying him out. Which lead to Mick Foley coming out and making the save which allowed Maverick to pin Mr. TA. After Foley applied to mandible claw to Johnny Fabulous.

Mick Foley then told a couple of good stories. First of all, the last time he was in Augusta was in 1996. Sitting in the back of the Arena Dewey was holding his hand over his ears as it was loud. Steve Austin asked Foley, has he being doing that all night? To which Foley replied, yes except for your match when he was holding his nose.

The second was, he was driving through Auburn earlier and saw the Fireside Inn which had a sign and big photo stating, Muhammad Ali stayed here May 25, 1965 after defeating Sonny Liston in Lewiston, Maine, in room 218. So Mick paid the extra $39 so he could stay in the same hotel room as Muhammad Ali. Which means we can now go stay in the say room that Mick Foley & Muhammad Ali slept in.

All in all it was a fun show with a lively crowd. All the wrestlers were very approachable and friendly and everyone, from my point of view, had a great time.

The Last Match: WWE World Champions

This edition of The Last Match features former WWE Champions.  I don't need to saw a whole lot about the wrestlers featured in this post as their names speak for themselves.

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin
March 30, 2003 WrestleMania XIX Seattle, WA
defeated by The Rock

"Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels
March 28, 2010 WrestleMania XXVI Glendale, AZ
was defeated by The Undertaker

Bret "Hitman" Hart
January 10, 2000 WCW Nitro Buffalo, NY Marine Midland Arena
wrestled Kevin Nash to a no contest

September 12, 2011 WWE Monday Night Raw Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Scotiabank Place
with John Cena defeated Alberto Del Rio & Ricardo Rodriguez

Sgt. Slaughter
March 29, 2014 Northeast Wrestling Loch Sheldrake, NY
with Jeff Starr defeated Dalton Castle & "Man Scout" Jake Manning

Mick Foley
August 12, 2011 JCW Legends & Icons Cave-In-Rock, IL
with Terry Funk was defeated by "Rowdy" Roddy Piper & "Cowboy" Bob Orton

Mick Foley also competed in the 2012 Royal Rumble being eliminated by Cody Rhodes.

Thanks for reading, please leave a comment, check out my other posts, and like my Facebook page.

Later Readers!

WrestleMania 32 Review

I always get excited for WrestleMania every year and leading up to it this year was no different.  Sadly though I must have watched a different show than others in my Facebook food because I didn't watch a show that was awesome, insane, spectacular, amazing or any other accolade that makes a blanket declaration stating the entire show was tremendous, because it wasn't.

The pre-show started at 5pm with the first match starting around 5:45pm and the main event ended about 10 minutes of midnight.  That's pretty near a 7 hour event which is very long.  I'ts a good thing I had coverage at work until 1am and not midnight.  

Including pre-show and the Rock's impromptu match the card featured 12 matches.  The three pre-show matches were better than I thought they would be.

United States Champion: Kalisto defeated Ryback

10 Woman Tag: Team Total Divas: Brie Bella, Paige, Alicia Fox, Natayla, & Eva Marie defeated Team Bad and Blonde: Lana, Tamina, Naomi, Summer Rae, & Emma when Brie made Naomi tap out to the Yes Lock.  It also seems as thought it's Brie's last match. 

The Usos: Jimmy & Jey defeated The Dudley Boys: Bubba Ray & Devon

As much as I hate to admit this, the sequence that Brie used to set up the Yes Lock was actually really, really good.  Lana makes her in ring debut, didn't do a lot boy she looks different with her hair down.

The main show was kicked off with the 7 Man Ladder Match for the Intercontinental Championship.  It was a good match, the last guy I thought was going win it did in Zack Ryder.  He's worked hard for the company for a long time and deserves to have this big moment at WrestleMania.  I can't imagine he'll have a very long title run. (Note: He lost it to the Miz the next day on Raw.)

It's was bullshit that Jericho got the win of Styles.  First off it looked like Jericho purposely had a bad match.  It was more than just the timing was off, or they weren't clicking because when it came time for Jericho to look good he was spot on.  However when it was Styles turn Jericho was slow and off a step.  This is their 4th singles match, one we didn't need to begin with, so does this mean we have to watch them have 1 more match together at the next PPV, god I hope not!

League of Nations beat New Day, it was Four on three they should win.  As much as I loved seeing HBK, Austin, & Mick Foley come out and beat down the League it basically made their win look worthless.  I will say I marked out big time seeing HBK in his wrestling gear. 

Brock Lesnar defeated Ambrose in a Street Fight.  Not much of a street fight, some chairs, a kendo stick, and a whole bunch of suplexs.  It was basically an extended squash.

Triple Threat Match: Women's Champion: Charlotte defeated Sasha Banks & Becky Lynch when Becky tapped to the Figure-8.  In my opinion this was the best wrestling match of the night.  It was damn good and it stole the show.  Charlotte came to the ring with the Diva's Championship and left with the Women's Championship officially ending the Diva's name that I have hated since they started it.  Sasha got the big entrance with her cousin Snoop Dog rapping her to the ring.

Hell In A Cell: Taker beat Shane, I found surprising because storyline wise it seemed Shane was destined to win so he could take over Raw.  If you take out the part where Shane jumped off the top of the cage to elbow drop Taker on the announce table, it wouldn't be as good of a match.  It was a spectacular spot and I really enjoyed the match but it wasn't great.

I would never guessed that Baron Corbin would win the Andre the Giant Battle Royal, he had no build up, just walked to the ring with the others that were unannounced and came away with the win.  I wonder if this means he is on the main roster now?

Rock had a really long segment where he announced the attendance of the event.  Then the Wyatt Family interrupted which lead to an impromptu 6 second match where Rock beat Eric Rowan.  Then Cena made a surprise return aiding Rock in yet another Wyatt Family beat down. I could have done with out the whole segment.

Roman Reigns beat Triple H for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, of course that's not a surprise to anyone.  The crowd booed Reigns after his win and during his celebration.  The only pop for Roman is when he accidentally speared Stephanie, because if there is anyone they hate more than Roman is Stephanie McMahon.

I realize there are a lot of people that really like WrestleMania, and that's cool, I just don't agree.  There were aspects that I really liked about it, aspects I didn't like at all, It has nothing to do with the outcomes not being what I wanted them to be.

The best part about Mania was Paul coming over and us watching it together and that chat group with the other guys.

Thanks for reading, please take a moment to leave a comment, like my blogs Facebook page at www.facebook.com/thewrestlinginsomniac.com 

Later Readers! 

Signed Trading Cards: Mick Foley

Mick Foley Card Collection

Cactus Jack, Dude Love, Mankind, or Mick Foley, no matter what you call him he is one of the most well-known wrestlers around the world.  This set of cards is one of my favorite as it represents 4 different companies under 4 different gimmicks.

These cards I got signed at a Big Time Wrestling event in Augusta at the Civic Center on March 27, 2011.  I had done some postering and other work for the promoter so I able to get my photo taken with Mick three of his books, and these 6 cards signed for free!

This card features Cactus Jack from IWA Japan released by Baseball Magazine in 1995.  I got this on ebay for about $5 and I love it because it depicts the image of what Cactus Jack was in Japan.

These three cards were released in 1998 by Comic Images and depict the famous 3 Faces of Foley of Cactus Jack, Mankind, and Dude Love.  Mick signed each card as the name that is depicted by the gimmick on the card.

This WWF card released by Fleer in 2001 shows Mick Foley as Mick Foley, and he signed it as such. 

This TNA Card released by TriStar in 2009 shows a bloody Mick Foley as TNA World Champion.

After I had the above cards signed I found a WCW card of Cactus Jack.  I wasn’t able to get it signed until July 2, 2015 when Mick made an appearance at a Sea Dogs game in Portland.  I wasn’t able to go by my friend Mikey went and got it signed for me.

This is a Cactus Jack card printed by London Publishing for WCW in 1992 as part of a set that was released in issues of WCW Magazine.

I fully believe that my collection of signed Mick Foley cards is now complete.  

Please leave a comment and like my blogs Facebook page.

Later Readers!